Follow the Bloom 2015

buzzbee · December 31, 2014, 07:05:44 PM

I am bringing in the New Year with another follow the bloom thread for the 2015 season. Hope all blooms come early ,produce heavily, and last for a good spell. Hats off to all beekeepers, new and not so new. :)
Thoughts of spring are upon many of us already as things way down south are starting already.Let the blooms begin.

jayj200 · January 01, 2015, 09:43:44 AM

lots pf different flowers here Hibiscus the others were to far from the road to recognize
oh and Mexican clover in the lawns it is raining today

richter1978 · January 01, 2015, 02:48:02 PM

Saw a small patch of white clover (ladino) blooming yesterday!

GSF · January 03, 2015, 07:52:03 PM

Elmore (zone 7a) & Montgomery(zone 7b) Counties - henbit has been blooming for a week or so. Also yellow looking flowers out in the fields of both counties. Maybe wild turnip?

Montgomery - wood sorrel for about a week now.

sc-bee · January 03, 2015, 07:56:06 PM

Of course the Camelia's have been blooming a while now.

JackM · January 05, 2015, 08:55:14 AM

Heather blooming, but weather too foul for bees.

BeeMaster2 · January 05, 2015, 12:37:32 PM

Maple in bloom here. I have not seen it yet, friends have seen it. My observation hive is filling up with nectar and pollen, yea. They are even building new comb. the normal brood area is now filled in and with capped brood. Drone cells are being filled with honey.
Jim

JackM · January 26, 2015, 09:37:24 AM

It seems very early this year but my neighbors Cherry tree is blooming and the alders are putting out their pollen thingys. On nice days my bees are very active bringing in loads of pollen. I am concerned as this is easily a month early. I still expect another hard freeze before winter is really over here.

GSF · January 27, 2015, 07:09:37 AM

Yellow bells with only one or two blooms for about a week or two now.

GSF · January 28, 2015, 11:57:13 AM

Daffodils - Elmore County

craneman54 · January 31, 2015, 08:22:27 AM

White clover has been growing and blooming for a few weeks now. Other weeds getting going but I don't know what they are called.

swflcpl · February 03, 2015, 12:37:34 PM

South Florida Salix Caroliniana male and female flowers being worked

capt44 · February 03, 2015, 01:24:24 PM

Here in Central Arkansas the weather is up and down. Yesterday high of 38 degree F and last night it got down to 21 degrees F and today suppose to be 50. Thursday high of 38 degrees F then 60's this weekend and mid 50's next week. The bees are bringing a little off white pollen from somewhere. I am feeding Ultra Bee pollen substitute until the pollen flow starts good.
I do have candy boards on all my hives.
The honey flow was bad here last season and alot of bee keepers are losing bees from what I believe is a lack of food.
One bee keeper had 1,000 hives and has lost 300 hives as of 2 weeks ago.
Another had 5 hives and now has 2 live ones and another lost all 10 hives.

Carol · February 04, 2015, 05:26:59 PM

Spiderwort starting to bloom. Some Spanish Needle and Bottlebrush bushes.

richter1978 · February 06, 2015, 11:12:43 PM

Cherry laurel prunus caroliniana are popping open and bees have been working one of the early blooming viburnums for about two weeks.

TNjohn · February 07, 2015, 03:46:37 PM

Silver maple is beginning to flower, but I haven't seen my bees bringing in any pollen yet.

Correction: They are bringing in a lot of light yellow pollen today!

asprince · February 08, 2015, 11:00:29 PM

Soon to be a sea of yellow Canola.

chux · February 09, 2015, 08:49:46 AM

The red maple has buds that should be opening any day now. Happy happy.

buzzbee · February 09, 2015, 07:49:02 PM

The only bad thing about this thread is bloom envy!

GSF · February 10, 2015, 09:49:49 PM

Japanese Magnolia in Montgomery Alabama

p.s. - It'll be on the ground by this time next week. A couple nights in the low 20's and teens forecasted in a couple of days.