Nicky I did the same when I re did an area for my Dad years ago and there's were bees nesting. Nothing you can do if you don't know something's there when you go in with a spade
Every little helps Frozz! Glad you're aware of how valuable bees are. So many people just don't care which is sad.
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Been watching with great joy bees around my hanging baskets - the only plants that are in the sun yet. Also I have a large container if Anagalis skylover, which is not only the most amazing colour of blue, the bees love it. It has to be really cold and dark for there not to be several there. Lots of the usual suspects have bees at present, but the best is yet to come with buddlea and the annuals which are not doing quite yet. The particular one that amuses me is the echinops, the bees seem to get quite drunk on the nectar, and can just hang there all day until it gets cool and then they leave, to return again the next morning.
Fairygirl - its good we feel guilty though isn't it I'm not a destroyer of anything if I can help it. As a child I sobbed because I stood on a snail and wanted my dad to fix it's house... he told me it wasn't dead i'd just broken his windows.... aww !! :S
We have a colony of tree bumble bees using our bluetit house and I love them
I moved an old dustbin near the veg patch, to find a fluffy bit covering a bumbles nest. I assume an old mouse nest now inhabited by bumble bees. I carefully put it back and they seem to be happy enough. I need to use the dustbin, but I daren't. Every bumble helps. My plums and apples are going to need thinning so they seem to have done a good job
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Nicky I did the same when I re did an area for my Dad years ago and there's were bees nesting. Nothing you can do if you don't know something's there when you go in with a spade
Every little helps Frozz! Glad you're aware of how valuable bees are. So many people just don't care which is sad.
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Been watching with great joy bees around my hanging baskets - the only plants that are in the sun yet. Also I have a large container if Anagalis skylover, which is not only the most amazing colour of blue, the bees love it. It has to be really cold and dark for there not to be several there. Lots of the usual suspects have bees at present, but the best is yet to come with buddlea and the annuals which are not doing quite yet. The particular one that amuses me is the echinops, the bees seem to get quite drunk on the nectar, and can just hang there all day until it gets cool and then they leave, to return again the next morning.
Fairygirl - its good we feel guilty though isn't it
I'm not a destroyer of anything if I can help it. As a child I sobbed because I stood on a snail and wanted my dad to fix it's house... he told me it wasn't dead i'd just broken his windows.... aww !! :S
We have a colony of tree bumble bees using our bluetit house and I love them
I moved an old dustbin near the veg patch, to find a fluffy bit covering a bumbles nest. I assume an old mouse nest now inhabited by bumble bees. I carefully put it back and they seem to be happy enough. I need to use the dustbin, but I daren't. Every bumble helps. My plums and apples are going to need thinning so they seem to have done a good job