Ivy In flower already!!

[beesleybees]

Hi guys, just looked out to my neighbours garden and their ivy is in full bloom today. Early or what

 

[meidel]

ivy honey is an acquired taste apparently, not to mention the crystallizing properties - i'd be getting my supers off quick i think

 

[bontbee]

Listening to a radio broadcast today, backed up by an ecology work colleague, it seems that autumn might be coming early this year. so it might not be a year to get too greedy....

 

[madasafish]

Listening to a radio broadcast today, backed up by an ecology work colleague, it seems that autumn might be coming early this year. so it might not be a year to get too greedy....

HB blooms until first frosts .. so I am anticipating a large late honey crop.. and late swarms.

 

[Erichalfbee]

No ivy thank heavens but everything else...bramble,clover,rosebay,HB....all at once. I hope the HB hangs on

 

[bontbee]

I'm not sure.

I was thinking it could be a late season, but the swifts seem to be doing their "we won't be stopping much longer" flocking already; the willowherb is in full flower now; I watched squirrels chomping on hawthorn berries yesterday morning, see blackberries that are well formed and recall that the birch leaves were turning in June: now I am beginning to wonder ....only hindsight will tell, I think.

 

[BILL.HEARD]

Ivy has made its summer growth down here and incipient buds are now showing,but it will be several months before it starts to flower.

 

[Jimy Dee]

is it the common ivy that you are looking at or is it some cultivated rare type? It is mad that common ivy is in flower, not a sign of it where I am.

 

[itma]

Ivy has made its summer growth down here and incipient buds are now showing,but it will be several months before it starts to flower.

is it the common ivy that you are looking at or is it some cultivated rare type? It is mad that common ivy is in flower, not a sign of it where I am.

 

[pargyle]

My garden has a lot of Ivy and down here on the South Coast we tend to get blooming of any plants often a few weeks earlier that you up in the North ... No sign of even buds on my ivy, still growing like mad - rare to see it in bloom before September ?

ITMA's highlighted the two posts that may be on the money ...

 

[Pete D]

My local farmer told me he will have his combine out in 2 weeks !

Borage, Lime and blackberry all in flower now but 2 weeks from now we wont have anything except wild flowers and raspberry through untill the Ivy.

 

[bontbee]

My local farmer told me he will have his combine out in 2 weeks !

Borage, Lime and blackberry all in flower now but 2 weeks from now we wont have anything except wild flowers and raspberry through untill the Ivy.

That's ferzackerly what I thought...though one of my apiaries does have access to the dreaded HB. It's been flowering for two weeks already, and I've seen the first few bees coming back with the "fungal stripe".

 

[Fatbee]

In my 3 years since taking up beekeeping I've seen one of the wettest summer on records (2012), one of the coldest springs (2013) and now one of the earliest spring and summer bloomings that I can remember. So when will we get a normal year!

If we keep getting some rain and warm weather the brambles will keep re-flowering - what I'm holding my hopes out for round my neck of the woods.

Any more seasoned beeks remember a summer when the season started and continued to be so early?

 

[victor meldrew]

That's ferzackerly what I thought...though one of my apiaries does have access to the dreaded HB. It's been flowering for two weeks already, and I've seen the first few bees coming back with the "fungal stripe".

Dreaded! Fungal !
Are you sure you're on the correct forum?
I could direct you to the 'nhs' site.
VM


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[Putnamsmif]

The Winter feeding threads will be starting soon at this rate.

 

[madasafish]

How do I feed my bees for winter?



I'll get my coat...

 

[thenovice]

How do I feed my bees for winter?



I'll get my coat...

what you should ask is if you should feed 1:1 or 2:1 and if that is volumetric or weight/volume...