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BEEKEEPING LEARNING CENTER => GENERAL BEEKEEPING - MAIN POSTING FORUM. => Topic started by: buzzbee on February 25, 2014, 08:19:26 am
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I will sticky this topic and remove as the season winds down. Post whats blooming and where you see it,and we can follow the progression from South to North
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Alder trees, a few fruitless plums, one magnolia
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Thanks for getting this started Jack :)
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henbit,piss elem, redmaple
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henbit and red maple in the country and a mix of ornamental trees in town.
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Red maple a little. Most it is now seeds. Saw some this past weekend.
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wild plums as of this afternoon.
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North Florida, tallahassee
peach
camellia
redbud
I hear but haven't see that titi
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Elmore County Alabama is right above Montgomery County
Last week in Montgomery I saw trees with red flowers, others with light yellow flowers and yet a very few with white flowers. Hen bit, daffodils, and dandelions wide open. Maples been blooming about a week there. Purple Martins begin arriving up from S. America about a week ago.
NW corner of Elmore co; Hen bit and dandelions. I saw Blueberry and plums budding real good. Maybe another week? Hickory trees with good buds. I saw a blackberry vine with new growth. My white clover is coming up fairly well. When all the leaves are off the sycamore tree down in the bottom by the chicken pen and I hear a whippoorwill - it's spring.
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South Jones county, MS. East of Hattiesburg and south of Laurel.
Today saw Red Maple, Daffodils, and Henbit in full bloom. White clover, plum, and Crabapple had just a few blooms open. Huckel Berry, Camellia and Laurel Cherry have bud getting ready to open.
Joe
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Lot's of red maple, dioecious magnolia, and daffodils (one of my favorite flowers).
However...we are looking at lows in the upper 20s this week, too. Some places will be in the mid 20s. That may knock back flowering a week or so. And I saw a bumble bee wearing a pullover sweatshirt yesterday...
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Lincoln county, TN
Elm showing bloom, maple too. Dandelion we have on and off all winter. Daffodils blooming in some spots. Cold today, but bees very busy yesterday hauling in a pale yellow to a yellow tan pollen. Henbit will be very soon in protected locations.
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Plums,maples,peaches, some sort of blue flowers in the ditches, I don't know what they are.
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Rain last night in Montgomery, pollen accumulated in puddles of water, turnip blooming in Elmore.
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Queen Palm, Mexican Fan palms, wild blackberry, small wildflowers, Citrus budding. Bottlebrush bush.
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Red Maple is blooming in Eastern NC. I noticed today something blooming in the feilds that looks purple. I dont think its clover.
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I have seen clover already and red buds are just beginning.
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My neighbor at the farm has 2 large pear trees and a large redbud. They are in full bloom.
The only problem is that the bees are in town. Hopefully there are more of them nearby in town.
Jim
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Small orange grove less than a mile ...in a bee line....from my house is blooming....smells great. Right next to it is a grove 4 times that size that is just starting....my little Tangelo tree is budding, small navel is budding...but no blooms yet.
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Wild cherry trees in bloom in my back yard here in Jacksonville.
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blackberries are budding up as of today. i think they'll be blooming in a few days.
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I saw plum bushes blooming in Wetumpka.
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ornamental cherries and bradford pears, it's late for both of them. dogwoods and azaleas should be coming in by now but i haven't seen them yet.
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Sugar maples, fruitless plums, a cherry tree, and the apple trees are any day. Seems early this year on all of them. Daffodils and tulips in most gardens. Usually crocus is up before this stuff and they are growning, but no blooms.
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saw a dogwood open in town.
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Montgomery; Japanese Maples about a month ago, Meet me at the gate/Kiss me at the gate(kate) about a week ago, Single Azalea yesterday.
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Yellow Bell
Peaches
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peaches in the country and saw a few crimson clover blooms in town coming home this evening. i'm about to find myself way behind.
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Bradford pear 3-9
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bradford pears down here too.
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Mesquite, orange trees, Yucca mostly everything in the desert except prickly pear cactus.
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Looks like the girls are bringing red maple today in West Virginia! FINALLY Pollen!!
