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Title: Follow the Bloom 2017
Post by: KeyLargoBees on February 02, 2017, 12:17:50 pm
No one has started one yet......slackers ;-)

One of my girls on a Lignum Vitae tree here in Key Largo
Title: Re: Follow the Bloom 2017
Post by: BeeMaster2 on February 02, 2017, 12:23:50 pm
Hey, I resemble that remark. :cheesy:
We have maple in bloom in Jacksonville.
Jim
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Post by: bwallace23350 on February 02, 2017, 02:20:33 pm
One of my favorite threads. I can't wait to post my own pics.
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Post by: bwallace23350 on February 03, 2017, 12:45:13 pm
We are about 5 weeks ahead of schedule on our blooms. What about everyone else?
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Post by: GSF on February 04, 2017, 07:39:01 am
maple, dandelions, kiss me at the gate, daffodils, and the oak trees are budding.
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Post by: bwallace23350 on February 04, 2017, 09:07:32 am
maple, dandelions, kiss me at the gate, daffodils, and the oak trees are budding.

Have not seen the oaks. What variety are they?
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Post by: GSF on February 04, 2017, 10:28:57 am
Red oaks mainly. I'm sure the white oaks are as well. Red oaks will have points on the end of the leaves, white oaks are rounded on the end. In each there are sub species or different looking ones.
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Post by: bwallace23350 on February 04, 2017, 10:39:14 am
I am not sure where water oaks fit into it but I have not seen them putting out anything.
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Post by: Barhopper on February 05, 2017, 10:50:48 am
Orange trees, wild plums, and Japanese magnolias
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Post by: bwallace23350 on February 05, 2017, 05:21:28 pm


Not sure what it is or if bees will go to it but it is popping up around my hives.
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Post by: Dallasbeek on February 05, 2017, 05:28:58 pm
Looks like henbit
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Post by: BeeMaster2 on February 05, 2017, 09:14:54 pm
Lemon tree is in bloom. Had to pick the lemons off the trees. Saw Red Bud in bloom in Baker County.
Jim
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Post by: bwallace23350 on February 06, 2017, 10:53:50 am


Not a great picture but it is of some blooming broccoli and it had one of the feral bees from around here on it. I can tell by the colour.
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Post by: Joe D on February 06, 2017, 07:39:52 pm
Here we have red bud's, henbit, dandelions, plums, huckleberry, Japanese Magnolias, blooming and Laurel Cherry has bloom buds not open yet.
Hope they don't froze back.


Joe D
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Post by: bwallace23350 on February 06, 2017, 08:30:29 pm
How far south in Mississippi are you?
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Post by: Joe D on February 06, 2017, 08:39:35 pm
Between Hattiesburg and Laurel,  about 20 miles south of Hwy 84 in Laurel, about the same NE of Hattiesburg.


Joe D
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Post by: bwallace23350 on February 07, 2017, 04:23:15 pm
Between Hattiesburg and Laurel,  about 20 miles south of Hwy 84 in Laurel, about the same NE of Hattiesburg.


Joe D

Just looked up your location compared to mine. It is roughly the same latitude but you seem to be a couple weeks ahead of us.
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Post by: MikeyN.C. on February 07, 2017, 10:31:09 pm
Jusy noticed red oak in
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Post by: bwallace23350 on February 09, 2017, 04:49:53 pm
The Japanese Tuplips are blooming hard around here. Do bees work them?
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Post by: lazy shooter on February 10, 2017, 10:40:53 am
We have henbit and peach trees blooming.
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Post by: bwallace23350 on February 10, 2017, 11:29:03 am
I just noticed some redbud's south of Montgomery
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Post by: GSF on February 10, 2017, 03:04:00 pm
I just noticed some redbud's south of Montgomery

and north towards Prattville
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Post by: bwallace23350 on February 10, 2017, 03:05:34 pm
Unfortunately I don't have any redbuds near my hives that I know of. Lots of hinbit though.
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Post by: Matt J on February 11, 2017, 04:36:13 pm
Not sure what's blooming here in Birmingham, but I've got a little nectar being brought in and bright yellow and orange pollen. And they've started making drones.


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Post by: bwallace23350 on February 12, 2017, 08:33:51 pm


I know honeybees don't like them but they are blooming hard here
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Post by: Matt J on February 13, 2017, 08:52:08 am
Daffodils blooming in North Alabama. Do bees get nectar from them?  They look a little long for them to get to the nectar.


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Post by: bwallace23350 on February 13, 2017, 11:38:51 am
https://honeybeesuite.com/who-pollinates-the-daffodils/

From what I found not really.
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Post by: GSF on February 13, 2017, 03:06:16 pm
And they've started making drones

...oh crap..,
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Post by: Jaimes36 on February 14, 2017, 09:07:08 am
Eastern NC dandelion, henbit, hazel, sugar maples, fruit trees including blueberries all starting to flower. Hives stacked with bees and brood drones already capped. Early this year!


