What's flowering as forage in your area

[Moobee]

My poor garden looks battered. If the flowers haven't been blown off the few flowering hellebores, sarcococca or crocuses, many leaves are scorched and blackened by salt laden winds
At least the goat willow seems to have held on to its buds and should flower soon.

 

[enrico]

My cherry plum is just starting to open and I can see other cherries opening down the road.

 

[Curly green finger's]

Driving home on Monday I saw some blackthorn flowering on the side of the long mynd, the odd gean cherry down in the teme valley.

 

[Swn58]

I went to the farm today to 'batten down the hatches.'

The farm apiary survived the storms! The others are ok as well

 

[Curly green finger's]

The farm apiary survived the storms! The others are ok as well

They look like dark bees?

 

[pargyle]

Lovely photos but look more like stripey mongrels to me.....

 

[Curly green finger's]

Lovely photos but look more like stripey mongrels to me.....

Do you think?

 

[pargyle]

Do you think?

Yes ... not much yellow in them is there but quite stripey - who knows ? They are bees and they are flying at this time of the year which is always good news ...

 

[Swn58]

They look like dark bees?

These were photographed over a mile from my apiary. The bees I have there are Buckfast mongrels, originally from a Thorne's bee producer

 

[Curly green finger's]

These were photographed over a mile from my apiary. The bees I have there are Buckfast mongrels, originally from a Thorne's bee producer

That's cleared that up then

 

[Erichalfbee]

This is a black bee

 

[Nannysbees]

This is a black bee
View attachment 30552

What a stunning photo

 

[Curly green finger's]

Aye so is this

 

[jenkinsbrynmair]

yellow and black maybe

 

[Erichalfbee]

Aye so is this

Not as black as mine. Mine is Amm

 

[Curly green finger's]

Not as black as mine. Mine is Amm

These are amms

 

[Newbeeneil]

Aye so is this View attachment 30553

Looks like AMC to me.

 

[Curly green finger's]

Looks like AMC to me.

What about the photo above?
The one on my finger is a Welsh Amm type.

 

[Erichalfbee]

What about the photo above?
The one on my finger is a Welsh Amm type.

Yes my welsh types look like that. Not black bees though

 

[Erichalfbee]

What about the photo above?
The one on my finger is a Welsh Amm type.

Where did you get them from?