What's flowering as forage in your area

[Monbees]

Winter honeysuckle flowering and smelling sweetly, a month early. Alas no bees to be seen taking advantage, and it will be too cold tomorrow.

 

[Newbeeneil]

Loads of catkins seen on our walk today and also a myriad of small plants sprouting from the forest floor. So mild around here.

 

[Curly green finger's]

Snow showers here

 

[Antipodes]

A really good flowering display this summer in the antipodes for the native Box (photo), but also cotoneaster (don't they hum with bees in them!), and blackberry is still looking ok, particularly at elevation. Also, the gorgeous red flowers of the Pohutukawa from NZ.

 

[The Poot]

Mahonia, Viburnum Tinus and the first hellebores have opened.

 

[Erichalfbee]

We have Mahonia Hellebores Winter Honeysuckle and Witch Hazel open. And 3 degrees.

 

[Curly green finger's]

- 4 here glad to get out of the cold wind moved a few colonys today trudging around fields also cutting up a 400 year old oak tree that fell 12 months ago.
Going to try and count the rings.

 

[Erichalfbee]

Post a picture. I have an app that will tell me how old it is.

 

[Curly green finger's]

Post a picture. I have an app that will tell me how old it is.

That was going to be my next question, you must be a mind reader.
I was going to look on the usual store.

 

[Curly green finger's]

Found one
It will probably take a week or two to cut it up I'll take a photo tomorrow of the tree.

 

[Erichalfbee]

Let us know. The Ash we had to fell last autumn was 150

 

[Curly green finger's]

Let us know. The Ash we had to fell last autumn was 150

Aye will do, what did you do with it the Ash tree?

 

[Erichalfbee]

It’s been stacked up at the bottom of the garden for the hens to play on and will be logged as we have room to store it. I didn’t want it felled but it was right next to the house and raining dead branches. A good ten feet of the trunk has been left for Stan to hang his hammock from

 

[Murox]

It’s been stacked up at the bottom of the garden for the hens to play on and will be logged as we have room to store it. I didn’t want it felled but it was right next to the house and raining dead branches. A good ten feet of the trunk has been left for Stan to hang his hammock from

Get creative - STUMP ART - ............................

 

[Erichalfbee]

Get creative - STUMP ART - ............................

Some clever stuff there

 

[pargyle]

- 4 here glad to get out of the cold wind moved a few colonys today trudging around fields also cutting up a 400 year old oak tree that fell 12 months ago.
Going to try and count the rings.

Don't need to count the rings really ... at 400 years it should have been listed in the register of ancient trees .... there's a ready reckoner that you can use here:

http://www.wbrc.org.uk/atp/Estimating Age of Oaks - Woodland Trust.pdf

 

[Bumble Bee Slim]

Prunus autumnalis plus usual suspects.

 

[Erichalfbee]

- 4 here glad to get out of the cold wind moved a few colonys today trudging around fields also cutting up a 400 year old oak tree that fell 12 months ago.
Going to try and count the rings.

How wide is this tree?

 

[victor meldrew]

My Mahonia has been in flower for weeks . I reckon tonight should put a stop to that !

 

[Amari]

My Mahonia has been in flower for weeks . I reckon tonight should put a stop to that !

Yes, -4C forecast here. Last winter the ice cracked our pond circumferentially underneath the rim so I've just placed what I hope will prevent a repeat.