Hey FD - we have one like that. Its a tree peony. Quite nice but short flowering times. Bees love it !Originally Posted by Feckless Drone
Hey FD - we have one like that. Its a tree peony. Quite nice but short flowering times. Bees love it !
Thanks folks - Tibetan tree peony. From what I read it is so hardy and easy to propagate that even I have a chance with it.
Just back from a week in Andalucia where the fields and hedgerows were awash with wildflowers, a positive riot of colour, and you couldn't go anywhere without the constant buzz of bees (and other insects) of all sorts busy at work on them.
Lots of wild peonies in the cork oak forests ... stunning.
In contrast ... a 10 minute walk yesterday afternoon (a lovely day) in North Fife demonstrated how relatively sterile the environment here is ... a handful of bees (investigating a bait hive of mine), no butterflies, no incessant drone of insects and almost no hedgerow flowers. Depressing.
Having worked in the Horticulture industry this does not surprise me.
http://www.independent.co.uk/environ...-a7734516.html
Andalucia
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though, depressingly, the only apiary I saw was abandoned with robbed out hives, only one of which still contained bees. Over the last 3-4 years this apiary has got more and more run down and is now clearly no longer being used. Not much evidence of Varroa resistance here
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Anyone know what sort of hives these are? Hinged roof, smaller than a Langstroth, not square, usually with upper entrance only.
We have Echiums growing at the moment they are like McDonalds for pollinating insects and Allium 'Purple Sensation' lots of bees foraging on them at the moment also the chestnuts are in flower so busy Bees here.
"Layens type"? https://pcela.rs/beekeeping_Spain.htm
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