~ Deirdre's Garden Diary ~

I have some new neighbors…

     
I’m not sure what to do about them yet.  I don’t want to kill them and I can’t afford to have them removed.  I would love to keep them if I could get the queen out of the tree and transfer the hive to a bee box. I would need to get some equipment = boxes and frames for them to build the honeycomb onto, a smoker, and a bee suit and hat with protective netting to start. 

I’ve always wanted to keep bees as a hobby and have been following the Backwards Beekeepers in California for a couple of years; they have a lot of useful info on their site.  Texas A&M has a good site too for general bee information. I’m not sure I’m ready for this kind of commitment, but they sure are cute and I can’t quit thinking of all the yummy honey hiding in my tree!

     I miss this diary. It was one of the things that made me happy and I enjoyed sharing a small piece of my world with those that shared my interests in plants and gardening. It’s been almost three years since I made an update and many of the old posts have been deleted; expressions of a time with people (and plants) that I loved dearly but which no longer share my life.

I’m going to try to give this space more attention, mostly for my own benefit, but if you want to stick around for the ride then I would be more than flattered to have you revisit this space. I’m not promising anything with any regularity…but I’m still here…moving forward…inch by inch and row by row…and not looking back.