- Joined
- May 3, 2010
- Messages
- 315
- Reaction score
- 3
- Location
- W Sussex, UK
- Hive Type
- National
- Number of Hives
- Some hives and a few nucs
Bought a Bee-Bee tree 3 years ago as a 2 year old sapling and now about to flower for the first time, lucky bees. Very excited.
Of the two I planted, one is 6 feet tall and not flowering but the other which is 11-12 feet high is the one flowering for the first time.
We have 3 plants grown from seed after we saw the huge number of bees on one at 'The Garden House' down near Tavi.
It is was a bee magnet.
Not quite all over it but at least 5 bees per flower cluster yesterday
My four varieties of Eucryphia are in flower now, and they are full of bees. Bodnant Garden near Conwy has one of the four national collections of eucryphia, and they have 22 varieties. Same family as Tasmanian leatherwood and Chilean ulmo trees, great honey producers.Mine are still too young to flower but I live in hope.
My, up till now flowerless, Eucryphia has produced it's first ever flowers, about 20, which the bees love but it's the sedums they are all after.
This morning the honeysuckle was buzzing and honey bees were collecting pollen from the flowers. First time I've ever seen that!
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