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For every gardener who cares about the planet, this guide to designing a bee garden helpsyou create a stunningly colorful, vibrant, healthy habitat that attracts both honeybees and native bees.
In The Bee-Friendly Garden , award-winning garden designer Kate Frey and bee expert Gretchen LeBuhn provide everything you need to know to create a dazzling garden that helps both the threatened honeybee and our own native bees. No matter how small or large your space, and regardless of whether you live in the city, suburbs, or country, just a few simple changes to your garden can fight the effects of colony collapse disorder and the worldwide decline in bee population that threatens our global food chain.There are many personal benefits of having a bee garden as well! Bee gardens-
contain a gorgeous variety of flowers
bloom continuously throughout the seasons
are organic, pesticide-free, and ecologically sustainable
develop healthy and fertile soil
attract birds, butterflies, and other beneficial insects
increase the quantity of your fruit and vegetable harvest
improve the quality, flavor, and size of your produce
Illustrated with spectacular full-color photos, The Bee-Friendly Garden debunks myths about bees, explains seasonal flower progression, and provides detailed instructions for nest boxes and water features. From "super blooming" flowers to regional plant lists and plants to avoid, The Bee-Friendly Garden is an essential tool for every gardener who cares about the planet and wants to make their yard a welcoming habitat for nature's most productive pollinator.
Author Notes
KATE FREY is an international garden designer and consultant specializing in sustainable, insect-hospitable landscaping and small farms. She won two gold medals at the Chelsea Garden Show in London for ecologically themed gardens and is a popular speaker at garden shows and clubs. She has written for Gardens Illustrated and Pacific Horticulture magazines, and lives in Hopland, CA. Learn more at freygardens.com.
GRETCHEN LEBUHN is a professor of biology at San Francisco State University and the author/editor of two books on pollinators, Field Guide to the Common Bees of California and Attracting Native Pollinators. She is the founder and director of The Great Sunflower Project (www.greatsunflower.org), a national citizen science program designed to gather information about bee diversity and activity.
Reviews (2)
Booklist Review
The widespread ecological crisis known as bee colony collapse disorder, in which pollinating insects are dying off in droves, can be partially addressed by large agribusinesses cultivating flowering crops. According to garden designer Frey and biologist and pollinator expert LeBuhn, individual and small-acreage growers can also help reverse the alarming trend simply by trading in less-biodiverse plants for more bee-friendly ones. In this very readable, well-illustrated handbook, the authors provide all the basic information for designing and tending gardens and small farms that attract pollinators and other environment-boosting insects without resorting to harmful pesticides. Frey and LeBuhn catalog all the bee-friendly plants such as perennials, shrubs, and trees and identify those to avoid. They also provide tips on matching soils to the local climate and creating nesting cavities for bees and explain how readers can become bee activists. This an important book. Frey and LeBuhn's accessible and inspiring advice, if correctly followed by growers around the world, could profoundly help restore diminishing bee populations to thriving good health, which is essential to our crops and our well-being.--Hays, Carl Copyright 2015 Booklist
Library Journal Review
Award-winning garden designers Frey and LeBuhn team up in this accessible book to offer gardeners solid advice on how to attract and encourage more bees to take up residence in their gardens. They examine why bee-friendly spaces are important, describe the difference between native bees and honeybees, dispel common myths about the insects, and explain how to construct bee-friendly gardens from an ecological perspective. The book further identifies how to ensure there are flowers blooming at all times-a key characteristic of bee-friendly gardens-from staggering plantings to including "super bloomers" in garden designs. A chapter specific to edible plants celebrates the "grow your own food" movement; another outlines steps that concerned citizens can take to support bees in the face of colony collapse disorder. Further resources include information on bee-friendly nurseries and extensive regional plant lists. VERDICT This guide will benefit novice and seasoned gardeners who wish to provide habitats for bees and other pollinators.-Venessa Hughes, -Buffalo, NY © Copyright 2016. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
