What's flowering as forage in your area

[user 819]

The sweet chestnut around me is just starting but fortunately most is still a week or so off, so maybe in time for the better weather.

Do you think we will get any ?

 

[Brenda]

Yes Balsam later if you are near burns.

I was a member of Nairn Beekeepers for years, really enjoyed their company.

 

[Ian123]

Do you think we will get any ?

Yes it’s reliable you just need it to stay dry!!

 

[Brenda]

Yes Balsam later if you are near burns.

I do not personally get Balsam because hives are on edge of source therefore more attractive forage nearer. Currently getting Clover and Bell Heather with general plentiful Wild Flowers and awaiting Limes to flower, as flow can be amazing now and again. My Bees are not at Findhorn however not too far away.

 

[user 20297]

I was a member of Nairn Beekeepers for years, really enjoyed their company.

They have a Facebook group....you don't have to be a member.

 

[Brenda]

They have a Facebook group....you don't have to be a member.

They are an Association and like all Groups require Members to pay to keep them going with paying for Heating & Rent for their Winter educational activities In Cawdor. They also buy equipment to lend to Members which is very beneficial if you do not have your own. Thank you for info. As I was not aware they were on Facebook however should have guessed.

 

[Brenda]

Do you think we will get any ?

Wish we had Sweet Chestnut, however I understand we are too far North, the Sweet Chestnut obviously likes it much warmer.

 

[Erichalfbee]

My Bees are not at Findhorn however not too far away.

I remember twenty odd years ago I had a summer cottage in the bay and watched the ospreys hunting. Great memories with my then ten year old daughter.

 

[user 20297]

I remember twenty odd years ago I had a summer cottage in the bay and watched the ospreys hunting. Great memories with my then ten year old daughter.

I was there yesterday; high up on the list of my favourite places on Earth. The only trouble is, it's the same for anyone else who visits there; hence house prices.....

 

[Brenda]

I was there yesterday; high up on the list of my favourite places on Earth. The only trouble is, it's the same for anyone else who visits there; hence house prices.....

Yes, I know the property prices have skyrocketed since I was a youngster. £10.00 was the price paid for our house here in 1896, bet that was quite expensive then. Hard to believe!

 

[jenkinsbrynmair]

Hairy vetch
Vetch has been planted at work, fields and fields of it, I have 10 production colonys right on the edge of it and yesterday afternoon the bees are getting loaded with nectar from it

Strange, Howes was very dismissive of vetch, rated it way down the scale and said it seldom gave any kind of surplus nectar crop.

 

[Curly green finger's]

Strange, Howes was very dismissive of vetch, rated it way down the scale and said it seldom gave any kind of surplus nectar crop.

Well I've been walking the fields very regularly and didn't notice untill I was there late last week it was about 7pm in the evening and the bees were flying from the vetch full of nectar.
I didn't think they would work it? the same as the geranium in the garden, it's the first year for me having them forage in the garden on it.
Maybe the vetch being as it's humid and later on in its stage of flowering.

 

[Brenda]

Very interesting, never thought of vetch as a crop only as a Wild flower here and there.

 

[spiderplantman]

We have a big Sumac tree in our garden and it's just coming into flower now. The bees go absolutely nuts over it every year.

 

[Curly green finger's]

Very interesting, never thought of vetch as a crop only as a Wild flower here and there.

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&sou...Vaw3_R9fY6luNbINfW2PkSoiB&cshid=1625597332071
We have it as a cover crop at work
There's a few different types.
Same family as clover I only see bumbles on the wild vetch up on the hills.

 

[Brenda]

Thanks for that, always learning!

 

[Erichalfbee]

Well I’m in Bath and the Lime trees are humming.

 

[E&MBees]

Well I’m in Bath and the Lime trees are humming.

There is an avenue of them, just near me in Bath, but unfortunately my bees aren’t close enough.

 

[Curly green finger's]

Took these today
Hb starting to flower mixed with rosebay, can't remember what the honey bee photo flower is?

 

[E&MBees]

Took these today View attachment 27118View attachment 27119View attachment 27117
Hb starting to flower mixed with rosebay, can't remember what the honey bee photo flower is?

Meadowsweet?