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Beneficial Habitats
Beneficial Habitats - we all need a hand in the garden, vegetable patch or allotment sometimes and although toads, frogs, ladybirds, lacewings, bumblebees and butterflies might not be your immediate choice of assistant, all will gladly clean up the pests which can plague your fruit, vegetables and ornamentals. However, these most welcome friends of the gardener insist on a reciprocal agreement - they'll hunt down and eat all the pests you don't want, just as long as you provide them with a roof over their heads. And that's just where we can help!

Investing in a suitable house for the list of guests above will reap dividends in the long run. There'll be less forking out on sprays, traps and other pest control products and no more creeping round the garden after dark on a slug hunt, as your pest-guzzling friends, grateful for their des-res, will do the dirty work for you. Not only have we attractive frog and toad houses, natural-looking insect habitats for ladybirds, lacewings, bees and butterflies but educational and illuminating (literally!) solar-powered insect theatres, giving you an insight into the nocturnal insect world. And when you consider all this is totally, 100%, cast-iron Mother Nature approved, you'll wonder why you didn't give these creatures a home earlier!
Butterfly Habitat/Feeder
Butterfly Habitat/Feeder
from £19.95
This attractive Butterfly Habitat/Feeder combines a safe over wintering and interactive habitat with a central feed station - the perfect place for butterflies to hang out. The central feed sponge can be charged with a sugar/water solution to encourage colourful visitors butterflies to the feed station/habitat, who will use the house for roosting. Keep the butterflies in the rudest of health with the vitamin enhanced food, available separately. Measures 33cm H x 16cm W x 14cm D and weighs approx 700g
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Bee and Ladybird Box
Bee and Ladybird Box
£19.95
Ladybirds and bees work hard in the garden, so it's only fair to reward them with a comfy place to live - and the Bee and Ladybird Box is all that and more! The box is made from cedar which is renowned for resisting rotting, damage from water and warping and siting it close to vegetation and ground cover will have the solitary bees and ladybirds making a 'beeline' for their new home!
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Lacewing Chamber
Lacewing Chamber
£18.95
This cedar Lacewing Chamber provides a snug winter retreat for delicate but ravenous lacewings and refreshed after a safe winter's hibernation, they'll soon be munching away on garden pests such as aphids, red spider mite, thrips, whitefly and even caterpillar eggs come spring. Introducing the chamber can boost the lacewing winter survival rate by as much as 90%,
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Cedar Hedgehog Habitat
Cedar Hedgehog Habitat
£44.95
Attract a new best friend to the garden with this durable Cedar Hedgehog Habitat. The waterproof and insulated roof will keep you slug-devouring buddy warm and dry throughout the harsh winter months, and he'll repay you come spring when he's hungry! Position the winter retreat with the entrance away prevailing winds and choose a sheltered, quiet part of the garden. Complete with an integral tunnel and large inspection lid for checking with minimal disturbance and hedgehogs can hibernate in comfort, protected by the predator proof entrance.
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Pollinating Bee Log
Pollinating Bee Log
£13.95
Create the perfect environment for attracting mason bees - and other species of non-swarming, non-aggressive solitary bees - to the garden. The 30 nesting tubes are buried into the log, providing well insuated homes for the residents, all of which are excellent pollinators of fruit, vegetables and flowers.
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Frogitat - The Ceramic Frog and Toad House
Frogitat - The Ceramic Frog and Toad House
£15.95
This frost resistant ceramic frog and toad house, the 'Frogitat', with a mottled and part glazed finish, sits prettily when sited in a shady and damp area. The open front is cool in the summer whilst the ‘over-wintering shelf’ inside is warm for winter, after which they’ll appear just in time to eat slugs and snails. An attractive garden feature in its own right and an asset to the garden environment.
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Ladybird Log Tower
Ladybird Log Tower
£10.95
The Ladybird Log Tower will encourage the beneficial ladybirds into your garden - an adult ladybird may eat up to 5000 aphids during its lifetime - attracting ladybirds into the garden is a must for anyone with an aphid problem.

"Designed to make it easy to create an attractive environment for ladybirds, this tower has a central chamber filled with natural material. Chamber holes are drilled at an upward angle leading into the centre. It has a ground pole (NB.attached to the back of the tower when packed), so can be sited in your lawn. flower bed or even a planter."
'Buyers' Guide - 'Home Sweet Home', Garden Answers, August 2008
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Solar Insect Theatre
Solar Insect Theatre
£33.95
The Insect Theatre has a unique solar lighting system which automatically lights up at dusk to attract the moths, lacewings, butterflies and other interesting flying insects to leave you with much to study when it turns off at dawn. Complete with side door to add material and to remove insects and several solitary Bee nesting holes.
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Solitary Bee Nest Box
Solitary Bee Nest Box
£22.95
Help natural pollination of flowers, herbs, fruit and vegetables in the garden by providing nesting habitat with this quality solitary bee box.
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Terracotta Toad House
Terracotta Toad House
£14.95
Hibernating toads will welcome a wonderful winter retreat and will more than pay you back in spring by devouring slugs, nocturnal insects and larvae - Introduce this attractive and unobtrusive Terracotta Toad House to a damp corner of the garden immediately and welcome your own pest control officer!
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