By , on July 21st, 2010

Alpine flowers, Part I.

I was at the Shangri-La Alpine Botanic Garden for 11 days in June. Shangri-La is about 4 hrs of drive, north of Lijiang, in Yunnan Provence. The garden is the first and only privately owned botanic garden in China. The …

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By , on July 21st, 2010

Bees, on peas

Photos taken July 10th, 2010. This is right before one takes the ramp to I96West from Okemos Road. I saw a big patch of red flowers once and wondered what they were. They were beautiful seeing from the …

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By , on May 27th, 2010

Tulip poplar

Yesterday, I noticed that there was a nice tree with many flowers low enough next to the MSU Dairy Store. Normally these trees are so tall that you would need a ladder to see their flowers at the right direction, …

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By , on May 26th, 2010

“Plants in bloom” page created

I have created a new page: called Plants in Bloom: http://www.michiganbees.org/beekeeping/plants-in-bloom/

For now, it will be a “real time” report of what plants are blooming (both nectar and pollen sources).

Eventually it will be becoming a guideline (table) of what …

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By , on April 4th, 2010

Michigan Spring Flowers 2 (Mostly maples, and a bee)

Most photos taken Saturday, 4/3/2010, Okemos, Michigan. Others taken earlier are noted — Zachary Huang

Saturday afternoon, my wife took me to Walmart. Not interested in shopping, I stood outside observing maple flowers, hoping to see a honey bee foraging …

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