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Mexican Honeysuckle!! Dill! Fennel! Mondarda!

onafixedincome
16 years ago

Guess who went to the farmers' market today and scored bigtime? :)

A gorgeous mexican honeysuckle; not very large but quite sturdy and obviously pleased to be in the area;

Dill and bronze fennel (neither of which seeded worth beans this year);

A red monarda, which I haven't had before;

And a lovely dense white Gaura, just to top things off.

Unfortunately the beekeepers who were there selling honey are uniformly pessimistic about their hives; colony collapse combined with mosquito spraying has done a job on their hives and one of the larger ones is probably going to sell out.

A lack of nectar and pollen sources was cited as a big part of why their particular hives aren't doing as well as those in other places where there's plenty of weeds like starthistle and wildflowers.

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