Hi Gerald, thanks mate:) I’m thinking they might do well in your green house. They need hot weather & long days to flower. I think that is why they do so well in Vietnam, they use lights to lengthen the days to get more flowers. After reading that, I thought about buying a flood light but then decided to let the plants decide how much fruit they can handle. Thanks again, bye
Honey barter produced some beautiful Guavas, here’s my guava & strawberry jam video, in case anyone’s interested:
The bees did a great job of pollinating my strawberries.
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Hi Marty, well done, it’s interesting to note the heat in the areas where the knots in the timber are. That must be an area of heat loss.
Time lapse, thanks to my favourite magazine, enjoy.
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Interesting to see a varroa mite on one of those larvae! 
We have a massive bank of Aeonium this year - the rains have really encouraged it. Seems that the bees like it too:
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@Dawn_SD Very pretty
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Dawn 
… Pretty yellow flowers … In Vietnamese: Nhung con ong o dau ? (But where’s the bees ?). Camera shy ? Smile ! Your on Dawns canid camera now ! 
Keep up the great pix’s Dawn. Gerald
Hi Gerald, there is a bee right in the middle of the photo. She is slightly out of focus, but definitely there! Put your glasses on, and you might spot her!
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Hiding in plain sight. She’s definitely there
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Thanks Adam! I can even see her tongue. My iPhone had trouble focussing, as she moved fast and was only a few inches away. It was slightly breezy too, adding to the challenge.
Dawn …
Sorry ! 
now there ON ! If that had been a Snake it would have bitten me ! Hate the bifocals … I loss more things in plain site. 
. Not sure how I’m going to see those tiny bee eggs ! Guess ill worry about that as it happens. 
… In the Army I was an Expert Marksman. Now not sure I could hit the board side of a barn door ! . Thanks ! Gerald
Yes, knots are more solid and do transferred heat a lot quicker, as opposed to regular grain wood which has a little bit of insulated factor to it
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so I saw a funny coloured bee today… but on closer inspection… she was half covered in pollen off of my newly flowering Pink Cosmos… 
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I knocked up some dragon fruit jam yesterday, I’ll only put the link to the video, seeing as no bees are in the video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bY07ge4OoHw cheers
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What a great mix of flavours Jeff, I bet that tastes divine. I love the way you aren’t shy about throwing in an extra heaped spoonful of ginger.
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Hi Jay, thank you:) I’m kind of addicted to ginger now. I have to be, we grow normally around 20 kilos of it a year the last few years & consume the lot. Last years ginger is running low, just in time for this years harvest. My ginger in poly styrene boxes are out performing my ginger in the garden. I’m going to let that ginger grow right to the end (2 more months), even if it breaks the boxes for my 2016 ginger harvest video. I normally pick the ginger in the styro boxes early. Not this year:) I have another bed I can harvest early if I need to.
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I’m jealous Jeff. We are trying again to grow ginger, but our hot dry windy mid-west WA summers make it difficult.
Meanwhile there’s plenty of activity in my garden right now. Still waiting on our Flow hive - it is due any day now - and haven’t any bees yet in the top bar hive, but no matter whether these bees are feral or someone else’s, all this activity is good to watch.
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Ginger simmered with water and cane sugar to make a syrup is wonderful. You can add honey to it as well.
Good over vanilla ice cream, poached pears, in club soda, and my weird favorite; over cottage cheese and canned pears or peaches.
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