Wildflower Aromatic Mix. Wildflower Pollinator Mix. Wildflower Butterfly and Songbird Mix. Wildflower Bouquet Mix. Wildflower Butterfly and Hummingbird Mix. What do you choose? Well BEESPLZ chose all of the above and went with 10 lbs. of each variety. Now it is going to take some time for the planting of seed to develop into forage for the bees. In the mean time we will be feeding the new packages of bees a sugar and water syrup made from equal parts of sugar and water. The local environment has some signs of spring and potential bee ready food sources but they are slim. The sources at this time are relegated to trees and some weeds that have woken up. Then again, they will forage up to 3 miles for a desirable food source. Reaching out to our audience to go ahead and PLANT! The time is now to add forage to your local landscape for our friends the bees to feast upon. You will be amazed at how your landscape improves with the addition of bee pollination services. You add the plant species, we can add the bees. Just make sure the forage you plant is one that you will love to […]

Spring of 2018, this is the real deal. Identifying the “Yard” area for hive placement, water source location and plant selection are bringing the reality of getting package bees to the forefront. In about a week I will be traveling to Lincoln NE to pick up 3 packages of LIVE BEES. Really? You know there are going to be a ton of bees actually in packages but there will also be a lot of live bees everywhere. Why? The inexperience of new beekeepers. I digress through my own fear. Knowing I will have an EpiPen in my pocket settles the fear a little. So back to the “YARD” and all that it wants to be visually for me, and all that it needs to be nutritionally for the bees. I settled on not settling for any one variety of Wildflower mix. I went with 5 different mix varieties from Menards. These wildflower mixes are seeds wrapped in an individual blanket of fertilizer and mulch to aid in their germination and establishment in the environment. In addition to the wildflower seed we have planted daylillies, iris, cannas and hardy hibiscus in the yard. The “YARD” where the hives are placed and […]