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Offline OzBuzz

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What looks to be flowering in your area? Victoria
« on: October 10, 2012, 04:12:34 am »
Hi Folks, just wondering what looks like flowering in your area this season and where are you roughly? Anyone from up near the Murray River or near Little Desert?

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Re: What looks to be flowering in your area? Victoria
« Reply #1 on: October 10, 2012, 06:21:06 am »
I have 9 hives in Glen Waverley, Melbourne. I have walked the local streets and there are heaps and I mean heaps of flowering shrubs! Both ornamental and natives like grevillas and banksia's. Some late bloom blossoms are flowering which the bees appreciate. The ones i have in the Yarra Valley some sporadic eucalyptus (mess gum) is in flower.

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Re: What looks to be flowering in your area? Victoria
« Reply #2 on: October 10, 2012, 07:17:03 pm »
  Very local Gippsland, eucalypts, wattle, apple, lavender, rosemary, clover, capeweed (not much fortunately), camelias (50 of them) and hawthorn. Should label the honey Geoffs 57 Varieties.
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Re: What looks to be flowering in your area? Victoria
« Reply #3 on: October 10, 2012, 07:31:08 pm »
Geoff,
You don't like the capeweed? What are they getting off the camellias, pollen?