kate frey

I am 3 time Chelsea Flower Show veteran (2 golds), international small farm and ecological landscape consultant, and educator. Author: The Bee-Friendly Garden.

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Bakeries, places of heart, solace and happiness where all go seeking connection with a good world

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New squeaky toys can still send elderly small dogs to become crazy

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Neighborhood hens at church

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Nature
Painting each humble, now dancing in the fog

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Frigid air and magical scenes collide and reward those venturing out into nature. Each day the world changes and is waiting for us

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Simple scenes, big skies, and subtle beauty lets the heart and mind soar and paths draw our footsteps to new destinations both real and imagined

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Portrait of a Walla Walla onion. Note the quarter to show scale

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The neighbors hens come over morning and evening and graze and eat worms in our bee-friendly clover and dandelion lawn- It has become the commons

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The garbage to garden project in full summer/ the plants forging ahead and taking over the territory and hosting bees and beneficial insects- and vegetables feeding our bodies and souls. Compost fed and drip irrigated

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Another busy native bee lady sporting pollen ‘chaps’ to provision her nest for the young she will never meet

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Despite most black eyed Susan’s-Rudbeckias- being bee friendly this very popular cultivar, R. fulgida Goldstrum is not and is sadly quiet of bees and life

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Casa Blanca lillies are a late lily season sumptuous lily- an epic of beauty, elegance and wafting fragrance

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A simple patch of zinnias is a perfect place to butterfly watch, skippers too and bumblebees collecting pollen

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An ultra green sweat bee- an Agapostemon- likely a male nectarine on a sunflower in the early evening

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Sunflowers host so many bees and provide a perfect and ergonomic platform to bee watch. Bombus nevadensis— a worker

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Pea fields ready for harvest with wild carrots looking on. So much to imbibe in the surrounding landscapes

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Bumblebees are displayed vividly against the white colored flowers.

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The humble snapdragon is bumblebee friendly. They are big and strong enough to pry the flower apart to access nectar and pollen

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Eryngium amethystifolium has it all- and many eryngium are great garden subjects- beneficial insects, bees, cut flowers and dried flowers not to mention architectural appeal

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Sunflowers are bee favorites- many species of bees are easily- and ergonomically observed