love the hotels quite inspirational we have started one it is growing slowly as we gather bits and pieces just looking to add a wee annex to attract some hedgehogs.
Now of course is the time of year when we hope the hotels will begin to gain residents. There is certainly enough choice. Rather late I am trying to make a hedgehog house.
I'm very impressed. Now I really want to build a deluxe bug residence. For the moment the bugs have to make do with a ramshackle collection of twigs, fatsia leaves and other detritus I have piled up in a quiet corner. Less bug hotel, more bug campsite perhaps? On the street corner opposite is an unofficial bulky waste collection site, where people dump stuff and the (wonderful) Hackney waste services pick it up daily. I am sure I will eventully "rescue" something to covert into a bug hotel.
We got our bug hotel built a few weekends ago. We had a huge pile of stuff for the skip and took out everything we could use for the bug hotel. Five pallets, plenty of bricks with holes, logs, twigs etc I've made up bunches of canes and corrugated cardboard homes for lacewings too and started to add them to the hotel. I built the first level up on bricks so there is space for hedgehogs under it.
Lineria the bugs are tfe judge abd I'm sure they dont mind how much it costs, it's just a case of " build it and they will come " my hedgehog house is a mess but we'll hidden at the end of the garden I made it from a large plastic bin tinned on its side, filled half full of specially for small animals dried grass andcvovered with a heavy plastic bin liner,tge bin liber also projects over a smaller bucket with hedgie food, tgere is a littke water pot nearby too. The hay grass is disturbed and the food eaten so I'm fairly sure it is inhabited. I placed it in a corner where I have seen hedgehogs run from in the summer
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love the hotels quite inspirational we have started one it is growing slowly as we gather bits and pieces just looking to add a wee annex to attract some hedgehogs.
thanks for the great ideas
mrs grower
I'm very impressed. Now I really want to build a deluxe bug residence. For the moment the bugs have to make do with a ramshackle collection of twigs, fatsia leaves and other detritus I have piled up in a quiet corner. Less bug hotel, more bug campsite perhaps? On the street corner opposite is an unofficial bulky waste collection site, where people dump stuff and the (wonderful) Hackney waste services pick it up daily. I am sure I will eventully "rescue" something to covert into a bug hotel.
We got our bug hotel built a few weekends ago. We had a huge pile of stuff for the skip and took out everything we could use for the bug hotel. Five pallets, plenty of bricks with holes, logs, twigs etc
I've made up bunches of canes and corrugated cardboard homes for lacewings too and started to add them to the hotel. I built the first level up on bricks so there is space for hedgehogs under it.
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My cheap poundstrechers bug house hangs it's head in shame.
Sounds great, lovely to have a resident hedgehog. I have not seen a hedgehog in years.