When we were contacted by the Friends of Stoneham Park committee to breathe new life into a rather dilapidated planter bench in a city park, we couldn’t wait to get started. Partly because we’d not made a bench before, let alone one that could provide forage for honey bees and other pollinators. You’ll find the …
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HarpoArt
We worked with street artist HarpoArt to create this 17m-long, bee-themed mural that tells the story of pollination and pollinators. The mural covers a pedestrian bridge that crosses the railway line at Falmer Railway Station in East Sussex.
Charlotte Pearson, Scarcroft School
Charlotte Pearson of Scarcroft School, York won a competition to design a bee-friendly sculpture for our planter at Peterborough Railway Station in Cambridgeshire. The result, produced by Amalgam Modelmaking, features holes for solitary bees to nest in.
Amalgam Modelmaking
We worked with Amalgam Modelmaking to produce a 1.8m tall observation hive in the booking hall at Durham. Bees were installed in May 2019 and looked after by a local beekeeping group. Due to administrative changes at the stations, the hive was eventually removed and is now being used as an exhibition space for The …
Debden Railway Station, London
Adding to our popular TFL-led cluster of bee-friendly projects at London underground stations, our team breathed new life into a neglected station-long planter.
Join us at the Landscape Show!
Find out exactly what you should be doing to create a bee-friendly space in your garden at this year’s Landscape Show, taking place in Battersea Park, London (17-18 September). The Bee Friendly Trust will be there, showing of our new BeeDome, as well as hosting a panel discussion with industry experts focusing on: Landscaping with …
Peterborough Railway Station, Cambridgeshire
This impressive cross-shaped planter was installed under the cover of darkness to ensure maximum surprise for commuters come Monday morning. And, it definitely did. Sitting on the site of a former coffee shop, the planter measures a whopping 7m in diameter and is filled with ten tons of soil and compost. The simple planting of …
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Tisbury Railway Station, Wiltshire
We worked with the Blackmore Vale Line Community Rail Partnership to install planters at this picturesque station in Wiltshire. The first bee-friendly planter (pictured) was installed in 2018; four years later, we replaced a pre-existing planter (which was decaying) and, most recently, we built a slimline one for a narrower part of the platform. Filled …
Thames Ditton Railway Station, Surrey
Thames Ditton Railway Station is quite the pollinator-friendly habitat. Railings lined with flower boxes, planted up wheelbarrows and this impressive Bee Friendly bug hotel. You’ll find it at the entrance to the station – filled with logs, branches, hollow twigs and more, it’s the perfect place of bugs, beetles and solitary bees to overwinter. You’ll …
Mistley Railway Station, Essex
We don’t just provide forage for our honey bee and pollinator friends; we give them safe spaces to live in, too. This bug hotel in an unwanted bee hive is one such example. Dan worked his magic, making a welcoming wildlife habitat by filling the hive with hollow twigs, logs, leaves and more. He even …