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Gardens Designed for
People and Pollinators.

Tell the Bees creates native, pollinator-supporting landscapes for cemeteries, recovery centers, senior living communities, and homes—where ecological value and human experience belong together.

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Gardens in Practice

Living Places. Connected People. Lasting Value.

Charles River Recovery pollinator garden

Recovery & Behavioral Health

Charles River Recovery

Tell the Bees created a pollinator garden at Charles River Recovery in Weston, Massachusetts, as part of the center’s care environment—a place where clients and staff can step outside, pause, reflect, and reconnect with the living world. The garden now supports mindfulness, emotional processing, and everyday use within the recovery program.

“Our garden has become a therapeutic tool—a meditative space for reflection and mindfulness, and a safe place for clients to process tough emotions.”— Curtis Adams, Program Director, Charles River Recovery
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Revived entrance planting beds at City of Lowell Cemeteries

Cemeteries & Remembrance

City of Lowell Cemeteries

Tell the Bees has revived five entrance planting beds across Lowell’s cemetery landscape, creating a more welcoming arrival for visitors while adding seasonal beauty and ecological value. The work is now expanding into a larger scattering and remembrance garden designed for the cemetery’s future.

A continuing partnership—from visitor planting improvements to a new scattering and remembrance landscape.

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Where Tell the Bees Works

Different settings. One approach: gardens that support ecological life, human experience, and meaningful use.

Pollinator planting at City of Lowell Cemeteries

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Cemeteries & Remembrance

Living landscapes for remembrance, scattering, seasonal beauty, and ecological stewardship. Tell the Bees works with cemetery landscapes to create places that welcome visitors, support pollinators, and respond thoughtfully to changing ways of remembering.

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Tell the Bees garden and Letting Go Hive at Charles River Recovery

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Recovery & Behavioral Health

Outdoor places for pause, reflection, release, and reconnection within the work of recovery. Native and pollinator-supporting gardens bring living systems into the care environment while creating places people can return to throughout the day.

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Senior living garden designed for seasonal connection and everyday use

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Senior Living

Gardens for daily connection with seasons, pollinators, sensory experience, conversation, and belonging. Thoughtful planting and accessible design create landscapes residents can notice, revisit, and live beside through the changing year.

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Pollinator visiting flowers in a living garden

What Makes It Tell the Bees

Ecology. Human Experience. Place and Meaning.

Tell the Bees begins with the place itself—what belongs there, what life it can support, and how people will experience it. Native plants and pollinator habitat form the ecological foundation, while the garden becomes somewhere people can pause, remember, reconnect, and notice what is changing.

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Tell the Bees Guides

Ideas from the garden, carried into everyday life.

The Tell the Bees Guides explore plants, seasons, remembrance, and our relationship with the living world.

Getting Through Winter cover

Getting Through Winter

Staying in relationship with the living world when life is hardest to see.

Coming October 2026

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Creating a Remembrance Garden

A guide to creating a living place for memory, connection, and renewal.

Coming November 2026

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Choosing Native Plants for People and Pollinators

A practical guide to choosing plants that belong, support life, and create gardens to live with.

Coming March 2027

For Home

A living garden, at the scale of home.

The same principles can begin at home—with a native, pollinator-supporting garden shaped around your place and the experience you want to have beside it. Tell the Bees designs residential gardens that support life, respond to their setting, and become somewhere worth returning to through the seasons.

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Residential native pollinator garden designed for everyday life
Residential native pollinator garden designed for everyday life

First, a garden.

The Tell the Bees Practice

A simple way to bring what we carry into relationship with the living world.

The practice begins in a living place. Pause. Notice what is here. If you are carrying something, you may speak it aloud, write it down, or simply stay with it for a moment. Nothing needs to be solved. The garden is not an answer. It is somewhere to return.

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Living garden landscape designed for people and pollinators

What could this place become?

If you are considering a cemetery landscape, recovery garden, senior living garden, or another place where people and the living world could meet more meaningfully, begin with a conversation.

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