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What's flowering: Queensland
Kevcook:
I live in a valley pretty much surrounded by native trees as far as I can see, the apple gum finished flowering a week ago and now there are heaps of iron bark in fill bloom.
Kev
Kevcook:
I just wanted to add that the black wattle are now flowering and I read my last post which said 'iron bark' :shocked: (senior moment) my mistake it should have read Blood Wood which is still flowering, the iron bark finished 3 or 4 weeks back.
We also have a few Brazilian cherry trees that are beginning to flower and the bees love them.
Lone:
This is a big topic, Mr Max. Queensland is a big state and it changes from one road to the next.
There is not much out at the moment I don't think. The bloodwood buds up at this time of year, but nearly every year the buds fall without flowering. I've seen them flower twice. I haven't worked out whether it's the rain or the dry which stimulate them, or something else. Our bloodwood grows from suckers underground in any case, so they don't often feel the need to feed my bees. They are the majority of the trees round here and I think they are the gum-topped bloodwood. Ironbark has a few buds, and they are completely unpredictable. Often the buds will fall too, but they can flower at any time of year or all year, and then not for a few years. I think it's called narrow-leafed iron bark. It's not even worth checking the grey box as that only flowers with rain (i.e. almost never). There are no parrots around which is the main indicator of gums in flower. Bees are living on stores I guess! They have to be as tough as all other living things in this country.
Where are you, Kev? Probably a little south of here. I haven't checked the black wattle, but they are not far away, in the creek. I think they are mainly a pollen producer. What breed of bloodwood and ironbark do you have there? Had any rain? We had a couple of inches early Jan then only 3mm yesterday so things are drying off again. There's still a month or two left of the wet season, so I won't be packing and heading north to Tully just yet.
Lone
Kevcook:
G'day Lone, I'm 1.5 hrs north of Bundaberg, still plenty of blood wood flowering and the parrots are all over them atm. I went to Emerald on the week end and noticed plenty of blood wood in flower along the way, also some tee tree starting to bud up south of Rocky.
We haven't had much rain, enough to keep the place looking green but no run off yet, we need it as the dams are starting to drop fast.
Kev
max2:
We took some honey off today. Some hives where full but in most cases frames had to be selected with some care.
Lots of ground flora flowering but I can't see any euc's in our valley. The recovery will take a good while after the hail storms.
The bees where busy and calm - something is keeping the happy!What would we do without weeds!
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