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Nectar Bar

Our Ivy is a real nectar bar.

Lots of bees, bumble bees, wasps, flies, hoverflies and even some butterflies are enjoying it.

Holiday!

The next 3 weeks I'll be off from work!
Finally I can do whatever I want :)
I'l be blogging regularly.

Hopefully you're enjoying your holiday or weekend right now! 

Knapweed

This Centaurea jacea (aka Knapwort, Harshweed, brown knapweed) attracts lots of bees.

Bee Houses

I forgot to update you about the bee houses............

well we've got some inhabitants, some already left :-).

Another bee house

I've made this  a long time ago from some leftovers of clay.

For the decoration I used a leaf with fat veins.

After these blocks of clay were fired, they layed in our shed for quite some time before they got used at last :-)

The solitary bees use all kinds of material to fill the holes.

Broken dolomite from our driveway, white loam from our wall in the shed and all sorts of wax.

Nestbox

Don't get fooled!!!

These houses may look like bird's nest boxes but they are solitary bee houses.

We hung these posh looking houses a few days ago.

I wonder when we will have some inhabitants.

Is There Anybody Out There?

I know, I've only just begun.
But it would be so nice to hear from you!
And I know you are out there :-)

Just know I really enjoy reading your reactions!