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BEFRIEND A BEE: TREES FOR LATE SUMMER FLOWERS

By Paul Larson|2016-08-16T16:06:11+00:00August 16th, 2016|Categories: News|Tags: bee bee tree, beekeeper, bloom, fall, flowers, fragrant, garden, gardening, greenhouse, honeybees, korean evodia, nectar, nursery, plant, planting, pollinators, seven son flower, sorrel tree, sourwood, sprucedale gardens, storrs, summer, trees, uconn, white|

Who says we’re in the “Summer Doldrums” (also known to beekeepers as the summer dearth)? OK, there aren’t as many shrubs and trees blooming now in mid-August as there were in the spring months, but there are some interesting and important trees flowering right now. Their importance is due to the fact that many pollinators, including [...]

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BEE BEE TREES

By Paul Larson|2015-09-23T13:47:06+00:00September 23rd, 2015|Categories: News|Tags: bee bee, bees, educate, garden, gardening, grow, honeybees, information, korean evodia, landscape, letter, photo, plant, sprucedale gardens, tree|

"Sprucedale Gardens has been growing Beebee trees, also called Korean Evodia, for a couple of years now. They grow to about 30’ and have the great characteristic of flowering during the summer dearth, in late July to early August. Honeybees love the nectar from the large flower clusters. I’ve been to a mature tree here in northeast [...]