Post Your Bloom Dates - 2011

[Barry]

What is needed:

•zipcode
•date when the plant first bloomed
•name of the plant
•any comment you add gets added to the database so give detailed info about what was going on, if it was the end of the bloom just add that to the comments

Bloom Dates - 2010: http://www.beesource.com/forums/showthread.php?t=237006
Bloom Dates - 2004 - 2009: http://www.beesource.com/forums/showthread.php?t=194126

Complied data available here: http://www.drobbins.net/bees/blooms.html

[marksb]

93117
2/1/2011
Blue Gum Eucalyptus

[Ted Kretschmann]

36853, 2-5-2011 red maple

[Lauren]

28782
Feb 7th 2011
himalayan Saracocca
Continued Japanese Camillia

[KQ6AR]

94519
ornamental fruits

Some varieties started already

[Pink Cow]

94583
02/05/2011

wild mustard
some apple varieties
almond
ornamental fruit

All in multiple zips in the area.

[KQ6AR]

94519
acacia

full bloom

[Ted n Ms]

Henbit
2-13-11
39773

[USCBeeMan]

37130
Noticed they have started blooming recently

Chickweed
Bittercress

Haven't seen the bees on them but they are bringing in mainly a light yellow pollen but one colony is bringing in orange pollen.

[aprici]

• in Canada, so postal code: V8L 5S8
• many items in bloom now: Witch hazels, Snow Crocus, Hellebore, Cyclamen coum, Sarcococca ruscifolia, Various heathers, Viburnum tinus

I started a winter flower collection and am tracking the details on my web site (http://aprici.com).

The bees in this area started gathering pollen on Jan 28.

[summer1052]

2/17/11

77964, South Central Texas

Lots of pollen from cedar trees.
Viburnums (don't know which variety) are starting.
Chickweed. (Called 'honeysuckle' by local kids who like to suck the nectar out.)

[msapostol]

94706
2/06/2011
All in One Almond

[David LaFerney]

38501
2-17-2011
Red Maple

Middle TN - We've just had a week of springlike weather - noticed a few trees with open blooms today - 70 degrees and sunny.

[timgoodin]

42053
2-18-2011
Red Maple
A week of temps in mid 60s

[beardcrumbs]

40508
2/18/11 Bees bringing in pollen, can see some maple trees beginning to bloom. Not sure if maples are the source. When I look at the pollen collected from a bee under a microscope it is football shaped w/ very rounded ends. color is dull yellow/khaki. Bees have been active for three days. This is the first day I have seen pollen coming into the hives. any input?

[Tara]

22315-Alexandria VA

Yesterday, 17 Feb, was the first 65F day since fall. I noticed a few bees bringing in large loads of very pale yellow pollen and dancing it out on the combs when I put on patties. Today, about 4 out of 5 bees coming in were carrying the same stuff.

Probably maple, which I heard is the first thing to bloom around here.

I'll check the patties in a week to see if they're even eating it...

[Growing Boy]

75631-Far North East Texas.
2/19/2011
Wild Onion
Henbit
Dandelion
Cedar
Narcissis
Dafodil
Willow

The girls are bringing it in in buckets.

[USCBeeMan]

37130 (M'boro, TN)

2/19/11

Crocus - just starting
Daffodil - just starting
Forsythia - just starting
Winter Honeysuckle - just starting

Bees here at home are heavily bringing in the pollen.
Out on a farm I have a apiary and don't see anything blooming and almost no pollen coming in.

[jeb123]

76084

2/21/2011

40 miles due south of DFW airport...

dandelion flowers

Oleander throwing seed...(Still trying to convince the wife we need to get rid of this sucker!)

Pecan tree I planted late fall is budding.

Neighbor's Bartlett pear is budding...

[McSpadden]

47454
2-21-11
Red Maple
Cedar
With 70 degrees on 2-18 started seeing lots of cedar pollen coming in. Noticed the Red maples blooming today the 21st. A few days of good weather forage starting the 12th and now rain on the 21st.