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Bee Garden

Collecting honey in the Bee Garden
 

 

Bee Garden

No English garden is complete without its bees and Kew is no exception. Developed in 1993, the Bee Garden has three styles of beehive, from simple logs and basketware skeps, to modern wooden hives that grow taller as more 'supers' (extra layers) are inserted as the honeycombs form inside them. Two colonies had new queens flown in from New Zealand where bees are traditionally quite docile.

The Bee Garden is full of flowers popular with the bees and shows the important interaction between plants and insects. Without the pollinators, plants would not set seed and our food supplies would dwindle rapidly.

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See also

Forwards arrowExternal link: British Beekeepers Association

 

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