What's flowering as forage in your area

[Curly green finger's]

That's very simple yet very pretty.

Mahonia is out with us here in Wales

 

[E&MBees]

What do you use as your base CGF? I’m making Christmas Wreaths with my students in a couple of weeks. Currently soaking Willow withies from the Somerset Levels which will make the bases.

 

[Curly green finger's]

What do you use as your base CGF? I’m making Christmas Wreaths with my students in a couple of weeks. Currently soaking Willow withies from the Somerset Levels which will make the bases.

That sounds like a good idea, we are using metal rings, which get mossed, the idea is to use something similar as you even for the winding wire something a bit more sustainable.

 

[juno]

Petasites

Camellia J.C Williams

Hamamelis mollis

Winter flowering Jasmine

 

[Rory Fields]

Viburnum bodnatense in full bloom here in Northumberland

 

[Erichalfbee]

Mahonia well out here. It scents the whole garden when the wind stops blowing

 

[Richard]

Spotted a few hellebore starting to bloom yesterday.

 

[peterbees]

Snowdrops in flower on Christmas Day in the Conwy Valley, north Wales.
Great provider of protein-rich pollen for the young bees.
Thanks to Russ S. for the pic.

 

[The Poot]

Mahonia pretty much over here. Hellebores starting to flower, in need of having dead leaves cut off to display the blooms. Viburnum Tinus a mass of flowers currently. Winter honeysuckle just starting to flower. Loads of perennials starting to push through the soil, perhaps a little earlier than some years.

 

[Curly green finger's]

After vaping some of the bees today they were out on the mahonia and gorse/viburnum 12c and a lovely calm day above the clouds, bloody makes a change