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A year in the bee garden –October

A year in the bee garden –October

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A year in the bee garden –October

Summer came back in October – the word had reached her of the ‘backwinter’. The bees made the most of the ‘backsummer’. The hive entrance was too busy to put on mouseguards as foragers flew home with baskets of yellow pollen.

However, a quick inspection showed that the nectar was out of stock. I filled the syrup feeders, and filled them five times again in October, and the bees drank up every last drop.

A year in the bee garden –October

Since then I have been unable to visit the apiary and my husband John, my mum Ronnie, and Ealing beekeeper Thomas have put on mouseguards and …

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A year in the bee garden – November

A year in the bee garden – November

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A year in the bee garden – November

A few lingering butterflies rested their wings on the ivy flowers in November, but they were too fleeting to catch them with my camera.

November is a good month to plan next year’s garden by taking note of which plants have thrived best in which parts of the garden, and which have attracted the most insect visitors.

My bee garden calendar is slowly coming together, starting with spring flowers and spring-flowering shrubs (snowdrops, crocuses, bluebells, cotoneaster, hebe, smoke tree), long-lasting summer flowers (salvia, scabiosa, toadflax) and late summer to autumn blooms (snowberry, sedum). All of these plants seem to grow …

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Giving thanks | Mrs Apis Mellifera

Giving thanks | Mrs Apis Mellifera

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Giving thanks | Mrs Apis Mellifera

FREE MOTHERING SUNDAY GIFT AT THE END OF THIS POST.

The world has modified lots since I final visited my weblog. The opposite day Constance and I ended on our morning stroll to observe a bush buzzing with bees. “Look mummy! Bees!” stated Constance. “Which means spring is coming!” She talks now.

But in some ways, the world has stayed the identical. This previous week has been emotionally exhausted. Worldwide Ladies’s Day highlighted the achievements of ladies all through a world pandemic, but in addition the large setback it has induced by way of gender equality because the bigger share

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Bees – off! | Adventuresinbeeland’s Blog

Bees – off! | Adventuresinbeeland’s Blog

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Some of my longer term readers may remember that I had bees in my chimney stack. This had turned into a tricky problem, with quotes of £4,000+ to remove them and reseal the chimney. It wasn’t even my fault (honestly!!) as when the swarm first moved in my own bees were based around four miles away. The bees just found me.

Well, I found a solution! I joined a Facebook group called UK Bee Removers. Where I then noticed a lady called Molly from Bees Off based in Cornwall. I’m so pleased to have found someone local, who could do

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