Scratch Hotel

[Norine Wiltshire]

Id also managed to rescue several big sections of trunk from willows that had been felled nearby. In an ideal world, they wouldn't have been felled at all but it was too late to do anything about that, so cheeky as ever, I asked the landowner if I could "help them to clear up" by generously taking away the wood for them.

I was going to build a bee and bug hotel, but what I hadn't planned was how it would look and how big it would get. I just kept on lifting, stacking and covering up more and more of the horrible, broken fence next door. As you can see form the photo below, I had a ready-made bee hotel on the fence, but that was soon to be eclipsed, totally eclipsed, by my masterpiece. It does give you a good sense of scale though.

Stacking up

I kept on stacking and realised that stacking the tiles in a set pattern made the hotel look pretty smart and also created loads of extra holes that I could later fill with hollow stems and other material for insects.

Three hours later and "Ta dah!" here is a mega bee hotel (below). I call it "mega" because Adrian has made and seen a lot of bee hotels in his time and I know even he was impressed with the size of mine, which made me very proud! It also showed that the scraped and cut hands, and occasional heavy tile dropped on a toe, were well worthwhile.

The nearly finished mega bee hotel - something you can make at a much smaller scale or even go bigger. Note the bucket of twigs and stems, front left, that I then filled the gaps among the tiles with.

However, things were soon to get even more worthwhile as bees moved in with unbelievable speed. I remember the excitement of seeing the first hovering around the holes and as the weeks passed, there was a regular pattern of several of them checking out seemingly every hole to see if it was suitable.

I'm still working out exactly which species of bee are using the mega hotel, but there were at least 8 in a mater of weeks with many sealing the tunnels showing they had used them for breeding.

I finished the hotel in the summer and it is still standing proud after all the autumn and winter storms. I've also been busy filling in all the holes with bamboo cane and hollow stems to make even more tunnels for bees and other insects to overwinter in.

Of course, making nest sites for bees is only part of the needs they have, so we also got very busy with our planting and filling all that space in the garden with nectar-rich plants. More on that next week..

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Dorian Southall is a seasoned chef who started his career at a small hotel restaurant in Southern California, and climb up the ranked throughout various hotels, including the Ivy Hotel, the Godfrey Hotel, and the Manchester Grand Hyatt in San Diego, CA.

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