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Offline pembroke

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calamint plants
« on: October 29, 2013, 04:24:30 pm »
Do bees visit calamint plants in your area and do they make a lot of honey from this plant? I was visiting a nursery/plant gardens that sells plants, and items related to plants and while walking past this calamint plant display I noticed honey bees all over them. Brought home a tray of these plants and planted them and sure enough my bees started working them this Fall.  I can't believe they will get much from these small blooms but they do like them. Pembroke

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Re: calamint plants
« Reply #1 on: November 06, 2013, 06:59:28 pm »
If you consider that a lot of wildflowers have small flowers but are quite prolific, I guess it comes down to how big the plant is or how large a patch you have planted.

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Re: calamint plants
« Reply #2 on: November 06, 2013, 09:27:58 pm »
Our biggest honey producer is the gallberry. It is a very small flower, no more than a 1/4".
It produces thousands of flowers.
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