What's flowering: Victoria

[Milo]

Common Ash

The girls needed pollen, the tree is humming with them.

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[Milo]

Hardenbergia violacea (Happy wanderer) nectar source not as attractive as the iron bark that?s still going but pretty

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[Milo]

Canola has started in the Goulburn Valley

[damienpryan]

Is it a on or off year for yellow box in Victoria?
My bees are in Montmorency, Melbourne and it mainly seems to be Yellow box in the area.
Of course being the suburbs you never know exactly what they are getting..
Or at least I don't.

Cheers

Damien

[Milo]

There are a few yellow box in bloom up here in the GV

Sorry I wouldn?t know if it?s an on season of if a flow was on.

[Milo]

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[Milo]

Messmate(?) Eucalyptus obliqua at Daylesford

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[Milo]

Yellow Box Eucalyptus melliodora

The smell of ?honey? is heavy in the air around this young tree and the bees are working it hard but I couldn?t get high enough to show how busy it was
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[Milo]

The records I have for what I planted state River Cooba but I don?t think it actually is. It may have been Willow Wattle but anyway it?s flowering

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[Milo]

With Yellow Box flowering my understanding is the girls need a source of Pollen

The native Pigface (ice-plant) Carpobrotus glaucescens just might have this covered...

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The bees flying off this were just little golden balls of fluff bumping around

[Milo]

Honey locust Gleditsia triacanthos

Flowering within 2 days of last year, girls after pollen & nectar

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[Milo]

I think Broad leaved peppermint are the ones flowering at Strathbogie now. Also Woolly Tea-tree Leptospermum lanigerum is flowering in the same area
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[Milo]

Red Gum

This cultivar is ?Silverton?

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[CoolBees]

Beautiful pictures Milo!!

[Milo]

Lightwood (acacia implexa) flowering in the GV

[Milo]

Wedge-leaf Hop bush (Dodonaea viscosa sp.)

The girls were working this hard for pollen

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[Milo]

Black paperbark / Moonah (Melaleuca lanceolata) flowering in the GV

Honey scent is strong, bees & native insects working it up high

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[Milo]

Grey box flowering in the GV

[KellyBeeFriendly]

Any tips for Victoria flora identification? I see lots of native eucalyptus flowering through the season but wouldn?t know what they were. I figure mostly peppermint as that?s name of local road...but would like to be a bit more scientific.

[Milo]

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