Flowers, flowers and more flowers!
- by Kevin Baughen
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- 20 Jun, 2016
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It’s amazing what a drop of sunshine can do
Three weeks of intermittent rain and hot sunny days saw the garden explode into flower in May! We'd never seen ornamental poppies so large and so productive with most of our plants offering up several blooms each this year. The bees had a grand time filling their leg pouches with bright yellow and orange pollen and spent hours each afternoon trolling around the garden looking for nectar (needed for the honey).
Which reminds us that we must find out if our bees actually like the poppies... no point them being there and just looking pretty :-) Or perhaps there is? Answers on a postcard please.
Which reminds us that we must find out if our bees actually like the poppies... no point them being there and just looking pretty :-) Or perhaps there is? Answers on a postcard please.
Evidence of wax cappings underneath the hive show that the bees are accessing the honey stores - and so they're alive!
A summary of what we have tried this year to combat the threat of Asian hornets to our bees
Making quilt boxes for bee hives in an attempt to absorb excess moisture over the winter
An update on how the hive muzzles are working to deter Asian hornets from preying on our bees
How we cut out a nest of bees from a window sill and moved them to their new home at 13 Bees
