Bee-friendly Garden

Welcome to Kate Frey ecologically-friendly, profuse, productive, and floriferous gardens. Kate Frey is a world-class garden designer and consultant, specializing in sustainable, bio-diverse, ecological gardens and landscaping. Kate won the prestigious Chelsea Flower Show in London, receiving gold medals in 2005, 2007, and receiving a Silver Gilt in... 2003. Kate met Queen Elizabeth in 03 and 07 at the Chelsea Flower Show. In 2009 she was invited to participate in the World Garden Competition in Hamamatsu, Japan, and in 2011 she and Ben went to Malaysia to participate in Floria, a flower show in Putrajaya. Kate directed and taught at Sonoma State Universitys Sustainable Landscape Program with Extended Education for six-years, as well as consulting for noted and highly recognized wineries and residences around California, such as The Melissa Garden in Healdsburg and Lyn Mar Winery in Sebastopol. For two years she and her husband Ben worked for a Prince in Saudi Arabia on his small organic farm near Riyadh. Kate currently works as a consultant, designer, educator, and writer. She writes two columns for the Press Democrat Newspaper, and her book, The Bee-friendly Garden, co-written with professor Gretchen LeBuhn, was published in February 2016. In 2017 their book won The American Horticultural Societys Best Gardening Book of 2017 book award. Kate strives to create gardens that are adapted to and express and are appropriate to the locality; the spirit, as well as climate, soils, and biodiversity that lives in each area. She believes that each garden should have a goal of giving to the environment through compositions of flower-filled spaces, shrubs, trees for shade, and development of healthy soils- that together provide habitat for insects and birds and are vital, vibrant spaces that express joy to the viewer. Her gardens aim to be experiential and participatory; to leave a lasting impression about the specifics of place through smell of flowers and resinous foliage, taste of herbs or fruits, the interaction of ...Read More