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In My Garden Today
Posted by Alvin in Motown, z6 on September 25, 2025, 9:33 pm
There has been a few rainy days, this week, after getting none all month. A little more would be welcomed. The long-range forecast is calling for more dryness, for the upcoming 7 days...
Fred would recognize these berries. They are ripening now. The plant is known, botanically, as Phytolacca americana...
Soe are familiar with an annual type of AGERATUM, which is not cold hardy. Here is a cold hardy form of Ageratum, Conoclinium coelestinum, AKA MISTFLOWER, that returns, year after year. This early fall bloomer is blooming now...
A well-known North American wildflower, that blooms in the fall, is blooming now. This wildflower is known commonly, as Canada GOLDENROD, and botanically, as Solidago canadensis...
Posted by Jason Western PA on September 30, 2025, 7:20 pm, in reply to "In My Garden Today"
Have you ever had honey where bees have had big fields to roam. It's really dark and you can smell it somewhat. Very good. Local beekeepers have no honey this year because of our drought. I know this has nothing to do with your post. haha Sorry.
Re: In My Garden Today
Posted by Alvin, z6 on September 30, 2025, 10:40 pm, in reply to "Re: In My Garden Today"
Jason, in rural areas, with big fields, the color of the honey depends on the type of flowers worked. Since I live in a city, my honey is made from a variety of wildflowers. No one big field of any one flower crop, here. Some honeys from large fields, are very light yellow in color, with a greenish tinge. Dandelion honey has this color. Clover honey is more amber in color. Other honeys, like those produced from almond and pistachio fields, out West, have yet a different color.
I also have a scant honey harvest this year, not just due to a dry, droughty August and September, but also due to a late start. Most package bees and nucs are located either in the South, or on the West Coast. If you can remember, this past February, there was a freak snow storm, that hit several states, from Louisiana to Georgia. Some kids in those parts, had never seen so much snow. They had a ball in it. Some had a chance to build their very first snowman, make snow angels, etc., lol. However, this set beeyards back a few weeks, recovering from the damage done. So, honeybee shipments from these states were delayed. A delay of just a few weeks, can adversely affect the honey gathering time, and season honey crop, significantly. By the time I got my honeybees, in early May, as opposed to mid-April, the temperate fruit tree bloom time, usually mid-April through early May, was already finished. These early "nectar and pollen gets" are crucial. Didn't happen this year.
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