[elleme]

Earlier this year I took out a rose which had been planted by the previous owner in a shaded location and had never done well at all in terms of flowering. It had always been visited by the leaf cutter bees though. Oddly enough there's a climbing rose growing very near to it but that either never gets holes or has grown too high up and rampant for me to notice them.

Anyway, I was just out in the garden and noticed quite a few round holes cut out of the sides of leaves in a camellia planted by the house. I put a bunch of bamboo canes for solitary bees on a nearby wall earlier in the year. Not sure if any are occupied yet, one looks like it may have been sealed but with mud, not leaf. Do leaf cutters take bits of camellia sometimes, as well as roses? I'd like to think it had some use - that's another plant I 'inherited' but it's pretty healthy looking and I don't have the heart or the energy to dig it out.