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

 

[Paulypaul]

First Crocus of 2025.

And Laurustinus, flowering.

 

[alancooper]

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This **** seems to be in flower most of the year.

Could it be a Hene?

 

[Erichalfbee]

Could it be a Hene?

A Veronica?
I wonder whether it's still flowering six years later

 

[jenkinsbrynmair]

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.

seen them flowering every year on new year's day outside the chapel in Bethlehem when we're out hunting, even in the snow, but as my hunting days are now done I wasn't up there this year to see them.
The snowdrops popped out in the garden and front lawn today with us and there's loads of primroses flowering.

 

[JamezF]

The snowdrops popped out in the garden and front lawn today with us and there's loads of primroses flowering.

The primroses don't seem to have made an appearance here yet that I've noticed, but snowdrops certainly have. As well as daisies and dandelions!

James

 

[Penninetrader]

seen them flowering every year on new year's day outside the chapel in Bethlehem when we're out hunting, even in the snow, but as my hunting days are now done I wasn't up there this year to see them.
The snowdrops popped out in the garden and front lawn today with us and there's loads of primroses flowering.

Nothing much here but that is quite usual, we are usually a couple of weeks behind even those just a couple of miles away, altitude a factor. The hunting, what would you be hunting ?

 

[JamezF]

Welsh haggis.

James

 

[jenkinsbrynmair]

Nothing much here but that is quite usual, we are usually a couple of weeks behind even those just a couple of miles away, altitude a factor. The hunting, what would you be hunting ?

foxes - they're a real problem on the sides of the Black Mountain, especially when the doo gooders release vanloads of mangy urban foxes in the hills. The most humane and efficient way of controlling them is to flush them towards waiting guns.

 

[Penninetrader]

foxes - they're a real problem on the sides of the Black Mountain, especially when the doo gooders release vanloads of mangy urban foxes in the hills. The most humane and efficient way of controlling them is to flush them towards waiting guns.

Foxes have a place but not an encouraged one. Again it is best to let those who know their local to decide what is best for themselves. Foxes are not a problem here which means the problem is being controlled.

 

[Murox]

Probably didn't make the national news....up here some demented idiot has been releasing Lynx. 4 were spotted, two captured quickly and the other two being unable to deal with being in the wild were found dead.
So in my book the problem is people, not the wildlife