Publisher's Synopsis
A guide intended to assist beekeepers in planting their gardens so as to provide bees with continuous sources of nectar and pollen. The book also encourages other gardeners to keep bees and shows how to maintain an ecological balance in the gardens without using products harmful to bees.;Ted Hooper, author of "Guide to Bees and Honey", provides instructions on how to obtain and keep bees as a beginner, the siting of the hives in large and small gardens and explains the value of particular plants to bees.;Mike Taylor, an amateur beekeeper, provides sections on garden design and safe use of pesticides, and descriptive and cultivation notes on over 300 trees, shrubs and herbaceous plants, all of which are useful to honey bees.
