The Bee Friendly Garden
Easy Ways to Help the Bees and Make Your Garden Grow
Crows Nest, N.S.W. : Murdoch Books, 2016.
Format: Book
Description: 205 pages : colour illustrations ; 26 cm
A grower's handbook to attracting bees and other beneficial insects.The Bee Friendly Garden is a guide for all gardeners great and small to encouraging bees and other good bugs to your green space...Includes: - How bees forage and why your garden needs them - A comprehensive plant guide to bee friendly plants - Simple changes anybody can make - Ideas for gardens of all sizes - Natural pest control and companion planting advice.
Contents:
Think like a bee -- The birds and the bees -- The war on weeds -- The world of bees -- Simple changes anyone can make -- Let's get gardening -- Edible plants -- Native plants -- Exotic plants -- Beehives and bee motels -- The good, the bad and the ugly: other garden insects -- Conclusion: the pollinator highway -- Appendix: Pest control recipes.
Subjects:
Garden ecology.
Bee culture.
Plants, Ornamental.
Insect-plant relationships.
Gardening to attract wildlife.
Honey plants.
Garden ecology.
Bee culture.
Plants, Ornamental.
Insect-plant relationships.
Gardening to attract wildlife.
Honey plants.
ISBN:
9781743367568
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