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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jos@centalotago" data-source="post: 13770" data-attributes="member: 845"><p>Hi from central Otago 👋 Elderberry grows prolifically here especially in waste areas and we have a very heavy fruit set this year on them. No Pohutukawa though, little too cold for them here. It's been a fantastic year to start back in beekeeping, a lot of nectar and pollen coming in so it's helped with building colonies and getting comb drawn which is fantastic. I managed to pull two frames of the sycamore honey and extract them last week, along with four frames of thyme honey on plastic frames. The sycamore honey is very dark, and very sweet, I can see why it's popular. The thyme honey was a fantastic golden color and had a few other things mixed into it, elderberry being one, still strong but not as harsh as pure thyme honey. I gave a few jars away but fed most of it back to the bees( I'm personally not fussed about the plastic frames and wanted them out of my colonies, but the comb didn't go to waste, I put it into a nuc colony of a hobbyist I'm helping who likes plastic frames and desperately needs drawn comb 😅)</p></blockquote><p></p>

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