Excerpts
Excerpts
Preface As a professional garden designer, I used to judge the beauty and interest of a garden by the composition of colors, the texture of foliage, and the plants complementary or contrasting forms. I assessed scenes of nature by their ability to evoke awe or by the perfectly arranged composition of plant species. It wasn't until my five-year-old son and I observed the metamorphosis of four brilliantly striped monarch caterpillars on a patch of silvery Indian milkweed in our garden that my concept of beauty and interest changed. Besides the caterpillars, I suddenly began to notice the many species of bees that visited the milkweeds and plants surrounding them: fat and fluffy bumblebees with a variety of stripes, hoods, capes, and bottoms; small bees carrying pollen on the underside of their abdomen; shiny black carpenter bees; stout, long-horned bees; and the most exotic looking: the iridescent green sweat bees. There seemed no end of the flower visitors attracted to just one small area of plants. Soon I was spending more time watching what was visiting the flowers in my gardens than looking at the flowers themselves. The garden became a place of intrigue. Question after question was generated by each scene: Why were some flowers mobbed by visitors like flies, beetles, and lacewings, others by native bees and honeybees, and still others by just butterflies? What was it about the flower structure, pollen, or nectar that appealed to a specific set of organisms and not to others? We put up bee-nesting blocks next to the garden and they were filled the first year, each hole neatly plugged with mud or chewed plant stems. Suddenly, the life that was visiting the flowers became an integral part of the beauty and vitality contained in the garden. From this first milkweed plant, a world has opened and continues to open--endlessly. I have created habitat and bee gardens across California, at the Chelsea Flower Show in London, and in Japan and Saudi Arabia. Each is flower filled, suffused with color and shifting blooms, and is uplifting and engaging to the human visitor. Under the gray skies of London, I planted western native wildflowers and agricultural clovers in orange, deep blue, yellow, red, and white under and around an array of grapevines in a series of three gardens showcasing organic viticulture. Two of the gardens won gold medals and were visited by Queen Elizabeth, demonstrating that organic agriculture and the vibrant colors and soft forms of wildflowers have wide appeal. In Japan, my husband and I created a habitat garden focused on butterflies and bees, composed of a meadow with pastel-colored flowers under the soft, spring leaves of Japanese maples. In the harsh light and dusty heat in Saudi Arabia, on an organic vegetable and fruit farm owned by one of the princes, we planted bright yellow sunflowers, orange and white cosmos, white alyssum, basils, cilantro, za'atar, mint, and fennel to attract and support wildlife. Watching wild bees covered in sticky pollen became our entertainment. Spending time in a bee garden allows us to step into another world, transcending the everyday routine and entering a place of beauty and anticipation. With these gardens, we develop and maintain a connection to something larger than ourselves--we get to see and know the intrinsic value of the flowers and the lives of the bees that visit them in each season. --Kate Excerpted from The Bee-Friendly Garden: Design an Abundant, Flower-Filled Yard That Nurtures Bees and Supports Biodiversity by Kate Frey, Gretchen LeBuhn All rights reserved by the original copyright owners. Excerpts are provided for display purposes only and may not be reproduced, reprinted or distributed without the written permission of the publisher.Table of Contents
Preface | p. vii |
Introduction: The Benefits of a Bee-Friendly Garden | p. 1 |
Chapter 1 Our Friends, the Bees | p. 15 |
Chapter 2 Plants for Your Bee-Friendly Garden | p. 43 |
Chapter 3 Bee-Friendly Plants for Edible Gardens | p. 103 |
Chapter 4 Bee Garden Basics | p. 115 |
Chapter 5 Designing Your Bee Garden | p. 137 |
Chapter 6 Beyond Your Own Backyard-Becoming a Bee Activist | p. 173 |
Resources | p. 185 |
Regional Plant Lists | p. 186 |
Southeast Region | p. 190 |
South Central Region | p. 192 |
Southwest Region | p. 194 |
Pacific Northwest Region | p. 197 |
Rocky Mountain/Inter mountain West Region | |
Northeast/Midwest/Mid-Atlantic Region | |
Photography Credits | |
Index |