What did you do in the Apiary today?

[Erichalfbee]

From witch hazel?
Tell me more. We have lots out in the garden

 

[Goran]

Nice to make home made liqueur with the fruit….

We made once liqueur, nice drink. We are not used to make and drink liqueurs, we just drink straight "rakija" which is from fruits ( plums, pears, grapes, etc..). From time to time we make liqueur with green walnut fruit and rakija.
Cornel commonly we use for fruit syrup ( lately mixing with aronia - even darker color, nicer aroma).
Before we made jams of it but no time for it anymore and who will eat all that jam.. We make from yellow plums, blue plums, dog rose..

 

[BILL.HEARD]

From witch hazel?
Tell me more. We have lots out in the garden

Hi, I think Goran is referring to the following:
Cornus mas (Cornelian cherry, European cornel or dogwood)

 

[Goran]

Yes.
By the way today I walked around to see what is in blooming at my place ( not significant as cornel or hazels, but nice to see).
Again sunny mostly and windy.. Bees busy..

 

[dpearce4]

We have snowdrops and daffs out down here in sunny Sussex by sea.

 

[Hivemaker.]

We have snowdrops and daffs out down here in sunny Sussex by sea.

I read some place you had started doing swarm checks Doug, have you supered them up for the snowdrop honey flow.

 

[dpearce4]

Haha pete.

 

[Hivemaker.]

Haha pete.

Couldn't resist Doug...lol.

Snowdrops in flower over this way too.

 

[dpearce4]

If only you could get a snowdrop nectar flow, I could really do with some more honey as im nearly out of this crop.

I was more surprised about the daffs but I know they flower down your way earlier than here normally.

 

[youngyoungs]

Fixed the holes in my beesuit pockets.

 

[Rio]

Made a roof for the hive that has been covered with insulation and a sheet of plastic all winter. Delighted with my basic carpentry skills. Iontach! Hope the bees are as impressed as I am.

 

[victor meldrew]

Finished pollarding hedge , damned hard work . I noticed some of yesterday's cut branches were bleeding , sap rising early January!
Hornbeam is prone to this rather like the grape vine
I can expect die back to a degree but the seasons have been well out of sink . Job had to be done weather notwithstanding !
VM


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[BILL.HEARD]

Couldn't resist Doug...lol.

Snowdrops in flower over this way too.

Had Borage flowering in the garden all winter, bees working it whenever the sun is out. Could do with some acreage of it down here in Devon.

 

[Chrisfnvs]

We have snowdrops and daffs out down here in sunny Sussex by sea.

Lucky you Doug and HM, our snowdrops, crocus and daffs are not out yet we seem to be well behind this year for some reason, but we do have winter honeysuckle, heather and jasmine out, maybe now the rain has slowed up a bit we might see some action. Chris

 

[jd101k2000]

Well we have had really hard frost earlier in the year (the sort where the ice has half inch hairs) and we still have a few living nasturtiums. Normally the first frost 'vaporises' them.

 

[user 6228]

just found out I have to do all my measurements on the trees (5 of them) again, not once but 4 times!!!!!

 

[Hivemaker.]

just found out I have to do all my measurements on the trees (5 of them) again, not once but 4 times!!!!!

Don't know what your using to measure them, but there is some very good laser equipment on the various forestry web sites, and not too expensive, we do quite a lot of tree measurements for timber volume.

 

[jenkinsbrynmair]

Don't know what your using to measure them, but there is some very good laser equipment on the various forestry web sites, and not too expensive, we do quite a lot of tree measurements for timber volume.

 

[user 6228]

Don't know what your using to measure them, but there is some very good laser equipment on the various forestry web sites, and not too expensive, we do quite a lot of tree measurements for timber volume.

thanks for the input
This is thermal measurements on tree models. At high temperature differential, the conductance changes, so I'm having to quantify it, then discuss it in the paper. Just when you think its done and dusted, you have to go back and redo to ensure that the whole retains credilbility.

 

[Erichalfbee]

A few Hellebores are out.

Butterbur and Caltha have just been delivered for planting round apiary pond