As I reported earlier this year, I invited a good friend to set up a new honeybee hive at Santa Fe Greenhouses. I was hoping that the “queen and her girls” (as they are affectionately called) would among other things, improve the seed yield in my various stock plant beds (perennials from which we collect [...]
My home base, Santa Fe Greenhouses (home of High Country Gardens) is located in an industrial/commercial part of Santa Fe, New Mexico. Over the 28 years that I have been running my nursery and greenhouses, our location has morphed from being on the edge of town among the rural fields and prairie to being surrounded [...]
Finally, there is some good news regarding protection of our precious bees. This is from the July/August issue of The American Gardener, the fantastic gardening magazine from the American Horticultural Society. (If you don’t have a subscription, you’re missing a lot a great articles and information about plants and gardening.) Share on Facebook
This is Dr. Reese Halter’s latest article on honeybees. The news is not good. Bees are the “canary in the coal mine” for our environment being directly tied to the reproductive cycle of many of the world’s plants, a very delicate process that is very sensitive to environmental disruption and contamination. I know this is [...]
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