Helping bees and your garden

Give bees a helping hand by eschewing pesticides and planting for year-round flowers.

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14th January, 2012

It used to be that on a summer’s day, if you stood very still and listened, you could hear the fluctuating hum of the collective mass of bees going about their business, flying backwards and forwards between flowers and their hives. And if you ran barefoot into the backyard, it wasn’t unusual to have to pluck a pulsating sting from the tender skin between your toes as your foot swelled like a balloon. I can’t forget my bulging, grotesque face after a sting on the cheek as I watched my mother check her hives at the bottom of the garden, two days before I was to be the princess in a ...

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