Can you give us an update? How does it look like after 3 years, what kind of insects are there, any problems you found, does it bother the neighbours, how to improve the next one, etc?
@@SmallwoodBeesyour neighbours must be truly great humans, tho In teying for sometjing similar, Granted a fisr bit larger, and Ive already got Complaints!!! Ill post a vid in some time, though Im going for a more “native american earth mounds/ earthships walls”… So wish me luck, hope I can chnage how my community understnds nature.
Your house was one of my favorite segments on Gardener’s World! I was so inspired! Here in Portland, Oregon there’s a “Backyard Habitat Certification Program,” and as I’ve been working on transforming my garden in accordance with their program…. Your garden has been such a design tool.
Hello, what format is Gardener's world? Roku? TV? Book/magazine? Thank you for your help. I miss Oregon so much . How's Portland? What glorious art this fence is. 😊
@@grannysweetGardeners’ World is a show on BBC out of the UK, assuming that’s the one they’re talking about ( it’s the only one I know of 🙃). They have a website, but try googling where you can watch it in your part of the world. It’s a great show for gardening 👍
This is THE best idea I've come across in a very long time. 3:05 nailed the entire concept. I'm older and disabled and we need a fence. I hate that everything physical falls on my husband. I am more than capable of making a small frame with chicken wire on one side by myself, then stuffing the pieces, then stapling on the chicken wire on the other side to close it. Piece by piece, this is done with waste products over time. This is happening in Arizona! My bff in Florida is going to be in love with the concept, I'm sure. Thanks for spreading the inspiration around the world, friend!
I am the president of ohr communal garden association here in Copenhagen, and we are definitely doing this. We were just gona do a normal "twig-fence" or whatever you alds call them - you know, the ones where you just set poles on either side and fill them in with sticks and such. But this is much nicer and a more varied habitat for the bugs. Thank you so much.
That's wonderful news. The main reason I do the videos is to share ideas and hopefully have people do the same or better. Please send me a photo when you've done it. Good luck 👍
@@SmallwoodBees In all honesty, this is quite clever and looks so natural and a lot better on the eye than normal fencing. I can see why you get easily carried away with it 😉
That's great to hear. Please send me a picture when you've made some. I'd still staple all over even with the bricks if you're keeping it together with chicken wire. So it stays all even
Actually one of the best RUclips videos I've ever seen. Small channel with 2k subs talking about an obscure topic, but it has 100k+ views so it's obviously found a pulse. You go through your process and describe the different methods, all while walking us down a literal timeline of your work, ending finally with the fastest and most efficient method you've discovered through all that trial and error. So much information, and none of it's padded out. Humble yet eyeopening.
I've just walked past today. Still sad to have left left it behind but it's still looking great. All the plants are starting to grow through and over it now too 🤗
I've just walked past today. Still sad to have left left it behind but it's still looking great. All the plants are starting to grow through and over it now too 🤗
@@SmallwoodBees yes, our gate too, but the other end of the garden has a concrete wall which I should drill a hole in for the hedgehogs but I.m a bit scared to ! The top panel has fallen out and that’s where I want to replace it with your brilliant idea of the bee hotel.
I was a little worried about that but it's not been a problem and it's nearly covered my ivy now too. if you look at the video the secret garden I've made a thinner simpler one. I really think it works for fencing method. All about increasing surface area for creatures
@@SmallwoodBeesI wonder if you mix the rocks and wood, if that would provide more habitat and deter fire bugs. Definitely the ivy growing over is a great thing for so many reasons.
that's awesome thanks for sharing. I watched your video a couple of years ago and never forgot it, me and my partner are going to make something similar thank you for the really neat idea
@@SmallwoodBees We are organic gardeners in the middle of town, in a small community. We encourage all kinds of beneficials to our lot. Bees, wasps, hornets, birds, etc. They are just not allowed to build nests on our lot, as that is what makes them aggressive. Your fence idea will be implemented next season once our rock wall is finished. It will be the perfect topper for hibernating insects. ❤️
Well Done ❤🐝🕷️🕸️ ❤ it looks great and makes you feel happy to know someone understand the importance of insects. It inspires others to do something about it too.
Very good. Im doing it the brick way. Consider running the planks through fire until black to weather proof them and then build the brick squares out of those and add the same charred wood roof to it all to make it last and add shelter. I even wax it with leftover bees wax from my hives and then its really resistant.
