Melliferous Flowers

2024 Author: Gavin MacAdam | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 13:38

Plants, whose life is so short, manage to give a person a lot of useful products. Among them is an amazing creation of nature - honey, produced by bees from the nectar of flowers. Honey not only supports the strength of the human body, but also expels many ailments from his body

Depending on which plant the bees collect the divine nectar from, the honey can have a different color; be fragrant or almost odorless; liquid, stringy, or wet sugar-like. The external appearance of honey also determines its internal abilities. Interestingly, many of the plants listed in the weeds of gardeners are excellent melliferous plants.

Radish boasted

Bitter Radish boasted in front of other vegetables that it is good in collaboration with honey. To which honey reasonably noted that he is capable of a lot without Radish. And he was very right.

Plants, possessing healing powers, transfer this gift to honey. Of course, at the time of the forbs, the honey is prefabricated, from the nectar of many flowers. Such honey is called simply - "flower" or "meadow". In each apiary, it has its own aroma, but its healing abilities are usually the same.

It so happens that in the fields adjacent to the apiary, one type of plant prevails over others, then the honey gets a specific name: cornflower blue, linden, buckwheat, dandelion, blueberry …

Dandelion honey

The noxious weed of vegetable beds, Sunny Dandelion, is a good help for bees in May-June. Bees willingly collect its pollen and nectar to feed the younger generation and engage in new construction of honeycomb pantries, preparing for summer forbs.

Productive Motherwort

Another plant that is considered a weed. But only traditional healers (and modern medicine) and beekeepers know the true purpose of Motherwort. Beekeepers even specially cultivate the land around the apiary in order to populate them with this plant.

For small lipped flowers of Motherwort, of which there are up to a thousand pieces on one plant, or even more, there is no difference: whether the sun is shining or gloomy clouds have covered the sky, morning, afternoon or evening in the field, they are always happy to share their nectar with the bees in exchange for pollination throughout July and half of August.

Bees like this kind of hospitality and they collect more than 200 kg of honey from 1 hectare of Motherwort thickets. If you eat 100 grams of honey every day, then one person will have enough honey for more than 5 years. Considering that hardly anyone consumes honey in such quantities, the term is even longer. Such is the wonderful Motherwort in collaboration with hardworking bees.

Cornflower honey

And again we will talk about a charming weed that prevents grain crops from producing decent yields, with the tender name "Cornflower". The plant is an excellent honey plant.

Cornflower honey differs from other types of honey in a yellowish-greenish tint, surprisingly delicate peculiar aroma, slight bitterness and the ability to help sore eyes.

Melilot honey

The yellow or white butterfly flowers of Melilot, collected in racemose drooping inflorescences, are a favorite place of work for bees. The nectar collected from the flowers is converted by bees into fragrant honey, which can be white or amber.

Such honey will help not let insomnia into the bedroom, soothe upset nerves, and also has the traditional abilities of any honey, which warms the body and soul of a person.

By the way, it is absolutely forbidden to drink honey with very cold water. This combination causes stress in the body, the consequences of which are very tragic.

Melilot will not only provide food to the bees, but will also carry out the prevention of soil infested with weeds (for example, broomrape) and pests, and will replenish the soil with nitrogen.

Oregano

These fragrant flowers are very fond of visiting hardworking bees. Interestingly, beekeepers use the herb Oregano to repel wax moths and ants with a sweet tooth. To do this, they rub the walls of the hives with the grass of the plant.

So, if ants like to visit your summer cottage, plant more Oregano. She will scare away insects, and she will give you a divine drink instead of tea.