What's flowering as forage in your area

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Honestly, it's awful. You really don't ever want to come here :D

James
Yeah same here been living in the country side for most of my life.
Unfortunately I just can not afford to move to London or west London (Bruton and Frome).
So I am stuck here..........
 
Norwegian maple has been out for a while if not already over for some any mistaking the two?
 
There are many types of Sycamore/maple. We have three in our garden. A red one, a yellow one like yours Curly and a traditional type which flowers after the leaves have appeared. Not sure the one you have is the one the bees go for! I think that is a for
I don't think that's a sycamore ... I think it's a field maple. The sycamores at the edge of my garden are nowhere near flowering yet and their flowers look very different to those. Although, field maple seeds are very similar to sycamore seeds with wings attached.
I don’t think it’s a field maple I have a field maple in the same apiary grown from seed and the flowers look different interesting I’ll get some photos of the leaves when they come out , I’ve also seen the bees the tree .

History I collected seed from Worcester crematorium 2012 started the seed of the following year , the head gardener said it was a sycamore when I was collecting the seed .
 
I have hundreds of saplings from our sycamore all over the garden and in the hedge, I try to pull up so many each time I go down the garden, nightmare if they take hold. Neighbours hates the tree for that very reason, but I love it. I stand under it on a warm day for shade, the birds love it as do the bees.
 
I have hundreds of saplings from our sycamore all over the garden and in the hedge, I try to pull up so many each time I go down the garden, nightmare if they take hold. Neighbours hates the tree for that very reason, but I love it. I stand under it on a warm day for shade, the birds love it as do the bees.
The sycamore in my neighbours garden is huge ... it's on the fence line and due West so with the prevailing south westerlies we get all of the leaves and all of spinners in our garden. The seeds will set ANYWHERE ... the lawns are full of them, all the bed and pots are full of them, even the gaps in the block paving has the damn things growing. I keep pulling them up but you have to get to them quickly because they put down roots so fast... sycamores are weeds as far as I'm concerned - even when they are 70 years old and 100 feet tall !
 
I’ve actually seen some sycamore flowering today and some first flowers on horse chestnut.
Years ago at home we had a big Norwegian Maple in the garden with the hives under it. It was alive with bees they went mad for it, in those days it was a bit unusual but they seed like mad and it’s wide spread these days!
 
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