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My garden hive bees were very busy today, some bringing pollen and nectar, presumably from ivy. The rest were all over the greenhouse, drinking water from the gutter and sucking it from moss on the roof. I'd never seen so many drinking at the same time. Fortunately they were good natured.

I started this year with one hive in my garden and one in my mother's about half a mile away. One was a bought nucleus and the other a swarm. They made good size colonies through the season but wouldn't draw the foundation in the supers I put on, so no honey this year. I will be using both to...

I bought a rapid feeder for both my hives and am feeding a solution of 2kg sugar in 1 litre of water (winter feed). Professional kit and sugar solution as recommended in this forum. The bees love it and I am refilling every other day. They must have been starving but are now filling the brood...

Hypericum (St John's wort) popular at the moment- lots of bright yellow pollen. On clay in Cleveland. Good crop of brambles this year, like the previous posts, but now going over.