Pollinator Friendly Gardening
Whether pollinator-friendly gardening sounds daunting or adventurous, it is in reality quite a simple and do-able task. By making an urban garden, regardless of its size, a welcoming place for insects and animals, you are helping to preserve essential pollinators, which in turn will help to make any garden thrive. The urban environment is not always best suited to pollinators, but by providing suitable nesting habitat and planting a garden focused on supplying their needs is one step in the…
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Butterfly House/ Shelter/ Feeder
This butterfly house/ shelter/ feeder gives migrating and hibernating butterflies a helping hand by providing them a place to live. When butterflies migrate they need to find shelter from bad weather. Usually they seek shelter in cracks of trees or buildings. Some butterflies will hibernate in the winter and need shelter to protect them from winter cold. This purposely designed butterfly house will provide habitat for migrating and hibernating butterflies.
Visit our web site www.creativewoodcraft.co.nz/ and Register to receive your free downloadable e-book BEES providing information about Bumble Bees, New Zealand Native Solitary Bees and Leafcutter Bees (this book is specific to New Zealand )
help your flowering fruit trees and gardens by providing a comfy home to Leafcutter Bees and Native New Zealand Solitary Bees.
Creative Woodcraft solitary bee house has four different diameters of nesting tunnels.
So if you’d like to join us in our quest to encourage our native bees – and see your garden explode with blossoms as a result - please provide a healthy habitat for them by purchasing one of our custom-designed Creative WoodcraftSolitary Bee Houses!
We also offer Leafcutter Bee Cells/Cocoons for sale. (Pre order today!)
We can all use a little more pollination!!
This unique solitary beehive nesting tray system is designed specifically to attract non-swarming solitary bees.
These types of bees do not swarm, are gregarious and safe around children and pets, they are naturally attracted to the holes in wood and the Solitary Bee Hive provides a habitat that has become harder for them to find in modern gardens today.
www.creativewoodcraft.co.nz/solitary-beehive
ever wondered who is pollinating the feijoas?
HI Rob, awesome, I had a look at your photos on facebook too from the food forest, lots of good ideas there. might make one of the modest bamboo-in-a-can insect condominiums. i have been noticing a lot more mason bees and parasitic wasps etc in our garden this year than ever before, love watching all the little critters on the flowering things throughout the garden. didn't know there was a west coast permaculture group so glad you gave the link to that too.
What a neat idea building that insect home
Hi Kali
I think the regional councils no longer recommend using diesel because of the environmental damage it causes... It could be worthwhile to check it out with the local regional council, Jacinta.
Jacqui
shredded by blackbirds or sparrows? I'm so frustrated by it. Even my
replacement plants I had growing in the glass house and I planted out last
week have been annihilated by scissor beaks. Grrrrr!
The only replacement plants I have left now in the glasshouse are caulis,
not a popular vegie with the rest of the family unfortunately. Will have to
get creative.