The Bee Garden

Product Description

Bees play a vital & irreplaceable role in pollinating our flowers, fruits & vegetables. The more bees in your garden the healthier, more productive & more pleasant a place it will be. Yet bees are declining rapidly & many people, even if they do not wish to keep bees themselves, are asking what can be done on an individual basis to help the bee. This book is a response to that request. It will demonstrate in one accessible volume how each of us can play our part in providing a bee-friendly environment, no matter how much gardening space and/or time we may have. It
Includes::
- How bees forage, what bees you can expect to find in your garden & what plants are best for them.
- Why honey bees are so important; what they need to thrive & how they detect & access those requirements; & what varieties of plants are best suited to provide those needs.
- How the gardener can offer & maintain a bee-friendly garden, followed by a season-by-season account of what beefriendly plants are in flower & when, & what jobs the gardener can be doing during these times to help bees thrive.- A `gazetteer` of selected bee-friendly plants, arranged by type of plant in seasonal sub-sections.
- Illustrative, practical planting plans, including a culinary herb garden, a potager, a wild flower garden, & a `3 seasons` traditional border.