What's flowering as forage in your area

[Curly green finger's]

Early pear trees are starting to flower

 

[The Poot]

My Trevatt lost a branch with the weight of the fruit on it this year. The pademelons love the leaves and stripped it bare once they could reach it.
This is part of the branch about two months ago and now in the drought after the pademelons have had a feed on it.

I was unaware of pademelons, so my education continues! Kangaroos with an awwww factor.

 

[Antipodes]

I was unaware of pademelons, so my education continues! Kangaroos with an awwww factor.

With a baby in the pouch!

 

[Swampie]

Our earliest blackthorn tree.

 

[Swampie]

Camelia

 

[Erichalfbee]

Camelia
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Gorgeous shot of a lovely bee

 

[Newbeeneil]

Lots of bees on a clients cherry today,

 

[boywonder]

Other than the snowdrops and the crocus, nothing of note cracking off in my corner of Leicestershire yet ... though (to continue the previous chat on Blackthorn) the prunus spinosa is about ready to burst. Also spotted some nice pink flowers on the other side of the hedge, near my hives. Viburnum, I think??

 

[E&MBees]

Other than the snowdrops and the crocus, nothing of note cracking off in my corner of Leicestershire yet ... though (to continue the previous chat on Blackthorn) the prunus spinosa is about ready to burst. Also spotted some nice pink flowers on the other side of the hedge, near my hives. Viburnum, I think??

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The bottom photo looks more like a Daphne rather than Viburnum.

 

[Erichalfbee]

The bottom photo looks more like a Daphne rather than Viburnum.

Isn't Daphne evergreen?

 

[Newbeeneil]

Isn't Daphne evergreen?

Yes, and the picture does look like viburnum
Ours is going over in Sussex.

 

[E&MBees]

Isn't Daphne evergreen?

Ahh yes. Forgot that!

 

[enrico]

Our cotoneaster would normally be stripped of berries by now but this year has been so mild the fieldfares and redwings have left them alone. The pigeons have had the top ones.

 

[Curly green finger's]

Our cotoneaster would normally be stripped of berries by now but this year has been so mild the fieldfares and redwings have left them alone. The pigeons have had the top ones.View attachment 39047

That’s a well manicured standard

 

[Ely]

This Spring in Norfolk seems very much like the last. A bit too early with lots of blossom going to waste in the cold and now rainy weather!

 

[jenkinsbrynmair]

That’s a well manicured standard

nothing beats a neatly trimmed bush

 

[Ely]

nothing beats a neatly trimmed bush

Got to be careful not to strip it bare though

 

[Antipodes]

Our cotoneaster would normally be stripped of berries by now but this year has been so mild the fieldfares and redwings have left them alone. The pigeons have had the top ones.View attachment 39047

It's got so dry here the cotoneasters are badly wilting. I mean, they are just so tough, nothing much can kill them so I'm waiting to see if it will eventually get dry enough for long enough to do them in.

 

[Daisy bloom]

nothing beats a neatly trimmed bush

Definitely something he’s a custom to

nothing beats a neatly trimmed bush

 

[Amari]

Other than the snowdrops and the crocus, nothing of note cracking off in my corner of Leicestershire yet ... though (to continue the previous chat on Blackthorn) the prunus spinosa is about ready to burst. Also spotted some nice pink flowers on the other side of the hedge, near my hives. Viburnum, I think??

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Viburnum bodnantiensis. There's one in my apiary (a disused plant nursery). Starts blooming before Christmas and starting to fade now. Nice scent, attracts bees on a warm day. I planted a juvenile one in my garden last year = two blooms so far.