Last Day of the Tui School Garden Challenge...

 

Hotel for Bugs

 

Today is our last day in our Garden for the Tui School Garden Challenge as a severe weather warning has been issued for our region for the next 4 days...rain & lots of it, even by our West Coast Standards!

 

WE have some pretty special critters living on the West Coast such as wetas...so we thought we should build them some shelter from these unprecedented weather conditions.

 

 WE had a scavenge around and found also sorts of things that might make good bug homes...

 ...what better way to use the archaeological "treasure" we dug up from our orchard area...

 Some of us decided ripped up paper would make a nice home for a slater family...

 ...others carefully selected stones and shells, accessorised with a splash of colour for a designer abode...

 ...holes were drilled for the more solitary dwellers...

...all Garden Warriors were deeply engrossed in designing and furnishing bug abodes. No doubt the bug hotel will continue to have "furnishings" and "treasure" added to it on a weekly basis.

We shall just have to wait and see who moves in now, and how long it takes them to discover our Hotel?

Who thinks we should make some hotel signs & have a competition to name the hotels?
What fun could be had with names like "Dew Drop Inn", "Bed Bug Hostel" & "Weta Bed & Breakie"...keep tuning in to see what signage turns up next week!

While on the subject of critters, our Garden Gnomes installed a critter survey pipe on the fence where we spike the apples for the birds. These apples seem to disappear within 24 hours of being placed here so we are hoping to force any visitors through the orange pipe, where they will leave a copy of their foot prints in the ink! Only problem is I don't think Mr opossum will fit through that pipe?

 

Who is stealing the fruit, whose foot prints are we going to find?