What's flowering as forage in your area

[Erichalfbee]

Privet in flower absolutely smothered in black native bees this afternoon in the sun.... stock photo but looks like this.......Scent is incredible

https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/...KBXhiV8v59WD57wSGWGpD075uw2Yr-3y-ydtd_TdnvnVj

Chons da

Privet?
In March?

 

[Curly green finger's]

My wife and I are keen gardeners. We tamed three acres of scrub in Shropshire and turned it into a show garden with lakes and waterfalls from a private spring. The trouble was it was all at 45 degrees so moved to the levels in Somerset. The garden had a good backbone but spent hours of work getting it how we want it. Opened it last year for the NGS and got 400 visitors in two days. Doing it again this year but maybe for the last time as it is hard work!
It is a tree peone 10 out of 10!!!
E

I hope you moved lots of plants from the Shropshire garden down to the levels, some of them almost become members of the family.

I know exactly what you mean big gardens can be hard work a few years ago I was a Gardener on an estate 6 acres of it plus a walled kitchen garden and tunnel, green house.. I also had to look after the lady's 60 mixed ewes.
Now I prefer to design gardens and build them.

 

[Curly green finger's]

Privet?
In March?

It's not April already?

 

[gmonag]

Don't think it is privet - that doesn't flower 'till late June

 

[Erichalfbee]

Don't think it is privet - that doesn't flower 'till late June

Yes and privet doesn’t have a scent. It has a stink!

 

[Erichalfbee]

It's not April already?

Only just!

 

[ericbeaumont]

Privet in flower absolutely smothered in black native bees this afternoon in the sun.... stock photo but looks like this.......Scent is incredible

https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/...KBXhiV8v59WD57wSGWGpD075uw2Yr-3y-ydtd_TdnvnVj

Viburnum tinus?
https://www.mailordertrees.co.uk/products/viburnum-tinus-half-standard-viburnum-tree

 

[For want of a better word]

Viburnum tinus?
https://www.mailordertrees.co.uk/products/viburnum-tinus-half-standard-viburnum-tree

Also have viburnum just beginning to flower... but my google search showed that privet to be nearest I could identify
Remember in the
GreatgreygreengreasyTamarrivervalleyallsurroundedbygrumpyoldbrexiteers...
it is very mild compared to the frozennorf!

What else could it bee... flowers are on a short raceme and are highly scented a bit like daphne.... the chap who built the house in the late 90s was a plant importer and we do have some exotic plants in the bottom acre!

Chons da

 

[enrico]

Also have viburnum just beginning to flower... but my google search showed that privet to be nearest I could identify
Remember in the
GreatgreygreengreasyTamarrivervalleyallsurroundedbygrumpyoldbrexiteers...
it is very mild compared to the frozennorf!

What else could it bee... flowers are on a short raceme and are highly scented a bit like daphne.... the chap who built the house in the late 90s was a plant importer and we do have some exotic plants in the bottom acre!

Chons da

Funnily enough that's the white one I couldn't remember the name of!!!!!!
Thanks
E

 

[ericbeaumont]

What else could it bee... flowers are on a short raceme and are highly scented a bit like daphne.

Could be Edgeworthia chrysantha: in flower now, a rare-ish plant, scented flowers, although usually with a bit of yellow in them. These are the leaves and this is an Edgeworthia in flower.

 

[For want of a better word]

In a very sheltered sunny spot in the corner of the walled garden
flower is about 5mm long and 4mm acrosss

 

[ericbeaumont]

Def. not privet; need a plant recognition app.

 

[monarda]

Deutzia lemoinei possibly ?

 

[Curly green finger's]

Def. not privet; need a plant recognition app.

Picture this is a plant app

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[For want of a better word]

Picture this is a plant app

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No an app!
Taken with my ancient Sony Cyber Shot!

Had to resize JPEG... obviously not enough!!!

Chons da

 

[Newbeeneil]

Could be Edgeworthia chrysantha: in flower now, a rare-ish plant, scented flowers, although usually with a bit of yellow in them. These are the leaves and this is an Edgeworthia in flower.

Edgeworthia is wonderful scent wise, and large amounts of it have been flowering at RHS Wisley since the new year!

 

[enrico]

My app says osmanthus fragrans
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[ericbeaumont]

More likely O. delavayii (flowers mid/late spring) or burkwoodii (late winter/early spring). O. fragrans flowers late summer/early autumn.

 

[For want of a better word]

More likely O. delavayii (flowers mid/late spring) or burkwoodii (late winter/early spring). O. fragrans flowers late summer/early autumn.

Looks like one of them...

O. burkwoodii​

Thanks folks... bees seem to love it!!

Yeghes da

 

[viridens]

Many Dandelions in full bloom here, almost a month early. Magnolia Stellata has been out for a while, and the large Magnolias (Solangeana?) are opening. Blackthorn has been flowering for weeks, and Hawthorn will be starting in a week or two. All early.

Heavy bee traffic around the hives is more like I would expect in April too.