Family workshop, St Stephen’s Churchyard. Discover how to encourage beneficial insects by creating a Royal residence for mini-beasts in our churchyard wildlife area and create your own mini bug-hotel to take home. Using as much recycled material as possible, our Coronation insect hotel will be constructed of multiple floors, each divided into sections and stuffed with dry materials to provide valuable shelter for solitary bees and other hibernating insects during the winter months. A ‘green roof’ planted with sedums will make ‘Buggingham Palace’ water-tight and provide a further food source for visiting bugs.
Everyone is welcome to join in this free event; all materials will be provided, but if you have any natural materials at home to contribute to ‘Buggingham Palace’, please bring them along, for example: hollow canes and stems, dry leaves/moss/hay, dry seed heads from flowers, pinecones, twigs, bark, wooden off-cuts, small pebbles, broken clay flowerpots and tiles. For further information and to reserve a place, please contact: Anne Bowyer ([email protected]) or Rachel Johnston ([email protected])