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Post by: bwallace23350 on February 14, 2017, 03:29:07 pm
Saw clover blooming out around Ozark Alabama today. Red, white, and yellow
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Post by: Beeboy01 on February 14, 2017, 05:17:38 pm
I spotted maples blooming with others still have last years leaves on them. A couple oaks are in bloom along with wax myrtles just starting to bud. My hives are bringing in something, not sure of what but there is that wonderful smell of curing honey around the hives right now. Lots of yellow pollen on the truck every day. 
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Post by: herbhome on February 14, 2017, 05:22:27 pm
Cedar and Alder putting out pollen here.
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Post by: cao on February 14, 2017, 11:55:05 pm
I jealous.  The only thing around here that is blooming is a few small patches of chickweed.
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Post by: bwallace23350 on February 20, 2017, 07:55:59 pm


A little rosemary

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Post by: bwallace23350 on February 20, 2017, 07:57:18 pm
Something my mom calls oxalice. Came from my great grandmothers
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Post by: Dallasbeek on February 20, 2017, 09:04:19 pm
Yep, that's oxalis.  Beautiful mound of it!  Contains oxalic acid -- duh!, that's why the name.  Has nice flowers.  Gets better every year.  I like the purple oxalis a lot.
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Post by: bwallace23350 on February 20, 2017, 10:37:19 pm
We have it all over the place. Great flower.
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Post by: splitrock on February 21, 2017, 08:52:43 pm
Yesterday the bees were working my bird feeder, today the maple tree in my front yard. This may not be so good, it's mighty early up here.
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Post by: bwallace23350 on February 22, 2017, 05:36:05 pm


Not the greatest picture but it is one of my girls on a blueberry bloom
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Post by: Jeff L. on February 24, 2017, 06:15:17 pm
Redbuds and Bradford pears blew up yesterday.
Suppose to be a hard freeze tonight so that will be the end of them. Been a wild weather roller coster here this spring, high in the 80's one day then the next it's high in the 40's
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Post by: BeeMaster2 on February 24, 2017, 07:54:42 pm
Pear trees are in bloom in Baker County.
Jim
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Post by: Beewildered61 on February 26, 2017, 09:09:50 am
 Some kind of trees, not sure what kind, but the girls are coming in loaded with light grey/yellow pollen. Dandelions, pear is blooming, some peach, hyacinth.
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Post by: paus on February 26, 2017, 10:47:44 am
I have lots of henbit bees are not touching it. There is a small and even lower growing flower with four petals light purplish pink they are loving, that grows with the henbit.  Lots of pollen coming in yesterday.
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Post by: bwallace23350 on March 04, 2017, 06:54:01 pm
My girl on a flower I planted for my mom in my expansion.
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Post by: bwallace23350 on March 04, 2017, 06:54:32 pm
My girl in a rosemary plant
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Post by: GSF on March 06, 2017, 08:15:25 am
bw, I went to Auburn via I85 a couple of times last week. I saw a lot of white clover blooming and red as well. There's our sign..,
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Post by: bwallace23350 on March 06, 2017, 09:27:00 am
Yep. I will probably super this week. It is getting heavier but I have been feeding. I am probably going in the hive today.
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Post by: bwallace23350 on March 13, 2017, 12:01:21 am
bump
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Post by: bwallace23350 on March 20, 2017, 03:53:25 pm
Did not take a picture of all of this but I have seen my girls on Rosemary, wild blackberries, white clover, what I call a wild flower viola , and some planted plants all in the past few days.
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Post by: buzzbee on March 25, 2017, 12:25:10 am
I stickied this thread at the top, replacing follow the bloom 2017.
 :wink:
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Post by: Jaimes36 on March 27, 2017, 04:29:52 pm
Eastern NC lost the holly blooms and other sources with that last cold snap starting to smell like poplar & gum trees the past couple days bees are definitely flying a high line! All hives at gang buster levels!! ;)J


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Post by: bwallace23350 on April 03, 2017, 10:33:22 am


In the pasture
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Post by: bwallace23350 on April 03, 2017, 10:34:00 am
In a fallow garden spot. What flower is this?

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Post by: Eric Bosworth on April 12, 2017, 01:41:19 pm
Forgive me for being in the north where the last of the snow piles melted a few days ago but so far I have hyacinth coming up but not blooming yet. Silver maples are starting to bloom however.
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Post by: BeeMaster2 on April 13, 2017, 12:02:23 am
Gallberry is just starting to create buds in. Baker County. Palmetto is developing buds in Duval County.
Jim
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Post by: hrtull on April 24, 2017, 08:14:50 pm
I plant turnips as a  Fall garden cover crop. The over wintered turnips grow to about 3 feet tall with a very fragrant flower. They bloom very early and the bees love them.
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Post by: hrtull on April 24, 2017, 08:19:28 pm
I plant turnips as a  Fall garden cover crop. The over wintered turnips grow to about 3 feet tall with a very fragrant flower. They bloom very early and the bees love them
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Post by: heidi.k.cummins on April 24, 2017, 10:55:18 pm
Tulip pillars blooming on MS Gulf coast

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Post by: heidi.k.cummins on April 24, 2017, 10:56:00 pm


Tulip poplars blooming on MS Gulf coast

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Post by: Jaimes36 on April 25, 2017, 02:45:06 pm
Holly bloomed again hard in eastern NC got 1 shallow full of holly honey of 3 of my hives!!