Good job dude, that's a lovely way to rewild that wall. In a way, everything is wild. City sidewalks have lichen, many insects, poop residue to fuel microbial diversity, all sorts of crazy stuff going on down there. I love watching insects in the garden, they're superior beings in a lot of ways. Makes sense, they've been around so long and have had time to evolve the craziest adaptations. I really like the intention behind the future with the ivy covering all the niches within, that's some tasty gardening :)
A super cool random find. I've made the odd bug motel, and now I'd like to build a whole neighborhood. There are grass snakes and toads in the garden and plenty for bees, and wasps, but this is next level by quite a bit.
Sounds great. I'd love some toads and even more so a grass snake. I'd love to get a slow worm too. Not sure they are in Sheffield though. Maybe too far north
One thing to keep in mind is if you create a situation where there is a too high density of available habitat, it can cause disease to spread, predators and parasites to thrive, and other potential issues. Its good to diversify (similar to this fence) and may be even better to drill only a hundred holes or so each year rather than all at once. Think factory farming vs. polyculture as a comparison.
This is amazing! You've really inspired me to try a few new things with scrap materials (reno off-cuts, prunings, cardboard that isn't suitable for composting). I love creating habitats for beneficial insects, etc. I'm looking forward to trying a few new things in the garden this spring.
This is 5 star ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ accommodation for insects! Well done sir. Beautiful, functional and multipurpose. Stacking functions as in permaculture. Thanks for sharing👍.
A living, breathing fence habitat. An absolute stunner. I’ve been thinking of staging a bee/bug hotel and now I will borrow from your design. They say imitation is a form of flattery.
Love it! ❤ That's something you can do no matter where you live. I just might repurpose my chicken wire to build one as a visual barrier from the road to my pool.
Thats great. I may try a variation by making short raised beds using the bricks method and stack in cut branches/logs that are drilled on outward facing side for pollinators but backed by soil for garden on the other. Thanks for the inspiration.
I looove this idea. Well done on all that work. Wonder what the neighbours thought initially. I think the fence looks interesting and fun. It would be ashame to let it be all covered by ivy.
That last segment with the bricks is great modular design, I envision being able to scale up this process to make industry work for, rather than against nature, with prefabricated bricks that you mix-and-match to bring in a variety of different habitats!
Looks really good, but I heard recently we shouldn't drill so many holes into the wood or at least not so closely, because the bee mites can easily spread that way. In nature where there is one hole here and there bee mites apparently don't spread between the wild bees so well that way. But the do spread if we put too many holes into a log.
Can you give us an update? How does it look like after 3 years, what kind of insects are there, any problems you found, does it bother the neighbours, how to improve the next one, etc?
10 years on now but I'll see what I can do 👍
All positive feedback from the neighbours.
@@SmallwoodBees An update video on this would be awesome. I'm curious how this looks after several years. Very cool design, well done.
@@SmallwoodBees Yall must not have lots of bugs. Here, they find enough places to be for sure.
@@SmallwoodBeesyour neighbours must be truly great humans, tho In teying for sometjing similar, Granted a fisr bit larger, and Ive already got Complaints!!! Ill post a vid in some time, though Im going for a more “native american earth mounds/ earthships walls”…
So wish me luck, hope I can chnage how my community understnds nature.
You can just check the street name on google maps, looks basically identical to the video.
Your house was one of my favorite segments on Gardener’s World! I was so inspired! Here in Portland, Oregon there’s a “Backyard Habitat Certification Program,” and as I’ve been working on transforming my garden in accordance with their program…. Your garden has been such a design tool.
Thankyou so much. Really glad you like it. You'll have to send me some pictures of your garden
Hello, what format is Gardener's world? Roku? TV? Book/magazine? Thank you for your help. I miss Oregon so much . How's Portland? What glorious art this fence is. 😊
@@grannysweetGardeners’ World is a show on BBC out of the UK, assuming that’s the one they’re talking about ( it’s the only one I know of 🙃). They have a website, but try googling where you can watch it in your part of the world. It’s a great show for gardening 👍
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This is THE best idea I've come across in a very long time. 3:05 nailed the entire concept. I'm older and disabled and we need a fence. I hate that everything physical falls on my husband. I am more than capable of making a small frame with chicken wire on one side by myself, then stuffing the pieces, then stapling on the chicken wire on the other side to close it. Piece by piece, this is done with waste products over time.
