What's flowering as forage in your area

[Wingy]

My girls have just found the Himalayan Balsam today, they are covered in it.
Also some bramble left, privet, clover, still going strong

 

[DaveG23]

Most of my poppies have already gone to seed!

well we are 3 weeks behind most of Ireland when it comes to spring, bizarre really because we dont get cold winters but the ocean keeps us cool in spring. Also June has been damp and cold so poppies may even be later than normal. On the plus side when all of you are thinking about the end of the summer flow, we hopefully have a few months left to try to salvage the season

 

[Gilberdyke John]

My girls have just found the Himalayan Balsam today, they are covered in it.
Also some bramble left, privet, clover, still going strong

I wish mine had HB in reach

 

[enrico]

Thanks Eric, every evening we go for a walk as a family, come rain or shine on the hill and I make sure we walk past three of our apairys, so I can If only see the hives from a distance.

Are you a towny wanting to live in the country? If so I would do it one day.
Cheers.

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Yes I was a towny but I moved to the country in 1980. I can gut and skin a deer in 45 minutes so I am told I qualify as a country bumpkin now!!!
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[Curly green finger's]

Yes I was a towny but I moved to the country in 1980. I can gut and skin a deer in 45 minutes so I am told I qualify as a country bumpkin now!!!

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Ericbeaumont.. Enrico???

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[GuyNir]

Seeing bright red pollen coming in. Any idea what it might be this time of year?

 

[enrico]

Ericbeaumont.. Enrico???

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Oops!!!!!! Oh well.....you know now!
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[Erichalfbee]

Oops!!!!!! Oh well.....you know now!
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One of you must go, then

 

[E&MBees]

The bees are loving this Prairie Mallow, which I have growing in the garden. The Russian Sage is also very popular.

 

[GuyNir]

The bees are loving this Prairie Mallow, which I have growing in the garden. The Russian Sage is also very popular.

Beautiful photo

 

[Curly green finger's]

One of you must go, then

Which one??

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[E&MBees]

Beautiful photo

Thanks. I use my mobile phone camera. Since lockdown, I’ve taken hundreds, recording the changing seasons on the daily dog walk.

 

[Erichalfbee]

Which one??

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Shall we have a poll?

 

[Curly green finger's]

Shall we have a poll?

You better ask them both first
But deffo just for entertainment!
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[ericbeaumont]

Yes I was a towny but I moved to the country in 1980. I can gut and skin a deer in 45 minutes so I am told I qualify as a country bumpkin now!!!

This Eric grew up in sort-of the country and moved to London in 1980; last night our road was a conveyor belt of stumbling and arguing nightlife and this morning WhatsApp told the story of lost sleep, a burgled car and they weren't from round here.

Tell me it's not like that out in the sticks...

 

[Erichalfbee]

This Eric grew up in sort-of the country and moved to London in 1980

Tell me it's not like that out in the sticks...

It’s not.
I was raised in a post war Garden City
Moved to nearly country
Then moved to London suburbia where I stayed amongst the noise, tumult and midnight arrests in the street for 20 years before “escaping to the country”
We have no immediate neighbours, no vast areas of crops, I can gaze at the Milky Way with not a siren in hearing. Bliss!
And I get to play with bees

 

[jenkinsbrynmair]

Tell me it's not like that out in the sticks...

It's not - apart from brief sojourns in London, Bristol then Cardiff I've always lived in what's described as an agri-industrial area.houses to the front of me (you can see them through the trees over the river) fields behind.
I never lock the car at night, often go out and leave the back door unlocked sometimes hear drunken revelers at kicking out time on a bank holiday weekend.
Unfortunately with Swansea being only 20 miles away we sometimes get commuting scallies, but that's it.

 

[enrico]

This Eric (Enrico) born and bred in Rugby. Began work at 16, worked in Portsmouth Southampton and Winchester cities, braved Aldershot and then moved to the country in 1980. Never looked back. Learnt how to garden, got into growing and showing, and many country arts and passtimes! Got my first bees!
Say no more! A poll? Quite happy to come second! Glass always half full!

 

[Newbeeneil]

Tell me it's not like that out in the sticks...

Oh Eric, we have carousing and street fights here in the National Park, only last night I heard a couple getting amorous in the street about 11.30. The vixen was screaming like a baby!
About 1.30 a couple of local brocks had a scrap across the road from me... so loud they woke me up.
This was all visible from the bedroom of a house which was the site a major murder investigation 7 years ago...... it all happens out in the sticks!

 

[Curly green finger's]

It's not - apart from brief sojourns in London, Bristol then Cardiff I've always lived in what's described as an agri-industrial area.houses to the front of me (you can see them through the trees over the river) fields behind.

I never lock the car at night, often go out and leave the back door unlocked sometimes hear drunken revelers at kicking out time on a bank holiday weekend.

Unfortunately with Swansea being only 20 miles away we sometimes get commuting scallies, but that's it.

I'm the same emyr cars are never locked, house is the same.
I've spent a bit of time in the town when I was courting and at college but I could never sleep with all the noise and goings on.
I was bought up on our farm in the black mountains.
Then moved to the Clee in 2004.
The only crime on the hill is people coming from the Midlands and local towns leaving rubbish and drug taking leaving disused needles laughing gas canisters and whatever.
If it wasn't for this the Clee would be a very qiute place.
I could tell you a few story's about farmers mind...
Local pub in 1998 farmer walks in and shoots his best mate as he was bedding his wife.. That's about as bad as I've known it.

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