Gardens of Suburbia : Forage month by month

[Erichalfbee]

It's the bedfellows I would worry about

 

[Eyeman]

Plenty of hazel catkins for early brooding.

 

[Eyeman]

Hellebores are out

 

[Erichalfbee]

I have Hellebore, Aconites, Snowdrops, some Crocus and a ten foot wide Mahonia out. When we haven't got gales and horizontal rain the bees are on Gorse

 

[Gilberdyke John]

I have Hellebore, Aconites, Snowdrops, some Crocus and a ten foot wide Mahonia out. When we haven't got gales and horizontal rain the bees are on Gorse

You can take your choice of forage to a bee but you can't make it collect
(with apologies to the original proverb)

 

[Eyeman]

Hover fly on the crocus
Any idea what that is on the back of its thorax?

 

[Eyeman]

Hover fly and honey bee working the crocus

 

[Eyeman]

This hebe seems to be in flower all year long

 

[Eyeman]

Bees have found the bramble.
No real gap this year as Conker & Hawthorne just over

 

[Jambo]

Cotoneaster is just coming into full flower here and mine is covered in bees, particularly in the mornings. They don't appear to get any significant pollen off it though?

 

[Eyeman]

New years day and Hazel catkins loaded with pollen and sitting pretty waiting for the bees to come along on a fine warm day.

 

[Tom Jay]

New years day and Hazel catkins loaded with pollen and sitting pretty waiting for the bees to come along on a fine warm day.
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Thanks Eyeman for setting off this thread again for 2018!
Having started it, I've been away from this site more than a year. Grand to see it up and running!

 

[Eyeman]

This white Hebe has been out for a month.
Cherry blossom making a show

 

[Eyeman]

Hellebores up and happening

 

[Eyeman]

Crocus a plentiful. Shame about the weather.

 

[Jafer2]

Will take some photos in the summer but where im at in Birmingham suburbs i see honey bees going mad over deadly nightshade, some type of spear mint they go crazy over and some type of bush that has thousands of them. Will post pics when i can.

 

[Tom Jay]

In North East England, snowdrops have been up and white for nearly a fortnight but I have yet to see one of them open. Which is nice as it's been too cold for bees to fly anyway. Snowdrops wait, and the bees wait too.

 

[Curly green fingers]

The catkins on the hazel in my garden haven't even opened yet. You go a mile or so down the hill funny to see them open down there. We always seem to be about 3 weeks behind gardens in the valley. The crocus's are only just starting to come through the soil to..
Cheers mark

Datum's are like root note's in a musical scale going far away but always having to come back to that one place...

 

[colinc]

This was taken on January 13th. All our crocuses awfully up now snowdrops too. Daffodils are starting (not bee fodder though).
Magpies are nesting which means we are a couple weeks off small birds nesting and the insects should be increasing in a month or so, spring seems to be rolling in early I hope.


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[colinc]

This was taken on January 13th. All our crocuses awfully up now snowdrops too. Daffodils are starting (not bee fodder though).
Magpies are nesting which means we are a couple weeks off small birds nesting and the insects should be increasing in a month or so, spring seems to be rolling in early I hope.


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This was this morning

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