Redesign of shrub borders

2025

In collaboration with wild plant ecologist, Rosa Bauder, Golf Emmental AG has redesigned a 25-year-old shrub border, which was mainly covered with non-European shrubs and plants, such as sumac trees.

After improving the soil with organic soil improvers, such as wall gravel and sand, exclusively native plant species that are protected were planted. All of them are listed on Switzerland's red list. A large proportion of them are threatened with extinction. They have been selected to match each other in terms of their requirements for location, soil conditions, and water balance, and to look attractive.

The wild plants themselves were grown in an organic nursery under strict guidelines and planted on our site. Naturally, they are cultivated without any fertilizers. As the first blooms in July/August showed, the plants attract a host of insects, bees, and butterflies.

Golf Emmental is committed to biodiversity. The first step has been taken, and more will follow.