Heather weather

[Thymallus]

. Have some Yorks. friends reporting a very poor heather harvest, but then they left the bees gathering blossom and missed the first fortnight of the heather.

Many round here decided it wasn't worth taking their bees to the heather because of the drought. All were predicting doom and gloom.
Currently all is still looking good on the heather with the bees working well.
But our borage harvest was a disaster. The plants where weedy and limp with brown leaves. Even the rainfall they did get was too little and too late. Last few years we seem to average around 34kg/hive...down to 7kg this year....and not sure how pure it is until I check the pollen content. The honey looks darker than usual.
Will be interesting to see how these borage hives fare now, as we took a few to the heather on the 8th of August with empty supers.