This is happening in Arizona! My bff in Florida is going to be in love with the concept, I'm sure. Thanks for spreading the inspiration around the world, friend!
U go girl
I am the president of ohr communal garden association here in Copenhagen, and we are definitely doing this. We were just gona do a normal "twig-fence" or whatever you alds call them - you know, the ones where you just set poles on either side and fill them in with sticks and such. But this is much nicer and a more varied habitat for the bugs. Thank you so much.
That's wonderful news. The main reason I do the videos is to share ideas and hopefully have people do the same or better. Please send me a photo when you've done it. Good luck 👍
Make sure to drill the holes orthogonal to the stumps, not parallel to them.
@@argfasdfgadfgasdfgsdfgsdfg6351 Please explain. Is that perpendicular to the grain or parallel? The sides or the ends, and why?
Absolutely brilliant.. First time have come across your sight. Will be definitely taking examples from this 👌👏
It's one of my favourite creations. I could easily get carried away and do it everywhere :)
@@SmallwoodBees In all honesty, this is quite clever and looks so natural and a lot better on the eye than normal fencing. I can see why you get easily carried away with it 😉
@george-1961 - Surely you mean site not sight? Two very different things!😊
@@ChrisJohnson-pd4hh I keep on doing this 🤕. My spelling is good, I keep on mixing up similar words. Need to concentrate more.
@@george-1961 I wouldn't worry about it. I do the same :)
That's really clever and interesting.
It got me thinking about tearing down my brick and mortar wall lol
What an amazing idea! Such a thoughtful way to encourage wildlife
That's incredible 👏👏👏👏
🙂
That is a labour of pure love, love for nature, love for life. Well done. Beautiful.
Thank you 🙂
Love this ! Have started my own using the brick method. Cheers George.
That's great to hear. Please send me a picture when you've made some. I'd still staple all over even with the bricks if you're keeping it together with chicken wire. So it stays all even
Actually one of the best RUclips videos I've ever seen. Small channel with 2k subs talking about an obscure topic, but it has 100k+ views so it's obviously found a pulse. You go through your process and describe the different methods, all while walking us down a literal timeline of your work, ending finally with the fastest and most efficient method you've discovered through all that trial and error. So much information, and none of it's padded out. Humble yet eyeopening.
How brilliant is this!
Inspiring and so original!
I love it and I suspect the wildlife do as well.
I've just walked past today. Still sad to have left left it behind but it's still looking great. All the plants are starting to grow through and over it now too 🤗
I've just walked past today. Still sad to have left left it behind but it's still looking great. All the plants are starting to grow through and over it now too 🤗
This house is my dream home! I love the idea of my garden supporting a whole ecosystem!
Looks like you worked really hard on the fence! A luxury hotel for the insects!
It's a labour of love 😊
Wow, what a lot of work👏 and so inspiring. I can see a new fence for my vegetable garden taking shape.
Thank you 🙂
Good luck 👍
Love it and what a great idea 👍
Brilliant, thanks. For people who have a fence that goes to the ground, they could create 13x13 cm gaps for hedgehogs too!
Build a garden for hedgehogs, and everything is catered for 👍
The gate either end provided access for hedgehogs. I don't live there now but we used to get one very regularly
@@SmallwoodBees yes, our gate too, but the other end of the garden has a concrete wall which I should drill a hole in for the hedgehogs but I.m a bit scared to ! The top panel has fallen out and that’s where I want to replace it with your brilliant idea of the bee hotel.
That's amazing! I'd be scared stiff that kids set it alight though.
I was a little worried about that but it's not been a problem and it's nearly covered my ivy now too. if you look at the video the secret garden I've made a thinner simpler one. I really think it works for fencing method. All about increasing surface area for creatures
@@SmallwoodBeesI wonder if you mix the rocks and wood, if that would provide more habitat and deter fire bugs. Definitely the ivy growing over is a great thing for so many reasons.
You're a creative genious mate. Well done .
I wouldn't go that far but cheers pal 😁
beatiful idea
Thank you 👍
Great video, looking forward to the next installment 😎
Why didn't I think of that? I love it.
