Whats Flowering Today

[Maggie]

Kowhai, gorse, and wild cherry, I think.

Oh la la. Not much water in that riverbed though?

 

[James]

Thats the Rakaia 100 yr flood overflow .

 

[stoney]

Weeping willow pussy willow and the odd early crack willow coming on.. wattle still holding on I see the odd broom flowering and of course the gorse of course of course.. plum and black boy peach had bees on the first blossom today.. she’s all go round the sites at the mo.. ye ha

 

[southbee]

Kowhai still flowering well here, has been going for a while and the bees where all over this one today. Good nectar coming in the hives.

 

[mischief]

My Avocado tree and Apple just started getting worked on. has anyone else noticed that it takes bees around a week to take notice from the first flower?

 

[southbee]

It depends on the type of flower, some they work straight away and others have to be nearly spent for the bees to like them. I think Rata would fall in the first category and Kowhai in the second. No idea about avocados, we can't grow them down here and apples the bees will work, but not their first choice....

My Avocado tree and Apple just started getting worked on. has anyone else noticed that it takes bees around a week to take notice from the first flower?

 

[Josh]

What we notice most of all in our garden is the alternating agendas of bee & bumbles. The bumbles often hit the flower first, then stop, then the bees get into it

 

[Hector Wong]

Elderberry and hawthorn are starting to flower down south

 

[bighands]

Wineberry and bush lawyer along with broom and gorse in flower here.

 

[yesbut]

Forget me Nots

 

[Josh]

Dandelions 😂

 

[bighands]

buttercup and Fuschia

 

[Mummzie]

Cabbage Trees.

 

[Mark Lawrence]

Cabbage Trees.

Hawthorn for me. Bees are all over them.
They surround lots of paddocks where I have an apiary and smell great.

 

[yesbut]

That's all the things are good for. I have semi permanent infestations of hawthorn prickles in my hands and knees...plurry stuff.

 

[kaihoka]

Mahoe in full flower
Kamahi started a couple of weeks ago
Big flowering of Heketara this yr .
Old guy down the rd means a hot dry summer . It normally works out that way

 

[Dansar]

Barberry.
I’ve got hives out rural Hamilton and they are filling up faster than I have ever seen. The ones that haven’t swarmed🤣🐝 now have a second honey super on and have had a split taken with the old queen and a cell left behind just to try and keep them out of the trees.
Privet isn’t far off flowering too.

 

[StephenB]

Lemon wood. A most pleasant smell on a warm still evening

 

[mischief]

Elderberry and hawthorn are starting to flower down south

Wow, yours are really early compared to mine! Mine are still sprouting and not a flower in sight.

 

[Bron]

Late willows, bush lawyer & Mahoe (sp?)