Bee-autiful bee garden?

As we are starting to concentrate on the aesthetics of our garden we have been talking about what to do to make the bee garden a bit more interesting. We like the rustic look of having grass around their little area at natural 'meadow' length however in the last week or so it went ballistic and the poor bees were having to machete their way out of the hives.

So last night after they were tucked up in bed we got cracking. We've snipped most of the long grass and done some emergency weeding (I bought a £12 electric strimmer today just for this purpose) although most of the really long grass is now laying flat as apposed to having been properly cut.

We've also made some raised beds and planted some flowers. We also made some plans for this space..

- Place a hedge (probably cherry laurel?) around the inside of the twig fence
- Install a curious water feature (I've bought a little solar powered water pump for this)
- Find some sort of visual feature in addition to the colourful hives - completely drawn a blank at this so le me know if you have any ideas

Here is a terrible snap of the working progress.