With the horrendous weather we have been having in the UK including gales and flooding, I was pondering the impact this would have on our natural pollinators, including bumblebee and honeybees etc. I have many clumps of snowdrops and eranthis, as well as pots of iris reticulata growing at my allotment, however I have yet to set eyes on a early foraging Queen bumblebee, or honeybee this winter . I would be interested in hearing your observations and experience of winter pollination, as well as your understanding of how these particular varieties propagate by pollination in general.
Best wishes,
Andrew
