Bees

Bees are a necessity in our gardens and although we are familiar with Honey Bees and Bumbles Bees, there 100’s of different kinds of bees. In the spring, Bumble Bees pollinate most flowers in the spring; they wear that “fur coat” after all and therefore are more tolerant of the cold.

On a typical spring day you will see Bumble Bees in the early morning and late afternoon, and Honey Bees in the warmer afternoon.

Some early Spring flowers that attract these bees are Hepatica, Trout-Lily, Bloodroot, Spring-beauty, Cut-leaved Toothwort, Wild Oats, Mayapple and Trilliums. It’s too early in our yard for these beauties, and we don’t have all of them (yet), but when they appear I’ll post pictures.

Here is a wonderful article about Mason Bees and how to add them to your yard. I will be adding more and more information here about bees, so please keep coming back.

In the meantime, enjoy the bees that are so busy at work making sure that our flowers and crops are pollinated and rewarding us with their delicious honey. I think of them each morning as I drink by honey and apple cider vinegar tea.