The Bee-Friendly Garden is a lavishly-illustrated guide that gardeners can use to create a stunningly colorful, vibrant, healthy, productive gardens that help not only the threatened honeybee, but the many lesser-known, amazing There are numerous benefits to having a bee garden, both personal and global. Not only are bee gardens gorgeous, they are organic, pesticide-free, and ecologically sustainable. For fruit and vegetable gardeners, inviting nature’s most productive pollinator into the yard can provide an impressive increase in yields and better-tasting produce. And finally, bee gardens help fight the much-publicized decline in bee population. In The Bee-Friendly Garden, award-winning garden designer Kate Frey and bee expert Gretchen LeBuhn provide everything readers need, from “super blooming” flowers to regional plant lists and plants to avoid.
Cost: $20.00
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