Is anyone interested in teasel stems for mason bees? I have a bunch of teasel growing in my backyard and I always cut some for mason bee tubes, but I have WAY more than I need. Does anyone want some? It is a bit of work to gather it so I wouldn't mind trading for something I could use, such as berry plants, large plastic pots, some tasty fruit, or ??? I could bring it to the All About Fruit show in the fall. It will look something like this:

When cut & bundled they look something like this:

When the bees have filled them, they look like this:


(the ones that are in backward are what I used to hold the cleaned cocoons)

The mason bees like a certain size of stem but other bees will use some of the larger & smaller ones.

Let me know if you are interested in these, otherwise I will just let them rot.