No Bees
Sun, 07/05/2009 - 17:23 — KiminMaryland
I have bumblebees, Easter carpenter bees, sweat bees, hoverflies and other pollinators in my perennial border in my front yard. The sunflowers are in the back yard by my vegetable garden, and I'm not seeing any bees on the sunflowers. I do have other flowers in back - lavender, zinnia, marigolds. I'd move the pot, but it's too big to move, and the plants are over 5 feet tall. I'll keep watching.
Of note, I didn't plant any seeds this year. I planted the entire packet last year and got 3 or 4 plants. I remember reading the seeds benefitted from chilling, and that must be true, because this year I have at least 7 plants.
No Bees
For those having trouble with no bees.............I know that in my area (NE Florida) I have to check at many different times of the day since our weather is so crazy. It was 85 by 9am last week, so the bees here must be as heat sensitive as I am - they came out earlier in the am, and later in the pm. This week, we made it to 11am before it hit 90, so they were a little later.
I really hope it is all in the bees' schedule, and they're just weather related moving instead of being so few and far between!
Good luck, hopefully they're just shy~!
no bees
My sunflowers, wild and lemon variety are not in bloom yet. But I have lavender, mint, oregano, rosemary, cilantro, and horehound--no bees! I have seen a few (unidentified) in someone's yard that has clover. There weren't many visiting my garden last year and this year is worse. A number of years ago I had all kinds of bees.