Flowers for bees this year

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Re: Flowers for bees this year

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Post: # 35478Unread post friedgreen51
Tue Dec 08, 2020 9:54 pm

Our best bee attracting plant is the Mountain Mint. In fact a lot of pollinators like it
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Wed Dec 16, 2020 2:53 pm

Anise Hyssop would be our number one flower for bees. There are bees everywhere on ours, hundreds at a time! And they last for months.

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Post: # 36994Unread post SpookyShoe
Mon Dec 28, 2020 2:13 pm

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This oxalis is blooming now. It's invasive but I leave a lot of it because the bees seem to like it.
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Post: # 37496Unread post SpookyShoe
Sun Jan 03, 2021 1:34 pm

This looks like some kind of exotic fly on alyssum.
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Sun Jan 03, 2021 1:59 pm

Tried to google cobalt blue fly and got lots of weirdy stuff, so can't help there....loving the pretty flowers tho.
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Post: # 37509Unread post SpookyShoe
Sun Jan 03, 2021 4:30 pm

It's a blue bottle fly.

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Sun Jan 03, 2021 5:19 pm

I don't visit here often enough.
I knew it was a blue bottle fly.
My mom called them that.
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Sun Jan 03, 2021 5:29 pm

AKA blow fly.
They lay their eggs on dead animals.
They always showed up when we killed chickens and plucked them in large quantities.
I honestly hated chicken killing time and for the life of me don't know why my parents didn't do it later in the season so it would be cold.
Pretty stupid if you ask me.
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Post: # 42106Unread post SpookyShoe
Sun Feb 28, 2021 4:44 pm

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Not my camellia, but one at a nursery I was at this morning.
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Sun Feb 28, 2021 5:20 pm

Great colour.

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Sun Feb 28, 2021 10:29 pm

That's one plant that I sure wish I could grow, but not in my zone. They are beautiful.
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Post: # 42158Unread post Growing Coastal
Mon Mar 01, 2021 10:55 am

I actually have one that colour but it has bloomed only twice in far too many years!

Here's a bee I saw once on a piece of cloth hanging on a clothes line. It investigated for quite a while.

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Sun Mar 07, 2021 3:49 pm

I assume the bee is doing this for a good reason?
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Sun Mar 07, 2021 4:03 pm

Bee hives and honeycombs are very symmetrical. I wonder if the bee was appreciating a different pattern or maybe it just likes rayon?

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Post: # 42690Unread post SpookyShoe
Mon Mar 08, 2021 4:30 pm

The bees were all over the hyacinths at Home Depot today.

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Mon Mar 08, 2021 4:37 pm

You can see the nectar ouzing out of those flowers
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Mon Mar 08, 2021 7:01 pm

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I’ve stepped up planting bee friendly herbs like hyssop, balsam, mint, etc, looks like things are sprouting. Assembled this Flow 2 Hive all the way from the land of Oz. Totally fun. Today, roof got a coat of primer, going red for the final coat, the rest of brushed with Teak oil. Built a table to put the hive on, tucked away mere meters from the garden. Most everything done except getting a package of bees.
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Tue Mar 09, 2021 2:19 pm

Bees like the snapdragons at a garden center.
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Sun Oct 31, 2021 2:21 pm

Today on Mystic Spires Blue salvia, Mexican heather, and Cat Whiskers.
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Sun Oct 31, 2021 3:22 pm

The most helpful plants you could grow for honey bees are those that bloom at a time when there is not much else blooming. In the midwest, it is often the late summer, especially when hot and dry.

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