Remember flowers? None blooming around here at present, but I still have a bunch of unpublished pictures from summer, so here are a couple of peppermint flowers with bees, taken in August. I hope our bees are hibernating well. ๐ฑ๐ผ๐
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On the homestead blog: we did a quick half-hour visit to our beehives today, to swap out the mite treatment strips and add “bee juiceโ, a syrup of sugar water to help the bees build up their winter stores, since there arenโt many flowers blooming at this time of year. ๐
On the homestead blog: today we added mite treatments and top feeders to all of our beehives, preparing them for fall and winter. ๐
Flowers of the day, adjacent to the veggie garden:ย Greek oregano, another favorite of bees (as beekeepers, we appreciate plants they like). ๐ฑ๐ผ๐
On the homestead blog: harvesting honey from our beehives. ๐๐ฏ
Flowers of the day: since I used a pumpkin flower as my Whatโs It Wednesday question yesterday, it only makes sense to feature it as the flower of the day today, with a tiny pumpkin in the first pic, and a pollen-covered bee in the next ones. ๐ฑ๐๐
Flowers of the day: dahlia, with a bee trying to get in. ๐ฑ๐
Flowers of the day: a self-seededย butterfly-bushย in one of our flowerbeds, fairly popular with our bees. ๐ฑ๐
Flowers of the day: frazzled daisies, with a bee closeup in the second picture. ๐ฑ