>Does anyone know where I might find an old fashioned cone shaped hive to
>put in a herb garden?  Want the hive to be decorative as well as
>functional.
>
>Karen DeHond  ( a brand new bee keeper in New York State) have 10
>conventional hives I'm taking over for an organic farm, am sure you'll be
>hearing from me again).

Bee skeps are pretty, but I wouldn't recommend keeping bees in them.  In
order to harvest the honey from a skep hive, you need to destroy the entire
hive, killing all the bees inside it.  You'll get more and better honey
from a conventional, if boxy, Langstroth hive.  Get a bee skep and put it
in your garden to look at, but don't let the bees set up housekeeping in it!

Amy Thomson