Taken in Regents Park More on: UK wildlife blog (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Today I saw a white -tailed bumble bee in my garden.
It was gathering nectar from the winter flowering clematis. This was Wisley Winter Cream but I do have 3 others in flower also, 2 ‘Landsdown Gems’ and one Freckles. Far too early for a bumble – but obviously woken up by the sun. Glad I have some nectar for it. There are heathers and primroses too in flower. This is the list of clematis in flower now with pictures of their flowers.
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January 10, 2013 at 7:14 am
Nice Garden Blog!
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January 10, 2013 at 11:45 am
Many thanks for this and coming to read the blog. I am linked to one gardening blog, but would be very happy to link to your site too. I’ll check it out.
January 9, 2013 at 6:40 pm
Bumblebees are my favorite!
January 10, 2013 at 10:00 am
We love them too – and several varieties come to our garden. It will have gone back to its nest last night though as the temperature dropped to 2 degrees C and there is a frost now. So just picked up some nectar to keep it going for another month or two perhaps. Thank you for stopping by and reading the blog.