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Aisha
04-27-2008, 10:51 PM
My loquat tree was the only nectar source in December and the bees were all over it. Now it's LOADED with edible fruit. I've never seen the branches bend down like that.

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3089/2442634276_82d96c4f2e.jpg

I love seeing how the bees create more seeds and fruit for other wildlife and people. I have never had to pull up so many crepe myrtle seedlings as I have this year.

I feel like my beehives are a center of fertility that radiates outward around the land like a bull's eye.
Jeffrey Todd
04-28-2008, 09:00 AM
Beautiful pictures, as usual, Aisha. Did you eat the loquats?
Keith Benson
04-28-2008, 11:34 AM
OH NO - Not the "e-word" . . .

:D:eek::D

Keith

PICS? Where are the pics?
Walliebee
04-28-2008, 03:07 PM
Very nice! Better get some bracing on those limbs before they break!
Ardilla
04-29-2008, 10:58 AM
OH NO - Not the "e-word" . . .

evidence, edible, elephant?? haven't had enough coffee yet to get which e-word is so frightening
Aisha
04-30-2008, 11:49 PM
Very nice! Better get some bracing on those limbs before they break!

Thanks. I guess do need to do that. We roped them but they need more support at the ends.
Aisha
04-30-2008, 11:51 PM
Beautiful pictures, as usual, Aisha. Did you eat the loquats?

I am still eating them and giving them away to my neighbors. If you want to come by after work, I'll give you a bushel full. And you can see my new hives.
Jeffrey Todd
05-05-2008, 01:55 AM
For better or worse, I have had as many loquats as I can eat this year. But I would like to see your hives sometime; I love the fact that you love bees so much.
jellybeen
05-15-2008, 11:20 PM
This is my first post ever. Hope the picture thing works.
Wanted to share this cool pic I took. I noticed blue pollen on the frame and hunted down its origin.

http://i304.photobucket.com/albums/nn189/dancingdirt/bluepollen.jpg
Hobie
05-16-2008, 07:08 AM
Nice photo! What is that flower? Us Northern types want to know!
Oh, and feel free to send up as many bushels of loquats as you want. I don't even know what a "loquat" is, but I envy you who can grow such things in the back yard!
Jeffzhear
05-16-2008, 01:09 PM
Jellybeen, wow!

A beautiful picture at that! I am also interested in knowing what kind of plant...tyvm in advance.
jellybeen
05-16-2008, 08:59 PM
http://i304.photobucket.com/albums/nn189/dancingdirt/prideifmedera011.jpg
http://i304.photobucket.com/albums/nn189/dancingdirt/doubleforage093.jpg
http://i304.photobucket.com/albums/nn189/dancingdirt/doubleforage092.jpg

The name of the plant is Pride of Madeira or Echium. You can see the blue tips of pollen on one of the photos. The bees didn't touch the one in my backyard, but they were all over my neighbors!