Sunday I got out to take a few pictures around the beeyard: the skunk cabbage, the blooming cherries, and the buds of the big leaf maples. If last year seemed unseasonably cool, this year seems even more so. And judging from the progress of maple bloom, spring is at least week behind where it was this time last year. Compare photos of maple buds taken last year on March 19 (left) to the bud on the same tree, taken Sunday (second from left).
Beehives in the White House Garden One thing that got lost in all the coverage of Michelle Obama breaking ground on the first family's new vegetable garden was that someone on the White House staff is also a beekeeper. Bee Culture
editor Kim Flottum reports that it won't be long before a pair of beehives are installed at the White House.
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Sunday I got out to take a few pictures around the beeyard: the skunk cabbage, the blooming cherries, and the buds of the big leaf maples. If last year seemed unseasonably cool, this year seems even more so. And judging from the progress of maple bloom, spring is at least week behind where it was this time last year. Compare photos of maple buds taken last year on March 19 (left) to the bud on the same tree, taken Sunday (second from left).
Beehives in the White House Garden
One thing that got lost in all the coverage of Michelle Obama breaking ground on the first family's new vegetable garden was that someone on the White House staff is also a beekeeper. Bee Culture
editor Kim Flottum reports that it won't be long before a pair of beehives are installed at the White House.