What's flowering as forage in your area

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I have a large one in my garden. The scent is intoxicating but I never se anything on it :(
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Do you find anything that eats the rather beautiful berries Dani ?, ours is in flower and fruit but it appears to be given a wide berth by one and all.
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Ah ok. Thanks. Reminds we a little of a sweet daphne. We also have a Christmas Bush or Prickly Box which flowers every year at Christmas (I took the photo just before Christmas). Only a faint smell but a great bee flower.
 

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Saw my first snowdrops today and also hazel catkins are out in the South Downs!
 

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The first blackthorn in bloom on Anglesey . The same patch flowered last January, but i thought it was a fluke.
 
All we have is Winter Jasmine and up the road at the Towers which has an amazing garden, there is a bush in flower but no idea what it is. Not going for a pic either as storm whatsit is busy arriving with the rain front doing it's thing vigorously.

PH
 
firs flowering snowdrops
 

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Mahonia going over now but snowdrops are opening and some daffs showing a bit of colour. Bees out today, but they are mainly interested in gathering water.
 
There's lots of Winter Heliotrope, (Petasites fragrans) in flower around here but have only seen one bee on it. It gives off an amazing scent - the heliotrope, that is.

I've found out it's a Non-Native Species, which is a disappointment - I hope nobody comes along and sprays those near me!

CVB
 
Much excitement with the leatherwood in full mid-summer flower. This naturally occurring variation on the usual white flower is called "pink cloud". Photo courtesy of my wife (she won the best "bee on leatherwood flower" home photo competition).
 

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Oursnowdrops are starting to flower.

No bees anywhere for 4 days due to weather..
 
Much excitement with the leatherwood in full mid-summer flower.

Eucryphia is a wonderful bee tree and not seen often enough over here. I discovered its attraction to bees while visiting Lismore Castle in County Waterford, Eire (wonderful place, home to Sir Walter Raleigh, Adele Astaire and various Earls and Dukes); House & Garden magazine described the trees as a monumental group of Eucryphia x intermedia 'Rostrevor' but omitted to add a photo; the trees can be seen on the left here at 58 seconds; they were in flower when we visited and the noise was deafening.
 
Eucryphia is a wonderful bee tree and not seen often enough over here. I discovered its attraction to bees while visiting Lismore Castle in County Waterford, Eire (wonderful place, home to Sir Walter Raleigh, Adele Astaire and various Earls and Dukes); House & Garden magazine described the trees as a monumental group of Eucryphia x intermedia 'Rostrevor' but omitted to add a photo; the trees can be seen on the left here at 58 seconds; they were in flower when we visited and the noise was deafening.

I’m a great fan too
Bodnant Gardens have a National collection
 
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