Wednesday, 27 March 2013
Pampas - The weed
Our bees think that that weed we all love to get rid of (Pampas grass) is a good supply of pollen. There is 12 bees in first photo below.
Saturday, 16 March 2013
Sunday, 10 March 2013
Bees and Bananas
What a summer. It is dry, dry, dry and fine, warm and sunny. A real old fashioned summer.
Whats new? Melva has been mulching and watering the Banana palms and now one has started to flower. It already has one hand of bananas forming. Fantastic! Can't wait to start eating them.
It is fruit bottling time of the year so we have been busy preserving peaches and pears, tomatoes. The garden started cranking up late this year as it was cold before Christmas.
We also have another beehive and today Hilton made a bumble bee house that we have down by our garden.
Because it was nice and hot and dry the whole Califirnian Quail family survived. They raised 10 chicks. At the moment they are roaming all over Rattys Landing and are fun to watch. They are almost fully grown now.
Whats new? Melva has been mulching and watering the Banana palms and now one has started to flower. It already has one hand of bananas forming. Fantastic! Can't wait to start eating them.
It is fruit bottling time of the year so we have been busy preserving peaches and pears, tomatoes. The garden started cranking up late this year as it was cold before Christmas.
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| Bumble Bee House |
We also have another beehive and today Hilton made a bumble bee house that we have down by our garden.
Because it was nice and hot and dry the whole Califirnian Quail family survived. They raised 10 chicks. At the moment they are roaming all over Rattys Landing and are fun to watch. They are almost fully grown now.
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