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Category Archives: Bees
Wordless Wednesday – Making a beeline for the poppies
Posted in Bees, Flowers, Wordless
Tagged Gardening, honey bees, oriental poppies, Papaver rhoeas, Photography, Poppies
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Fat bees and fragrant apple blossom
What a wonder our little crab apple tree (Malus ‘John Downie’) on the driveway is! It is covered in a thick snowy crust of pink and white blossom and is humming with the hypnotic sounds of bees and insects, hovering … Continue reading
Posted in Bees, Trees, Wildlife
Tagged Apple blossom, Bumblebees, crab apples, Fruit trees, Gardening, honey bees, Photography, Spring, Wildlife
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Wordless Wednesday – The Bee’s Knees*
* The Bee’s Knees is a phrase used to convey that something is of excellent quality. It is likely to have originated from the way that bees carry pollen in sacks on their ‘knees’ and alludes to this concentrated goodness.
Posted in Bees, Flowers, Wordless
Tagged buff-tailed bumblebee, crocuses, Gardening, honey bees, hyacinths, Photography
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Six on Saturday – The Long Goodbye
What a glorious autumn we are having. We’ve had some frosts, which have carried the dahlias etc off, clearing space for the coming week’s bulb planting. They also helped the colours ramp up, so there is now a great show … Continue reading
September Wildlife Sightings – On the cusp
You know that autumn is here when the spaces between everything in the garden are filled with large webs and, more disturbingly, large spiders. There are loads of garden cross spiders stretched across our front garden path waiting pendulously to … Continue reading
Posted in Bees, birds, Nature, Wildlife
Tagged autumn, Bees, Blackcap, Chiffchaff, Photography, Ponds, spiders, wildlife gardening
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