{"product_id":"the-beefriendly-garden-isbn-9781607747635","title":"The Bee-Friendly Garden","description":"\u003cb\u003eFor every gardener who cares about the planet, this guide to designing a bee garden helps you create a stunningly colorful, vibrant, healthy habitat that attracts both honeybees and native bees.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eThe Bee-Friendly Garden\u003c\/i\u003e, 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:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e· contain a gorgeous variety of flowers\u003cbr\u003e· bloom continuously throughout the seasons\u003cbr\u003e· are organic, pesticide-free, and ecologically sustainable\u003cbr\u003e· develop healthy and fertile soil\u003cbr\u003e· attract birds, butterflies, and other beneficial insects\u003cbr\u003e· increase the quantity of your fruit and vegetable harvest\u003cbr\u003e· improve the quality, flavor, and size of your produce\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIllustrated with spectacular full-color photos, \u003ci\u003eThe Bee-Friendly Garden\u003c\/i\u003e 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, \u003ci\u003eThe Bee-Friendly Garden\u003c\/i\u003e 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.Preface  vii\u003cbr\u003e Introduction: The Benefits of a Bee-Friendly Garden  1\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 1: Our Friends, the Bees  15\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 2: Plants for Your Bee-Friendly Garden  43\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 3: Bee-Friendly Plants for Edible Gardens  103\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 4: Bee Garden Basics  115\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 5: Designing Your Bee Garden  137\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 6: \u003cbr\u003e Beyond Your Own Backyard—\u003cbr\u003e Becoming a Bee Activist  173\u003cbr\u003e Resources  181\u003cbr\u003e Regional Plant Lists  186\u003cbr\u003e      Southeast Region  190\u003cbr\u003e      South Central Region  192\u003cbr\u003e      Southwest Region  194\u003cbr\u003e      Pacific Northwest Region  197\u003cbr\u003e      Rocky Mountain\/Intermountain West Region  201\u003cbr\u003e      Northeast\/Midwest\/Mid-Atlantic Region  204\u003cbr\u003e Photography Credits  207\u003cbr\u003e Index  208\u003cb\u003eWinner of the American Horticultural Society 2017 Book Award\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Even in drought, plant for bees; nectar-rich blooms help these important pollinators survive dry times. Learn how to attract bees (that don't chase humans) and increase your vegetable garden yields in the new book \u003ci\u003eThe Bee-Friendly Garden\u003c\/i\u003e.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e—Sunset\u003c\/i\u003e magazine \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"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.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003e—\u003c\/i\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Worried about reports of massive bee die-offs and what the consequences will be to global food production? Look to \u003ci\u003eThe Bee-Friendly Garden\u003c\/i\u003e for what you can do to help support your local bee populations.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003e—\u003c\/i\u003eSierra\u003c\/i\u003e magazine\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Most people don’t understand the need to plant for pollinators to achieve productive vegetable gardens, or that pollination and beauty go together. This book underlines the importance and possibilities of flower-filled gardens that address our needs and create lovely and productive spaces around our homes.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e —Rosalind Creasy, author of \u003ci\u003eEdible Landscaping\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"What a delightful, necessary book! The authors deliver its important mission—encouraging bee gardening—simply, graciously, and thoroughly. Find inspiration here, and the tools to reconnect the land you steward with the web of life. Bee happy!\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e —Lauren Springer Ogden, garden designer, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Undaunted Garden,\u003c\/i\u003e and coauthor of\u003ci\u003e Plant-Driven Design \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e Waterwise Plants for Sustainable Gardens\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This book will make bees happy and healthy in gardens across the country.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e—Laurie Davies Adams, executive director of Pollinator Partnership\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Filled with 'practical information that any gardener can use, this book does an excellent job of focusing on a specific, sufficiently narrow subject,' notes Brian Thompson, especially one that has increasing significance to pollinator health. Mary Ann Newcomer appreciates the 'wide range of plant recommendations by region, making it a useful resource anywhere in North America.' From its in-depth, insightful discussions to its 'layout and photography, it’s a well done book all the way through,' says Doug Oster.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e—T\u003c\/b\u003ehe American Horticultural Society 2017 Book Awards Committee\u003c\/b\u003eKATE 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 \u003ci\u003eGardens Illustrated\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003ePacific Horticulture\u003c\/i\u003e magazines, and lives in Hopland, CA. Learn more at freygardens.com.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e GRETCHEN LEBUHN is a professor of biology at San Francisco State University and the author\/editor of two books on pollinators, \u003ci\u003eField Guide to the Common Bees of California\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eAttracting Native Pollinators. \u003c\/i\u003eShe 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.Preface\u003cbr\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 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?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e  —Kate","brand":"Ten Speed Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46302512972005,"sku":"NP9781607747635","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781607747635.jpg?v=1767738299","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/the-beefriendly-garden-isbn-9781607747635","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}