planbee
House Bee
- Joined
- Apr 13, 2009
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- Location
- Staffordshire, UK
- Hive Type
- National
- Number of Hives
- Two
I have acquired a piece of land – at last - just over an acre!
It’s rough, in fact it’s as rough as a Badgers Arris, as they say.
It’s mostly covered in brambles, and a plant that I knew as “kek” when I was a kid, I think it’s real name is Cow Parsley, and brambles, and fireweed, and brambles, and lot’s of other things that I don’t recognise, [must get wild plant and weed, recognition book].
The ground is so bloody difficult to walk on, because it’s “clumps” of grass that you simply twist your ankles on.
Because of this, the original plan was to have it scraped flat by a JCB, or similar, and then plant it up as a wild flower meadow, and get loads of butterflies.
Fighting my way through it yesterday afternoon, [wearing, nice pale blue shirt, and posh navy blue trousers of course, I didn’t originally set off to go there], I found that it’s full of butterflies of every colour imaginable.
So as it’s already full of bee forage, and thousands of beautiful butterflies, there doesn’t seem to be much point in scraping it flat, and starting again.
At the moment, my plan is simply to run a few flocks of bees, and no flocks of anything else.
I’m not interested in going to the field morning, noon, and night, to let them out/shut them in, or any of that old malarkey.
Neither am I interested in owning any creature, which may at some point require me to stick my fingers, hand, and/or arm into any of it’s bodily orifii!
However, in order to insert beehives into this mess, I will have to buy a brushcutter, and carve a path into it.
The path won’t be directly in line with the gate, but I need to hide it from anybody who leans over and looks along, behind the hedge, or anybody passing by in a high driving seat.
Any idea’s for something that will form a hedge type of barrier - grows quick, is dense, and stays tidy without “straggling” everywhere?
Oh yes, and attractive to bees and butterflies, and cheap!
John
It’s rough, in fact it’s as rough as a Badgers Arris, as they say.
It’s mostly covered in brambles, and a plant that I knew as “kek” when I was a kid, I think it’s real name is Cow Parsley, and brambles, and fireweed, and brambles, and lot’s of other things that I don’t recognise, [must get wild plant and weed, recognition book].
The ground is so bloody difficult to walk on, because it’s “clumps” of grass that you simply twist your ankles on.
Because of this, the original plan was to have it scraped flat by a JCB, or similar, and then plant it up as a wild flower meadow, and get loads of butterflies.
Fighting my way through it yesterday afternoon, [wearing, nice pale blue shirt, and posh navy blue trousers of course, I didn’t originally set off to go there], I found that it’s full of butterflies of every colour imaginable.
So as it’s already full of bee forage, and thousands of beautiful butterflies, there doesn’t seem to be much point in scraping it flat, and starting again.
At the moment, my plan is simply to run a few flocks of bees, and no flocks of anything else.
I’m not interested in going to the field morning, noon, and night, to let them out/shut them in, or any of that old malarkey.
Neither am I interested in owning any creature, which may at some point require me to stick my fingers, hand, and/or arm into any of it’s bodily orifii!
However, in order to insert beehives into this mess, I will have to buy a brushcutter, and carve a path into it.
The path won’t be directly in line with the gate, but I need to hide it from anybody who leans over and looks along, behind the hedge, or anybody passing by in a high driving seat.
Any idea’s for something that will form a hedge type of barrier - grows quick, is dense, and stays tidy without “straggling” everywhere?
Oh yes, and attractive to bees and butterflies, and cheap!
John
