Tom Jay
House Bee
- Joined
- Jul 1, 2015
- Messages
- 180
- Reaction score
- 1
- Location
- Tyneside
- Hive Type
- National
- Number of Hives
- 5
19th March and this is the first whole day of foraging for my bees! At last! really busy from 9.30am and some brave foragers still coming home at 6pm. Here's to more days like this then!
They were not on anything in my garden: plum [only just opened], rosemary, laurel, flowering redcurrent, gooseberry.
Nearby they were in large number on: ornamental cherry [don't the various early single varieties of this have a long span between them] and on a large patch of grape hyacinth. Lots of other things in flower in the gardens near me but I saw not a honey bee on them.
There was loads of dandelion pollen coming in of course. And a few other colours I don't know for sure but I suspect the bees, mostly absent from the gardens around me, were in the coppices and woods just a bit further for:
Willow. Bird Cherry. Gorse. All three flowering in huge abundance.
Too soon around here for Sycamore, May, and Horse Chestnut but those trees and bushes are budding magnificently. Early spring rains have set them away really well.
That's my mid April take!
They were not on anything in my garden: plum [only just opened], rosemary, laurel, flowering redcurrent, gooseberry.
Nearby they were in large number on: ornamental cherry [don't the various early single varieties of this have a long span between them] and on a large patch of grape hyacinth. Lots of other things in flower in the gardens near me but I saw not a honey bee on them.
There was loads of dandelion pollen coming in of course. And a few other colours I don't know for sure but I suspect the bees, mostly absent from the gardens around me, were in the coppices and woods just a bit further for:
Willow. Bird Cherry. Gorse. All three flowering in huge abundance.
Too soon around here for Sycamore, May, and Horse Chestnut but those trees and bushes are budding magnificently. Early spring rains have set them away really well.
That's my mid April take!