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I like the idea of dandelions trained to duck on lawns. I think ours are too! I can mow and still have plenty of dandelions. I need to mow in short pieces lately, since my hip replacement surgery. I am still suffering a wicked limp, weakness, and pain...so, I try to not overdo it. If I left the lawn until the end of May, it would be too hard for me to do. But...the lawn has plenty of weeds, so maybe that is a good thing. The bees manage to keep busy in our yard and garden.
 
Mrs.Anteater said:
Only helps if you have “weeds “on your lawn, if you keep spraying it and all you have is grass, there is no food in it for bees. My dandelions are the first food for bees after the winter.
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Bees don't really go for the dandelions in our yard, they go for the haskaps now, they are buzzing with bees. Many people with fruit trees find they are the preferred option. They also come up before the dandelions do.
 
Redbaron said:
Good morning, all! It's a sunny Friday morning here, As we ponder the well being of bees (who play a large part in pollination of plants) ad reactions to soaps and shampoos, let us come together in spirit round the coffee cart, where hot drinks of all kinds are waiting. Help yourself.

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As we gather around the drink cart feel free to grab one of the fresh Yorkshire teacakes I just removed from the oven.
 
ChemGal said:
Bees don't really go for the dandelions in our yard, they go for the haskaps now, they are buzzing with bees. Many people with fruit trees find they are the preferred option. They also come up before the dandelions do.
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Yeah, I don't see bees around the dandelions much. We have lots of flowering trees and those seem to be their preference in the spring. And in summer, it's the annuals and other flowers around the deck.
 
ChemGal said:
Bees don't really go for the dandelions in our yard, they go for the haskaps now, they are buzzing with bees. Many people with fruit trees find they are the preferred option. They also come up before the dandelions do.
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Here the dandelions are out before the fruit trees are fully in bloom. I am sure the bees don’t care what as long as there is plenty.
 
Nancy said:
I like the idea of dandelions trained to duck on lawns. I think ours are too! I can mow and still have plenty of dandelions. I need to mow in short pieces lately, since my hip replacement surgery. I am still suffering a wicked limp, weakness, and pain...so, I try to not overdo it. If I left the lawn until the end of May, it would be too hard for me to do. But...the lawn has plenty of weeds, so maybe that is a good thing. The bees manage to keep busy in our yard and garden.
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Well, according to evolution, it’s our own fault. Every time we mow, the low to the ground , short stem but already flowering ones survive. So we do the selection of which genes are having the advantage.
 
Mrs.Anteater said:
Here the dandelions are out before the fruit trees are fully in bloom. I am sure the bees don’t care what as long as there is plenty.
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Bees tend to have preferences. I think it's better to have a variety of wanted flowering plants than letting non-native dandelions spread. Chemguy cleaned up our lawn, glad for that, I can go out with less health effects and I think the bees prefer me getting the garden ready than if the lawn is mowed or not in May.
 
Honey bees aren't native, either... In the neighbourhoods I walk, the dandelions have largely won, although in my lawn, they compete with bugleweed, and earlier, grape hyacinths and Star of Bethlehem. Don't have an awful lot of "real grass" left, although there are patches, and I do cut them eventually, like probably next week...And I do have some grass seed and top soil to sprinkle around to add a bit more grass into the competition.
 
Bindweed (which is a morning glory) and creeping Charlie are the big ones in my yard. Not sure if they are native offhand. The latter actually isn't too bad of a ground cover. Has nice little flowers and a scent when bruised.
 
I try to keep the bindweed under some control, and the creeping charlie is thus far in the back. Creeping charlie is a mint (hence, it's invasiveness), but bees sure do love the little blue flowers.
 
BetteTheRed said:
Honey bees aren't native, either... In the neighbourhoods I walk, the dandelions have largely won, although in my lawn, they compete with bugleweed, and earlier, grape hyacinths and Star of Bethlehem. Don't have an awful lot of "real grass" left, although there are patches, and I do cut them eventually, like probably next week...And I do have some grass seed and top soil to sprinkle around to add a bit more grass into the competition.
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That's 1 species. There are 100s of bee species.
 
Good morning, all! The coffee cart is up and running, as I ponder what the difference may be between North American dandelions and European dandelions. Meanwhile, help yourself. I brought a box of what are known in some places as 'doughnut holes', from a well-known provider of coffeeand doughnuts. Enjoy.

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A' Donatus is a warp to the concept of a dark gift or given abstract ... drifting in the night powers ... odd coverup for Dais power?

It allows a break in the other reality ... alternate heh goes ... reduced to Egos and cussed ... as we prefer to know not ... Ego once being a word for awareness ... and some will say a dame they didn't wish to know psyche? The the largest part of the eternal soul (God's) is mostly out there ... to be gathered as the continuum to go on ...

And yet with all I've heard from stoic lies you expect me to know better? I feel in the dark ... a great abstract! If yah carry a wee light you can see things there ... thus burning curiosity, still, in some others don't have it ... it went out ... aus dahar ... out Dais'd by the cat ---Alice! That' stare into the eternal? Helical steps ...
 
*sigh* Grandma moved to a chronic care residence last week. My mom got special permission to not have to fully isolate if she went - she could go from the hotel to see my Grandma and I think my Grandpa with PPE. My parents were getting ready to go (my mom really shouldn't drive that distance on her own). My Grandma passed away yesterday though. No idea if they will end up going at some point, with the isolation it's not like they could do much.
 
Sorry about your Grandma, Chemgal. I feel for your Grandpa. In a week, he's had to see his wife move into LTC, then he's lost her. Hugs for everyone.
 
BetteTheRed said:
Sorry about your Grandma, Chemgal. I feel for your Grandpa. In a week, he's had to see his wife move into LTC, then he's lost her. Hugs for everyone.
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And before that she was living in 2 different hospitals. He really hasn't seen her much between his mobility problems and covid rules, he couldn't be the 1 designated person because he can't walk through hospitals.
 
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