Flowers pagesepsitename%% https://chilcotts.farm/tag/flowers/ No longer a working farm. Our home in North Devon Thu, 02 Jul 2020 21:40:53 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://chilcotts.farm/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/cropped-Chilcotts-farm-site-icon-32x32.png Flowers pagesepsitename%% https://chilcotts.farm/tag/flowers/ 32 32 Bees are out collecting the summer honey https://chilcotts.farm/bees-are-out-collecting-the-summer-honey/ https://chilcotts.farm/bees-are-out-collecting-the-summer-honey/#respond Thu, 02 Jul 2020 21:40:53 +0000 https://chilcotts.farm/?p=6331 The weather has not been bad or good, but the bees are out at every opportunity. The summer flowers are blossoming, and we are hoping for a good honey harvest come August!

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]]> https://chilcotts.farm/bees-are-out-collecting-the-summer-honey/feed/ 0 Frosty Morning https://chilcotts.farm/frosty-morning/ https://chilcotts.farm/frosty-morning/#respond Sun, 19 Jan 2020 11:18:18 +0000 https://chilcotts.farm/?p=5305 Quite beautiful this morning. Everything covered in frost glinting in the early morning sunlight. This Witch Hazel looked like a little glimmering jewel.

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]]> https://chilcotts.farm/frosty-morning/feed/ 0 Happy New Year! 2020 is here! https://chilcotts.farm/happy-new-year-2020-is-here/ https://chilcotts.farm/happy-new-year-2020-is-here/#respond Wed, 01 Jan 2020 00:01:00 +0000 https://chilcottsfarm.co.uk/?p=4763 A new year has begun, and the garden is already showing signs of life. Apart from the daffodils and snowdrops poking up through the ground, this beautiful and fragrant Viburnum flower is putting on a beautiful show!

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]]> https://chilcotts.farm/happy-new-year-2020-is-here/feed/ 0 Ivy Flowers, good for the Bees https://chilcotts.farm/ivy-flowers-good-for-the-bees/ https://chilcotts.farm/ivy-flowers-good-for-the-bees/#respond Tue, 22 Oct 2019 06:29:01 +0000 https://chilcottsfarm.co.uk/?p=3419 Even though October is drawing to a close, on warm days the bees are VERY busy. If you look closely at the ivy, you can see it covered in insects busy at work on the ivy flowers. Not only honey bees, but wasps, flies and bumble bees. All going about their work gathering or consuming […]

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]]> https://chilcotts.farm/ivy-flowers-good-for-the-bees/feed/ 0 Busy Bee https://chilcotts.farm/busy-bee/ https://chilcotts.farm/busy-bee/#respond Sat, 21 Sep 2019 09:58:39 +0000 https://chilcottsfarm.co.uk/?p=3374 We are having some warm weather at the moment. The sunny warm days are great for the bees allowing them to get out and about to build up their winter stores. Caught this lady foraging on a flowering ‘Iceberg’ (Sedumspectabile ) plant.

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]]> https://chilcotts.farm/busy-bee/feed/ 0 Bees are all over our New Zealand Flax Flowers https://chilcotts.farm/bees-are-all-over-our-new-zealand-flax-flowers/ https://chilcotts.farm/bees-are-all-over-our-new-zealand-flax-flowers/#respond Mon, 08 Jul 2019 08:50:57 +0000 https://chilcottsfarm.co.uk/?p=3195 This year, in our garden (North Devon, UK), the New Zealand Flax’s have sent up some beautiful long flower spikes with small tubular flowers delicately displaying in reds and oranges. The anthers protrude from the top of the tubular flower. Here the high protein orange coloured pollen can be collected by the bee. But where […]

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]]> https://chilcotts.farm/bees-are-all-over-our-new-zealand-flax-flowers/feed/ 0 This is what I want, I really really want …. https://chilcotts.farm/this-is-what-i-want-i-really-really-want/ https://chilcotts.farm/this-is-what-i-want-i-really-really-want/#respond Tue, 02 Jul 2019 21:04:59 +0000 https://chilcottsfarm.co.uk/?p=3189 I have a two acre field, I really want to turn into (revert to?) wildflower meadow. How do you do it? Can anyone help? It seems really complicated and expensive. Done the research over a few years and got the facts, just spent £40 on seed! (mixture of perennial and annual from Pictorial Meadows #PictorialMeadows) […]

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