Bees & Blooms in West Texas

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  1. WTxDaddy

    WTxDaddy In Flower

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    More signs of Spring in West Texas! (Now, the apricot tree is blooming kind of early, and we expect, it won't make any apricots this year. We'll have more freezes before April.

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    playtime8978 In Flower

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    Beautiful blossom! but they look like wasps to me and I shiver at the thought of wasps! Lets hope they're bees and they're making yummy honey!
     
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    WTxDaddy In Flower

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    These are honey bees. Wasps are bigger, more spindley.
     
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    Droopy Slug Slaughterer Plants Contributor

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    Lovely photos! The bees look busy so I hope you won't have any frosts but lots of apricots.
     



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    That is lovely.
    Now that really says SPRING. 8)
    I love both apricots and honey.
     
  7. Sjoerd

    Sjoerd Mighty Oak

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    It's great to see those blooms. I sure hope that they don't freeze-dead. Do you plan to cover a branch or two in the evenings with fleece to try and have a few apricots at least?

    I am very happy to see those honey bees. I worry about their disappearance.
     
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    craftybee New Seed

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    Beautiful blooms

    What pretty blooms. Reminds me of my dogwood trees in the Spring. Hope they survive.
     
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    Ohhhh those make me long for Spring, thanks for sharing!
     
  10. WTxDaddy

    WTxDaddy In Flower

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    I won't cover any of this tree in case of freeze. It's a small tree & we have a much larger one just a few yards away, which does not bloom early. We'll end up with more apricots than we can eat.
     
  11. EJ

    EJ Allotmenteer Extraordinaire

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    Fabulous pics. My little peach tree is in the greenhouse keeping cosy and trying to prevent it getting peach leaf curl as it really took a hammering last year and didn't produce any fruit. If you can't manange all of the apricots, do fill free to box them up and send them to me. :)
     
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    Netty Chaotic Gardener Plants Contributor

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    Those blooms definitely say "Spring"! :D
     
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    glendann Official Garden Angel

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    Wonderful pictures of the fruit trees.
     
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    Lovely spring photos and what a joy to see those honey bees. I hardly saw any in our garden last summer. Plenty of the large furry bumble bees though.
     
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    dschill New Seed

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    wow very beautifull photo's! If you want a place to post photos regularly were looking for people just like you over at www.afloweraday.net/blog Basically we wanna tell people about a new flower a day and add in some gardening tips and whatnot along the way! [​IMG]
     
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    bsewnsew Hardy Maple

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    Lucky you .....We get zillions of blossoms on our apricot trees, only to freeze ......No luck here in zone 5..
     

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