TELL THE BEES GUIDES
Guides for Living Beside the Garden
Thoughtful books about winter, remembrance, and our relationship with the living world.
AVAILABLE NOVEMBER 1, 2026
When Winter Days Feel Long
A Companion for Seniors Who Miss Nature
A companion for older adults who miss the living world during winter. Window views, familiar birds, changing weather, memories, and small signs of seasonal change offer ways to stay connected—indoors or just beyond the door.
AVAILABLE NOVEMBER 1, 2026
Not Dead. Just Winter.
A guide to staying connected to nature when winter wears you down
For anyone who misses green but isn’t ready to admire January. With humor and natural history, it follows winter’s hidden life—from bees and birds to frozen ponds—and finds approachable ways to notice what remains as the season turns toward spring.
COMING SPRING 2027
Creating a Remembrance Garden
A garden for memory, life, and return
A gentle, non-denominational guide to making a living place for memory. Begin with what you can do now, then shape a garden around the person, plants, and experiences that matter to you—and return to it as the garden and seasons change.
WHAT MAKES A TELL THE BEES GUIDE
Useful First. Thoughtful Always.
The books are written for people who want a closer relationship with gardens and the living world without needing specialist knowledge or a long list of rules.
Grounded in the Living World
Plants, pollinators, weather, seasons, habitat, and ordinary garden observations remain at the center.
Practical Enough to Use
A Tell the Bees Guide should leave the reader with something they can notice, choose, plant, change, or try—not simply an idea to admire.
Room for Human Experience
Gardens can hold memory, comfort, curiosity, beauty, frustration, and change. The guides make room for those experiences without prescribing what someone should feel.
From the Garden to the Page
Tell the Bees began with gardens and remains a landscape design practice. The Guides extend that work beyond individual projects—sharing ways to choose plants, notice seasons, remember, and stay connected with the living world.