What's flowering as forage in your area

[Moobee]

Just walking to the local deli for a spot of lunch and clocked these fellas working the lavender in someone’s garden ! The benefits of living in a city !
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I doubt they are fellas!

 

[CaptainCymru]

I doubt they are fellas!

Have a day off

 

[Curly green finger's]

Evening I was wondering what tree this is ?

 

[pargyle]

Evening I was wondering what tree this is ?View attachment 33520

It's a golden chain tree...a variety of Laburnum but it should not be in flower now - when did you take the photo ?

 

[Michael Palmer]

Last evening while walking the dogs, I noticed the fragrance of Goldenrod flowers. Today I smelled Goldenrod nectar ripening. First time GR has yielded nectar since 2019.

 

[Erichalfbee]

It's a golden chain tree...a variety of Laburnum but it should not be in flower now - when did you take the photo ?

I took this in Berlin last week. It's not in flower though is it? These are seeds

 

[Curly green finger's]

It's a golden chain tree...a variety of Laburnum but it should not be in flower now - when did you take the photo ?

Yesterday I took the photo as dani said it’s not in flower there’s 6 trees dotted about near my workshop

 

[pargyle]

Yesterday I took the photo as dani said it’s not in flower there’s 6 trees dotted about near my workshop

The yellow flowers develop into seed pods - it normally flowers in late spring and the flowers look very much like your photo - then they produce the seed pods which are what you are seeing in the chains. We had one in the garden of our first house - it's part of the Laburnum family and all of it is very poisonous. Very easy to grow from seeds ... our tree used to spread seeds all over the garden borders I was always digging up the seedling trees.

 

[Curly green finger's]

Thanks Philip I will look it up .

 

[Firefly]

Not a particularly spectacular image, but this huge and very late-flowering buddleja was attracting not only honeybees yesterday, but two species of bumble, wasps, bee-mimic hoverflies, four species of butterfly and at least three hummingbird hawk-moth. There was also a large dragonfly patrolling, but I guess he's more interested in the insects than the buddleja

 

[Erichalfbee]

It's a golden chain tree...a variety of Laburnum but it should not be in flower now - when did you take the photo ?

Do the bees forage laburnum?
On the way to Cardigan along the coast the hedgerows are made up almost entirely of laburnum for miles.

 

[Erichalfbee]

Last evening while walking the dogs, I noticed the fragrance of Goldenrod flowers. Today I smelled Goldenrod nectar ripening. First time GR has yielded nectar since 2019.

We have Golden Rod here particularly on railway sidings. I think your variety is slightly different from ours.

 

[Michael Palmer]

We have Golden Rod here particularly on railway sidings. I think your variety is slightly different from ours.

We have several species of GR. Flat top, Canada, and Tall all yield nectar. Some of the others don’t.

 

[Erichalfbee]

We have several species of GR. Flat top, Canada, and Tall all yield nectar. Some of the others don’t.

What’s the honey like Michael? And have you had any white honey this year?

 

[W0otz]

Ivy buds are maturing, not long now!

 

[pargyle]

Ivy buds are maturing, not long now!

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Wow, that's early ... my common Ivy rarely flowers much before October ... that looks like an ornamental variety, the leaves don't look anything like normal Ivy leaves ?

https://www.mydomaine.com/types-of-ivy-5083763

 

[W0otz]

Wow, that's early ... my common Ivy rarely flowers much before October ... that looks like an ornamental variety, the leaves don't look anything like normal Ivy leaves ?

https://www.mydomaine.com/types-of-ivy-5083763

Based on that link I'd say it's Irish Ivy, but there seems to be an awful lot of it around here. That picture was on the wall of a local cemetery - the tree I posted a picture of last year (What's flowering as forage in your area) is at a similar stage of development. My garden fence is covered too:


With a bit of luck perhaps I'll get an ivy crop in with time to spare for 2:1 feeding after!

 

[Swarm]

Ivy leaves change when it becomes arboreal, they lose the pointed lobes and become more like those in the photo, it also takes ten years to flower.
I was looking at Ivy that was roughly the same stage, yesterday, I give it two or three weeks before the earlier varieties are out. There's not a single bud on my Persian Ivy yet.

 

[Moobee]

The bees have found the Goji berry. It’s a bit invasive and we have to hack it back each year but the bees love it, as do the birds - not managed to get any berries before they do.

 

[Polymorph]

Ivy flowers out now in Bath, can see the pollen going into the hives. This particular ivy is on a very long ivy hedgerow