bee house

Evaluate: Groups will present their mason bee house to the class.

Another kind of bee house can be made with an empty clay pot.

250 runners-up will win a Grow Wild seed kit containing a getting started guide, five packets of specially selected UK native wild flowers, site markers and a DIY bee house.

First things first - dig a piece of turf or soil out of the garden where you want to put your bee house. Cut off a bit of old hosepipe 8-10in long and lie it in the hole in a U-shape.

A bee house can be constructed simply by taking a short length of 2x4 or 4x4 lumber and drilling 1/4" holes half-way through lengthwise.

A bee house in a plant pot BEES are in crisis - and we can do so much to help them.

Get busy First things first - dig a piece of turf or soil out of the garden where you want to put your bee house. Cut off a bit of old hosepipe 8-10in long and lie it in the hole in a U-shape.

Q My kids are interested in insects and I was wondering where I could buy a bee house.

Inside you'll find the very best from Wales including: Merlyn Welsh Cream Liqueur, Cradoc's Golden Baked Cocktail Biscuits with Leek & Caerphilly Cheese, The Fabulous Fruit Co Strawberry Preserve with Champagne, Patchwork's Spiked Red Onion Chutney with Old Tom Ale, Patchwork Free Range Duck Liver Pate with Chase Marmalade Vodka, Coco Pzazz Vanilla Salted Caramel Milk Chocolate Discs, Gwynedd Buttery Fudge Bar, | |PS35 John Lewis, The Hayes, Cardiff THOUGHTFUL GARDENER BUG MOTEL AND BEE HOUSE If the couple are keen gardeners and like to do their bit to help garden creatures then why not help them along with a bug motel or bee house?

Also, 250 runners-up will win a Grow Wild seed kit containing a guide, five packets of UK native wild flower seeds, site markers and a DIY bee house.

Available in four different sizes ranging in price from pounds 14.99 to pounds 24.99, home2garden.co.uk MAKE bees feel at home with a square bee house, made of bark, wood, straw, bamboo, clay, sub soil and organic soil, pounds 99, www.gardenbeet.com TAKE your time to relax with an outdoor wall clock, pounds 39.50, Marks and Spencer Provence Laura Neasham with products including lavender pots, pounds 7.95 each; lavender heart, small pounds 9.95, large pounds 19.95; slate grey tray, pounds 14.95?

Thoughtful Gardener bee house PS17.50, Berry Red, www.berryred.co.uk Fancy a cuppa Coffee-holics use a take-away cups wh pop out for their da grande skinny haze latte.

The Labour leader's wife has installed two bamboo bee boxes and a bumble bee house in the Downing Street garden to give these beneficial insects somewhere safe to hibernate, while the gardeners at Number 10 have planted bee-friendly borders.