10 Nov 2016

Bees are said to be responsible for one out of every three bites of food we eat. Honey is good but it’s the flowers they pollinate that makes bees essential to our lives.

Bee expert Doug Purdie says you don’t need to manage a bee-hive, you simply need to grow plants that bees like.

Professor Tim Entwisle joins Doug in the undergrowth at Sydney’s Royal Botanic Garden to find out which plants bees like most and why blue is their favourite colour.

ABC NEWS

Saturday 5 November 2016 10:16AM (view full episode)