Weekly Photo Challenge – Surprised visit by Bees
In one of my posts I wrote about my plum tree. The tree is four years old. The first two year didn’t have any fruits. The tree had full blossom earlier than any other flowers. There were no bees around to pollinate the blossom. Last year, I manually pollinate the flowers and it produced about twenty plums.
By the end of winter this year, the plum tree had full blossom. So I started using my fine paintbrush to pollinate the flowers. But I got tired. I thought I would have another non-producing year.
There is a slope behind the retaining wall next to the tree. The slope was full of yellow clover flowers. I had other plants on the slope but they were all covered by the clovers.
One day, I went up to the slope, pulled out several handfuls of clovers to see what happened to my other plants. To my surprise, I saw a whole bunch of bee buzzing over the yellow flowers. Then I turned around to look at the plum tree. There they were, bees dancing around the plum blossoms.
Oh, how pleased I was to see the bees. How timely they had come to pollinate the flowers. When spring came, I saw young plums covering the tree. I actually counted the plums. You may think that I was silly, but I was very excited. I counted more than two hundred young plums. I can hardly wait for summer to taste them.
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It’s so beautiful
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Thank you so much!!
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Such beautiful blooms resulting in what will be a fantastic harvest…awesome! 🙂
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Thank you for reading. The bees were very busy. I’ve ever seen the bees coming so early. Glad they did!
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Yes I’m glad they did! It’s interesting because I never thought about the lack of bees so early on…I’m blessed with too many bees. I planted a lot of lavender everywhere, so there’s bees most of the year. In fact, I had one that flew in the house! That caused some drama :0
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Oh no! I was stunted by a bee once. I welcome the bee stayed in my garden. They usually like purple flowers. I was so surprised that they also like the yellow clover flowers!
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Yes! I’m a bit surprised they like the yellow clovers too…I can’t water my lavender without accidentally chasing a couple of bees away each time 🙂 Sounds like your bees are there doing their job though…can’t wait to see how your harvest is! 🙂
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I can’t wait either, checking their sizes everyday…hehe…
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You are so lucky, 200. I love plums in my green smoothies as natural sweeteners😀
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Thanks to the bees. I don’t know why they didn’t come the last three years, but I’m delighted they came this year! You smoothies sound delicious!
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💖💖💖
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Great post if your the only one eatting them share the bounty. Pick them and leave them by your mailbox with a free sign you will be surprise how fast your neighbors will pick them up. You could probably also donate them to your local food bank.
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That’s a perfect idea. I used to do that every year with oranges. We got about 500 oranges each crop. This year my husband is making orange juice. We still have a couple hundred. I’ll let him decide what to do. I eat plumes for fiber, I buy them year round. Not because I don’t want to share, but I try to figure out how to preserve them so I could have them when the season is over. Thank you for the great idea. I may end up giving some away. My choir would appreciate some goodies also!
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I find myself dong it each year with mint and tomatoes and daily fresh OJ sounds so delcious.
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It sounds delicious. I may try it!
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Delicious plums…you have something wonderful
to look forward to!
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I do! I check the growth of the plums almost everyday. My husband is afraid the birds would get them before they ripe!
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I hope the birds stay away!
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My husband said wrap around it with some netting yet the sun still goes through. I’ll do something when I get the first visit from the birds! Thank you for the kind thought!
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Touching. A nice record kept and shared. Enjoy your plum reward. Patience, good husbandry.
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Gardening is my daily routine, my therapy. I’m glad to get some reward on the side! Thank you for the comment!
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Awww this is great Miriam. I love your excitement. Reminds me of being a young girl and the wondement of life.
🙂 Blessings! Enjoy the plums and the bees!! Loving, Debbie
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Yes, I waited for four years to have this surprise! Thank you, Debbie!
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Great post! That’s a lot of plums. Enjoy! 😀
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Thank you so much. I’m check online to see how to preserve them. I buy them year round for intake of fiber!
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Lovely post. I also have hundreds of bees buzzing around the blossoms of the palm trees in my garden when they blossom. It’s a lovely restful sound and sight.
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Are they date palms? You must have a hive close by. Perhaps can get some raw honey. I didn’t associate the dates with the blossom on my date palm trees. I always have them cut. But I watch the video on youtube about harvesting dates. This year I’ll let them blossom with mature.
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A lovely post.
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Thank you so much!
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Precious plums! Are there going to be plum-my baked goodies too? 🙂
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Yes, they are purple plums. I wonder if I want to dehydrate some to keep them. I’m the only one eating them!
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Two hundred to yourself is fair 😀
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Thank you very much! Started thinking what to do to preserve them!
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Practical thoughts 😀
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Yes, thank you so much!
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Lovely post!
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Thank you very much!
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