The Bee-Kind Garden: Apian Wisdom for Your Garden

The Bee-Kind Garden: Apian Wisdom for Your Garden

by David Squire
The Bee-Kind Garden: Apian Wisdom for Your Garden

The Bee-Kind Garden: Apian Wisdom for Your Garden

by David Squire

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Overview

Bees are vital for the future of the planet, for without their dedicated pollinating skills many crops would eventually fail. This delightfully illustrated book is a homage to bees, revealing many facets of their lives, including homes, flight patterns and defence. It also describes how to attract bees to your garden and, essentially, the art of talking to them!

The lives of bees are interwoven with our own, but how much do you know about them?

  • Which scents do bees prefer?
  • How do bees transport pollen?
  • How far can bees fly?
  • Do specific colours attract bees?
  • Do bees prefer native flowers?

Then there is honey – a near-miraculous elixir that in earlier generations was an integral part of life as a sweetener and food preserver. It can be fermented with water and yeast to create mead, a drink that has been enjoyed for thousands of years.

This book is dedicated to bees and to ensuring that they continue to live in harmony with humans in bee-friendly gardens.

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Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780857840240
Publisher: Bloomsbury USA
Publication date: 09/06/2011
Series: Wise Words , #1
Pages: 96
Product dimensions: 5.10(w) x 7.80(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

David Squire has a lifetime’s experience with plants. He studied botany and gardening at the Hertfordshire College of Horticulture and at the Royal Horticultural Society’s Garden as Wisley, Surrey, where he gained the Wisley Diploma in Horticulture. He also was awarded an N.K. Gould Memorial Prize for his collection of herbarium specimens of native British plants. In 2005, this collection of plants was accepted by the Booth Museum of Natural History, Brighton, Sussex, to become part of the library and museum exhibits of Brighton
and Hove.

David’s passionate interest in native plants ranges from eating and survival to their historical roles in medicine, folklore and customs. His interest in honey bees dates back to late school years when he kept bees.

Throughout his gardening and journalist career, David has written more than eighty books on plants, gardening and insects, as well as dogs and self-sufficiency, including keeping chickens. David’s books have been sold in twenty countries and The Scented Garden won the Garden Writer’s of America ’Quill and Trowel’ award.

Table of Contents

Introduction
Getting to know bees
Attracting bees
Where do bees live?
Bee-keeping equipment
Talking to bees
Honey, mead and wax
Proverbs, limericks and verse

Index

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