What's flowering as forage in your area

[user 819]

White ****;s and Persicaria 'firetail' in the garden.
Guess I will find out for sure next summer when the honey samples results come in.

 

[Curly green finger's]

Hb growing where it shouldn't be.
On the Clee also B leaf rosebay.

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[jaybee76]

That last picture is greater willowherb rather than broad leaf willowherb although i imagine you will have both flowering on the Clee, as well as rosebay willowherb.

 

[Curly green finger's]

That last picture is greater willowherb rather than broad leaf willowherb although i imagine you will have both flowering on the Clee, as well as rosebay willowherb.

Cheers for that, how many types of willow herb is there?

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[Niv]

Cheers for that, how many types of willow herb is there?

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apparently about 197!

 

[Curly green finger's]

apparently about 197!

Can someone put a list on here for future reference pls?

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[Niv]

Can someone put a list on here for future reference pls?

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epilobium

 

[Curly green finger's]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epilobium

Lovely, I would of done that myself but I've a hammer in one hand and a trowel in the other.. Makes you wonder how I'm replying to you.
Cheers.

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[jenkinsbrynmair]

I've a hammer in one hand and a trowel in the other.. Makes you wonder how I'm replying to you.
Cheers.

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Makes me shudder to think
Just remember to wipe the screen when you've finished!

 

[Curly green finger's]

Makes me shudder to think

Just remember to wipe the screen when you've finished!

I may have three legs but I haven't got three arms.

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[Murox]

I may have three legs but I haven't got three arms.

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Does that make you Jake's brother then ?

 

[Curly green finger's]

Does that make you Jake's brother then ?

Jake who murox?
Jake the snake?

 

[Murox]

Jake who murox?
Jake the snake?

I'm Jake the Peg, diddle-iddle-iddle-um
With my extra leg, diddle-iddle-iddle-um
Wherever I go through rain and snow
The people always let me know...................

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJleJbn9G6Y

 

[MerryBee]

A cover crop of buckwheat , phacelia and clover. Clover not yet flowering.
Acres and acres of it.
Bees are all over the phacelia and bringing in lots of the purple pollen, but dont seem interested in the buckwheat.

 

[Curly green finger's]

I'm Jake the Peg, diddle-iddle-iddle-um

With my extra leg, diddle-iddle-iddle-um

Wherever I go through rain and snow

The people always let me know...................



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJleJbn9G6Y

I get it now but I'm not a fan of old Mr Harris though

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[beeno]

A cover crop of buckwheat , phacelia and clover. Clover not yet flowering.
Acres and acres of it.
Bees are all over the phacelia and bringing in lots of the purple pollen, but dont seem interested in the buckwheat.

Someone is 'in clover', I am sure the bees will follow.

 

[jaybee76]

I think there are 10 endemic to the UK. Near me (East Midlands) we have a lot of rosebay willowherb (tall, purple thin trumpet shaped flowers clustered on a tall spikes), greater willowherb (as in your picture), broad leafed (pale pink flowers) and fringed willowherb (small, delicate flowers, light purple and tubular).

Gets complicated by them often having different names. Bombweed or fireweed often used for RBWH as they quickly colonise, greater WH is sometimes called hairy (latin name is E. hirsutum).

 

[The Poot in Somerset]

Currently, hardy geraniums are the bees favourites in the sun or shade. It seems the flowers must produce nectar all day, whilst the persicarias are only buzzing when in the sun.
Still another flush of bramble to come - quite a lot still budding up.
HB in flower along the river, but I’ve not seen any ghost bees yet.

 

[Curly green finger's]

Currently, hardy geraniums are the bees favourites in the sun or shade. It seems the flowers must produce nectar all day, whilst the persicarias are only buzzing when in the sun.

Still another flush of bramble to come - quite a lot still budding up.

HB in flower along the river, but I’ve not seen any ghost bees yet.

Same here the hb is covered with bumbles today.
Some one down the road decided to through a few seed down, now we have a 2 miles of it growing in the dingles we're the briars grow, even in some of the field margins.

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[beeno]

Ling heather is just starting to flower, one or two at the moment amongst many and they all had one bee collecting pollen. Also, noticed some young gorse in flower.