Honey bees

Battling an awkward site and a tight budget, this fledgling landscape designer has achieved the ultimate urban retreat An overgrown East Auckland garden is now an oasis filled with birds and bees When Dee McQuillan first moved into her townhouse in Auckland’s eastern suburbs she was a solo mother with two young boys. At first, […]

Gardening guru Carol Bucknell dishes the dirt on the best flowers for attracting beneficial bees to the garden in New Zealand Why we need bees in the garden Without honeybees both our productive and ornamental gardens would suffer enormously, not to mention commercial horticulture and farming. Bee numbers are declining throughout the world and home […]