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"The Bee-Friendly Garden" Book Signing with Kate Frey

Come celebrate Earth Day with the UC Botanical Garden.

Friday, April 22 | 4-6 pm

The Bee-Friendly Garden is a lavishly-illustrated guide that gardeners can use to create a stunningly colorful, vibrant, healthy, productive gardens that help not only the threatened honeybee, but the many lesser-known bees as well. Not only are bee gardens gorgeous, they are organic, pesticide-free, and ecologically sustainable.

In The Bee-Friendly Garden, award-winning garden designer Kate Frey and bee expert Gretchen LeBuhn provide everything readers need, from "super blooming" flowers to regional plant lists and plants to avoid. Illustrated with spectacular full-color photos, the book debunks myths about bees, explains seasonal flower progression, and provides how-to instructions. Enjoy a wine tasting after the book talk with wines from Parducci Cellars.

$20, $15 Garden Members

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