{"id":149892,"date":"2025-03-21T12:30:50","date_gmt":"2025-03-21T05:30:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/country-diary-a-tiny-wildflower-meadow-with-bespoke-bee-habitats-kate-bradbury\/"},"modified":"2025-03-21T13:24:24","modified_gmt":"2025-03-21T06:24:24","slug":"country-diary-a-tiny-wildflower-meadow-with-bespoke-bee-habitats-kate-bradbury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/country-diary-a-tiny-wildflower-meadow-with-bespoke-bee-habitats-kate-bradbury\/","title":{"rendered":"Country diary: A tiny wildflower meadow with bespoke bee habitats | Kate Bradbury"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nHove, East Sussex: Last spring was a washout, but this year \u2013 after a few home improvements \u2013 my garden is buzzingI sit in my front garden, which is surely a contender for world\u2019s smallest meadow \u2013 a tiny square, rich with native grasses, primroses,\u00a0lungwort, crocuses and the last of the snowdrops. Leaves poke through the soil, telling me that scabious and knapweed will soon bloom, along with betony, meadowsweet and viper\u2019s bugloss. The one red campion, which has been in flower since December, will be joined by others, and the whole space, in all its tiny glory, might buzz with the hum of a thousand\u00a0insects.Except it\u2019s already buzzing. After\u00a0a few days of fine weather, the male hairy-footed flower bees\u00a0emerged. Some will have come from the nesting habitats I\u00a0made for their mothers \u2013 miniature cob walls of loam, sand and straw in terracotta pots, with pencilled-in holes for egg-laying. Two years ago, I placed these close to their favourite flowers: lungwort.\u00a0It didn\u2019t take the females long to find\u00a0them. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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