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Wild plums & Rabbit eye blue berries - one bush (blueberry) out of a dozen - Elmore County.
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Chickasaw (wild) Plum and Wild Pear 3-10
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Who is going to put this in chart form when the season is over ? I have not the skills :-D
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Laurel cherries and pears exploded in the last week or so.
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Saw some peach trees in Montgomery today.
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yellow clover in town along with the crimson. several dogwoods now. i expect to see drones this weekend and most likely eggs or small larvae in queen cells. if that's the case i'll be making nucs/splits.
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Been going a while and still going
bradford pear
wild plum
peaches
red bud
japanese magnolia
azaela
dandelion
violet
camellia
pansy
daffodil
yellow vine of some kind. I think it is called yellow carolina
strawberry
Just starting
blackberry
Orange
bulbine
petunia
Tupelo
brassica
oak pollen coating everything
pine
holley
blueberry
blue salvia budding will bloom soon
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huckleberries.
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My Keifer pear tree started about two days ago.
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white clover in town
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Willow, Blackberry, and clover in full bloom
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elm and maple just started
crocus will be blooming this week
and daffodils(Easter flowers) will be shortly
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Montgomery; Dogwood and snowball blooms have formed but still have a green color.
FYI all; The reason I i.d. Montgomery & N. Elmore co separate is they are two different growing zones.
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Laredo Texas. Orange/lemon/limes trees are blooming. Fig trees are starting to bud
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Montgomery, AL: I saw blackberries in full bloom next to a brick wall. Also a fig tree budded with leaves about an inch long. (fig trees are Mediterranean in nature).
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3/17 one Bradford pear in full bloom down on the creek. The ones on the By-pass in town were about to burst. Likely will be in full bloom before the week is out.
Henbit (that purple stuff) painting yards and roadsides purple.
Tree pollen is thick. Just ask the sinuses and I don't have allergies.
Most everything is behind this year as compared to the past couple years.
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Holly bushes blooming. Bees are all over them.
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sugar water...... i wish the blackberries would open on up.
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Judas Tree (Redbud) 3-14
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N. Elmore county, Crab Apple blooming in the woods - blackberries (modified; and red clover) in Millbrook.
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blackberries and some kind of tree with yellow blooms i've never seen before.
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Rob, are you sure that's not a vine in a tree? Seems like I remember reading about a yellow blooming vine.
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gary, it's a tree. i'm sure it's some kind of ornamental. those vines are in bloom too, though.
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yellow clover blooms are moving east. i saw sone around geneva, georgia yesterday. my bees are working like there is a major flow on and blackberry isn't open enough for them to be working that. you can smell nectar when you pop the tops and they are starting to draw out a little comb in a few hives. blackberries should be wide open by the weekend and i think clover will be coming in by the following weekend. i going to say it's officially started in middle georgia.
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bleep willows have budded out. It's still in the 40's though, and lots of snow!
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N. Elmore county, Dogwoods have bloomed in the last couple of days.
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wisteria came in this week. seems a little early.
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Western WV - we have daffodils all over, a few Willow starting up.
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I saw some buckeye blooming in the bottom of my woods. Loblolly pine trees have been releasing their pollen the last two or three days. I have just a very few dead leaves left on my beech trees. Usually when they are all off winter/real cold weather is gone.
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Western WV - we have daffodils all over, a few Willow starting up.
Went out and mowed lawn today to find that we have dandelion showing through right now.
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Red clover (and maybe some white?) blooming near Slapout. (yes I live about 8 miles north of Slapout).
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gary, i hope you've got some supers ready. your hives may be a little weak from the splits but if clover is in now tulip poplar will be in in a few weeks then privet behind it. i'm going to build equipment tomorrow since i won't be able to plant anything.
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Thanks, I have tons of them. I have two big tulip poplars next to the hives about 200' of 8x10 privy and woods full of wild privy. I've got to check the poplars, they were starting to bud but the temp was 27 yesterday morning or the morning before.
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Big leaf Maples, Fruit trees. flowering ground covers.
