What's flowering as forage in your area

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Friday was 13 degrees and sunny. I decided to weed amongst my allotment snowdrops - the patch is in front of my two hives. Delighted to be joining workers who were collecting pollen. The wonderful smell of wax etc wafting from the hives raised my spirits and the traffic through both entrances was steady and suggesting my colonies have fared well. Wonderful!
 
Crocuses, snowdrops and gorse are around near me. I think they had a week on them before the weather turned again
 
Our Alder dropping their catkins already. The quince leaves will be open soon too
 
London - different planet
No sign of any Blackthorn down here in the Costa del Fareham - far too early, there's a few ornamental cherry that are starting to break bud but the fruiting cherry in my garden is not even in bud yet.
 
No sign of any Blackthorn down here in the Costa del Fareham - far too early, there's a few ornamental cherry that are starting to break bud but the fruiting cherry in my garden is not even in bud yet.
Interestingly, according to this distribution map, Hampshire doesn't look to be a particularly good area for Blackthorn?
Norfolk and West Wales look brilliant in comparison.

http://www.wildflowerweb.co.uk/plant/55/blackthorn
 
There are lots alongside the road I take to work, loads of hedgerows with Blackthorn in them where we walk the dog - I've picked buckets full of sloes in years past to make sloe gin. I'm not sure which part of Hampshire is devoid of Blackthorn but it's certainly not the part that I live in. I'll post some photos when they finally come into blossom.
 

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