PLANTS AND
PLANTING PLANS
for a
BEE GARDEN

 

Contents

Cover page

Title page

Acknowledgements

Introduction

1 Assessing the Conditions in Your Garden

• Aspect
• Soil
  • Soil pH
  • Shelter
  • Water

2 Designing with Plants

• General design aspects of planting schemes
  • Principles of design
  • Elements of design
  • A useful method of composing a design

3 Bee Specifics

• General ways to make your garden more bee-friendly
• What makes a plant bee-friendly?
  • Food
  • Accessibility
  • Visibility
  • Seasonality
• Bees’ favourite plant families
  • Primary families
  • Secondary families
  • Other families

4 The Plans

• General features of the plans
• Garden Styles
  • Large Traditional Border
  • Small Traditional Border
  • Cottage Garden Plans
  • Large Cottage Garden Border
  • Cottage Garden Island Bed
  • Designer Border
  • Native Naturalistic Border
  • Cultivated Naturalistic Border
  • Combination Naturalistic Border
  • Shrub Border
• Colour Themes
  • Blue and Yellow Border
  • Red and Yellow Border
  • Rainbow Border
• Garden Conditions
  • Acid Soil Border
  • Alkaline Soil Border
  • Shade Border
• Utility Gardens
  • Cutting Spiral
  • Herb Garden
  • Flower, Fruit and Vegetable Border
• A Beekeeper’s Garden
• Container Planting
  • Plants for Spring Containers
  • Plants for Summer Containers
  • Plants for Autumn Containers
  • Herbs in Containers

And Finally

Appendices

1 Plant Families and Species used in this Book

2 Table of Bee-friendly Plants

Further Reading

Useful Addresses and Websites

Index of Illustrated Plants

List of Common Names of Plants and their Latin Equivalents

Index of Plants

Index

Other books by Maureen Little

How To Short-e Guides

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