[NAFEX] bee forage

Lon J. Rombough lonrom at hevanet.com
Tue Oct 9 19:32:14 EDT 2007


Mint is a very good bee plant.  Also it's relatives, catnip and 
horehound.   Such honey is very dark with a peculiar lemony tang.
-Lon Rombough
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http://www.bunchgrapes.com  Winner of the Garden Writers Association 
"Best Talent in Writing" award for 2003.
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On Oct 9, 2007, at 4:26 PM, fuwa fuwa usagi wrote:

It was queried:

Hello all
I am planing to get a bee swarm soon and am designing a plant list to
cover all times of year.
I am particularly interested in early flowering plants, if any of you
could give any sugestions.
thanks so much

My reply:

When we moved in there was hardly a bee to be had, now, they are all 
over the place.  I attribute this to the diversity of pollen I offer.

That being stated you can pretty much cover yourself thusly:

early Japanese plum (very early)
Gooseberries they really like pixwell (early)
...then just about everything naturally blooms...
A fall raspberry (sort of late spring)that was not cut to the ground in 
the fall
all sorts of raspberry which can take you right up to fall..and then 
plain ordinary green hostas...bees love them...these will carry you a 
long long time...

I mention the above becasue I have a lot of pollinators, but these are 
the ones the bees LOVE!!!

regards,

the fluffy bunny

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