Posts Tagged: pollinator gardens

Kate Frey: Gardening for Bees, Beauty and Diversity

Many mothers will receive a stunning bouquet of flowers on Sunday, Mother's Day. Others will learn how to design and plant a stunning pollinator garden so they can grow--and enjoy--their own flowers. Honey bees, bumble bees and other pollinators will...

The Frey Gardens at the home of Ben and Kate Frey in Hopland, are inviting.

The Frey Gardens at the home of Ben and Kate Frey in Hopland, are inviting.

Kate Frey designed the gardens at the Lynmar Estate Winery, located in Sonoma County's Russian River Valley. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Kate Frey designed the gardens at the Lynmar Estate Winery, located in Sonoma County's Russian River Valley. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Looking for Cheap Urban Real Estate

Chances are if you walked up to a group of people and asked "Have you seen a Megachile today?" they'd stare at you blankly.  What's a Megachile? It's a native bee, also known as a leafcutter bee.   When most people think about bees, they...

Jaime Pawelek

IN SUPPORT OF URBAN BEE DIVERSITY--Jaime Pawelek of UC Berkeley’s Department of Organisms and the Environment, discussed “Native California Bees: Looking for Cheap Urban Real Estate” at the Nov. 6 meeting of the Northern California Entomology Society. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Cuckoo bee

NOT YOUR BASIC BEE--The cuckoo bee, probably the genus Triepeolus and probably a male (according to Robbin Thorp), on a gum plant. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

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