It’s high season now for our bees! Plenty of flowers around and a lot of sunshine.
It’s almost one month we did not have a real rain, therefore we were afraid that the nectar production of the blooming fruit trees, could be too slow.
We are lucky, now our little bees have enough to do!
In the midlle of our garden enjoying the song of my little bees pollinating the blooming cherry three.
Peaceful realaxing moments in another world away from everything.
Always a speculale: landing of bees!
I could stay hours there looking at them as they make me feel happy.
Days are much shorter now, but we are still enjoying mild autumn temperature.
My African basil has plenty of flowers and the bees are avid guest!
Fly dear bee to the flowers enjoy the warm rays before the winter comes!
Spring is over and nectar sources are decreasing now. Beekeepers are planning the honey harvest and prepare the hives for next season.
Mite control is now a “to do”. Bee diseases: Varroa (mites) control in Switzerland
In the garden a huge mallow plant got many guests. Too pretty for not stopping by and taking some pictures
http://westmtnapiary.com/Bees_and_color.html
http://brookfieldfarmhoney.wordpress.com/2012/07/21/what-colors-do-bees-see-and-painting-bee-hives/
The winter is gone and it’s spring now. It’s a pleasure looking at the bees and the butterflies in the garden collecting the nectar from the flowers.
Sometimes I would hold the time, feel the sun warming us again, smell the perfume of the flowers and sit quite for a long time looking at what is going around.
Here some pics of these moments.
After two very mild winter days we really feel the spring in the air. In the garden mostly white and violet or purple flower are appearing everywhere and we almost think it’s already spring. The rhubarb is ready to come out … the countdown already begun !
Chimonanthus praecox, “wintersweet”, is a flowereing plant endemic from China.
Since I was a child I was attracted by this beautiful so nice scented plant.
Late in the winter, but this year already mid January, we can find this flours in some garden. We enjoy this flowers and if the sun is shining and we have the opportunity to get 10°C, we can see that honeybee love this flours as well.
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