Bee Brick®

Name: Bee Brick®
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If you're looking to make more space for nature then the Bee Brick® solitary bee house is for you.

Great for garden lovers, design lovers and nature lovers, the Bee Brick® is an innovative nesting site for solitary bees, created to look lovely just standing in your garden, with the added innovation that the brick can also be used in place of a standard brick in building, creating more habitat for non-swarming solitary bees. The Bee Brick® provides a stylish nesting site for red mason and leafcutter bees, amongst other cavity-nesting species, and makes a real design statement in any bee-friendly garden, allotment, or building.

Solitary bees are fascinating to watch and a wonderful way to introduce kids to bees, solitary bees have no queen or honey to protect, meaning they are non-aggressive and won't sting.

Bee houses can be a simple way to do something to help our declining bee population, alongside bee-friendly planting and other wildlife-friendly measures.

If you're interested in building with the Bee Brick® then contact us for a quote and more info here or call us 01872 858658 or email info@greenandblue.co.uk.

Visit our blog for lots more info about Bee Brick® bee houses and solitary bees.

Details

Bee Brick® solitary bee houses designed and made by Green&Blue in the UK.

Materials
Made fom concrete, using up to 75% recycled material from the Cornish China clay industry.

Dimensions
215mm x 105mm x 65mm

Weight
2.9 kg (unpackaged)

Positioning
The Bee Brick® should be positioned in a warm sunny spot, south facing, with no vegetation in front of the fascia. Ideally placed at least 1 metre from the ground with no upward limit.

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More information
Bee Brick® is solid at the back and has moulded cavities where the bees will lay their eggs, sealing the entrance with mud or chewed up vegetation. Offspring emerge in the Spring and begin the process of nesting again, repeating the cycle.

Solitary bees are facing a dramatic decline in numbers due to disease, an increase in chemical use and habitat loss. Pollinators account for 1/3 of the food we eat and are a vital part of our environment. The Bee Brick® can be used in urban spaces and places where there may not be alternative nesting sites for bees, either built into a wall or building or simply stood alone in a garden or allotment. Solitary bees are harmless and will not sting you unless you handle them roughly, even then their stings are not painful, meaning they are safe to encourage around pets and children.

Delivery

For our Delivery & Returns information, please view the page here.

Gavin from Green&Blue operating the shredder for the shred project

Sustainability at Green&Blue

Excuse the pun, but sustainability isn't just a buzz word for us at Green&Blue, it's embedded in the business decisions we make and every thing we do.

These are just some of the areas of business where we focus attention to be the most sustainable we can be;

Product -

The Green&Blue range is entirely British made - meaning visible supply chains and low product miles. We have worked with the same suppliers since the business was started back in 2005.

The Green&Blue range is designed to last for many years and we do our best to support our customers with repairs or replacement parts where any issues do arise.

The concrete range is made within our own Cotswold workshops, creating local employment and giving us full control. We use 75% waste material from the Cornish china clay industry within our concrete and are constantly reviewing material developments and processes to ensure we are using the best material we can.

Workshop -

We look forward to updating you soon on how we make sure our offices and workshops are running as sustainably as possible.

Packaging -

The Shred project , which Wildcare acquired with the purchase of Green&Blue in 2023, enables us to remove virgin grade packaging materials from our dispatch process - and allows us to work with our local community to remove recycling and to extend the useful life of cardboard.

Our boxes are UK sourced and made from FSC certified cardboard.

Our wraps and printed literature are printed with a print supplier who work from a state of the art sustainable building, and who are a carbon balanced printer, winner of the 'UK environmental company of the year' at the PrintWeek Awards.

We don't rest on our laurels and that is our promise to you. Sustainability is a journey with no end, and as we learn, as we question and as we grow we will keep this commitment at the heart of everything we do.

If you have any questions, any ideas or any feedback then please get in touch with our team, we can do more together than we can apart.

Sustainability