In full flower in North London for a week, but it's only today that bees have been on it - until then too wet, too cool, too windy.
In the last 24 hours all that changed, humidity soared and bees are at work. Privet is flowering well and they're on that too.
Noticed that flowering of Tilia europaea - the ordinary lime that shoots profusely from the base - has staggered flowering, so if the muggy weather holds the flow should last.
This book is the one to get: https://www.worldofbooks.com/en-gb/...8JuSg5Mhapz4p-wOvJWtD1L2Re-AnU0hoC6IUQAvD_BwE. Frank Howes wrote six pages on limes and included a chart with flowering times.
There is an updated version of FN Howe's classic 'Plants For Bees' Publisher: International Bee Research Association ISBN: 9780860982715 by William Kirk and F N Howes; however I don't know what has been "edited out".