Hey Folks, what's flowering, or due to flower, in your neck of the woods? I was down Mornington Peninsula today and the coastal tea tree is going off!
Well its as hot as Hell here in Dubbo, but there is iron Bark flowering in patches' and some type of Box Tree in Bloom.
Cheers
Steve
Tea Tree has been flowering in Barwon Heads for a couple of weeks now. And very spectacular too, but I didn't get the impression that the bees were working it much during the first week or so. Due to inspect in the next couple of days, so hoping for some filled frames.
We have lots of Boronia, bottlebrush, grevillias, isopogon, some teatree and turpinitnes out at present. Of course the gardens are full of flowers as well.
How would one label the honey ? We have in Gippsland Ti-tree, Hawthorn, Apple, pink flowering gum, camelias, lavendar, bottle-brushes and what else. A test to pick out the dominant nectar !!.
mixed floral honey same as the big C does then put up the price to cover the wide range of flavours you are providing in one jar
Anybody seeing anything setting bud for Spring?
Quote from: Geoff on October 25, 2014, 06:59:13 PM
How would one label the honey ? We have in Gippsland Ti-tree, Hawthorn, Apple, pink flowering gum, camelias, lavendar, bottle-brushes and what else. A test to pick out the dominant nectar !!.
"Milli Flora" - as the Italians do ;)
Things are moving Wombat. Camelias are well out here as well as all the self sown Prunus along the roadsides.