Flowers to set the mood
Flower Arrangement Tips by Sandy Swegel One of my favorite jobs each year is designing twenty-two flower pots for an urban condo. The homeowners are real garden lovers but they live in the middle of the city on a high floor. Rather than be content to just look at the amazing mountain vistas their elevation […]
The first 21 days of a bee’s life.
A Bee’s Life by Sandy Swegel You have to watch this Ted Talk. It’s a time-lapse video of the first 21 days of a bee’s life and how bee babies turn into what looks like slime into a bee. http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2015/05/an-extraordinary-glimpse-into-the-first-21-days-of-a-bees-life-in-60-seconds/ I think promoting bees is the real key to reversing the dumping of pesticides in […]
The Wisdom of Bees
All About These Important Pollinators by Sandy Swegel “The bee collects honey from flowers in such a way as to do the least damage or destruction to them, and he leaves them whole, undamaged and fresh, just as he found them.” — St Francis de Sales, 16th c. I spent a restful weekend in a […]