What's flowering as forage in your area

[Belgianbeekeeper]

I grow it every year, the plants that seeded have thick lush green leaves with no flower which we have dug in now for green compost. I planted some from seed late, and they are in flower!!!

yep,borage seeds out,i've it popping up allover.

 

[Belgianbeekeeper]

I found two fields of what I thought was rape - but seeing your photo it could be mustard. I’ll investigate properly next time out with the dogs. Is this sown as a catch crop / to reduce erosion etc during the Winter?

w've a lot of leaf raddish in flower and that looks a lot as rapes,it's seeded as greenfurtuliser.

 

[Belgianbeekeeper]

Two shrubs that have survived the worst drought I have known:
- Salvia 'Hot lips' (what an evocative name!): has been in flower several weeks and today visited by honeybees (nearest hive 500m) and bumbles.
- Ceratostigma: lovely blue flowers in late summer-autumn. Occasionally visited by the spectacular hummingbird hawkmoth.

I've planted "hot lips" for the first time and real early.My goodnes what a wunderfull plant,it's blossoming since may and still is,during,this tiny plant grew over two square meters wide.

 

[drex]

My garden is full of different Salvias, comes in many different colours. Blooms throughout the year, many plants still in bloom. Easy to propagate via cuttings. I just cut them back to 6-12 inches every spring.

 

[Belgianbeekeeper]

Today 17 nov,had a look around today,before posting this,cosmeas,borage,malva and hotlips still going strong,eupatorium and hedera almost done guess another 5 days or so,mahonia media,ball vibirnum and helleborus niger off for a good start,will keep blossoming all winter ,soon expecting first winterakonites popping up but they wait for the cold....mainly busy now saving seedling/shoots and let them root in in tiny pots for give aways early spring,i've tons of angelica and catnip seedlings,best polinater/bee plants ever.

 

[Antipodes]

Tea Tree

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[Erichalfbee]

Holly is flowering here

 

[Antipodes]

Holly is flowering here

That's completely the "wrong " time of year isn't it? I reckon it would be flowering here now...not that there is much of it around.

 

[Antipodes]

Blackberry and clover are out here now too. It's been a wetter year and with the third consecutive La Nina, they both look ok. Some really powerful growth on the local blackberry.

 

[JamezF]

There was a piece on the BBC News site earlier this week saying that November this year has been something like 2.2°C warmer than the long-term average. Probably explains why I saw a daisy flowering yesterday on my way back from the bee shed.

James

 

[Swarm]

I have an Echinops flowering again.

 

[Amari]

Blackberry and clover are out here now too. It's been a wetter year and with the third consecutive La Nina, they both look ok. Some really powerful growth on the local blackberry.

I seem to remember from my visit to Tas a few years go that blackberry is a noxious weed introduced by the early settlers. I remember swathes of it killed by a herbicide spraying policy.

 

[Antipodes]

I seem to remember from my visit to Tas a few years go that blackberry is a noxious weed introduced by the early settlers. I remember swathes of it killed by a herbicide spraying policy.

Yes, but I know someone born in the UK (and emigrated out here) who reckons there is more here. He eats kilos and kilos of them every year actually. I don't chase it or anything for honey, but they are delicious by themselves or in greek yoghurt with leatherwood honey drizzled over them. We have an enormous number of birds here but it's mostly starlings and blackbirds (....both also introduced of course) who spread the seeds around. We've also been very unsuccessfully trying to get rid of rabbits, European wasps and rats.

 

[Swarm]

Yes, humans have done a great job.

 

[Amari]

Yes, humans have done a great job.

We've also been very unsuccessfully trying to get rid of rabbits, European wasps and rats.

The worst invading species was of course Homo sapiens - at least that's what the Tasmanian tiger would think.....

 

[W0otz]

Very confused holly in flower here. Winter hasn't properly started, let alone spring...


Hazels all covered in catkins too.

 

[Erichalfbee]

Very confused holly in flower here. Winter hasn't properly started, let alone spring...
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Hazels all covered in catkins too.

Yes Holly out here too.

 

[Erichalfbee]

Yes Holly out here too.

Sorry I think I’ve said that already

 

[Parsonage Bees]

Yucca plants flowering again in the cold drizzle. Confused obvsly. Will probably get slaughtered by the first frost.

 

[JamezF]

Yucca plants flowering again in the cold drizzle. Confused obvsly. Will probably get slaughtered by the first frost.

We've had several frosts already, including last night. Still got up to 10°C when I was out this morning chainsawing logs though.

James