The 53 top bee-friendly plants & trees
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A unique guide to the plants and trees that are excellent for all types of bees. Most 'bee-friendly' planting guides only focus on honeybees (which make up only 10% of bee population), where as this book takes all bees into consideration, including solitary bees (such as mining, mason and leafcutter bees), which account for a majority of bee pollination (about 80% if your interested).
Not only are the plants good for all bees, but there are varieties available on every major contintent in the world (as best as rhe research shows anyhow).
This isn't a gardening manual, it is quite simply a guide to the best bee-friendly plants and information about the relationship between bees and plants, with a little folklore thrown in for good measure.
If you are looking to get started in creating your own bee-friendly garden, then this book is an excellent start.
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The 53 top bee-friendly plants & trees - Damian Appleby
The 53 top bee-friendly plants & trees
Damian Appleby
Published by Damian Appleby, 2017.
The 53 best plants for bees
The best plants for all types of bee
Damian Appleby
Wildbees
Contents
1. About this book
2. A brief history of bees and flowers
3. A world without bees
4. Threats to bees
5. How you can help
6. About a bee
7. Pollination
8. The plants
The Plant List
9. About the Author
10. The Wild Bee Haven course
In the Universe great acts are made up of small deeds
Lao Tzu
Tao Te Ching
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About this book
If you want to know the plants that are good for all bees, then this book is for you.
It isn’t intended as a gardening manual or a guide to keeping bees. However, if you do nothing more than plant a selection of the plants in this book, you are already doing more than most people will ever do to help bees.
I have been putting this book together for a number of years. Motivated by the multitude of bee-friendly guides available which focus on honey bees, lacking the plants that are good for all bees, I decided to finish it.
The plants in this book have been selected because (to the best of my research) they:
Have a version in every major continent.
Are worked by every type of bee (solitary, bumble, honey, long tongued and short tongued).
They provide bees with both nectar and pollen.
It is important to remember that solitary bees account for 85% of the worlds bees, they also make up 80% of the pollination done by bees. Yet they are often ignored, there is very little research done into their needs, their problems and how we can help them.
This book is a start to redressing this.
Solitary bees don’t produce honey, nor do they look all cute and fuzzy (well, some do). They are also difficult to identify, unless you spend a lot of time with them, so are often mistaken for either bumblebees, honeybees or even flies. Many times as a beekeeper I have been called to a ‘swarm’ of honeybees only to discover a group of mason bees on my arrival.
There is no copyright notice in this book, feel free to pass it between your friends or anyone else you might know. The more people we can get planting good bee-friendly plants, the better it is for everyone.
If you would like to learn more about bees and creating a truly, magical Wild Bee Haven then feel free to have a look at the course at yourwildbeehaven.com
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A brief history of bees and flowers
Over the last 135 Million years