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Post by Deleted on Apr 1, 2015 23:08:13 GMT
Keep track of bloom dates in different areas.
SW OH
4/1/15
red maple
vinca minor (creeping myrtle)
boxwood (Don't laugh. I'm in the Suburb. Boxwood is big here...)
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Post by smokey on Apr 1, 2015 23:26:45 GMT
North Arkansas
Fruit trees- Apple, Pear, Peaches. Cherry should bloom soon
Henbit- The bees have been all over the little purple flowers
Some wild flowers & Dandelions
Within the next few days a lot of stuff should be blooming.
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Post by grannyg on Apr 2, 2015 4:57:59 GMT
Dandelions....LOL....Sadly, we noticed that the lid was off our water meter box...the guys found hundreds of bees buzzing around.....and left it off...we started calling around to try to get someone to come save the bees..but the city sprayed them and killed them all. I was heartbroken over seeing them dead. One of our friends had several bee hives and his honey came in second in the state..the best honey I have ever had, and he lost all his hives this winter...wish I could have saved them
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Post by hobbitlady on Apr 2, 2015 6:53:15 GMT
SW Oregon (zone 7-8)
Fruit trees--most var. plums done/some var.still blooming,pears & cherries
edit: APPLES when I posted I had no idea they were ready to burst out
Dandelions,domestic rhododendrons,hyacinths,manzanita starting in warm micro zones (big wild manzanita flow here really helps the bees)
Wild flowers just starting
grannyg--That is SO sad. So many rural beekeepers Want a swarm. Sorry you had to witness that,but you Tried to save them and thank you for that!
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Post by Skandi on Apr 2, 2015 8:31:19 GMT
Northern Denmark..
not much, violets, lesser celandine. spring bulbs are over. no trees are out yet. few miniture daffodils.
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Post by ohiodreamer on Apr 2, 2015 12:59:28 GMT
Nothing really yet, starting to get some promises the blooming may actually occur though. Neighbor's mini daffodils are looking promising, everything else appears to be a few weeks off, yet. Need to run extension cords to my fruit trees. I left the lights on last year and just rolled up the power cords. I think this might just be a year we need to light them up to save the blooms from frost.
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Post by bearcreekfarm on Apr 3, 2015 1:22:33 GMT
Absolutely nothing here in Minnesota  |
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Post by smokey on Apr 3, 2015 16:13:36 GMT
Wild Plum and Redbud trees blooming today.
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Post by smokey on Apr 3, 2015 16:17:57 GMT
Dandelions....LOL....Sadly, we noticed that the lid was off our water meter box...the guys found hundreds of bees buzzing around.....and left it off...we started calling around to try to get someone to come save the bees..but the city sprayed them and killed them all. I was heartbroken over seeing them dead. One of our friends had several bee hives and his honey came in second in the state..the best honey I have ever had, and he lost all his hives this winter...wish I could have saved them It infuriates me when I hear of someone killing a swarm or colony like that.  There are beekeepers everywhere that would be glad to take them. I'm sorry about your friends hives too, Winter and early spring are tough times for bees and its always hard to lose some. Very few things are as sad to me as a dead silent beehive. |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 3, 2015 16:58:17 GMT
Fruit trees, cherries, crab apples, apples, pears. Daffodils are done, tulips almost done. Our pink/white camellia has been blooming since New Years. Very pretty right now since it isn't cold and rainy. Huge buds. Outside strawberries are blooming and setting fruit....James
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Post by Deleted on Apr 3, 2015 17:48:58 GMT
grannyg - that is sad that the bees were killed especially since someone could have benefited from them.
I was thrilled to see honeybees working the henbit's purple flowers in my yard. I've not seen honeybees here before. We have redbud, fruit trees, henbit, woodviolet, Carolina jasmine, and lots of flowering weeds.
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Post by smokey on Apr 3, 2015 19:00:50 GMT
Henbit was all but nonexistent here until a couple of years ago and it suddenly started spreading like crazy. It's in every yard around here I think.
The bees love it in early spring and the donkeys REALLY like it. There's not a bit of it growing in my pastures anymore, They snarf it up as soon as it appears.
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Post by wolfmom on Apr 3, 2015 20:51:06 GMT
This is such a time of discovery moving to a new part of the country.
Pear is done blooming. Some sort of rose colored blooms on lots of tree's - rosebud? Azalea's are budding, daffodils are finished, and my yard - is a carpet of Johnny Jump Up's and something that looks like a miniature purple phlox. My neighbor has a dogwood tree blooming - something I haven't seen since my childhood. Coming from AZ the color's are magnificent!
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Post by LauraD on Apr 11, 2015 0:07:57 GMT
MO - dandelions, hyacinths, daffodils, tulips, violets, apple trees, pear trees, redbud trees. Crocuses are pretty much done. Saw my first honeybees of the season this week.  |
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Post by farmchix on Apr 11, 2015 12:36:04 GMT
Just got home from Gatlinburg. Even the rhododendrums are about to bloom.
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Post by hobbitlady on May 3, 2015 2:14:56 GMT
Happy May!
Our place has gone from fruit trees done, to the strawberries and boysenberries blooming!
There are wild yellow iris (they look like dutch iris) all over in the dry woodlands here.
The planted red clover is out looking pretty and the regular white too.
The chives that weren't cut off are blooming as well.
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Post by oldmania on May 3, 2015 2:34:03 GMT
Fruit trees are blooming. Dogwood in bloom. Redbud just about finished. Forsythia finished. Gorgeous fields of wild mustard blooming.
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Post by Deleted on May 3, 2015 15:58:09 GMT
Blackberries and white clover is just starting
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Post by hobbitlady on May 10, 2015 0:47:04 GMT
May 9,SW Oregon, "most often zone 8"(I get zone 7 years too)
OK; the wild and domestic roses are blooming now.
Snapdragons
Camas
White clover and some berries still going
Peonies starting
Iris with the most sun starting...........
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There are beekeepers everywhere that would be glad to take them.
