These are all our bees (we presume) and flowers in our garden!
Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness,
Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun;
Conspiring with him how to load and bless
With fruit the vines that round the thatch-eves run;
To bend with apples the moss’d cottage-trees,
And fill all fruit with ripeness to the core;
To swell the gourd, and plump the hazel shells
With a sweet kernel; to set budding more,
And still more, later flowers for the bees,
Until they think warm days will never cease,
For summer has o’er brimmed their clammy cells.
John Keats
My favourite line of this poem has, until now, been the last line of the last verse:
"And gathering swallows twitter in the skies."
Our swallows left a couple of weeks ago and we miss their
twittering but now I see the charms of the last few lines of the first verse, especially with some late summer sunny days.
This is a pictorial blog showing some of the late summer
flowers our bees are foraging from.
They seem to love the borage that has self-seeded around the
vegetable garden after being planted to provide flowers to go in Pimms and
Lemonade, and in salads.
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In the river the Rosebay Willow Herb is going to seed and the bees are all over the Water Mint.
In the back garden the Nepeta is coming to an end making a fuzzy-looking picture and there are so many little flowers it was hard to photograph a bee in action. This is also very popular with all sorts of different bumblebees.
The Sedum Spectabile is just turning pink and it is clearly a bee favourite as they are all over it.
The clearest bee in action photograph is this lovely bee on a Japanese Anemone.
Finally, the photograph at the top of the blog shows a bee on an Aster in the bee bar that I planted specially to provide late summer flowers for the bees this year. It provides a dramatic splash of colour near the gate.
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