What's flowering as forage in your area

[Nannysbees]

Sycamore coming into flower, horse chestnuts another week or so away around here.
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Wow our tree doesn't have a leaf on it yet!!!

 

[ericbeaumont]

No Shad yet...when you see Shad blossoms

I'm stumped, Michael: dictionary says that shad is the fish that fed the American nation's founders, but there's no mention of blossom...

 

[W0otz]

Wow our tree doesn't have a leaf on it yet!!!

Nor does the one in my garden, but I've seen 2 or 3 nearby as pictured.

 

[Erichalfbee]

I'm stumped, Michael: dictionary says that shad is the fish that fed the American nation's founders, but there's no mention of blossom...

Shadbush. Amelanchier in the U.K. maybe June berry bush

 

[Curly green finger's]

I noticed clusters of flowers on the sycamores today too.

James

My sycamore is flowering photo taken last week

 

[Michael Palmer]

I'm stumped, Michael: dictionary says that shad is the fish that fed the American nation's founders, but there's no mention of blossom...

Sorry. It's a shrub or small tree. First blossoms seen in hedgerows. It's blooming today...the season is moving right along.

https://www.chesapeakebay.net/discover/field-guide/entry/shadbush

 

[Michael Palmer]

Sorry. It's a shrub or small tree. First blossoms seen in hedgerows. It's blooming today...the season is moving right along.

https://www.chesapeakebay.net/discover/field-guide/entry/shadbush

Cedar Waxwings love shad berries and my cell building yard is full of Shad. All summer the nasal whistling from the birds keeps me
company.

 

[enrico]

My sycamore is flowering photo taken last week View attachment 35948View attachment 35947

There are many types of Sycamore/maple. We have three in our garden. A red one, a yellow one like yours Curly and a traditional type which flowers after the leaves have appeared. Not sure the one you have is the one the bees go for! I think that is a form of Canadian maple

 

[rossbyjove]

Honestly, it's awful. You really don't ever want to come here

James

Yeah same here been living in the country side for most of my life.
Unfortunately I just can not afford to move to London or west London (Bruton and Frome).
So I am stuck here..........

 

[Swarm]

One to watch and dream of warm, sunny Spring days.

 

[Ian123]

Norwegian maple has been out for a while if not already over for some any mistaking the two?

 

[pargyle]

My sycamore is flowering photo taken last week View attachment 35948View attachment 35947

I don't think that's a sycamore ... I think it's a field maple. The sycamores at the edge of my garden are nowhere near flowering yet and their flowers look very different to those. Although, field maple seeds are very similar to sycamore seeds with wings attached.

 

[JamezF]

I don't think that's a sycamore ... I think it's a field maple.

The flower spikes do look a little short for a sycamore, but that might just be down to the tree being immature. Once the leaves are present it should be obvious which it is.

James

 

[Curly green finger's]

There are many types of Sycamore/maple. We have three in our garden. A red one, a yellow one like yours Curly and a traditional type which flowers after the leaves have appeared. Not sure the one you have is the one the bees go for! I think that is a for

I don't think that's a sycamore ... I think it's a field maple. The sycamores at the edge of my garden are nowhere near flowering yet and their flowers look very different to those. Although, field maple seeds are very similar to sycamore seeds with wings attached.

I don’t think it’s a field maple I have a field maple in the same apiary grown from seed and the flowers look different interesting I’ll get some photos of the leaves when they come out , I’ve also seen the bees the tree .

History I collected seed from Worcester crematorium 2012 started the seed of the following year , the head gardener said it was a sycamore when I was collecting the seed .

 

[Erichalfbee]

My App says Norway Maple.

 

[Curly green finger's]

My App says Norway Maple.

Interesting there all acers anyway

 

[enrico]

Interesting there all acers anyway

Yes they are all Acer's. We bought three sycamore from a supplier and all three are different. Only one is what I would call an English sycamore! Nice to have a variety of the same species though.

 

[Nannysbees]

I have hundreds of saplings from our sycamore all over the garden and in the hedge, I try to pull up so many each time I go down the garden, nightmare if they take hold. Neighbours hates the tree for that very reason, but I love it. I stand under it on a warm day for shade, the birds love it as do the bees.

 

[pargyle]

I have hundreds of saplings from our sycamore all over the garden and in the hedge, I try to pull up so many each time I go down the garden, nightmare if they take hold. Neighbours hates the tree for that very reason, but I love it. I stand under it on a warm day for shade, the birds love it as do the bees.

The sycamore in my neighbours garden is huge ... it's on the fence line and due West so with the prevailing south westerlies we get all of the leaves and all of spinners in our garden. The seeds will set ANYWHERE ... the lawns are full of them, all the bed and pots are full of them, even the gaps in the block paving has the damn things growing. I keep pulling them up but you have to get to them quickly because they put down roots so fast... sycamores are weeds as far as I'm concerned - even when they are 70 years old and 100 feet tall !

 

[Ian123]

I’ve actually seen some sycamore flowering today and some first flowers on horse chestnut.
Years ago at home we had a big Norwegian Maple in the garden with the hives under it. It was alive with bees they went mad for it, in those days it was a bit unusual but they seed like mad and it’s wide spread these days!