The bees’ needs: how beekeeping changed the way I garden | Alys Fowler

Alys Fowler used to worry what people thought about her garden; now she puts her 30,000 insects firstI like flowers, bees like flowers. I like honey, bees like honey. I don’t much like being out on cold, wet days, and neither do they. We’re a match made in floral heaven. There have been times when I’ve blundered through our relationship, but getting honeybees made a lot of sense – and changed my relationship with honey.It seemed the next logical step in growing your own.