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info@ecologicalgardening.ca

Emony Nicholls’
Ecological Garden
Consulting & Design


If you’re looking for voluptuous vegetables in your garden and fat fruit on your trees this summer, native bees are easy to care for and good for the environment! Mason bees are ideal for fruit trees and spring pollination. For summer crops like beans or perennials, leafcutter bees are the best choice. Try this pesticide-free, all organic method for larger fruits, vegetables and more flowers by using gentle and efficient native bees. The more pollinators visit your flowers, the larger the harvest. As a bonus, mason and leafcutter bees do not sting!

Spring Mason Bee House Rental

Install the house yourself with the provided instructions.

Includes:

  • House frame and woodpecker resistant door
  • Nesting blocks specific to mason bees
  • Minimum of 10 mason bee cocoons

Installation: You pick up in April/May (weather dependent)
Removal: You drop-off at the end of June

Cost: $60

Available on Salt Spring Island only.

Spring Mason Bee House Rental + Installation and Pick-Up

Rent a mason bee house but leave the installation for me.

Includes:

  • House frame and woodpecker resistant door
  • Nesting blocks specific to mason bees
  • Minimum of 10 mason bee cocoons
  • Bowl of mud for female mason bees to collect and seal their nests
  • Installation of the house, mud and cocoons

Installation: Drop off provided in April/May (weather dependent)
Removal: Pick up provided at the end of June

Cost: $120

Available on Salt Spring Island only.

Spring and Summer Full Season Pollinator House Rental + Installation

Two types of bees will do the work: Mason bees for spring pollination and leafcutter bees for summer pollination.

Includes:

  • House frame and woodpecker resistant door
  • Nesting blocks specific to mason bees
  • Nesting blocks specific to leafcutter bees
  • Minimum of 10 mason bee cocoons
  • Minimum of 50 leafcutter cocoons
  • Bowl of mud for female mason bees to collect and seal their nests
  • installation of the house, mud and cocoons

Installation: Drop off provided in April/May (weather dependent)
Maintenance: End of June/start of July (switching the nesting blocks)
Removal: Pick up provided at the end of September

Cost: $220

Available on Salt Spring Island only.

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