Valencia Opens New Pollinator Garden in the Turia Garden

In the Turia Gardens near the Puente de Serranos, a new Jardín de Polinizadores has opened — a pollinator garden of more than 5,300 square meters, created to attract the insects essential to ecosystems and to create new refuges for wildlife.

The garden has been planted with 7,979 shrubs of native species, five trees, as well as flowers with different flowering periods, in order to provide bees, butterflies, and other pollinating insects with food for most of the year.

In addition to the plants, the space is equipped with nest boxes, shelters for bats, a stone wall for insects and small reptiles, earthen mounds bordered by logs and wooden disks, as well as a dry streambed that functions as a drainage ditch for the natural regulation of rainwater levels.

Around its perimeter, the garden is enclosed by a wooden fence with two entrances. Inside, six information panels have been installed about the plants, pollinating insects, birds, and bats.

The project was carried out as part of the "Restoring Valencia's Biodiversity 2022" program, in collaboration with the University of Valencia, the Global Nature Foundation, and the organisation SEO/BirdLife, with funding from the Next Generation EU program. The goal is to restore urban spaces for nature, improve ecological connectivity, and support environmentally beneficial species.