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chickweed started last week
henbit should be blooming later this week or next
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Elmore co, sour grass and wisteria a couple days now.
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Apricot for about a week now, pears and peaches getting ready to pop
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Hackworth apple tree.
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gary, i thought i was the only one that called it sourgrass. it's been in for about a week. i've also got some trees that have bark like plum trees and white blooms that hang in clusters. the bees work it but i'm not sure what it is.
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Cedar Rapids, Iowa (in city) Maples blooming (Silver, I think) The ones out in the country will be coming along soon. (Like by me, I hope!)
JC
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clover is coming on in the country finally.
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Montgomery, Knock out roses, white clover, & (?)yellow clover.
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The white clover is just starting here too....
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Grape Hyacinth and my plum trees have started to bloom.
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The Maple trees here have started putting out today. FINALLY!!! we will have some decent temps.
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I have hazelnut bushes blooming or at least the new catkins are fully grown.
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Bee Bee trees, Grapes,and Sycamores started this past week.
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Privet is starting here. Clover has been in but now the part sun clover is blooming, all kinds of wildflower weeds like chickweed, dandelion, violet just finished. Citrus is still coming. wisteria, iris,
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Laredo Texas mesquite and prickly pear are blooming
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Holly in NE Florida. Bees are all over it. Sounds like there is a swarm of bees in the Holly tree.
Jim
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Dandelions, cherry trees, apple trees are just starting, Bradford pears last week, my two hardy almonds are in full bloom along with my nectarine trees. All this blooming just in time for this cold snap tonight. Lows predicted for 28 degrees tonight.
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all of my clover is coming in finally. ball, crimson and yellow. blackberries are still blooming, laurels ares still blooming and some kind of tall weed with blue flowers that the bees seem to like.
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Blackberries are in full bloom.
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Seems no one is chiming in from NY - specifically NYC - so I thought I'd add a note.
Up to three weeks ago we had nothing. Then witch hazel bloomed..then the croci and a few narcissus came out.
This week we've had the cherry, crabapple and apricot trees bloom, though it's been rainy and cold so I don't see much bee activity on them.
Flowers: we still with crocus, daffodils and hyacinths. A few dandelions are starting to push up leaves and in sunny, sheltered areas, I saw a few small blooms. No other blooming weeds. The city tends to be an ecological wasteland and monoculture of non-native plantings, so I've had to feed syrup for quite a while the last two springs before my garden got up and running.
Last week the maple trees were budding out and today, I see that their flowers have opened; the oaks and plane tree buds are just starting to swell. No holly, privet or anything else I can see.
We tend to be a bit cooler here on the south side of Brooklyn than perhaps inland because of our proximity to the ocean and steady harbor breezes, and this winter's weather was unbelieveably snowy, wet and variable. Last weekend it was in the mid-50's then it dropped to the 30's. Even though the weather service says it's 47 degrees today, I see that the girls are out of the hive and flying around in the sun, but it's nippy - definitely still coat weather.
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dewberries, blackberries, wild cherry trees, WISTERIA, that tall weed with the blue flowers that was mentioned earlier, dandelions, crimson clover all over the shoulders of the roads...
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I was at a back gate opening it an hour after dawn. A bee landed on my hand. Looked around and found what think is black gum (tupelo).
Blackberry is still in full bloom. Saw a lot of gallberry buds and one bush had a few flowers. A lot of it is still just starting to make tiny pin head sized buds.
Holly is still in bloom. The ones in bloom last week are almost done but new ones are starting.
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catalpa/paulownia trees. i've seen some of both in and around town.
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What kind of hollies are blooming where you're at in Florida?
Also, Catalpas are blooming here in GA, now? I live in Thomson, GA.
There are bookoos of American Holly trees in the woods around here--privet as well and I'm keeping my eyes peeled for when they come into bloom! Reckon I'd better be oogling the hollies tomorrow! [=
OH also tons of white clover (maybe ladino or dutch?) is in bloom all over the place..
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Not sure what type they are. They were in my front yard when I bought the farm. The bees sure do like them.
Clover is also blooming here.
