
“When the bees go, it’s just before we do”, says Paula Carnell, head beekeeper at The Newt in Somerset, and custodian of the immersive ‘beehive’ the hotel is presenting at this year’s RHS Chelsea Flower Show.
Carnell is making an impassioned case for the importance of nurturing bee habitats, and one that the Newt is promoting as headline sponsor of the event.