i found your channel a few days ago through your last update on this bug wall and I am telling you it has been SUCH a pleasure to catch up with your videos. I hope you keep having fun doing these videos for a long time cause they are probably one of the most inspirational things ive ever seen when it comes to gardening being done right. Thank you mate!

@SmallwoodBees

24 күн бұрын

Thank you for your lovely comment. Really appreciate it 👍

Looking fab! I love the ivy and cherry tree.

I've been watching you since your first video and I love this video because you now have a child and I must say he's soooo cute🥰... oh and the fence still looks great after all those years. 👍

@SmallwoodBees

24 күн бұрын

Thank you ☺️👍

Thanks for the update. Amazing to see how well it has lasted and you have answered one of the questions that was causing me to hesitate doing it at my place. I was thinking all the logs/sticks would have to be cut to fit the width of the gap which would take ages but now I see they can of course be put in length ways.

Great update thank you. Good to see that ot continues to be a great habitat for the local inveterate population. It still looks great and is a much needed shelter for them.

Lovely!!

Very cool to see an update to the video I just had recommended a moment ago be posted today love youtube

@SmallwoodBees

27 күн бұрын

You're very welcome 👍

wow I just say this way for so long Impressive! Than you for taking your time to make this update.

Awesome update!

Love it! I want to implement this kind of Fence at least somewhere... maybe the backside of my compost bin?

The larger holes drilled in some of the wood pieces in your fence would be great "homes" for some species of bees, like the solitary bumble bees. Just an observation. I hadn't heard you mention that as a good reason for the drilled holes, but it is one of many, I'm sure!

@SmallwoodBees

10 күн бұрын

The idea/hope is there's lots of different habitat so lots of different creatures

Thank you for the update and good to know it still survives… I came across your channel some time ago and took inspiration from what you were doing. Since then I’ve taken up some of your ideas on a much smaller scale “and” noticed bees plus all sorts of other little creatures moving in especially the solitary bees. They always appear around spring. The holes I’ve drilled soon get covered up with what looks like a mixture of spittle and soil. Then the following year around spring when the sun warms up the bees appear to break out with (pardon the pun) a hive of activity. Within a week the holes are covered up again and the bees disappear until the next year. Since then I’ve added more of these plus other little hiding places around the garden, and so the garden becomes a breeding ground for nature. “Build it and they will come” as they say. Once done I leave to grow a little bit wild which helps it blend in … How anyone can leave negative comments is totally beyond me! … Thank you, and please continue with what you do by showing that every little thing we do to assist really does help nature thrive… My very best wishes to you and your family ❤

@SmallwoodBees

10 күн бұрын

Great to hear you've used some of the ideas. That's my main reason I started this channel. So to hear it's working is very satisfying. Congratulations on your solitary bee success 👍👍👍

I can imagine an Enid Blyton story of children lost in the Smallwood wall

thank you for the update, that is so helpful!!

@SmallwoodBees

15 күн бұрын

You're very welcome 👍

Hi, Mr. Smallwood. Thank you for this update. Would you tell us the name of the ivy? It has grown so well on this beautiful fence you created.

👍😎✌️

Looks nice actually, but realistically if insects were actually inhabiting it all of that would have decayed in 10 years. Looks completely dead in the video sans the plant.

@SmallwoodBees

15 күн бұрын

Spiders seem to be the main guests.

Not a single bee. Just letting the ivy run rampant through neglect. So a complete failure. Good to know.

@prophecyrat2965

16 күн бұрын

Its a green wall and helps keep the city fresher and plants are good, better than concrete or steel or plastic, so you sir are a bell end.

@shinrapresident7010

16 күн бұрын

@@prophecyrat2965 Stacks of wood do nothing to ''keep the city fresher'', whatever that statement means. Do you see all the little holes in the wood? Those are meant for solitary bees to make their homes. Yet there are no bees. Signed an entomologist and beekeeper. A stone wall will last thousands of years.

@shinrapresident7010

15 күн бұрын

@@prophecyrat2965 I have a degree in entomology, so I kind of have a small idea of what I'm talking about. Do you see all those tiny holes in the wood logs? Those are homes meant for solitary bees. If there's no bees then that means it's failed. Oh and a stone wall can last thousands of years.

@prophecyrat2965

15 күн бұрын

@@shinrapresident7010 its recycled resources and so its not a failure

@shinrapresident7010

15 күн бұрын

@@prophecyrat2965 If you make a home for bees and no bees come you have failed.