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are there any? I am looking at some property....approx 2 acres, several large trees, nice open space, and having concerns about bugs, mosquitos, fleas, etc. Are there any bushes/shrubs that repell bugs naturally? I know there are things I can treat the yard with, but just asking.
There are citrinella plants but I have not heard good things about them actually helping anything. One thing we are doing is encouraging bats...if you have any tall trees or the back of your home which you can mount a bat house on, that can help. The bats in Ohio dont bother you and they can eat up to half their body weight in bugs each evening. I love to watch them come out at dusk and fly around, they stay up so they wont bother you at all. Believe me, I freak out over flying things that may land on me but I do not fear a bat...I welcome them if they will eat bugs that bite me.
I had jusy heard the same thing about Bats. I have a friend who lives in the Upper UP in Michigan. She said that they can set out at night and they even have a small pond and have no problems and other people can't even set out at night. They have some bats and she said that is why.
Bats are nature's pest controllers. A colony of 200 can be housed in a pretty small box. Do a google search for bat houses. It's cheap, easy, and takes only a few months to get a colony going. Once it's grown, the bat colony can eat nearly a ton of bugs in one summer.
A lot of people don't like them, but myrtles are Nature's mosquito repellant.
I have planted them everywhere I have ever lived -- if they weren't there already. They make a decent-enough evergreen shrub. I prune the lower branches up, to play on the bark and unusual shapes, then keep the tops pruned a bit. I am then able to plant things under them -- coleus do well, as do impatiens, and add color to the otherwise drab green. Pruning them makes them thicker, so they make a decent screen, too, if privacy is an issue in the yard.
Some people have an aversion to the smell of them, but I have never noticed it, myself.
I also try to plant marigolds in with other flowers and plants, in an effort to keep bugs away from other plantings. It works.
Society Garlic works and is a nice looking plant.With a pretty purple flower.I also googled Garlic and found tons of info on its many uses for bugs.
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