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Re: What's flowering: Victoria
« Reply #260 on: July 28, 2019, 02:23:02 am »
Common Ash

The girls needed pollen, the tree is humming with them.


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Re: What's flowering: Victoria
« Reply #261 on: August 07, 2019, 10:54:44 am »
Hardenbergia violacea (Happy wanderer) nectar source not as attractive as the iron bark that?s still going but pretty




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Re: What's flowering: Victoria
« Reply #262 on: August 15, 2019, 06:05:40 am »
Canola has started in the Goulburn Valley

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Re: What's flowering: Victoria
« Reply #263 on: August 15, 2019, 10:13:33 pm »
Is it a on or off year for yellow box in Victoria?
My bees are in Montmorency, Melbourne and it mainly seems to be Yellow box in the area.
Of course being the suburbs you never know exactly what they are getting..
Or at least I don't.

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Re: What's flowering: Victoria
« Reply #264 on: August 16, 2019, 06:55:47 pm »
There are a few yellow box in bloom up here in the GV

Sorry I wouldn?t know if it?s an on season of if a flow was on.

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Re: What's flowering: Victoria
« Reply #265 on: August 26, 2019, 07:51:49 pm »
Photo or it didn?t happen!


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Re: What's flowering: Victoria
« Reply #266 on: September 29, 2019, 09:55:30 pm »
Messmate(?) Eucalyptus obliqua at Daylesford



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Re: What's flowering: Victoria
« Reply #267 on: October 11, 2019, 05:32:54 am »
Yellow Box Eucalyptus melliodora

The smell of ?honey? is heavy in the air around this young tree and the bees are working it hard but I couldn?t get high enough to show how busy it was



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Re: What's flowering: Victoria
« Reply #268 on: October 11, 2019, 05:40:20 am »
The records I have for what I planted state River Cooba but I don?t think it actually is. It may have been Willow Wattle but anyway it?s flowering




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Re: What's flowering: Victoria
« Reply #269 on: October 11, 2019, 05:45:49 am »
With Yellow Box flowering my understanding is the girls need a source of Pollen

The native Pigface (ice-plant) Carpobrotus glaucescens just might have this covered...





The bees flying off this were just little golden balls of fluff bumping around
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Re: What's flowering: Victoria
« Reply #270 on: October 22, 2019, 06:52:12 am »
Honey locust Gleditsia triacanthos

Flowering within 2 days of last year, girls after pollen & nectar




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Re: What's flowering: Victoria
« Reply #271 on: November 03, 2019, 08:12:36 am »
I think Broad leaved peppermint are the ones flowering at Strathbogie now. Also Woolly Tea-tree Leptospermum lanigerum is flowering in the same area

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Re: What's flowering: Victoria
« Reply #272 on: January 01, 2020, 03:52:22 pm »
Red Gum

This cultivar is ?Silverton?





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Re: What's flowering: Victoria
« Reply #273 on: January 01, 2020, 04:11:08 pm »
Beautiful pictures Milo!!
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Re: What's flowering: Victoria
« Reply #274 on: January 31, 2020, 07:16:32 pm »
Lightwood (acacia implexa) flowering in the GV

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Re: What's flowering: Victoria
« Reply #275 on: January 31, 2020, 07:23:08 pm »
Wedge-leaf Hop bush (Dodonaea viscosa sp.)

The girls were working this hard for pollen




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Re: What's flowering: Victoria
« Reply #276 on: January 31, 2020, 07:59:16 pm »
Black paperbark / Moonah (Melaleuca lanceolata) flowering in the GV

Honey scent is strong, bees & native insects working it up high




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Re: What's flowering: Victoria
« Reply #277 on: March 03, 2020, 04:20:36 am »
Grey box flowering in the GV

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Re: What's flowering: Victoria
« Reply #278 on: April 30, 2020, 12:12:10 pm »
Any tips for Victoria flora identification? I see lots of native eucalyptus flowering through the season but wouldn?t know what they were. I figure mostly peppermint as that?s name of local road...but would like to be a bit more scientific.
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