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I do love bees!

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portlandmysteryrose
5 years ago
last modified: 5 years ago
Beautiful, beautiful bees! Bless those little honey-making polinators. I didn’t realize that bees were so attracted to certain Tea roses until recently. Like your Madame Lambard, bees have been diving into the cupped blooms of my Duchesse de Brabant this summer. Yet another great reason to grow a few specimens of this lovely, remontant, antique rose class! Carol
jerijen
Original Author
5 years ago
What's REALLY made me laugh is seeing the little dears wiggling their butts into the heart of 'La Reine.'
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portlandmysteryrose
5 years ago
That’s priceless!
Stephanie, 9b inland SoCal
5 years ago
Bees love my Lyda Rose, Marie Pavie and Duchesse de Brabant too, but the fig eater beetles love to dive into my Lemon Spice! i dont know if they are eating the pollen or are just attracted to the delicious scent. Lemon Spice is very strongly fragrant! i love seeing them clumsily flying around with their beautiful green shells.
jerijen
Original Author
5 years ago
Stephanie, I'd enjoy fig beetles, too, if they didn't eat my roses. But don't they just look aerodynamically impossible?

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