Early spring pollinators and flowers
I
went out to take a photo of our honeybees visiting the crocuses, but
instead caught this fly in the act. In fact, although our
honeybees were out working during the past warm days, flies were making
up about 80% of the pollinators.
Spring continues to be slow despite the balmy weekend,
so there's not all that much blooming yet. Speedwells and purple
dead nettle are in full bloom in the yard, but I haven't seen any
dandelions yet. In the woods, hazels are blooming, but I haven't
even seen a spring beauty on the forest floor. And the first few
daffodils are just beginning to open their blooms in the sunniest part
of the yard.
Meanwhile, Huckleberry
thinks he's definitely pretty enough to be highlighted in a post about
flowers.
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About us: Anna Hess and Mark Hamilton spent over a decade living self-sufficiently in the mountains of Virginia before moving north to start over from scratch in the foothills of Ohio. They've experimented with permaculture, no-till gardening, trailersteading, home-based microbusinesses and much more, writing about their adventures in both blogs and books.
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Huckleberry looks just like our cat, Julian.
I think your flowers are about 2 weeks behind ours. Tradd and Olga say the first morels have already been found in Georgia but we haven't found any, yet.