Follow the Bloom 2015

[buzzbee]

Black locust and black cherry in bloom, but cool weather to set in the next couple days.

Lows in the 40's high in the sixties. Not too far from normal, but not as nice as we have been having the last week.

[BeeMaster2]

Bees were working on popcorn trees ( Chinese Tallow). Not a lot of activity at the hives but the trees were full of bees.
Jim

[Maggiesdad]

First linden opened today. No bees yet.

Bees on white clover.

[buzzbee]

Could you post a photo of the linden tree bloom?

[Maggiesdad]

I can snag some pics tomorrow, the tree is 20 mi up the road from me.

Here's one off the web in the meantime.

[richter1978]

I'm starting to see crape myrtles open here.  Saw bees on them 2 weeks ago in downtown Jax.  Odd enough there are a few stands of goldenrod with some blooms open too. A little bit of palmetto seems to be around still.

[Eric Bosworth]

Black locust in full bloom here. Iris buds are starting and blueberry bushes are in bloom.

[BeeMaster2]

In Baker county, the commercial beeks pulled the supers off of their hives. They will probably remove them this week. Usually that means that everything is done until fall but the popcorn trees are in full bloom with lots of bees on them.
Jim

[buzzbee]

The Sumac and multiflora rose blooming now.Different wildflowers are  starting to pop out. The noneybees and bumblebees are crazy about the flowering fronds on the asparagus too,.

[biggraham610]

Chestnuts, white clover full blown and Sumac getting ready to pop. G

[Eric Bosworth]

Lupine has been blooming for a while but I saw some Joe pie weed and milkweed with buds today.

[Eric Bosworth]

I have a few milkweed flowers open but lots of buds on the rest of them. I also have a lot of clover in bloom.

[richter1978]

A big sumac I saw bees on last year has been blooming a week or so.

[KeyLargoBees]

Summer in the Keys....Royal Poinciania is in bloom, Coconut and other Palms, my Macadamia Nut tree is blooming in the front yard, the secondary Gumbo Limbo bloom is on and as always the ever blooming Jatropha trees are covered from dawn until 10 am every day. The girls are presented with a rainbow of pollen colors and judging by what they are bringing back they are hitting a little bit of everything. All is well in Paradise :-)

[BeeMaster2]

KLB,
I don't know about Key Largo but there is a beekeeper in Tampa Bay area that has documented pulling 100# of honey per hive, 4 times a year. That is right, 400 pound per hive per year. He only had 4 hives. His income exceeded the $15,000 per year limit for hobbyist beekeeping. The inspector told him not to worry about it.
Let us know if you end up seeing anything close to this.
Jim

[marktrl]

I'm seeing Goldenrain trees starting to bloom. No Brazilian pepper yet.

[Lancej]

The blackberry's are starting to come into bloom, we have 100's of acres of wild blackberry's in our area, also the white clover is well into bloom. 

[Flycaster]

Yep plenty on blackberries here. And prickly box ( hopefully till end of january) guess that depends on rainfall as to how productive they'll be.

[Dallasbeek]

Yep plenty on blackberries here. And prickly box ( hopefully till end of january) guess that depends on rainfall as to how productive they'll be.

Where is "here," please?

[Dallasbeek]

Key Largo, that's a fine picture you've added.