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PostPosted: Tue Jun 12, 2012 7:48 pm Post subject: Reply with quote |
Loads in aquelgea too and the sage is in flower and attracts loads of them. I just love them. |
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PostPosted: Wed Jun 13, 2012 8:02 am Post subject: Reply with quote |
Firstly Dr Greenthumb, you have sweet pea flowering!!! I have lots of sweet pea growing strong but not sunny enough for flowers. - What is your secret. |
The bees are every shape and colour and I love having them around. I had a man in yesterday to give me a price on cutting some tall hedging at the back of my garden wall. He wanted to cut back my stravensisia where the bees live. "that shrub is very untidy and I'll cut it back and get rid of them bees", Well as you can... |
The bees are welcome, "your man" isn't!!!!!!!! |
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PostPosted: Wed Jun 13, 2012 10:58 am Post subject: Reply with quote |
Well done ! The world needs a whole lot more Maeves and far, far fewer "your man" s ! It would be a far better place then. |
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PostPosted: Wed Jun 13, 2012 11:16 am Post subject: Reply with quote |
Lucky you - Cant wait for my sage to flower to feed the "Singing masons, building roofs of gold" (Shakespeare) |
Love bees - Bees rock, and wax to lyrical about them to fill up the post - so here's a note about bees I wrote a while back |
http://connemaracroft.blogspot.ie/2010/05/note-on-bees.html |
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Maeve Drogheda |
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PostPosted: Thu Jun 14, 2012 8:17 am Post subject: Reply with quote |
simonj, love the poetry. I love the bees and they seem to know it to as they never bother me and allow me to take photos of them really close up. |
Hubbie has taken day off work to sort out hedges and trees, so that the bees are safe. I was reading about a natural way to collect honey with an old log and was wondering has anyone collected honey without it being from a conventional hive. |
You leave a seasoned log with a hollow in a corner and the bees gravitate towards it and make a honey comb. Sounded interesting. |
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Maeve Drogheda |
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PostPosted: Wed Jun 20, 2012 8:36 am Post subject: Reply with quote |
I overheard a conversation, (local garden center, expert giving a talk) regarding bees and the reason all the fruit is slow to produce is because there are not enough bees to polinate the flowers. |
But that is not the case in my garden, and I have seen the bees buzzing in and out of the greenhouse, I thought that it was just the cold and when we get some sun and heat that all will come good. |
What do you guys think? |
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PostPosted: Tue Aug 21, 2012 7:55 pm Post subject: Re: Reply with quote |
Hi Folks, well despite the wet summer, the sheer amount of bees in my front and backgardens area pleasure to see, I have loads of Cosmos, Lavender and Woodbine plants frowing, the scent is magnificent. |
I think that they have recovered well from early summer, lets hope it stays decent up to the end of september. |
I do think that the fruit is definitely slower to come about this year as it has been just too wet. |
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PostPosted: Sun Apr 14, 2013 3:43 pm Post subject: Reply with quote |
I saw my first bumble bee in the garden today, struggling in the wind! Does anyone know what I could do to make my garden more bee friendly? I've planted all the recommended plants etc, so was more thinking about habitats for them to nest in. There was a great article in one of the English papers about building bee hot... |
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