Jim
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NW Elmore County, AL I saw tulip poplar blooming 4 or 5 days ago. Iris' probably 2 weeks now.
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this year is way off from what i remember last year. blackberries still haven't all bloomed and clover is just opening up good, tulip poplars have just started putting on leaves in the last week or so. last year the blackberries and clover were about done, the poplars were blooming. seems like the privet opened around the last week of april and was gone by may 15th. then it was pretty much over until goldenrod.
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Well the girls have been bringing in pollen for 2 weeks now, not sure if they went to dollar general, but they were loaded coming in. Poplar trees have been budded for a couple of weeks, not all of them but many, I saw a few dandelions today in my travels. There are small white and purple flowers on the ground in the wooded areas, maple trees starting to open up. I live an hour north of Albany so. I am surprised no one else has commented from this area.
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Greybeard turned white in Montgomery - no fragrance yet
Also in Elmore county - turning white. I've heard it called Greybeard, clancey greybeard, and yancey greybeard.
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Montgomery - Confederate Jasmine, Honeysuckle, and Privet is starting to break out white blooms in a few micro climate areas.
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poplars are starting in columbus/phenix city.
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privet is open in town this morning.
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59405 3600 feet above sea level Dandelions blooming in sheltered locations and soon to be generally in bloom. Spring ten degrees below average. Some maples stating to bloom. A pear tree in neighbors yard close to bloom. It is all going to explode here any day now.
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First Dandelions here, maples are almost finished.
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Finally seeing some dandelions, dogwoods,ornamental trees are starting to bud out.Was starting to think spring flowers were passing me by. :)
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Ligustrom has started to open. Also Southern Magnolia.
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Maples, dandelion, skunk cabbage, bleep willow, plum, apple
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Ligustrom has started to open. Also Southern Magnolia.
Yes, I smell it everywhere I go. :-D
Jim
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Sawgrass palmetto :-D
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Mimosa trees blooming in SW Georgia
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I saw a few magnolia blooms at the top of the tree in Montgomery. Also privet is starting to open pretty good there and also Coosada/Millbrook.
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privet has opened in middle georgia.
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I saw a Chinese Tallow starting to bud up.
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In Parker, Colorado: maples and wild flowers are blooming... Also cottonwood. That's about it though. Oh and I'm at 6800'. South Denver has crab apples, dogwood, pears and other flowering trees open and past prime, but they're at rough 56-5800'. Elevation makes a huge difference here.
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The cherry trees along Flathead Lake are starting to bloom, a large commercial beek has been dropping hives all week long in the orchards. Also dandelions blooming.
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Holly started blooming this week and is covered with bees; same with the one sweet cherry tree on the block; azalea and dandelions are in full swing.
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NW Elmore county; Magnolia and privet at about 25 to 30 percent bloom.
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N FL, gallberry is in full bloom and there are still lots of un opened buds. This seems to be a month late. Lots of flowers some plants look like they are all flowers.
Jim
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Heck even my Aloe plant with it's 3 foot stalk is blooming!
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Everything has stopped in Colorado. Foot of snow and a hard freeze will see to that.
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clover started blooming last week and wild blackberries have started to open up this week.
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Our fruit trees have been blooming as well as Strawbwerries. I see our holly bushes are starting to bloom along with the grapes. I think black locust and wild cherry will be out in the next couple days. My overwintered hives are adding a lot of weight. :)
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Tulip poplars! Way later than last year. Crimson clover is done, privet is almost done.
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N FL, gallberry is still in full bloom and there are still lots of un opened buds.
Jim
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Catalpa trees and wild persimmons are bloomin'..
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What's bloomin' for bees in Connecticut? No, seriously - I'm asking! We just installed our first 2 nucs and I'm seeing about 6 in 40 of the girls coming in with pollen - but I don't know their primary sources at this time of year -or what's getting ready to bloom in June/July. Any CT beeks out there who know the flow in our little corner of the beekeeping world?
