Winter Jasmine

[Luminos]

I just noticed the Winter Jasmine flowering - seems early?
Any good for bees?
Not that there are any bees out right now - too blinkin' cold

 

[enrico]

Think you have answered your own question!
I have never seen bees on it but......any port in a storm maybe!
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[Erichalfbee]

I noticed daffs poking through the lawn this morning

 

[Luminos]

I think the Jasmine knows a thing or two - it's snowing now, and settling

 

[Excession]

I think the main pollinator of jasmine are these cute little black beetles.

Have a look inside the flowers, you will spot them quite quickly.

 

[richardbees]

A speaker from Kew gave my local bka a talk years ago: as I recall it Winter Jasmine is a non-native plant which, along with some Witch Hazels, Winter Honeysuckle and other odds and ends, don't have pollinators here ......so presumably don't set seed here but will do back in their native e.g. China

 

[Luminos]

Winter honeysuckle is like a bee magnet here, although I've never seen bees on witch hazel