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Laurence Edwards shows rosebay willowherb flowering in North Wales, a plant that blooms for four to six weeks and lines meadow edges. Bees rely on it heavily: 15–20% of local honey comes from this single species.
Laurence Edwards shows rosebay willowherb flowering in North Wales, a plant that blooms for four to six weeks and lines meadow edges. Bees rely on it heavily: 15–20% of local honey comes from this single species.
The rosebay willowherb is really starting to come into flower now. This will flower over the next 4 to 6 weeks, and this is a really important species for all of the pollinators in North Wales here. You can just see you get massive swathes of it here all around the edges of this meadow, and the bees will go crazy for this. Last time we had our honey sampled around here, it was about 15 to 20% rosebay willowherb, So a really important species in terms of the amount of honey that's collected and the amount of food that it gives to all pollinator species.
