We have a solitary bee house still in function, but Sophie's beehive had to be temporarily removed to be cleaned as it was empty.
Sophie sent us a photo of the beehive on top of her shed to entice a swarm of bees. It's a bit like putting an ad in a newsagent's windows for a house or room to let.
Here is an interesting article on bees and an extract, slightly altered by Charlotte, from Kahlil Gibran’s "The Prophet"
"How shall we distinguish that which is good in pleasure from that which is not good?"
Go to your fields and your gardens, and you shall learn that it is the pleasure of the bee to gather honey of the flower,
But it is also the pleasure of the flower to yield its honey to the bee.
For to the bee a flower is a fountain of life,
And to the flower a bee is a messenger of love,
And to both, bee and flower, the giving and the receiving of pleasure is a need and an ecstasy.
People of our garden, be in your pleasures like the flowers and the bees.
