of telling the bees https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telling_the_bees https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telling_the_bees vaguely related to the tradition of wassaili

of telling the bees https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telling_the_bees https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telling_the_bees vaguely related to the tradition of wassailing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wassailing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wassailing this explains the trope of an elderly english gardener talking and singing to the garden et. al