Am I the first person in the world to make eat a cracker using H. multiflora nectar? My mutiflora has gotten so big and has so many blossoms dripping nectar that I was able to gather a knife full and spread it on a cracker with peanut butter. It was just as sweet and good as honey. I know it was kind of an odd thing to do, but it seemed right at the time. For the record the plant had never been treated with a systemic like BATS.
Peanut Butter and H. multiflora Nectar Cracker
That's an idea, lol. I've tasted the nectar on my Lacunosa and Kentiana blooms....yummy.
This message was edited Jun 22, 2007 6:11 AM
I was smelling my compacta the other day and afterwards my lips had the sweetest taste are you telling me it was the nectar off that flower. I know now what the bees are after. LOL It tasted pretty good.
Jeri
I admit, I have been tasting the nectar from my lobbii every morning but I never thought to try it on a cracker.
Louise
When I first saw the drips of nectar, I have to confess that I thought that I had some kind of insect problem. Whenever I have found this condition in the past, it has always meant one thing for me - aphids! I'm so glad that it is just a natural occurrence with the flowers, and boy is that stuff sweet. I would love to have this plant outside to see what a Hummingbird would think of it - Probably think that it went to heaven.
I never saw any hummingbirds around my outside hoyas where I live now, but at my last house I had a blooming Pink Silver inside but in front of the screened patio door, and there was a hummer that showed up a few mornings, tapping and hovering at the screen in front of the flower - I am not sure what he'd have done if he could have gotten to it, I think they are anatomically set up to get nectar out of tube shaped flowers, but he seemed very interested in the color.
I definitely think they are "set up for" and prefer tube shaped flowers, but when given nothing else... Every night I see one visiting my red geraniums on my front porch. I can't for the life of me see why it would want to do that other than the color. It is hard to imagine that they could get much of anything out of a geranium flower.
and the little guys move so fast, by the time you focus in on them to see what they are doing, they have moved on!