What's flowering as forage in your area

[jenkinsbrynmair]

I think all of the perennials look good this year, that cold wet spring has made such a difference to them.

HB is an annual

 

[Curly green finger's]

HB is an annual

Aye and an invasive one at that.
The perennials still look good this year though?

 

[Erichalfbee]

I think all of the perennials look good this year, that cold wet spring has made such a difference to them.

Balsam is annual......ooops JBM beat me to it.
Ive seen bees on it here....but not seen the dots on mine but they sure are busy on something. I have an ex Demaree with two 14x12 broods and five supers. Madness

 

[Curly green finger's]

Balsam is an annual

And the perennials still look good this year

 

[Curly green finger's]

Flowers

 

[Xtrema]

Brambles here have almost gone over here. Lime is the the main attraction currently.

 

[jenkinsbrynmair]

Ive seen bees on it here....but not seen the dots on mine

I just saw the odd one, thing is, it's far too dry for balsam to yield, and even if it did, there's far better pollen and nectar sources out there

 

[fizzle]

Balsam is out here,

the blackberrys were really busy up here as was the clover, meadow sweet, rosebay and hb...

I'm not up on the whole flora but noticed this one at the river bank the last few weeks. What is it? Has an almost aniseed smell. Do bees collect?

 

[Erichalfbee]

Meadowsweet.
look for the pollen in your colonies. It’s green.

 

[GuyNir]

Meadowsweet.
look for the pollen in your colonies. It’s green.

Seeing lots of green pollen coming at the moment. Also lots of grey/blue from the willowherb.

 

[Erichalfbee]

Seeing lots of green pollen coming at the moment. Also lots of grey/blue from the willowherb.

Lovely to see all the different colours isn’t it

 

[Bazzer]

Meadowsweet.
look for the pollen in your colonies. It’s green.

Meadowsweet pollen is more of a tan/dirty orange colour and often looks sticky

 

[thorn]

The blackberries and lime are over here, but there's a large patch of thistles just up the road that's being worked hard.

 

[Erichalfbee]

Meadowsweet pollen is more of a tan/dirty orange colour and often looks sticky

The meadowsweet down here has green pollen

 

[Curly green finger's]

This is the little guys wild flower area they planted with seed on the 25th of May. we added some perennials also which are know getting swamped.
The guys counted 30 honey bees in the garden today and 12 Bumble bees .
Commons Edge apiary is 30 metres away from the garden.

 

[The Poot]

Lavatera pollen fest?

 

[E&MBees]

This is Sidalcea Elsie Heugh. The bees love it.

 

[Erichalfbee]

This is Sidalcea Elsie Heugh. The bees love it.
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How pretty.
Absolutely no honey bees on anything in the garden.
They are all tearing out across the fields somewhere

 

[LeaBees]

Experienced what I think was waft of lime when I checked supers - amazing. So I guess Limes are producing.

 

[holmbee]

Lime is going over fast here. It has been good for about a week but temperatures of around 30 each day plus solid sunshine means they are fading faster than would be normal. (Normal in good years, but not enough of those).