Follow the Bloom - 2024

[Terri Yaki]

Tulip poplar is all bloomed out. What do they get from that? What color is the pollen that comes off of it?

[Terri Yaki]

I found this and I am seeing a boatload of orange coming in and figure it's tulip poplar.

[The15thMember]

Tulip poplar is all bloomed out. What do they get from that? What color is the pollen that comes off of it?

I think tulip poplar produces both nectar and pollen, and I think the pollen is a pretty light in color.  Our tulip poplars are starting to drop flowers now, so I'm assuming they are on the way out. 

[Ben Framed]

Pecan trees are loaded in blooms in my area!

[Caashenb]

Pecan trees here also and the soybean crop has started to bloom today so I have about 5 to 6 week of that to look forward to.

[The15thMember]

The magnolias just opened and WCU has a lot of boxwood blooming, although I'm not sure if honeys are into that or not.

[Ben Framed]

Magnolias make pretty blooms..

[Terri Yaki]

How long does the tulip poplar bloom and when do they produce nectar?

[BeeMaster2]

Bees are still buzzing on the Chinese Tallow.
The commercial beekeepers around me have pulled their suppers off the hives. That means they think the gallberry and palmetto are done. This is the second year that our flow has ended a month early.
Jim Altmiller

[The15thMember]

How long does the tulip poplar bloom and when do they produce nectar?

I'm not sure about how long they bloom.  The poplars are my property are so big and in the forest that all the flowers are up in the canopies.  I need to get out binoculars and keep a better eye on their timing in the spring.  Ours are done now, all the spent flowers are dropping. 

[The15thMember]

I just did some investigating with the fallen tulip poplar flowers in my apiary and from my trees at least the pollen is not orange.  It's very light, I'd call it cream colored, maybe a very light yellow.   

[FatherMichael]

Bees are still buzzing on the Chinese Tallow.
The commercial beekeepers around me have pulled their suppers off the hives. That means they think the gallberry and palmetto are done. This is the second year that our flow has ended a month early.
Jim Altmiller

Wow!

[FatherMichael]

Sumac blooming here.

[BeeMaster2]

The commercial beekeepers pulled their hives from the field and have them staged on a friends property, getting ready to move them onto flatbed trailers.
Chinese Tallow is still buzzing. I don?t think they know about the tallow because it isn?t in the national forest.
Jim Altmiller

[The15thMember]

The basswood has EXPLODED!  It's going to be one of those years where the trees have more flowers than leaves.  The branches are being weighed down they are so loaded with blooms.

[FatherMichael]

Texas Lilac (Negunda Vitex) is blooming.  Bees love it!

They are easy to propagate; may do that for next year to plant some in the bee yard.

[.30WCF]

My little sourwoods haven?t opened yet, but are budding out.


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[The15thMember]

Our sourwood trees have just put out their flower stalks.  The elderberries are blooming, and I saw a couple of chestnuts too.  I'm getting highly suspicious that it's the chestnuts that supply that very dark honey I sometimes get in June. 

[Michael Bush]

The sweet clover started blooming three or four days ago.

[.30WCF]

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