The Bee Friendly Garden

A grower's handbook to attracting bees and other beneficial insects.

Bees are our most important pollinators and they are in decline the world over. They love to live in urban environments, where it's a short flight path from one type of plant to the next. But conventional gardens that favour lawns and pesticides over flowers and edible plants are scaring the good bugs away.

The Bee Friendly Garden is a guide for all gardeners great and small to encouraging bees and other good bugs to your green space.

Includes:

• How bees forage and why your garden needs them
• A comprehensive plant guide to bee friendly plants
• Simple changes anybody can make
• Ideas for gardens of all sizes
• Natural pest control and companion planting advice

About the author:

As co-founder of The Urban Beehive, Doug Purdie managed more than 100 beehives on city rooftops, balconies, backyards and public gardens around Sydney. He is a beekeeping teacher and speaker, a past president of the NSW Amateur Beekeepers' Association and is featured regularly as a bee expert on TV and in other media. In his role as a NSW Bee Biosecurity Officer, he also trains beekeepers in managing the destructive Varroa pest. Doug Purdie is also the author of Backyard Bees.