Our old bee hives, now empty, make the perfect work place!

A great potting bench WR, but I had no idea you used to keep bees. Why did you stop?...sorry to be nosy

The perfect place......

Sadly our bees did not get through the winter of 2015/2016. My husband has decided not to start up again just at the moment because of visits from our young grand children. It is a shame in many ways, the honey was very popular in the village! It had a lovely flowery flavour.

I do like to see a bit of inspired recycling! :)

Oh, that's a shame :( Never mind, perhaps in the future, when little ones have grown a bit, you could start again. We need all the bees we can get :)

what a brilliant piece of recycling, great idea, sorry you lost your bees though. lovely potting bench how very useful.

Nice that you kept bees Wildrose, but sorry you lost your colonies. We kept them for about 28 years. We fed ours in the Autumn with sugar syrup poured into a special feeder, then if it was a long winter, we remember placing in the hive sugar candy. Think we got that from the beekeepers Association, and if the hive felt light is another indication that the bees are short of food. This was quite a number of years ago now.