Garden & Wildlife News

Beehive

When a beehive loses its queen

https://vimeo.com/1126127420 In this little video, we follow our beekeeping sister in the process of importing a new queen to a hive that ...
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Moth and Butterfly Watch

With the summer months well underway we tried to pay more attention to the moth and butterfly population in our garden. Last ...
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Marking the queen bee

Watch our beekeeper sister Helen perform the task of finding the queen bee inside one of our monastery's beehives to put a ...
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First moth ‘watch’ of the year

Not everyone knows it but moths come in a rich variety of sizes and colours (and not all of them are the ...
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The ‘Therese’ wind chimes are back

With the start of spring and the sunny weather we thought it was a good time to get the wind chimes out ...
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Getting to know our daffodils…

Drifts of daffodils of various sizes and colours are blooming in our garden at the moment, helped by the lovely spring sunshine ...