Click the link below for details on Helen’s Bees for the 2018 season.
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Metalwork for Brood Boxes and Supers are sold seperately. Please select from the bottom of the left hand column. Bottom bee space is standard. If you prefer top bee space then please advise.National Varroa FloorComes with Yellow Correx slide out tray for Varroa inspection and entrance block.
Assembled Cedar £33.52 Assembled Red Deal £29.76 National Brood
Assembled Cedar £54.52
Assembled Red Deal £39.89
Flat Pack National Brood
Cedar £44.96Red Deal £33.56 National Super
Assembled Cedar £42.96
Assembled Red Deal £31.21
Flat Pack National Super
Cedar £34.85Red Deal £22.30 National 4" Roof
Assembled Cedar £53.97
Assembled Red Deal £46.50
Flat Pack National 4" Roof
Cedar £42.22Red Deal £35.52 National 6" Roof
Assembled Cedar £56.23
Assembled Red Deal £49.90
Flat Pack National 6" Roof
Cedar £47.77Red Deal £42.89 National Gabled Roof
Assembled Cedar £65.65
Assembled Red Deal £53.45
National Hive Stand W Splayed Legs and Large Landing Board
Assembled Cedar £39.22
Assembled Red Deal £33.86
National Hive Stand W Landing Board
Assembled Cedar £34.22
Assembled Red Deal £27.86
Flat Pack National Stand W Landing Board
Cedar £29.96Red Deal £21.24 Double Hive Stand
Assembled and finished. Just attach legs to top with supplied bolts.
Assembled Cedar £75.22
Assembled Red Deal £54.86
National 14x12 Brood Box
Assembled Cedar £72.87
Assembled Red Deal £50.54
National Standard FloorMade from Cedar or Red Deal with a ply floor and timber lipping. Comes with entrance block.
Assembled Cedar £34.02
Assembled Red Deal £28.55
Flat Pack National 14x12 Brood Box
Cedar £59.25Red Deal £37.66 Framed Queen Excluder
Framed Queen Excluders suitable for both top and bottom bee space. £17.89
Apiguard Crown Board
Facilitates administration of 'Apiguard' and can be used as a Clearer Board with the supplied Porter Bee Escapes. £17.23
Crown Board
Can also be used as a Clearer Board with the supplied Porter Bee Escapes. £13.55
Polycarbonate Quilt
Transparent alternative to the Crown Board. Allows viewing bees with minimal disruption to the colony. £17.21
Snelgrove Board
Invented by Leonard Snelgrove for the purpose of effective swarm/colony splitting and management.
See Snelgrove Method
Travelling Screen
Allows bees to breathe/stay cool whilst being transported. When moving a hive over a long distance remove the roof and crownboard and replace with a travelling screen. Hold in place with one or two hive straps. 3mm mesh to ensure no bees escape. £16.59
14x12 EkeUsed to convert a standard brood box to take 14x12 frames. Requires metal runners or castellated spacers (below)
Assembled Cedar £31.96
Assembled Red Deal £28.88
National Nucleus HiveSuitable for 6 Hoffman frames with a higher roof to take 1/4 gallon liquid feeders. Comes with dummy board for easier inspection. Choose a timber and Assembled (Assm) or Flat Pack (FP)
National Nucleus Hive 14x12As above but 14x12. Choose a timber and Assembled (Assm) or Flat Pack (FP)
Ashforth FeederLock Jointed Cedar. Inside sealed with three coats of paint. Perspex cover over bee area. Large holds 10 litres and Nuc 5 litres.
Nucleus Stand W Splayed Legs & Large Landing Board
Assembled Cedar £34.45 Assembled Red Deal £27.12 National Nucleus Stand W Landing Board
Assembled Cedar £25.79 Assembled Red Deal £20.94 Nucleus Hive SuperSupplied with fitted metal runners.
Assembled Cedar £32.52
Assembled Red Deal £29.89
Castellated Spacers and Metal Runners
Metal Runners £1.30 per pairPorter Bee Escapes. £1.20 
Hive ToolsManufactured locally in Sheffield.
Mouse Guard
£1.21 National Entrance BlockWestern Red Cedar with a small and large entrance. Made slightly overlength. Cut to fit your hive.
£2.54
Dummy BoardsChoose from National Hive Standard Brood, National 14x12 Brood or National Super
FramesNational Hive Hoffman, DN1 and SN1 Frames are now available in Flat Packs of 10 and 50. All packs come supplied with some frame nails to get you started.
Foundation WaxNational BS Wired Foundation. We Stock the most popular sizes. Deep, Shallow and 14x12 wax foundation.
