Whoo-hoo.........with today being so lovely I set this Hyacinth on the porch to get some outside air and light. The bees discovered it instantly.
The BEES are back in town............
Wow, that is really nice.
The bees thought so Frostweed.........LOL
They were out so fast with a nice day and then disappeared the next with the cold.
Long enough to let us know they'll be here for spring.
Yes, we need them very much, as a matter of fact we depend on them.
The honeybee count for my immediate area of town was way down last Fall. I have two big iron wash pots of Sedum on my patio and I can always count of them being covered with honeybees in late Fall when the plants bloom. Not so last year with just a few h-bees but lots of small wasps that looked like yellow jackets visiting...
Bummer.
Steve
I had a coral vine last year that covered my back porch. It was loaded with bees all the time. I was glad I had something that worked for them. They were there until frost killed the vine. It's near my veggie garden so that's good. My lima beans and my peas need them.
We have a Cherry Laural tree/huge bush by the veggie garden and once the bees are through with the spring flowers, they move to the veggie flowers. We didn't plan that, but it works well.
The wasps are bad to eat butterfly cats, and the bees wont mess so much with the flowers when those wasps are there. It WAS a bad year for wasps.