Doug Purdie
Autor/a de The Bee Friendly Garden: Easy Ways to Help the Bees and Make Your Garden Grow
Sobre l'autor
Doug Purdie is the co-founder of The Urban Beehive, which manages over 100 hives around Sydney. He teaches beginner beekeeping courses and is the author of Backyard Bees.
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Anyway, my garden is pretty close to jungle status as is, but I'm always looking for excuses to plant new things, and our bees need to feel welcomed. But I know not all flowers are bee friendly (size, shape, and whether or not they make pollen/nectar), so I wanted a list of particular plants the bees would love. Our bee guy recommended this book, and MT bought it for me for my birthday, and I guilted him into giving it to me a day early, because he also gave me this cold.
The Bee guy did not steer me wrong. This is a great book for anyone who just wants to attract more bees to their garden. It's a tiny bit preachy - he's (rightfully) passionate about NOT spraying your garden - but there's a lot of compelling reason to preach it. Without bees we can kiss about 80% of our food goodbye and bees are in serious decline world wide.
The Bee Friendly Garden is strongly geared toward Australia, primarily in the chapters where he discusses native bees (some of which are SO cool), but more than half the book would be useful to anyone, as a lot of the suggestions are geared toward the European honey bee and the plant lists are almost universal in their availability.
I now have a list of plants to look for at the nursery. Now I just have to find a place to put them.
Update: MT has named all the bees Betty.… (més)