Daniel's Pacific NW Garden

 This is very worrisome for me.  I saw that some yellow jackets had taken to a fig, and wondered if there might be a problem by the beehive....

A lot of flowers bloomed while I was in the hospital.  I had decided to leave the artichokes, because I don't know how to cook them anyw...

Honeybee on Oriental Poppy Flower.  5.15.2020 Honeybee on Collard Green Flowers.  5.15.2020

Honeybee on Chinese Chives.  6.29.14 Honeybee on onion flower.  6.29.14  Honeybees are foraging the yard actively. They especiall...

Today had to call in sick.  Don't like doing that but miserable.  Just on line a few minutes then back to bed. image source:  vintag...

Bumblebee on Buddleia X "Peach Cobbler" I don't see a lot of foraging by the honeybees. Buddleia - bumblebees like them...

Image via commons.wikimedia.org “To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee, One clover, and a bee, And revery. The rev...

  “Bees do have a smell,  you know,  and if they don't they should,  for their feet are dusted with spices from a million flo...

Italian Honeybees forage Sedum "Autumn Joy" Italian Honeybees forage Sedum "Autumn Joy" Italian Honeyb...

Sedum "Autumn Joy" This is the 2nd Sedum "Autumn Joy" or similar cultivar, that I moved.  It must be 10 years old, ...

Mostly fruits  Wild blackberries, cherry tomatoes, strawberries, Black Prince tomato, Hungarian Wax pepper, and a Parisian Market round ...

Sedum, unknown variety More for the apiary garden. I recovered this sedum clump from a grass-filled area under an old cherry tree.  It...

New honeycomb under construction. Inside the top bar hive. Today I did some hive maintenance.  Separated each bar.  There was some ...

Bee Garden Agasstache  I've been sick this week.  No gardening this weekend. OK, except.  Fred Meyer had perennials at 3 for ...

Melissa in bloom.  Lemon Balm. Melissa just started blooming.  Not many bees on it yet.  Mostly bumblebees.  Bumblebees seem to be les...

Honeybees foraging oregano Interesting to look at the pollen-filled "saddlebags".  Those represent a lot of pollen collecting ...

Oregano flowers I should keep better track of what is blooming, what has foraging bees, and what doesn't. Oregano just started bl...

Daisies, dandelions, hawthorns, blackberries I haven't seen many honeybees on the dandelions or daisies.  They are eating something....