anarchy in the oregano today the bees have stop coming in their species base shift and show up at once
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Rudbeckia in my humble pollinator garden, now in its third year
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Origanum vulgare (oregano) and Apis mellifera (Western honey bee)
I love watching honey bees do their jobs. Depending on how far the flowers are from the hive, a honey bee typically does a dozen foraging trips a day and visits up to a hundred blooms each time. Individual flowers don’t produce a lot of nectar and bees have to work hard to fill up their ‘honey tanks’.
Nectar is basically concentrated sap and it’s ‘expensive’ for the plant to produce. If the plant gives out it’s rewards in little dribs and drabs, it encourages the bee to visit every bloom, thus assuring pollination. Here an oregano is ‘playing the system’ in our back garden. This little honey bee spent several minutes on a warm summer afternoon, taking a sip at every single flower on this oregano’s inflorescence.
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Btw I was not on tumblr much today bc I went to the store to buy HERBS. And now they are GROWING in my WINDOW!!! YEEAAAAHHHHH WOOOOO
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we r underutilizing herb flowers. all the flowers I see used in food r either pansies or hibiscus
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Garden log 3/31: Things I'll take credit for but have put no effort into this year
Yarrow is thriving, blooming already. I think I've succeeded at using/camouflaging that stump in the middle of the garden, finally, by covering it in perennial flowers with dense greenery.
Oregano, escaping from under the herb bed. She's thriving; I see no downsides.
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The oregano has flowered we now share the garden with the bees
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i think i have given up on the yard now
there are things planted and we'll see what we'll see, but from everything i've read stuff will either die in the 110F heat or later on in a winter freeze so further $ invested may be a waste
and the only solution is to keep everything as potted-and-mobile or indoor plants
there's already been issues with ants and gnats so the impetus to leave them outside and then bring them in later is now very low
so maybe i will just have a lot of indoor plants - at least i can take them with me when i go
the one pothos is at least VERY enthusiastic and all the greenery is *so* fucking mentally soothing
... i just really want to buy so many more plants and i *have* to stop
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Daddy's First Enchanted Morning #3
by Rocco
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