Scottish Rock Garden Club Forum
General Subjects => General Forum => Topic started by: Andrew Gardner on March 02, 2020, 10:00:04 PM
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With the horrendous weather we have been having in the UK including gales and flooding, I was pondering the impact this would have on our natural pollinators, including bumblebee and honeybees etc. I have many clumps of snowdrops and eranthis, as well as pots of iris reticulata growing at my allotment, however I have yet to set eyes on a early foraging Queen bumblebee, or honeybee this winter . I would be interested in hearing your observations and experience of winter pollination, as well as your understanding of how these particular varieties propagate by pollination in general.
Best wishes,
Andrew
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I have seen and heard bumblebees quite a few times. If you are keen to do your bit, you could buy some single purpurea Hellebores as they are the first flowers to provide nectar for bumbles. Bees were buzzing around them and feeding on them.