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Post by: paus on April 25, 2017, 03:40:04 pm
Privet blooming, bees working it big time in NE Texas.
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Post by: bwallace23350 on April 25, 2017, 05:08:40 pm
Holly bloomed again hard in eastern NC got 1 shallow full of holly honey of 3 of my hives!!


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Only had pure holly honey once but it sure was good
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Post by: BeeMaster2 on April 25, 2017, 09:32:31 pm
I have a holly tree in bloom and a Black Gum in bloom but most of the other tree of these same trees are not even close to budding.
Jim
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Post by: Turkey165 on April 26, 2017, 08:12:51 pm
Im new here. Iowa the tree pods are just opening. 35 was the hi today and middle 20s tonight. Bees come in on Friday
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Post by: tycrnp on May 01, 2017, 01:32:42 am
Lantana, roses, calla lilies.
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Post by: bwallace23350 on June 08, 2017, 09:44:53 am


Bees on my late planted Berseem Clover
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Post by: GSF on July 10, 2017, 02:19:35 pm
Goldenrod blooming in Cloudland Canyon, (NW) Georgia. It's the small kind.
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Post by: BeeMaster2 on July 10, 2017, 07:21:14 pm
Cabbage Palm is in Bloom in Jacksonville FL.
Jim
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Post by: bwallace23350 on July 11, 2017, 10:36:14 am
What is cabbage palm?
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Post by: BeeMaster2 on July 11, 2017, 10:52:40 pm
It is a cold tolerant palm that got its name because if you cut out the heart, the newest branch before it comes out, you can cook it and eat it and it tastes like cabbage. If you do this you kill the tree.
Jim
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Post by: BeeMaster2 on July 11, 2017, 10:55:29 pm
https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=cabbage.palm+picture&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=en-us&client=safari&gfe_rd=cr&ei=DYFlWaOOOMmhhgbM6rX4Bg#gfe_rd=cr&imgrc=saoMzUhdtUJBeM:
Here is a picture.
Jim
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Post by: Eric Bosworth on July 22, 2017, 04:32:54 pm
I'm just starting to see goldenrod bloom. Let the flow begin!

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Post by: paus on August 12, 2017, 01:12:18 pm
Ten minutes ago I saw Goldenrod just starting to bloom in a creek bottom.  This the earliest I ever remember, usually they start blooming about the first week in Sept.   This is in northeast Texas, it looks like a long winter for the bees.
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Post by: jtcmedic on August 13, 2017, 08:22:43 pm
Brazilian pepper is starting here 
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Post by: GSF on August 21, 2017, 08:44:46 am
Goldenrod blooming in Gettysburg
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Post by: BeeMaster2 on September 29, 2017, 07:29:46 am
Goldenrod is just starting to bud in my wife's wild area.
Jim
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Post by: bobsim on October 04, 2017, 04:44:08 am
  The golden rain trees are in bloom here in N FL. Looking forward to seeing how the recent rains affect the fall flow. The spring flow seemed less productive than last year but it was so dry here.

  This is my third year and have yet to smell the goldenrod being brought in. Maybe I'm just too far from it. ?
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Post by: BeeMaster2 on October 04, 2017, 05:29:50 am
  The golden rain trees are in bloom here in N FL. Looking forward to seeing how the recent rains affect the fall flow. The spring flow seemed less productive than last year but it was so dry here.

  This is my third year and have yet to smell the goldenrod being brought in. Maybe I'm just too far from it. ?
Bob,
Where you live is mostly residential. Not a lot of open land for Goldenrod to grow. On top of that you have a lot of Raintrees in your area. The bees will work the best source of nectar first.

Have you seen the Beesfest thread? Do you plan on attending it?
Jim
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Post by: bobsim on October 05, 2017, 05:17:29 am
  Hi Jim,

  Yes I saw the thread and I'm planning to be there but I hate to promise this early. I just came home from two months in VA, that trip wasn't planned until early July. That being said if you could use some extra hands around there to get ready put me on the list. Your farm sounds awesome and I'd love to see it!
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Post by: BeeMaster2 on October 05, 2017, 06:45:27 am
Bob,
That will bee great. Help will be appreciated.
Jim
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Post by: craneman54 on February 23, 2018, 06:57:12 pm
Here in central Louisiana we have all kinds of trees, flowers, weeds fruit trees blooming. The girls better get to work. I only have about a months worth of honey left in my hiding spot. :shocked:
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Post by: cjlong on February 27, 2018, 12:10:41 pm
The maples started blooming in Central Va Feb 21st.  There are some small trees with white blooms, but It don't know what they are.
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Post by: cao on February 27, 2018, 09:12:42 pm
Since nothing is blooming here yet I guess it doesn't really affect me but shouldn't we start a 'Follow the Bloom 2018'?
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Post by: Dallasbeek on February 28, 2018, 12:26:30 am
Good thinking.