Glad you like it 😁
What a wonderful idea!
Small birds will love your fence what a great idea.
Great inspiration, thank you you bug lover. 🤭👍🏼
Thank you 🙂
Wow! That looks great! Anthropoid city over yonder, just beyond Spider kingdom ❤
Very beautiful. Something to keep in mind. Inspiring!!!
Thank you 🙂
Outstanding
Thankyou 🙂
Wonderful work really impressive. Well done 💙
Thanks 👍 😊
Keep up the good work!!!
good man we all have to help nature right now
Why?
Love it. I've been looking for an screen idea and I think I have just found it.
Very impressed.
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That is the best one for a screen I reckon. Easiest one anyway. Key is to staple it all over else it'll bunch over time at the bottom 👍
Holy moly thats a smart wall!!
Thank you 👍👍
that's awesome thanks for sharing. I watched your video a couple of years ago and never forgot it, me and my partner are going to make something similar thank you for the really neat idea
@@LakeWolfgangGardens you're very welcome. Please let me know how it goes 👍👍
I love you… this is brilliant! So respectful of our environment. ❤️❤️❤️
Thankyou :) I love seeing the wildlife so everybody wins
@@SmallwoodBees We are organic gardeners in the middle of town, in a small community. We encourage all kinds of beneficials to our lot. Bees, wasps, hornets, birds, etc. They are just not allowed to build nests on our lot, as that is what makes them aggressive. Your fence idea will be implemented next season once our rock wall is finished. It will be the perfect topper for hibernating insects. ❤️
@1212haro sounds great. Keep me updated on it please 👍👍
That is phenomenal ❤
Thank you 🙂
Well Done ❤🐝🕷️🕸️ ❤ it looks great and makes you feel happy to know someone understand the importance of insects. It inspires others to do something about it too.
Thank you 🙂
I hope so 🤞
Brother, this is incredible. I share your passions and I'm blown away at the effort you put into this. It came out amazing.
Its like the Neom project for bugs!
This is so wonderful 🐛🪰🦎🦋🐝🐞🪳🐌
Thankyou. I don't live there now but it's still going strong 🙂
Never seen anything like it. I love it! Hi from Brisbane, Australia.
Hi. I'm sure it'd work in australia too though once built I'd never go near it again 😁
what a fantastic idea and execution!
Thank you 🙂
Very good. Im doing it the brick way.
Consider running the planks through fire until black to weather proof them and then build the brick squares out of those and add the same charred wood roof to it all to make it last and add shelter. I even wax it with leftover bees wax from my hives and then its really resistant.
Oh i do ❤ this! Hello from Lake Charles, Louisiana ~ America
Thank you 🙂
What a great effort mate, that wall is very impressive!
It's only getting better with time as the plants grow over it too. The joy of gardening. Things get better without needing to do anything
Thanks for the great idea. Will put one at the bottom of our garden! 🙂
Thank you 🙂
Keep me updated with how it goes please 👍
A lot more thought went into this than I would have expected. Awesome job! ❤
There did. Ever evolving in how best to make it too. Thankyou 🙂
Absolutely fabulous!
I’m making one💖💖💖
Thank you 🙂
Good job dude, that's a lovely way to rewild that wall. In a way, everything is wild. City sidewalks have lichen, many insects, poop residue to fuel microbial diversity, all sorts of crazy stuff going on down there. I love watching insects in the garden, they're superior beings in a lot of ways. Makes sense, they've been around so long and have had time to evolve the craziest adaptations. I really like the intention behind the future with the ivy covering all the niches within, that's some tasty gardening :)
Thank you 🙂
I totally agree 👍
@@SmallwoodBees Ya dude :)
Great idea! I'm inspired..
Thank you 🙂 👍
Blooming brilliant! Greetings from Aus
Greetings from the UK. Thank you 🙂
Mate, you need to come do my fence. What a legend!
Cheers 👍 😁
Intresting
Thankyou 🙂
Fantastic! Love it. 💚
Thankyou 🙂
A super cool random find. I've made the odd bug motel, and now I'd like to build a whole neighborhood. There are grass snakes and toads in the garden and plenty for bees, and wasps, but this is next level by quite a bit.
