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'A beautifully illustrated book that makes extremely good reading.' www.mygreenlifestyle.co.uk. 'Beautifully illustrated throughout, this will make you want to stock up on plants and grab your spade from the shed.' Best of British. 'After a morning's reading, we reconvene to discuss our thoughts: the overwhelming opinion is that it is an excellent reference book...a genuinely useful and inspiring reference book and a great gift idea.' The English Garden. 'This beautiful, accessible handbook provides ready-to-use, illustrated planting plans and instructions that will transform even the smallest of gardening spaces into a long-term haven for bees.' Horticulture Week. 'This books is a pleasure to behold, each page is a riot of colour and filled to the brim with photographs of flowers pretty enough to lure in any bee.' Petfocus. 'Well illustrated and clearly written, it's a great guide for anyone who wants to nurture bees without keeping any hives.' Daily Mail Weekend.
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Bees play a vital and irreplaceable role in pollinating our flowers, fruits and vegetables.
The more bees in your garden the healthier, more productive and more pleasant a place it will be.
Yet bees are declining rapidly and 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 and what plants are best for them. :
* Why honey bees are so important; what they need to thrive and how they detect and access those requirements; and what varieties of plants are best suited to provide those needs.
* How the gardener can offer and maintain a bee-friendly garden, followed by a season-by-season account of what beefriendly plants are in flower and when, and 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, and a 3 seasons traditional border.
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14 of 14 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This fascinating new book is exactly what the bee-keeping and gardening community has been waiting for. It bridges a very real gap in the existing literature on bee-keeping and ecologically-friendly gardening, by combining a number of vital elements - a rich source of information about bees, their needs and their world, the book is, moreover, an invaluable aid to the planning and design of a garden which will be attractive to bees, as well as beautiful and productive to humans. Last, and certainly not least the book offers some practical treasures that no other book does - a gazetteer of bee-friendly plants, and a number of immediately attractive and practical planting plans for bee-friendly gardeners. Mindful of the reported decline of the bee population, the author achieves the rare feat of combining rigorous research and accessible scholarship with a unique narrative, spiced with memorable anecdotes from her own considerable experience as a gardener, plantswoman, bee keeper and garden designer. The book is richly illustrated with stunning photographs throughout - this cannot be recommended highly enough.
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This book is excellent! It offers both a good read and can be used as a reference book. I could not resist reading it cover to cover as soon as it arrived and I thoroughly enjoyed it. The author's writing is informative as well as being witty and she clearly has a fabulous knowledge of what the bees really need when they visit your garden and how they view your garden. Not just in the summer...lots of information about plants and flowers that will help by offering the early pollen which is essential in the early months and provide nectar for bees right through the seasons. The book gives lots of advice about gardening, so it would also be useful for a beginner gardener as well as the more experienced. The photography is beautiful. The information about bees is fascinating, predominantly referring to Honeybees, but other bees and insects are included and photographed which has helped me identify who is who in my own garden. There are planning ideas for herb gardens which I would like to have had more of but it does not detract from the book at all as there is plenty of information about herbs. The book is very well laid out,printed on good quality paper and a pleasure to read.I have recommended it to many friends who have also bought copies. It would make a great present as the book is a good size too. Very highly recommended!
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This is a fascinating read packed with information and photographs which has inspired me to examine my garden for bee-friendly plants. The personal anecdotes are charming and the style of writing relaxed. I would thoroughly recommend this book to all who are interested in gardening and maintaining a bee-beneficial environment. I enjoyed this book so much that I have bought several copies for my family and friends.
Most Recent Customer Reviews
An excellent book
I agree wholeheartedly with the other reviews.
There is an increasing interest in helping pollinating insects and especially bees. Read more
There is an increasing interest in helping pollinating insects and especially bees. Read more
Published 2 months ago by Barnstormer
Good 'Beeginner' book!
This book was bought with relatively little knowledge about bees, and would happily recommend to anyone with an interest in the enivronment. Read more
Published 3 months ago by beesknees
All gardeners should have this book!
This book will also be a brilliant reference and one I will lend friends if all avid gardeners read this book then bees will be well looked after in the gardens of the uk -... Read more
Published 5 months ago by Arthur P
A lovely book
I need to plan a few new borders next year and I will be putting in some veg and flowers, so it is important that I attact the bees. Read more
Published 5 months ago by Mr. G. O'neil
really useful book - for gardeners, those keen on wildlife and bee...
This is an excellent and practical book which should appeal to a wide range of gardeners, wildlife enthusiasts and bee keepers. Read more
Published 9 months ago by Wildflowers4Wildlife
The bee Garden
I wish to make my garden more bee friendly, have considered keeping bees but decided against it. However what this book provides is very interesting and provides an easy to use... Read more
Published 11 months ago by johnnym
If you want a bee-friendly garden, this book is for you.
I agree with the other reviews. This is a lovely book: useful, detailed information about how bees feed; what sort of flowers provide food for bees; practical gardening tips;... Read more
Published 12 months ago by Bee Keeper
A Delight
Whether you are quite an expert at gardening with widlife in mind, or just have an interest, this is a book which will delight. Read more
Published 12 months ago by Mrs L
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