Something left out of these tree video’s is drought tolerance between each species. That’s the most important factor to me in this hot Texas sand. I planted 20 trees this week for my bees and I’m planting 80 more in February. We went all summer with less than 1” of rain. I’ve got a bunch of Tupelo and Texas Mountain Laurel seeds I’m sprouting now. I think it would take a lot of Texas Mountain Laurel to produce mad honey. They aren’t common at all in my area. I’ve never seen any growing here. I planted 10 Tupelo last winter and the moles killed 8 of them digging up the roots when I watered this summer. The moles are highly attracted to water when it’s bone dry in summer. Speaking of aphids, I’ve got to spray my crape myrtles tomorrow for them. I noticed they were infested today. Aphids love crape myrtles.
@@TennesseeMountainBees I subscribed to your channel because of these tree videos. I hope you do others even out of your own usda growing zone. I’m always looking for new trees and shrubs to plant. I think I pretty much know about most of them. The problem with most really drought tolerant plants is they can’t take temps in the teens and lower. Not many trees bloom in Texas during midsummer either when we’re in a drought dearth. Vitex, chitalpa, desert willow and crape myrtles are the only trees I have at the moment that summer bloom. I have some summer blooming shrubs. The bees don’t really go after the crape myrtles much at all.
We get massive amounts of pollen off of willows in Central Saskatchewan Once it starts the hives begin to grow rapidly im not sure if theres much nectar in it there might be ?? These are very interesting videos much appreciated
Thank you kindly for watching and commenting! I hope you and yours are doing well. And no, I won't be attending the conference in Kentucky. Thanks again!
