Pete Phillips

Our kitchen/unit is in a converted barn as part of our wildlife area we asked or landlord/farmer if we could create a herb garden down the length of our unit. We get lots of herbs and nature get's lot's of insect friendly plants. Our pallets come from our charcoal deliveries.

I wondered where the bees were getting the pollen and then I looked closely at the blossom and saw this little bee at work. I then realised there must have been a hundred bees from our honey bees to bumblebees and I am assume lot's of solitary bees. Love #nature

This beauty landed at my feet this afternoon in Wix. Obviously found a good source of early pollen. Which is great news. Craig said our bees returning to the hives had the same pollen. #SaveTheBees

So I have spent last month digging out by hand (shovel) our latest and largest pond. My plan was add pond lining and wait for rains in Autumn to fill but Mother #nature had other plans. I arrived this morning to see this 🐸🐸🐸@EssexWildlife @essexecoman

Very excited to receive our butterfly nectar rich plants from @WildflowersUK these plugs will form the start of our 1.5 acre meadow in our wildlife area. Excited to see what Essex butterflies these will attract this summer #Butterfly #nature

Helen and Pete from Fabulous BBQ receiving our Investor in Wildlife certificate from Karen of the Essex Wildlife Trust. WE are proud to be Gold Members

In the autumn we planted the area on the left with bluebells, snowdrops and wild garlic on the right daffodils ready for the spring. We are now scattering Seedballs @seed_ball ready for an explosion of wildflowers this summer #nature #savethebees

That's our pond plants sorted for this year. We already had a few we had added last year with some beautiful water forget-me-not. Hopefully we will attract plenty of wildlife and of course have lovely flowers in our ponds #nature