🐝💗Our Backyard Beekeeping Journey!💗🐝

[drstratton]

That's a beautiful picture of the park...perfect place for a stroll

It's very lovely. They also have an indoor conservatory, formal garden, rose garden, lilac garden and a Japanese garden. It's one of the most diverse parks I've ever been to.

 

[R2elk]

Rocky Mountain Bee plant

 

[drstratton]

Rocky Mountain Bee plant
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I'm excited to get ours planted with the Butterfly Weed, hopefully we'll have good germination in the spring. I bought four packages with 800 seeds each. We should get something out of all of those. I can't remember how many seeds I have of the BW.

We also bought a 5lb bag of the yellow sweet clover and 12,000 seeds of the white.

 

[drstratton]

I found the Zebra Mallow on Amazon with 500 seeds in a package, total cost a little over $8. I know I won't need that many, so if anybody wants some, let me know and I'll mail some seeds to you.

 

[drstratton]

Dale said he's going to plant some of the Dutch White clover in the treeline where he just cut down 25 poplar trees. We're also hoping to get more of the Black Locust trees growing in there again. We've lost a couple. I also want to plant the purple variety. Locust makes delicious honey.

 

[R2elk]

I found the Zebra Mallow on Amazon with 500 seeds in a package, total cost a little over $8. I know I won't need that many, so if anybody wants some, let me know and I'll mail some seeds to you.

All people have to do is ask and I gladly share the seeds from mine. Makes that many fewer that I have to pull up as weeds.

 

[R2elk]

I'm excited to get ours planted with the Butterfly Weed, hopefully we'll have good germination in the spring. I bought four packages with 800 seeds each. We should get something out of all of those. I can't remember how many seeds I have of the BW.

We also bought a 5lb bag of the yellow sweet clover and 12,000 seeds of the white.

I buy the yellow top sweet clover at a local feed store, 50 lbs. at a time. I broadcast it on the snow in the winter.

White Dutch clover, Blue Flax (yes the bees love Blue Flax too), and Red Clover in 5 lb. bags from Stock Seed Farms.

I sometimes collect the seeds from the Rocky Mountain Bee plant and spread them in my field. They are xeric but can tolerate water too.

 

[drstratton]

All people have to do is ask and I gladly share the seeds from mine. Makes that many fewer that I have to pull up as weeds.

Thank you, if I had thought about it, I would have.
One of our favorite things to do is share plants and get plants from friends. I have a plant from a dear friend who is gone now. I think of her every time I see it.

 

[drstratton]

I buy the yellow top sweet clover at a local feed store, 50 lbs. at a time. I broadcast it on the snow in the winter.

White Dutch clover, Blue Flax (yes the bees love Blue Flax too), and Red Clover in 5 lb. bags from Stock Seed Farms.

I sometimes collect the seeds from the Rocky Mountain Bee plant and spread them in my field. They are xeric but can tolerate water too.

I didn't think about spreading it on the snow. I never know if we're going to get any, it's either feast or famine around here.

I saw some blue flax seed and was wondering if the bees would like it. Is it also drought tolerant? It's pretty.

We collected some seeds from a variety of plants at the park. We'll broadcast them in the spring.

 

[R2elk]

Blue Flax