I had no plans for bees but was moved to plant a dozen lindens. It’s year seven and they are blooming this year. The bees and bumbles flock to the flowers
@@JohnGreenan-xh4tp Si; the answer is here in what you see(not the audio suggestions presented) shut the audio off and just watch... Then find the top -2-3 other slow-motion, high-frame rate recordings of Bumble bees. Look and you can see what is happening consistently with these flights.; watch the center of mass(of large puffy bumblebee body) as they drift...
I’d like to see a video on drought tolerant bee trees. Texas is getting bad in recent years. I lost 2 big pecan trees I planted in the 1980s to last summers drought. Some of these trees would repeat on that video. Like the black locust.
Good idea :) We wrote an article for 37 drought tolerant plants for gardens, but that's flower-focused. beeprofessor.com/best-drought-resistant-plants-for-bees/
@@beeprofessor I can’t grow summer and fall blooming flowers because I have keep my orchard mowed to keep the grasshopper numbers down as much as possible. They’ll probably start hatching by the millions next month here. That’s when its most critical to mow so the birds can find them. You can take one step in the grass and 20 or more will jump with each step you take when they’re just hatching. I can mow around flowering trees and still have flowers in my trees. Plus trees can produce more food for bees per acre because they grow not only horizontal along the ground like wildflowers but vertically also. I planted over 100 trees this year for my bees. I have a bunch of extra Tupelo seedlings for sale for $3. Nobody around here wants to buy them. My crape myrtles sell but bees don’t really use those much. No nectar. They’ll bloom during the heat of summer, June and July when most every other tree or shrub around here has finished blooming.
Tried a Deluxe Bee Lawn Mix from Twin City Seed that I planted in the fall--pretty disappointed so far--seems to be mostly grasses. I tried Crimson Clover one season and it came up gangbusters--in spots--took a long time to bloom--just came up too sporadically. I want a clover that has a good germination rate here in NE Florida. See Berseem is mentioned for Florida. Could you share if Clover has to be planted in the Fall? If I plant now is it too late for my area?
For me, in California, red clover is the only one I wouldn't grow again-- beautiful, but I never see any bees coming to it. White clover did attract many native bees in early spring, and sweet clover attracted lots of bees in summer and bloomed a long time.
We are several years into backyard bee hives--hobby only. And first had a dried flower garden business, than morphed into a butterfly garden (raised them) but want to switch to bee "plants" and for all the lists made for plants that are "bee magnets" I am now super skeptical. Not to kibosh all talk but like my dog who chooses a cardboard box over a $10 chewie; the bees pass by all the plants I purchased and go to our weeds ie native plants. T.M.I.
@@clarabell60z I don't think I mentioned it-- but my bee standouts this last summer were Frost Aster, Texas Thistle, and Spanish Needles. All of these are U.S. native, and I simply can't describe in words how attractive to ALL pollinators they were. I'm trying as many species of these genera I can find.
