For these bees you can buy special homes from garden centres, or simply make your own by collecting and binding together hollowed out small branches.

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The firm said it signed an agreement in 2007 making it the preferred development partner to build 400 homes, offices and a public garden on the Esplanade Quarter.

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Their new homes had indoor toilets and often a small garden.

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Before 1990, Suzhou was a beautiful tourist town, the home of many garden villas that were the summer homes of Ming and Qing Dynasty officials.

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The company behind the development, Golding Homes, said it wants to create a new "garden suburb".

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There are homes in this country where the only way to cook chicken is to catch the live fowl running in the garden, kill it, and prepare it for cooking.

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