What's flowering as forage in your area

[enrico]

Same here. I sowed a raised bed and nothing germinated.

You need very little seed for a bed, maybe only half a dozen plants for a 5m x5m bed

 

[Swampie]

I've planted a good 100 borage plants every year, this year maybe 200. Perfectly successful, save that I can't get them to self seed at all, despite the interweb's dire warnings of an imminent global borage takeover!

 

[holmbee]

Bees busy on white clover, RBWH which is growing all along the bridleway next to our farmyard and also on spear (?) thistles. Still nectar coming in but at a slower pace.

 

[BeeBird]

 

[lindsay s]

This has just come into flower in the past week. The strip of phacelia is about 10m wide but runs the full length of three large fields. It was planted by a bee friendly farmer and it’s about 350m away from one of my apiaries. It was busy with bumbles and honey bees today. Every little helps after the season we’ve had up here!

 

[The Poot]

Hydrangea Paniculata. Heady scent and bees are getting both pollen and nectar.

 

[ericbeaumont]

Honeydew pouring in at Stoke Newington, NE London.

 

[Penninetrader]

Goldenrod , they are just starting to show inteest

 

[Lolly Bee]

Calamintha Nepeta Bluecloud and Lavender in my garden.

 

[Antipodes]

The are going for the English box down here at the moment.

 

[jenkinsbrynmair]

heather purpling up on the Drysgol, but it seems a bit patchy this year

 

[Eyeman]

Ivy in flower at the roadside.

 

[Curly green finger's]

Honeydew pouring in at Stoke Newington, NE London.

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Wow look at the colour of that can I buy a jar Eric to try?

 

[BeeBird]

Bee’s enjoying the chicory

 

[Erichalfbee]

Honeydew pouring in at Stoke Newington, NE London.

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Honeydew or Knotweed?

 

[Moobee]

Hydrangea Paniculata. Heady scent and bees are getting both pollen and nectar.
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Ooh that’s interesting. I’ve never bothered with hydrangeas as I thought they weren’t sufficiently bee worthy. It’s one of the few shrubs that tolerates our salty windy conditions.

 

[Moobee]

I've planted a good 100 borage plants every year, this year maybe 200. Perfectly successful, save that I can't get them to self seed at all, despite the interweb's dire warnings of an imminent global borage takeover!

Give it a year, they’ll be popping up everywhere!

 

[Moobee]

Bees in the garden all over the apple mint, persicaria, globe thistles & eupatorium. Sedums are just starting to colour up and the asters are coming into flower. They’ve found the mixed field of phacelia & buckwheat nearby - lots of dark purple pollen in the hives.

 

[ericbeaumont]

Honeydew or Knotweed?

Not familiar with pure knotweed honey; have you seen it?

 

[Erichalfbee]

It’s dark red. Tastes a bit like buckwheat.
Easy to tell if it’s honeydew. Just pop some under the microscope and there are fungal hyphae in it.