I can tell you that I have several pollinator friendly plants in the garden getting ready to bloom - Comfry, Meadow Sage and culinary sage will all be blooming any day now. My geranium (Cranesbill Beven's Variety) is just finishing it's spring flush - I understand honeybees like cranesbill, but I have yet to see it! Too bad they arrived just a little too late to test that theory! Would love to hear what other CT Beeks are seeing in their gardens and neighborhoods for the annual pollen flows. Should we throw on a pollen patty at the next inspection to help them build up the brood production?
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Honey bees may not stop at small gardens and check the flowers if there is a large floral nectar or pollen source within a couple mile radius. I am betting you may have lots in bloom even though it may not produce a very visible flower. Willows and maples may be in bloom in your area. You will take more notice to subtle blooms as you keep bees. Maybe someone from your neck of the woods will chime in. :)
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Go to where there is a big mixup of foliage (that's relatively quiet) and just listen. If you hear bees--and you will if they are there--then look to see what it is that they're after.. That's how we discovered just recently that they're all over wild persimmon blooms.. I was hiding in a patch of trees/foliage trying to shoot a crow that's part of the crowd that keeps pullin' up my corn! [=
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I live at 6800' in Colorado and I cannot for the life of me understand what my bees are foraging, but they are. I can confirm that choke cherries are blooming and of course dandelions. I know there are wild flowers too but it never seems like much. Any maybe to some peoples view there isn't much here but those bees are finding it!
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I guess I'm in the same boat as you are Ryan820 - I don't know what they are finding, but I am seeing about 1 in 8 bees coming in heavy with pollen. What percentage of bees coming in with pollen tells you that the flow is strong? Is that 1 in 8 bees a decent flow or light flow? Is there any way, other than a hive inspection, to identify nectar flow?
I'm trying to figure out what types of things I can identify about the hive by watching the front door vs. poking around doing unnecessary inspections. Cause, as a new beekeeper, I'm excited and want to be watching and learning - but I know better than to interfere too much and interrupt the hives without a specific care need. It's just so hard! So, tell me - what can I learn from observing the hive from the outside??
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Mimosa Trees; Montgomery County.
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Chinese Tallow in Montgomery & Elmore counties, also Mimosa in Elmore county.
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mimosa and what i think is tupelo. persimmons may be starting soon.
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I just check the Palmetto and Popcorn plants yesterday. Both are in full bloom I the Osceola national forest area.
Jim
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Persimmons have started here about a week ago.. Not sure if they're still going.
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chinese tallow is opening in town along with a long leaved variety of sumac.
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About 10 days ago; Wild Hydrangeas, daylilies and gardenias.
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Rose of Sharon, some sumac, and crape myrtle.
Modified: Milk and Wine Lillie.
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china berry trees were in bloom here about 2 weeks ago (forgot to mention)
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Chinese Tallow (popcorn tree) is in full bloom. The trees sound like there is a swarm in them.
Jim
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sourwood in east alabama
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The cabbage palm in front of the house has open blooms, the rest of the palms I can see have flower shoots but the blooms haven't opened yet.
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Young Sumac starting here, still plenty of white clover, Older Sumacs not even close. G :chop:
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Chinese Tallow (popcorn tree) is still in full bloom.
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Latitude 47.40 and some is seeing the beginning of the main flow. The leafy spurge and hounds tongue are still blooming big with their nasty dark nectar and now the yellow sweet clover (in short supply) and alfalfa are starting to bloom. Looks really really promising for a big crop here.
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I see sumac coming in nicely and wild parsnip starting to bloom. Thistle will be real soon.
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Central FL...cabbage palms and sago palms blooming nicely.
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Same here in N FL, Carol.
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Salt cedar blooming in south Texas.
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Cabbage Palm is still blooming and the bees are all over it.
Jim
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Central FL...cabbage palms and sago palms blooming nicely.
Sago palms bloom?? Mine don't.
...DOUG
KD4MOJ
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Central FL...cabbage palms and sago palms blooming nicely.
Sago palms bloom?? Mine don't.
...DOUG
KD4MOJ
Sago's are strange plants. They go for years with no blooms then the produce pollen, looks like a large beige pine cone. Maybe a couple of times and then they produce a large hidden flower that produces a lot of red poison balls about the size of a large raddish. If your dog chews on it, they die. Even if you get them to a vet. The vet will tell you there is nothing they can do.
