Includes index

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

Think like a bee -- Birds and the bees -- War on weeds -- World of bees -- Simple changes anyone can make -- Let's get gardening -- Edible plants -- Native plants -- Exotic plants -- Beehives and bee motels -- Good, the bad and the ugly: other garden insects -- Conclusion: the pollinator highway -- Appendix: Pest control recipes