Following The WebWitch's Garden Hive - 2007

The continuing story of the adventures of a city kid into beekeeping and gardening -

In February this year it snowed!   When I looked closely, my bees had just about closed up the upper-level entry hole.  A few days ago it was warm - mid 50's - and they were using it constantly.   When it gets cold, they close the door!

About a week later, we looked inside the hive and found out these little ladies still had lots of food left and were starting to expand their brood nest too.  We have more cold weather coming, I hope they can cover it all.

They are already bringing in pollen and some nectar from somewhere - the red maple is not out yet, but I have seen some of my dandelions blooming and my daffodils are out full force.  I have ordered about half a dozen lavender plants and am looking for some creeping rosemary - I noticed my bees like those plants alot so I will give them some more this year.  I will keep you posted -  the WebWitch

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Update - I planted about 15 rosemary plants (2 of them are creeping rosemary) and about 12 lavender plants in 2007.  The plants took off like crazy and my bees like them fine, but they really went crazy over the two catmint bushes that I put in the rain garden.  So I will put in about a dozen of those this year too.  I like them, they have pretty little purple-blue flowers that smell a little spicy and they bloom most of the year.  My philosophy is:  if you are going to plant something anyway, why not something both you and the bees like.  All my lovely wish-books are arriving, ready to entice me to order.  So I am working on those orders and saving my pennies to get what I would like to add to my yard this year.   Ready, set, go!!! More later, the WebWitch