Author Topic: Follow the Bloom - 2024 (Read 4992 times)

.30WCF · « **on:** February 18, 2024, 11:58:08 pm »

Didn?t see this thread yet.

I?ve had maples and daffodils on bloom for about two weeks now. Looks like the peach and Bradford wont be far behind.

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The15thMember · « **Reply #1 on:** February 19, 2024, 11:06:14 am »

Oy, you are right! We were all kind of bad at Follow the Bloom last year, so let's all pledge to be better this year!

I'll sticky it.

I've got some kind of pollen coming in, I assume it's maples and/or willows. We don't have any on our property and I haven't been anywhere this past week to check. Some daffodils are budded. My pussie willow stick I planted last year has 3 buds and 1 little fuzzy kitten.

Bill Murray · « **Reply #2 on:** February 20, 2024, 09:52:50 am »

The pear trees busted 2 days ago, my citrus are trying. And Im way behind on swarm prevention due to the weather.

Occam · « **Reply #3 on:** February 21, 2024, 12:28:48 am »

Unusually warm right now waiting for the other shoe to drop and get another cold snap. That said I've been seeing daffodils on south facing slopes of hills, tulip leaves are coming up in my flower bed, clover is turning thick and green with a couple flowers I saw in a customer's yard last week. Today I saw that some of the Bradford pears are opening buds. Not full flowers but only a couple days away from that

BeeMaster2 · « **Reply #4 on:** February 21, 2024, 06:47:49 am »

Pear trees are blooming here also, Willow trees are buzzing with bees.
Jim Altmiller

The15thMember · « **Reply #5 on:** March 04, 2024, 02:49:27 pm »

Maples are fully open and have been for maybe 2 weeks. Today I was walking the dogs over at WCU and saw honey bees all over some ornamental cherries they planted last year after finishing some new dorms. The tulip magnolias are about to start too.

BeeMaster2 · « **Reply #6 on:** March 04, 2024, 05:54:34 pm »

Bees are making honey, they are all over a yellow vine flower. The willow tree nectar is slowing down.
Jim Altmiller

Bill Murray · « **Reply #7 on:** March 04, 2024, 07:18:49 pm »

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Bees are making honey, they are all over a yellow vine flower. The willow tree nectar is slowing down.
Jim Altmiller

So were going to see exactly how bad Carolina Jasmine is for bees. This will be better than a University study.

Actually they might be cats claw because the bees dont visit the Carolina Jasmine that is near any of my yards.

The reason I say this is I actually dont know how to tell the difference between them.

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BeeMaster2 · « **Reply #8 on:** March 05, 2024, 06:51:21 am »

I had a white jasmine bush 50 feet from my apiary in Jacksonville with up to 20 hives. It filled the entire area with a sweet smell. The bees never touched it.
Jim Altmiller

Bob Wilson · « **Reply #9 on:** March 07, 2024, 11:22:34 pm »

Early spring trees are blooming in middle Georgia. Red Maples for 3-4 weeks now. Here is a peach blossom from today.

Occam · « **Reply #10 on:** March 11, 2024, 10:46:06 am »

Peach blossoms on my tree are spent. Dandelions, hyacinths, forsythia are all going

Bob Wilson · « **Reply #11 on:** March 14, 2024, 01:22:37 am »

Pear trees are spent.
Cherry is coming in.
Buford and Nellie R Stevens hollies are coming in.
Clover is all in our lawns now.

.30WCF · « **Reply #12 on:** March 17, 2024, 02:27:39 pm »

Lots of Holly and clover around the house here.

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The15thMember · « **Reply #13 on:** March 18, 2024, 01:42:15 pm »

We are expecting a hard freeze tonight, which will probably kill all our blooms!

.30WCF · « **Reply #14 on:** March 18, 2024, 06:43:30 pm »

Same here. Well, 31 forecasted, so it could go either way, but if I was a betting man. . .

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The15thMember · « **Reply #15 on:** March 18, 2024, 07:39:30 pm »

Then you guys have a chance at scraping by. We are expecting 25F.

Michael Bush · « **Reply #16 on:** March 19, 2024, 05:58:16 am »

20 F this morning. I think in town a few of the hardier bulbs are blooming, like crocuses and maybe daffadils. Nothing out where I live except maybe red maples on warm days.

The15thMember · « **Reply #17 on:** March 20, 2024, 11:34:55 pm »

Well, it wasn't as bad as it could have been. The tulip magnolias took a pretty bad hit, but the cherries and pears seem to have come through pretty well.

.30WCF · « **Reply #18 on:** March 21, 2024, 01:05:12 am »

Yeah. Ours wasn?t bad at all. I mean fire in the wood stove for sure, but I think the trees made it. Another little potential threat on this coming Sunday, then we should be in the clear, however I have spent some chilly mornings in the Turkey woods. That?s still about 3.5 weeks away.

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Terri Yaki · « **Reply #19 on:** March 21, 2024, 09:09:29 am »

I'm hoping that my neighbor's hive made it. They had a lot of brood going and now we're getting a cold snap. My understanding is that the cluster will freeze themselves to death in an effort to keep the brood warm.