Sounds great. I'd love some toads and even more so a grass snake. I'd love to get a slow worm too. Not sure they are in Sheffield though. Maybe too far north
One thing to keep in mind is if you create a situation where there is a too high density of available habitat, it can cause disease to spread, predators and parasites to thrive, and other potential issues. Its good to diversify (similar to this fence) and may be even better to drill only a hundred holes or so each year rather than all at once. Think factory farming vs. polyculture as a comparison.
@@SmallwoodBees With a bit of good fortune and a hospitable micro-climate, who knows what can happen ...
This is amazing! You've really inspired me to try a few new things with scrap materials (reno off-cuts, prunings, cardboard that isn't suitable for composting). I love creating habitats for beneficial insects, etc. I'm looking forward to trying a few new things in the garden this spring.
This is very inspiring. Thanks for sharing!
Thank you 🙂
This is 5 star ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ accommodation for insects! Well done sir. Beautiful, functional and multipurpose. Stacking functions as in permaculture. Thanks for sharing👍.
Thank you 😁
A living, breathing fence habitat. An absolute stunner. I’ve been thinking of staging a bee/bug hotel and now I will borrow from your design. They say imitation is a form of flattery.
Awesome. Congratulations. It looks really good as well
Thank you 🙂
I think it's brilliant. Nice job.
Thank you 🙂
Looks great and works for the bugs. Thanks for your work and sharing :)
Thank you 🙂
You're very welcome 👍
Brilliant
Great job
Thank you
Cool Idea!
Que útil y bonito!❤adoro esta valla llena de vida
this is brilliant!
Thank you 🙂
Big respect. I love it.
Thank you 🙏
This is an excellent idea!
Thank you 🙂
This is awesome!!! 👍👍👍
Congrats! Very impressive!
Fantastic idea
This is such a cool idea! I want to get a project like this done in my city.
Thank you 🙂. Cool. Good luck 👍
That looks fantastic. Great work. Well done.
Thank you 🙂
Thank you 🙂
FAB, WONDERFULLY CREATIVE and so beautiful too❕
Thank you for inspiring habitats ♥️
This is very creative. I love how it looks. I’d be a little concerned with letting the ivy grow over it, but that looks nice too. Great work
That's banging mate
Now that’s cool ✌️😎
brilliant ;D very well done sir , LOVE it, Will share and subbed
Wow!!! Well done ❤
Thank you 🙂
Good on you. Bravo
Thank you 🙂
Welcome to the positive algoritm only 2 years later 😁
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Love it! ❤ That's something you can do no matter where you live. I just might repurpose my chicken wire to build one as a visual barrier from the road to my pool.
Really cool idea!
Thank you 🙂
Absolutely amazing.
Thankyou :)
Very creative!
Thank you 🙂
@@SmallwoodBees your very welcome😀
Cool idea 👍
Thank you 👍
thank you!
Thats great. I may try a variation by making short raised beds using the bricks method and stack in cut branches/logs that are drilled on outward facing side for pollinators but backed by soil for garden on the other. Thanks for the inspiration.
A Lovely fence!
It's still going strong too but now with Ivy running through it really nicely
I looove this idea. Well done on all that work. Wonder what the neighbours thought initially. I think the fence looks interesting and fun. It would be ashame to let it be all covered by ivy.
That last segment with the bricks is great modular design, I envision being able to scale up this process to make industry work for, rather than against nature, with prefabricated bricks that you mix-and-match to bring in a variety of different habitats!
I'd love to do something like that on a bigger scale. I just got no idea how to go about such a venture
Looks really good, but I heard recently we shouldn't drill so many holes into the wood or at least not so closely, because the bee mites can easily spread that way. In nature where there is one hole here and there bee mites apparently don't spread between the wild bees so well that way. But the do spread if we put too many holes into a log.
Novel and wonderful!
Thankyou :)
Wow, this is great! Bug hotel housing estate 🥰
Thankyou:)
Love it!!
Thank you 🙂
How beautiful! Thick Bamboo might work for tree frogs in Aus (and maybe elsewhere)
Thank you 🙂. I would love to be trying to get tree frogs. Nothing so exotic in the uk
I love that!
You've set a great example, I hope people copy you.
@@SC-bg8wf 🤞I hope so too
Brilliant
Thank you 🙂
Fantastic!
Thank you 🙂