Ivydene Gardens Colour Wheel - Bee Pollinated Bloom in Month Gallery:
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Besides the plants in the
British Floral Sources of importance to Honey Bees
and
Bee Pollinated Plants for Hay Fever Sufferers
the following 3 sets of Bee-pollinated plants are suitable for Hay-fever Sufferers; except for the 2 grasses :-

• This Bee-pollinated Bloom in Month gallery compares 13 flower colour photos per month for many plants from the other Galleries, by clicking on the 1 in the relevant Flower per month Colour in the Colour Wheel down on the right,
• the Bee-pollinated Index Gallery provides the tabular index of another 265 plants with the relevant colour in that respective month:-
  • 51 ANNUALS
  • 2 ANNUAL - VEGETABLE
  • 4 AQUATIC PLANTS
  • 11 BIENNIALS
  • 21 BULBS, CORMS, OR RHIZOMES
  • 4 CLIMBERS
  • 31 DECIDUOUS SHRUBS
  • 26 DECIDUOUS TREES
  • 10 EVERGREEN PERENNIALS
  • 22 EVERGREEN SHRUBS
  • 2 EVERGREEN TREES
  • 2 GRASSES which cause hayfever
  • 4 SEMI-EVERGREEN SHRUBS
  • 66 HERBACEOUS PERENNIALS
  • 9 PERENNIAL HERBS
    followed by
• Click on these extra bee-pollinated plant names:-
  • ACER (Deciduous/Evergreen Shrub/Tree) in March-April
    CHAENOMELES SPECIOSA (Herbaceous Perennial) in March-May
    CROCUS (Bulb) in September-April
    CYDONIA OBLONGA (Deciduous Shrub) in April-June
    DAFFODIL (Bulb) in December-May
    DAHLIA (Bulb) in June-November
    DUTCH HYACINTH (Bulb) in March-April
    HEATHERS (Evergreen Shrub) in every month
    HEDERA HELIX (Evergreen Climber) in September-November as last major source of nectar and pollen in the year
    HELIANTHEMUM (Deciduous Shrub) in June-August - Pollen only collected when the flowers open during sunny weather
    HELENIUM (Herbaceous Perennial) in June-October
    HELLEBORUS (Herbaceous Perennial) in January-March
    HEUCHERA (Evergreen Perennial) in May-September
    HIBISCUS (Deciduous Shrub) in August-September
    ILEX (Evergreen Tree) in May-June
    LAVANDULA (Annual, Herbaceous Perennial or Shrub) in June-July
    LAVATERA (Annual, Biennial, or Herbaceous Perennial) in May-August
    LEPTOSIPHON (Annual) in June-August
    MAGNOLIA GRANDIFLORA (Evergreen Tree) in August-September
    MALVA SYLVESTRIS (Biennial) in June-September
    MENTHA (Herb) in July-August
    NEMOPHILA (Annual) in April-June
    NIGELLA (Annual) in July-September
    PHILADELPHUS species only with single flowers (Shrub) in June
    POLEMONIUM (Herbaceous Perennial) in April-June
    PRUNUS CERASIFERA (Deciduous Tree) in February-March
    PRUNUS LAUROCERASUS (Evergreen Shrub) in April-June
    PYRACANTHA COCCINEA (Evergreen Shrub) in May-June
    ROSES (Deciduous Shrub/Climber) in June-October
    RUBUS IDAEUS (Raspberry) (Soft Fruit) in May-June
    SALVIA SUPERBA (Herbaceous Perennial) in June-September - no bee garden should be without this plant - for those plants.

For Hay Fever sufferers, it is better to have bee-pollinated plants than wind-pollinated plants, since the pollen spread by that wind is what causes their suffering. The plants in this gallery are bee-pollinated and they should be used in preference to grasses etc when using the selection procedure below.

The Introduction Page of the Plants Topic provides a system of how to choose your plants for your garden with the following diagram to create a suitable list of plants.

Instructions for use of the following diagram:-

Click inside yellow box to link to that Page in Plants Topic for that list of plants

Click inside green box to link to that
Photo Gallery Site Map Page with its Index for lists of plants
or
view flower colour per month comparison pages using its links on their flower colour per month Colour Wheel, followed by clicking on thumbnail to review its added Plant Description Page.

The Galleries - specified below - contain the Index listing all the plants in their respective Sub-Galleries in each page and the flower colour comparison per month of all its plants (the Bamboo Gallery compares Cane colour). The Sub-Galleries - besides containing the relevant Plant Description Pages (links to them in the Site Map) - also compare the flower colour, foliage colour, habit/shape, fruit/seeds and in flowerbeds/landscape.