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GOLDENROD!
At our meeting last night one of the state bee guys was there. He is from Russell county. He was working his hayfields in Arab, Al and saw a couple of goldenrod plants blooming. From this he speculates an early cool down this year.
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New beek this year, what are you guys seeing in NW Ohio area? I think from past conversation with local guys we have Golden Rod for our fall flow, but not sure when it comes on. Thanks!
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White Dutch clover and alfalfa still blooming in N.W. Iowa
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Sawdustmkr
I have a large Sago and it does put out a huge thing with pollen...never saw bees on it...and have never seen the little red balls but will look for them and get rid of them. Dogs, cats, raccoons, possums,armadillos all frequent my yard. Thanks
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Sawdustmkr
I have a large Sago and it does put out a huge thing with pollen...never saw bees on it...and have never seen the little red balls but will look for them and get rid of them. Dogs, cats, raccoons, possums,armadillos all frequent my yard. Thanks
Carol,
I learned about the red balls being poisonous when a friends dog was chewing on them and got sick. She took it to the vet right away. The vet cold not anything to save the dog.
Jim
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Sawdustmkr
I have a large Sago and it does put out a huge thing with pollen...never saw bees on it...and have never seen the little red balls but will look for them and get rid of them. Dogs, cats, raccoons, possums,armadillos all frequent my yard. Thanks
Carol you got a regular ZOO! be glad it not irregular
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I noticed bees on my Bahia grass seed heads yesterday!
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the sumac flow is on in middle georgia. plants are in all stages, some heads are set, some are being worked and some buds haven't opened. popped the top on a split i made in early summer and they are drawing out foundation in the second 5 frame deep. looks like i need to split my non production hives this weekend if i want any more comb drawn out before goldenrod comes in.
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Saw some Kudzu blooming today.
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Japanese bamboo blooming in south shore Massachusetts
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Golden rod is starting to come on good here in Southern Indiana, Hope we get a good year to give the girls a good supply for winter.
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I was in a couple of my hives today. I can definitely smell golden rod. Funny thing though, I did not smell it in all of the hives.
Jim
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goldenrod should be blooming by the weekend.
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goldenrod is staring. the beeyard smells like honey but not goldenrod yet. could be working soybeans i guess.
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Bees have been working hard but I am not sure what they are working on. In the morning with the sun rays horizontal into the apiary, it looks like fireworks going off.
I only smelled GR that one day.
Jim
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Brazilian pepper is blooming in southwest florida right now
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Skunk Vine and Pepper Bush (Brazillian Pepper Bush) blooming in Central FLorida
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Cutting grass day before yesterday and came up on a little bunch of golden rod, with buds fixing to open.
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Saw bees all over a couple of Golden Rain trees.
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Had a couple of random trees last month, but the Melaleuca is blooming hard now. Not sure if it's just time (not been here long enough to have history) or if the 5 days of dry pushed it.
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Bobby
SW FL
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pepper still blooming
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Hay Fl
Fl is a big long state mind updating your profile. that way all know what city county or region you live
Have I meet you
jay
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Central FL....wild asters just starting to bloom.
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Well we tracked our bloom for the 2014 season pretty well. I will sticky the new thread for 2015 when the new year rolls around. It's kinda nice for us up North here to follow the progression with the onset of spring.
It is just around the corner, right? :shock:
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Central FL....Red Maples blooming....bees bringing in loads of pollen.
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Carol,
You give us frozen up ol keepers bloom envy!! :)
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I will sticky this topic and remove as the season winds down. Post whats blooming and where you see it,and we can follow the progression from South to North
(Or north to south as the case may be?)
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Montgomery Alabama - Hen bit/Hen peck
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I don't know if this should end follow the bloom 2014 or begin 2015, but I saw a 10'X15' patch of white clover (ladino) blooming today.
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I am going to start the new thread for 2015. This thread will be unpinned . A great way to end 2014.
You are more than welcome to follow up in the 2015 follow the bloom thread.