Plastic Frame EndsPlastic frame spacers available in narrow and wide. Sold in bags of 100. Plastic ends are available in white in either a narrow or wide spacing.Nucleus Colonies
If you are interested in a top quality Nucleus Colony on 5 or 6 frames please email nicholas@peak-hives.co.uk and we will pass on your details to our bee breeder Helen. She's an expert with a wealth of experience and produces quality nucs with marked queens. She is also breeding now from newly arrived Buckfast Queens. The 2013 season price per Nucleus Colony is £175.00. |
British National BeehivesBased in a small workshop in Tideswell in the Peak District we make Highest Quality British National Beehives out of 1st grade American Western Red Cedar or High Quality Red Deal according to the British Beekeepers Association (BBKA) Modified National Hive Plans. Everything we sell we make here in the Peak District. We also stock other items of Beekeeping Supplies including Frames, Foundation Wax and Hive Tools. The driving forces behind peak-hives.co.uk are sustainability and quality workmanship. Sustainability because, well it matters quite a bit we think and quality workmanship because customer satisfaction is paramount. New for 2019 is our range of pollinator plants. Fully Assembled National Hives
Flat Pack National Hives
webcam...Want to see your National Hive being made? Here's what's going on in the workshop right now. The image is updated every 10 minutes during working hours. Click to see full size... blog...The rest of the centre column is an ongoing blog of what's new at peak-hives.co.uk and other items of interest...veg garden...renewables etc, but please don't let reading about the allotment distract you from placing your order...:-)Helen’s BeesComments are closed. |
Peak Hives now has it's own nursury for Pollinator Plants. We are keen gardeners and with our interest in beekeeping supplying quality pollinator plants seemed a natural progression... The polytunnel is now populated with our own propagated and carefully selected bee friendly plants. We're now taking pollinator plant orders for despatch between January 2019 and June 2019. Please indicate your preferred delivery window when ordering your plants. Lavender 'Hidcote'In flower and swamped in bees 'Hidcote' is a bushy dwarf evergreen shrub with narrow, silvery-grey leaves and small deep violet-purple flowers in dense, aromatic spikes 3-4cm in length
1 Litre Pot £4.99 2 Litre Pot £6.99 Achillea 'King Alfred'A low growing Achillea with silver foliage with sulphur-yellow flowers that appear in spring
1 Litre Pot £3.99 2 Litre Pot £5.99 Lavender 'Rosea'Fragrant rose pink flower spikes rise on short stems above neat, grey-green foliage. With its pretty pink blooms, Lavandula angustifolia 'Rosea' makes a lovely accompaniment to the traditional purple English Lavenders.
1 Litre Pot £4.99 2 Litre Pot £6.99 Potentilla ‘Golden Starlit’ (Summer)This brilliant yellow flower is perfectly complimented with a grey/green foliage which the bees love. Recommended by the RHS to be an excellent attractant and nectar source for bees and other beneficial insects.
1 Litre Pot £3.99 2 Litre Pot £5.99 Lavender 'Devon Compact White'An ever popular perennial with profusion of pink, slightly more petite flowers on very upright habit over dense, aromatic, grey-green foliage with a tight mounding habit.
1 Litre Pot £4.99 2 Litre Pot £6.99 Pulmonaria ‘Raspberry Splash’Pulmonaria 'Raspberry Splash'. A spring flowering perennial forming dense clumps of narrow white spotted dark green leaves and long lasting raspberry pink blooms. One of the earlier flowering lungworts and so particularly valuable as an early nectar source for bees.
1 Litre Pot £4.79 2 Litre Pot £6.79 Potentilla ‘Scarlet Starlit’A Potentilla that has well-balanced but dwarf habit which carries crimson red flowers in the summer over foliage that has an eye-catching silver lustre. Recommended by the RHS to be an excellent attractant and nectar source for bees and other beneficial insects.
1 Litre Pot £5.50 2 Litre Pot £7.50 Veronica spicata ‘Heidekind’ (Summer)From June-August, each strong stem is topped with a fat, cerise-pink flower which should be deadheaded to extend interest.
1 Litre Pot £4.95 2 Litre Pot £7.95 Ceratostigma plumbaginoides (Autumn)C. plumbaginoides commonly called hardy blue-flowered leadwort is a low-growing herbaceous perennial with spreading roots, forming a mat of stems bearing oval leaves which turn red or purple in autumn. Clusters of rich blue flowers from late summer adored by bees.
1 Litre Pot £5.49 2 Litre Pot £8.49 Sage officinalis ‘Icterina (Gold)’ (Autumn)A cheerful addition to the herb garden and particularly attractive when topped by its purple-blue flowers in Spring and Summer.
1 Litre Pot £6.50 2 Litre Pot £8.50 Euphorbia ‘Baby Charm’ (Spring)Beautiful red tints to the attractive green foliage, with sprays of delicate green flowers on red stems in spring.
1 Litre Pot £4.79 2 Litre Pot £8.79 Helleborus orientalis hybrid ‘Pink Lady’ (Spring)One of the very best bee plants is the hybrid hellebore (Helleborus x hybridus) because the open flowers are easy to access and provide life sustaining nectar and pollen for at least two weeks or more.
1 Litre Pot £5.20 2 Litre Pot £7.20 Rudbeckia fulgida var. deamii (Summer)Attractive to bees and other pollinators Rudbeckia fulgida var. deamii bears attractive, daisy-like flowers with cone-shaped, black-brown centres from August to October.
1 Litre Pot £4.99 2 Litre Pot £6.99 Geum ‘Totally Tangerine’ (Spring)Tangerine flowers. Loved by bees and ideal for cutting. Flowers May-August.
1 Litre Pot £5.79 2 Litre Pot £8.79 Iberis ‘Masterpiece’ (Spring)Iberis 'Masterpiece' is known for attracting bees, butterflies and moths. It has highly nectar-pollen-rich-flowers.
1 Litre Pot £4.99 2 Litre Pot £6.99 Verbena bonariensis (Summer/Autumn)Flowering in July, August, September and October and noted for attracting Honeybees, Bumblebees and Butterflies. Prefers well drained light or medium soil sheltered from the wind.
1 Litre Pot £4.49 2 Litre Pot £5.99 Stachys byzantina (Summer/Autumn)Flowering from July to September Stachys byzantina (aka Lamb's Ears) establishes quickly and provides a dense carpet of delicate fluffy grey leaves and then tall silky flower spikes which attract larger Bumble bee species. Also provides a perfect environment for Wool Carder bees which use the leaf hairs for nesting material for their young. A superb plant.
1 Litre Pot £3.99 2 Litre Pot £5.49 |
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