A swarm of honey bees in a tree:-

Photo kindly supplied by Lorraine Ragosa-Rout, Surrey Bees Training Principal Operations Manager.

A swarm of honey bees from a hive:-

Photo kindly supplied by Lorraine Ragosa-Rout, Surrey Bees Training Principal Operations Manager.

You can click on its:-

• Empty pages of Blue, Red, Unusual and Multi-Coloured, White and Yellow from this Gallery are listed below:-

There are no Empty Pages

Calendar of Bee Pollinated Bloom Gallery Introduction Site Map for Calendar of Bee Pollinated Plant Bloom

Once the swarm has been moved to a hive, one of its jobs besides looking after the queen bee is to create honey combs:-

Photo kindly supplied by Ms C. Cunningham, Surrey Bees Training Event Coordinator.

Some of these gallery photographs were provided by
Christine Foord and they were photographed by Christine and Ron Foord
and others were provided by
R. V. Roger ,
D. Rankin of Kevock Garden Plants ,
Deeproot Plant Base ,
Nigel Coe and Gee Tee Bulb Company.

and then start filling them:-

Photo kindly supplied by Lorraine Ragosa-Rout, Surrey Bees Training Principal Operations Manager.

before sealing the tops:-

Photo kindly supplied by Ms C. Cunningham, Surrey Bees Training Event Coordinator.

and the workers toiling round the open bee queen cell:-

Photo kindly supplied by Ms C. Cunningham, Surrey Bees Training Event Coordinator.

The consequence of not having enough frames in May 2014:-

Photo kindly supplied by Lorraine Ragosa-Rout, Surrey Bees Training Principal Operations Manager.

Very important information for car drivers:-

Oscar's 2,000 mile Purr-fect Trip in The Unadulterated Cat by Terry Pratchett:-

"Oscar's 2,000 mile Purr-fect Trip says the heading in the local paper. Or something like that. At least once every year. In every local paper. It's a regular like 'Row over Civic Site'or 'Storm as Schools Probe Looms'.

So many stories like this have turned up that researchers from the Campaign for Real Cats have been, well, researching.

The astonishing truth has not been suspected, possibly because not many people in this country have more than one local paper. But, from hundreds of cuttings sent in by Campaign members, it finally emerged.

They're all the same cat. Not the same type of cat. The same cat.

It's a smallish black and white tom. Never mind about the variety of names, which are only of significance to humans, although interestingly the name Oscar does seem to crop up rather a lot. Careful anaysis of dozens of pictures of The Travelling Cat blinking in the flashlight's glare has proved it.

It appeared to do a minimum of 15,000 miles last year, much of it in car engine compartments, where only its piteous mewling alerts the driver when he stops off for a coffee.

Confirmation will not be achieved until Oscar has been tracked down by researchers armed with a truckload of painful equipment, but the current, rather interesting, theory is that what initially appears to be this piteous mewling is in fact a stream of directions on the lines of 'left, here, I said left, left you twerp, all right, keep going until we get to the trading estate and then you can pick up the A370...'

Oscar is, in fact, trying to get somewhere. The process is a bit hit and miss, and possibly he has underestimated the size of the country and the number of vehicles in it, but he's keeping at it. Certainly, in the best tradition of Real Cats everywhere, he's doing anything rather than get out and walk."

It is of course possible that this cat has travelled abroad and back again:-

• Although the cat does not travel with his passport, I am surprised that the driver of each car crossing the border has not put this cat into quarantine, - paid for a new cat passport, microfiched it and attached that microfiche to the cats collar for the next border control to check - and then waited until it is out of quarantine before continueing their combined journey.
• The driver is also responsible for paying the cross-channel fare for this cat, since that cat is dependent on him having driven his car in order to keep this cat warm whilst being transported to that ferry.
• If the cat changes vehicles and comes back with a different driver, then that driver may be fined for bringing in an illegal immigrant. It may be possible to eject the cat , if each driver ejects his passengers and luggage, before steam-cleaning the inside and outside of his or her vehicle, before entering the port to go onto a ferry or respective railway station for train transportation. This might persuade the cat to leave that vehicle. If it does not leave, the the driver could be prosecuted for subjecting the cat to cruelty in spraying it with steam.
• Of course if it has been found that the cat has not been fed, watered and well-looked after, then the driver may face prosecution.
• In conclusion, it might be safer not to use your car to travel anywhere.