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ALMOST BEEKEEPING - RELATED TOPICS => GARDENING AROUND THE HOUSE => Topic started by: BlueBee on February 26, 2012, 04:13:33 am
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I was perusing through my forest farm catalog the other day and see they offer a number of trees/shrubs of the Robinia genus. This is the genus of the Black Locust; Robinia pseudoacacia. I’ve always admired the “Purple Robe” version of the black locust trees and will probably mail order a few this spring. However I wasn’t really aware of all these other Robinia options I see in the Forest Farm catalog.
Does anybody have experience with Robinia trees/shrubs other than the old standard black locust? What I’m really wondering is rather of not the other Robinia options are good for the bees too? I’m in Zone 5.
(http://www.forestfarm.com/images/products/3935/roam090v1.jpg)