Sourwood, Goldenrod, Mountain Mint and American Chestnut For Bees 

Jack would make one hell of a great addition to the bee expo. A presentation on identifying major honey plants would be worth the ticket alone. Your comment about finding new sourwood in the Autumn by leaf colour is money. Thank you both for sharing your knowledge.

Wow he’s a plant encyclopedia. What a resource. Have him on more often please.

“The Beekeeper and the Botanist”. Bob your friendship with Jack is something we all seek. The forest that surrounds has shown to us all how much your friendship has grown over time. From the towering majestic oaks watching over you to the small saplings sourwood germinating in the poorest of soils. You show us what the richness of rare friendships can create. They don’t need much just an appreciation and mutual respect and with the passing of time flourish and provide the sweetest of treats. Thanks mate for showing us around. Wayne from Australia.

The best friend comment had me choked up .

What a beautiful place Bob. No matter what subject of video you do, you make it interesting. Thank you

Great video, Bob. Being a beekeeper is like becoming a botanist.

What a pleasing, informative walk on your property. Thanks.

What a fantastic video! Amazing amount of knowledge, I kept worrying the video was going end, and indeed I could listen to Jack and Bob share for a long time. Please put Jack on again, he is pleasant to listen to, he rivals you Bob😊

Thanks for sharing your knowledge, and for the tour of your property !

Thanks for sharing your property Bob, kind of you to show us around.

Jack is a very knowledgeable man, you are blessed to have him as a close friend. Great video Bob. God bless!

You have been blessed with a great friend and neighbor, a beautiful homesite and your love of bees and nature. Thank you for sharing your home and your knowledge with us.

very personal and lovely video. Thank you. I was a member in American Magnolia Society many years ago. I cultivate 15 or more Manolia trees. And big leaf Rhododendrons Rex

Thanks for all your videos, Bob. You could talk about what you had for breakfast and it would be interesting and entertaining. Thanks again!

Thanks for the video Bob. It was interesting to hear Jack talk about plants and get a glimpse into the Binnie homestead.

Pretty cool and a great neighbor to have, too. I live in the mountains as well and there is nothing like it. Thanks for the tour. God bless!

As a forester, and a beekeeper, I found this a very good interview with Jack. I've always found sourwood in early successional regeneration, such as more open shelterwood cuts. Thanks for another good video.

You have such a beautiful place and blessed to have it and a wonderful neighbor! You're taking care of the pollinators, and he's taking care of the plants. God bless you both!

What a great video! Thank you for sharing your knowledge and experience , Bob and Jack

Thank you for showing us your place .

Sunday morning coffee in the Appalachians with some knowledgeable hosts. What a beautiful world..

Your neighbor is a great source for plant information isn’t he. Great to learn from and hear. Stay well & safe. Thanks for sharing! - Tom

My favorite video yet.

Thank you. Very informative and super. Jim

Very informative video. You have a very beautiful place, Bob. Thanks for sharing.

It's pleasure to watch Sunday morning King Bob's video God bless

Very nice Bob! Thanks for the tour and information.

This is probably my Favorite Video of yours, excellent stuff, thank you. Lots of knowledge between you two.

Awesome video thanks for sharing. You Have a beautiful place and view.

Thanks for the tour

I enjoyed and have learned alot and become more comfortable with my bees from your videos and hope to visit you in 2024 for 10 nuts all way from robertsdale

Thank you for sharing! Very nice!

Thanks for sharing Bob. I enjoy watching a story of land stewardship. Hopefully we have enough folks making our own pieces of earth better than how we found it. Kevin

Jack has a great narrator or MC voice!

Bob, thanks for sharing

Another awesome video.

Sure did enjoy this video so much knowledge thank you would like to see Jack on some more videos thank you for sharing

Beautiful views, Bob!

GREAT video, Thanks!

Great video Bob, very interesting. You are a hardworking man and I commend you for that! Your neighbor is very knowledgeable, thanks for giving us a glimpse into your personal life and your beautiful property. Best wishes for the honey harvest and your continuing success. Thanks again for another great video!

Two great mates and minds as neighbours,thank you.

beautiful yard

thanks for sharing -really interesting

Gr8 vidéo… thanks for sharing…

Wonderful video, Bob!

Redmond Linden trees would be a great addition if you had a spot for them. Either way you have a beautiful place sir.

Thank you for sharing your beautiful property Bob. A lovely spot.

See if Jack might want to plant a few heptacodium miconioides (Seven Sons Flower) for you. Fantastic trees that bloom late in the year (currently blooming in Portland, OR 8b). Great source of nectar & pollen. Very fragrant.

Great video!

Great video

Bob you have Sourwood trees at your house like I have Black Berries, thanks for another very informative video.😁 Looks like ya got your ears lowered, wife tell it was a time for a haircut.😂

Good neighbors are priceless.

Very informative and interesting to see all the different varieties of Magnolas....who would have thought there were so many different species? Thanks, Bob for the information.

Such a treat to be shown around your beautiful surroundings Bob. So different from anything we get where I live in the UK, and not because it is bad over here, just very different.

you need to have him on more

Bob my neighbor is 93 and is the most interesting man I’ve ever met. He witnessed a nuclear explosion at Enewetak, among a long life of adventures. He told me when he was a boy he wanted to feed out a group of hogs, so he cut down some hollow American chestnut trees and sawed them in half to use as feed troughs.

