Our orchid meadow

For Christmas I received a bee and bug hotel as a gift from a friend, and finally got out this week to place it in the garden. At Christmas I also created a pollinator planter with many bulbs that were meant to come up throughout the spring, but sadly with the cold and hungry wildlife, they struggled to get going and flower this year. So, I have added a few new plants to the planter (Scabious and Knapweed, both of which are great for pollinators and will flower in the summer) and popped the hotel in there as well to…