What's flowering as forage in your area

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There is a little bit here about the honey (you may already know).

https://thisnzlife.co.nz/top-17-trees-feed-bees-new-zealand-year-round/
Ah thanks so much for the info. I know the bees work the tree heavily when it flowers and virtually every other garden where I live has a cabbage palm so it’s a great source of nectar in June when there can be a gap in forage elsewhere.
We live on the coast so the climate is very mild - quite interested in planting a few of the other trees on the list too as long as they can withstand salty winter gales!
 
I now have Yellow Sweet, Dutch White, and Alsike clovers in full bloom. Basswood trees are getting close to flowering.

So far honey has not been extremely fast coming in and that may be partly do to the moderate to severe drought my area is going through.
 
The bees have started bringing in a grey pollen, We have lots of elderberry growing wild in the forage range and it is just entering full flower. Pollen charts indicate that this is what it's likely to be.
 
There’s a couple of Indian Horse Chestnut trees on The Common flowering at the minute. Spotted a few bees on them unlike the Lime which seemed to just have a few bumbles foraging.
 

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I’ve seen some Sweet Chestnut open already around me.
 
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