Wildflower meadow for bees Pic's included

[tonybloke]

good links, trouble is I cant read french

google is your friend

 

[alanf]

good links, trouble is I cant read french

Et voila:

translate.google.co.uk/translate?hl=en&sl=fr&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.jachere-fleurie.com%2Fjachere-apicole.html

 

[Chris Luck]

good links, trouble is I cant read french

Quel domage, mais tant pis.

Chris

 

[Robbie & Jans Bees]

Any body who would like a list of seed and the supplier please send me a E-mail to [email protected] and I will supply?

 

[Robbie & Jans Bees]

Finman the selection of seed has been put together by Sheffield uni as part of the Olympic garden project to help bees/insects and butterflies with this in mind the selection produces high yields of POLLEN AND NECTAR

 

[Into the lions den]

Finman the selection of seed has been put together by Sheffield uni as part of the Olympic garden project to help bees/insects and butterflies with this in mind the selection produces high yields of POLLEN AND NECTAR

Maybe so, but Finman is right. This is not a flower meadow for honeybees for the most part. It is however very suitable for certain bumble bees and some butterfly species.

If Sheffield Uni designed this as a pollen and nectar mix for honeybees then someone has got it largely (not completely!) wrong.

 

[Chris Luck]

In all fairness it is for bees, but not really honey bees.

Nothing wrong with that, in fact it's great, there's more to life than just honey bees and IMHO we should all try to remember that, (which I'm sure many do). My land is managed for wildlife which of course inevitably benefits honey bees.

Chris

 

[beebreeder]

Maybe so, but Finman is right. This is not a flower meadow for honeybees for the most part. It is however very suitable for certain bumble bees and some butterfly species.

If Sheffield Uni designed this as a pollen and nectar mix for honeybees then someone has got it largely (not completely!) wrong.

And there needs to be hundreds of acres to make a serious difference

 

[jackbee]

And there needs to be hundreds of acres to make a serious difference

Every journey starts with a single step

 

[justme]

good links, trouble is I cant read french

Neither can I but I got the gist of it from the Latin names:.)

 

[Robbie & Jans Bees]

Well some body better tell the honey bees that? they are all over the meadow still we need to start somewhere I had an E-mail today from the BBC asking for a interview about the meadow great news if we can run the scheme out over the city?

 

[jackbee]

Well some body better tell the honey bees that? they are all over the meadow still we need to start somewhere I had an E-mail today from the BBC asking for a interview about the meadow great news if we can run the scheme out over the city?

fab, the BBC is a large first step to go with

 

[Chris Luck]

If as you say the honey bees are all over the meadow could you please tell me what flowers they are foraging on and what else is in the wider area for your bees?

Chris

 

[Robbie & Jans Bees]

Hi Chris there is 10 slections of seed the one in the butterfly photo is a standard wildflower annual mix corn cockle, corn poppy, cornflower, oxeye daisy, corn marrigold. but we have included mixes from South Africa and USA if you go to Pictoria meadows then you can find the mixes, hope this helps. Robbie

 

[Chris Luck]

I think you miss my point, what are the species that the honey bees are actually using and what else is available in their range? As I think I commented before, I can't see anything, other than perhaps the poppies and cornflowers, that honey bees would use.

This isn't idle curiosity.

Chris

 

[For want of a better word]

watching the bees forage not a stones throw from

Plymouth city today... the bees were ignoring the sown verge of "insect friendly council sown verge".. and were onto the bramble and budlea ... then two guys in white coats came along from Glenborne..... someone reported a patient about to run off looking for an escape route!!!

 

[gingerbees]

habitataid.co.uk specialise in bee friendly plants and seeds, no connection just in admiration of their site and values.
They donate some profits back to beekeeping too.

 

[Chris Luck]

The clue is in bee friendly plants and seeds.

Not honey bees, but bees, I don't know the UK that well but I reckon 300 to 400 bee species are present overall, in excess of that here in France.

Either way it's great, but once again the confusion can creep in.

Chris

 

[alanf]

I have a "meadow" patch that has been going for about ten years. The mix has stabilised to mostly perennials now. The flowers the honey bees are going for this week is the knapweed. Red clover is being worked by bumbles and masons.

 

[Robbie & Jans Bees]

Chris does it matter what the bees are is the reason for planting,maintaining and providing an area not only for insects but for the public to enjoy all to often the local council plant great beds of bedding with little or no vaule to insects.WELL I HOPE TO CHANGE ALL THAT, signing off a very happy landscape designer.