For Home
Bring the Practice Home
Tell the Bees offers simple ways to create a more meaningful relationship with the living world — in a garden bed, on a porch, beside a window, or at your desk.
Begin with a native planting consultation, a desktop sanctuary garden, or a guide that helps you choose plants with more confidence. Each path supports pollinators while giving you a place to pause, notice, release, and return.
A Garden Practice at the Scale of Daily Life
You do not need a large landscape to begin. A single planting bed can become habitat. A small guide can turn winter planning into confidence. A desktop garden can offer a daily place to breathe. Tell the Bees helps you begin where you are.
Choose Your Starting Point
For home landscapes, small-space rituals, and thoughtful garden planning.
Native Garden Consultations
Personalized plant, layout, and care guidance for a home landscape that supports pollinators and feels calm, beautiful, and intentional.
Desktop Sanctuary Gardens
A small living refuge for a windowsill, bedside table, desk, or quiet corner — with air plants, stones, a wooden skep, and guided practices.
Gifts, Guides & Practice Cards
Printable plant guides, planning companions, and quiet prompts for choosing plants, noticing the season, and building a practice at home.
Featured home practice
Tell the Bees Sanctuary Garden
A personal meditation garden kit for everyday calm, built around a simple ritual of arranging, caring, pausing, and returning.
Each garden includes a wooden skep, air plants, pumice stones, and guidance for making a small place of refuge at home or work.
Guides for Planning, Planting, and Practice
Use these resources to choose better plants, support native bees, and shape a garden that gives something back to you.
Top 50 Native Plants to Support Native Bees
A printable Northeast-focused PDF guide with plant profiles, bloom succession guidance, native bee benefits, and practical next steps.
Native Plant Buyer’s Guide
A calm winter planning companion for evaluating catalog plants, building a bloom ladder, and choosing with more confidence.
Practice Cards & Seasonal Prompts
Small practices for calm, comfort, release, restoration, clarity, and belonging — designed for use beside a garden, window, or desk.
How the Home Practice Fits Together
1. Choose a Place
A front bed, backyard edge, porch container, windowsill, desk, or bedside table can all become a starting point.
2. Add Living Support
Native plants, air plants, stones, and seasonal cues give the practice something tangible to return to.
3. Return with Intention
Use the space to pause, breathe, speak, notice what has changed, and let the garden become part of your daily rhythm.
Begin Where You Are
Start with one consultation, one guide, one small garden, or one quiet practice. The point is not to finish a perfect garden. The point is to begin a relationship with the living world around you.