The cherry blossom is slowly coming to an end - to be recognized by the "cherry blossom snow" on the ground ;-)

Now the apple trees unfold their flowers. The cherry laurel also delights the bees with intensely scented inflorescences.

Besides the bees, numerous bumblebees hum through the air. They disappear again and again in small holes in the garden.
 

The insect hotel, hung in mid-March, is home to its first wild inhabitants: solitary hermit bees have taken some of the bamboo sticks as breeding tubes, laid an egg in them, and covered this brood cell with a thin layer of clay.