Used to find a good many American Chestnut shoots growing up from old roots, particularly where logging was done and the sun could directly heat the ground for a year or two. Only found one (clump) that made it to fruiting stage. Haven’t checked it in 8-10 years. Most likely died above ground, lying in wait for the next time. So many lessons. - Thanks for this, learned several helpful things. 👍🐝😃

I always say your neighbors are your best asset

Excellent video nice to touch topics that effect our bees. Maybe find a flower person that can speak on native ground cover? Thanks again

This was very good Bob. Glad to see you with your best friend. He is very informative. So smart. I learned alot about trees today. Thanks buddy!

Bob That man has a fantastic voice that is great for presentations. Very clear and easy to understand. Just like yourself but with more depth. Great video. Simon

a lot tree, i like the

Who but Bob Binnie would have had the forethought to select as his neighbor an amateur botanist whose expertise rivals that of a PhD? Bob, you think of everything! 😉 But seriously Bob, this week’s video is another tour de force. I learned much from your backyard ramble with your best friend and neighbor, Jack. Kudos to both of you, and I look forward to future opportunities to tap into Jack’s knowledge of plants that have significance for my honeybees. Randy Muir Snowville, VA

Sweet

Great video, am a tree nut myself, very interesting

All you show is of great interest Bob. It is interesting to see the local way of adapting and doing things with the terrain, etc.

Enjoyed this a lot. Thanks for sharing!

You're neighbors knowledge of all the plants and trees is mind blowing... 🤯 This was very interesting! Thank ya much gentlemen for putting this together.

Blessed you are to have a good neighbor as your good friend! Thank you for sharing. HBM

Thank you for letting us into your life a little more! Absolutely love the tour of your property. Cheers

What a blessing to have your best friend as a neighbor. Thanks for showing us around your place. Your place and topography is very similar to my place here in the Missouri ozarks. I'm just just 25+ years behind you and about 2 hardiness zones cooler.

Magnificent property magnificent content and most of all two magnificent presenters three with Seth 👍👍👍

So enjoyed this , you have a beautiful place wonderful friends. God has blessed you and your family.

I love watching all the different videos. Your season is just about week and a half to two weeks ahead of me. Just north of Asheville.

Thank you Bob for sharing such amazing knowledge through Jack. When we started keeping bees we were interested in finding areas near us with sourwood. After searching and finding a few in the surrounding miles we were happily shock when fall came and we could see almost 50 sourwood trees surrounding our house and hives. Great video!

Good morning Bob. When I start bee keeping the wife had some parrot lillys and the bees were all over it.But I have never seen them on it again.

I really enjoyed watching you and your friend! You have a real treasure in the beautiful location and a wonderful neighbor. I'm not so lucky in either case but I do have a roof over my head and food on the table which is more than a lot of people have. I used to have a bunch of bees in northern Appalachia and field golden rod was my main source of extra honey.😊😊

I love watching your youtube videos. You are such an endearing person and so are all the people you present on your episodes. The bee content is wonderful too. 🐝 smile😊

Your house is lovely! I noticed the bee-utiful yellow color! 🐝

Great place to live thanks for sharing. No way I could ever remember all those names. Thanks for the video.

Love your videos Bob. One of my favorite things to do every Sunday

Wow!!! Jack is a wealth of information!!! How wonderful to have him as your neighbor! I learned so much, but mostly that I don't know next to nothing about plants lol! Thank you for sharing! 😊

Jack has a great radio voice😎

very cool video and your best friend knows his stuff thank you sir.

Thanks for the video of the nice area. 😊

Wow love all your fabulous trees Bob , fabulous habitat for so many . Your friend knows his plants . Great vlog , love the change but very impressed.👍👍

Bob that’s a really nice looking place you got there

Very interesting, thanks for the video.

Thanks Mr. Binnie. I have a report idea now! I'll take my botany book and find all the nectar and pollen sources close to the Bee Yard!

First off you have a beautiful place! Jack is extremely knowledgeable. Is he a professor at a university somewhere ? I worked for the Nevada division of forestry for 10 years and it amazed me how little they truly knew about trees

I really enjoyed seeing around your homeplace. Very nice!! That view looking over your house is amazing. I have noticed here in north alabama when timber gets clear cut that alot of sourwood trees appear there in just 2-3 years. Thank you for sharing.

Thanks for sharing love watching and learning speaking of golden rod in fields I’ve wondered about bee’s getting the pollen from them after the farmers spray the field and then the bee gets the chemicals on them or on the pollen and bring it back to the hive and over time that is effecting them just my thoughts I understand the bees are going to get into several things that could affect them and it’s not just farmers and chemicals so I’m not trying to throw any hate on nobody just saying thanks for sharing

Thanks for the plant talk.

I'd love to see another episode like this in the fall to see what the area looks like then. Thanks for sharing.

Good morning jack, we finally have candy roaster set on.

One of the best videos so far! Loved it!

Just marvellous

Wow Bob. Great property!

Wonderful information. Thank you.

Thanks for sharing Bob!