You really haven't got enough of the ridge tiles to make a decent insect hotel of any size but you could build a pile of 4 or 5 pallets and stuff the middles with straw and put cut canes and pine cones along the fronts with a pil of layered slate tiles in one section. Use the ridge tiles to roof it all and pack them with cut canes, bits of twigs too.
You might get hedgehogs in the base. We did in ours in our last garden.
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@Obelixx I use a pile of pallets as an outdoor work area, but I use it sort of like shelves, slotting trays into the gaps so they are ready for me to use. I could stuff part of it, probably the lower bit, though might be concerned that mice might use it and I'd find one running up my legs whilst I'm potting plants!
We don't get hedgehogs here, possibly partly due to the large badger population, but also because we have a wall all round one side of the garden and the remaining two sides of the plot are onto a road and then open field which seems to be less than ideal habitat for them. I feel less concerned about clearing up leaves as we don't get hedgehogs, though my garden has plenty of rough areas where critters that might live in autumn debris still have somewhere cosy to stay.
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We don't like or use weed membrane Stephanie - although it has been used here in the past. We prefer to lay a thick mulch of wood chip, which is far more nature friendly than membranes which tend to deteriorate after a year or two. Imagine being a garden worm, coming up from the depth of the soil only to find that there is a plastic/man made membrane above it. We know how much the blackbirds and other birds too like to forage in the garden, looking for tasty worms or other grubs - the membrane threads will become entangled in their beaks. From the old membrane that was here, which has mostly broken up now, we are forever finding small threads of plastic when we work over an area of soil. Think twice before laying anything like this in your garden.
On a different note - I love those ridge tiles - they would make excellent hiding places for small creatures like frogs, toads, small rodents and insects, if positioned in a cool quiet part of the garden.
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You might get hedgehogs in the base. We did in ours in our last garden.
We don't get hedgehogs here, possibly partly due to the large badger population, but also because we have a wall all round one side of the garden and the remaining two sides of the plot are onto a road and then open field which seems to be less than ideal habitat for them. I feel less concerned about clearing up leaves as we don't get hedgehogs, though my garden has plenty of rough areas where critters that might live in autumn debris still have somewhere cosy to stay.