wildlife tower

[johnt]

built wildlife tower from a book called;

"WILDLIFE GARDENING FOR EVERYONE" P.52

Pub "Thinkbooks"

forther info from
"www.wildlifetrusts.org"

[catbasket]

Nice!

I'm hoping to make room for something similar, though smaller as we have a tiny garden. I'll be basing it on ideas from Wildlife Trusts - Building an Insect Hotel Habitat.


Edit - Welcome to the forum johnt!

[binley100]

This is great. I'm planning it now. Know where I'm putting it just need it to stop raining....

[ginger ninger]

That's brilliant, I wish I had room for one, I made a ladybird box and a small bug hotel out of old Cains an a plant pot for this year.
And welcome to the vine, pop onto the "Introduce yourself" tread, tell us a bit about yourself, I'm sure you'll get a warm welcome.

[Lovage]

We have something similar on our plot.
we cut an old pallet into 4 and sacked them up like shelves with bricks in between as spacers.
Daughter and I then had great frun filling each 'floor'
Ground floor was brick ends and rocks ( frogs and toads)
Ist floor old bits of wood ( solitary bees )
2nd floor bundles of stems from Lovage, artichoke, sunflower and raspberries
3rd floor, plant pots filled with straw and stuck together ( lacewings and ladybirds )
4th floor old multicell trays

Cost £0.00, allotment tidied, interesting feature plus home for hundres of bugs and other wildlife

[OllieMartin]

Rather than dedicating a chunk of space to one, I was thinking of putting smaller ones in various spots around the garden where they'll fit in between, under and ontop of things.
I've recently built a large wooden planter and was planning on cutting a section out of that to put a number of the bamboo cane ends into.

[Jeanied]

Could you summarise on the vine for us? I'm hoping to dedicate a bit of wildlife space to my lottie but possibly couldn't run to a new book or some new materials.

[moola]

we built an insect hotel this year but put it next to our pond and added in old terracotta pots - apparently these are ace for newts over winter. We also stashed the leaves next to it and hope whilst these are turning into mulch they will help some sort of bug or other. We built it from whatever we could find in the outhouse or lying around the garden. Old pallets formed the horizontal sections and logs provided supports. Old slate tiles on top for weatherproofing. Sections had straw, stones, bark/twigs/leaves, bricks, old lavender bush bits.
We keep adding to it - it almost works as a natural 'dump' - except that it looks really quite nice and we know it is getting well used (found newt babies a couple of weeks ago)

[ginger ninger]

Had a look for a smaller version on the tinternet a found this, link won't work though

[catbasket]

Love the sign on that, and it's given me inspiration of how to build one from recycling stuff we already have lying around.

This link should work.

[BFG]

That looks great. Well done!

I've been the collecting the materials for years. I just didn't know it!

[Tam]

How to make a mini wildlife stack for your garden | Life and style | guardian.co.uk - This is the page giving the insructions, But I am afraid you will have to cut and paste the url.

[Tam]

Call me a liar, but I previewed it and it hadn't given the link !

[Bren In Pots]

It worked for me as a clickable link thanks, its now on my 'to do list'

[binley100]

Just put the finishing touches to mine today, All I need now is for some guests ( preferably the paying kind ie., frogs hedgehogs etc) to move in !