The Bee-Kind Garden: Apian wisdom for your garden

by David Squire

Bees are vital for the future of the planet, for without their dedicated pollinating skills many crops would eventually fail. This delightfully illustrated book is a homage to bees, revealing many facets of their lives, including homes, flight patterns and defence. It also describes how to attract bees to your garden. The lives of bees are interwoven with our own, but how much do you know about them? Which scents and colours do bees prefer? Do bees prefer native flowers? This book is dedicated to bees and to ensuring that they continue to live in harmony with humans in bee-friendly gardens.

Genres: Nonfiction, Gardening

97 pages, Kindle Edition

First published October 1, 2011

About the author

David Squire studied botany and horticulture at the Hertfordshire College of Horticulture and at the Royal Horticultural Society's Garden at Wisley, England, where he gained the Wisley Diploma in Horticulture. For several years he worked as sub-editor, writer and reporter for two well-knownmagazines, before moving to book publishing with an international publishing house.

David has written more than fifty books and contributed to several major gardening part-works. His books have been sold throughout the English speaking world-Britain, North America, South Africa, Australia and New Zealand- as well as translated into several other languages.

Reviews

[Sherrie · Rating 4 out of 5]

I loved this quirky little book with its parchment like pages and almost naive illustrations. Lots of interesting snippets of information about bees, I found out loads I didn't know.

[Stéphane · Rating 3 out of 5]

A nice little book, with beautiful illustrations. I want my garden to be even more bee-kind after that read: sounds like mission accomplished for the author.

[Sophie · Rating 3 out of 5]

This was a cute book with nice illustrations, and an easy to read lay-out. I think it would be more suited to kids in a way, as it wasn’t very in depth, it was like a quick, quirky overview. I found there was only limited information relating to actual planting for bees. It did have some interesting facts in it.

[Joanne Pinder · Rating 4 out of 5]

Loads of bee information, trivia, folklore, and verse. Lovely.

[Michaela · Rating 4 out of 5]

I love the look of this book! So cute and has a old fashioned feeling due to the parchment looking pages and little artwork pictures! Great information inside too!