A wonderful video! I planted mine a couple years ago, and I love getting to see what it could look like in the future when it is mature. Thanks so much for sharing! It's beautiful!
Very nice specimen you have there. I took some cuttings from mine a couple weeks back in hopes to grow a thick hedge for the birds. I'll just have to wait and see if they make it.
I have some Hawthorns on the property that bloom early April and along with bees loving them, they have a wonderful fragrance. All the best to you Mr. Dunn
Here in South Central Pennsylvania our Washington Hawthorn bloom a good bit lot earlier. They have already set small fruit here hanging in clusters. Those thorns are deadly and don't ever run over one with a mower the tire will get punctured in quick order! Cutting one down... the wood is tougher than nails too.
That was pretty cool. My daughter has one on her property in West Virginia and her neighbor across the road has two. When I get her bees out there, they should like them.
I have all those all over my property here in rural Washington, hated them because of their thorns but then I saw bees all over them.😁 Thanks much Fred, I had planned on looking up information of the Hawthorne.👍Ours bloomed about 6 weeks ago I think, we did have a real big bloom this season.
bees have taught me more about trees and deer hunting, as i encounter them,or old timers tell me about specific trees like catalpa, for the caterpillars, are great fishing bait,black locust, and tulip poplar, and many others besides all the flowers ,im into chestnuts,and ozark chinquapin, paw paw, and American persimmon
I'd love to have one of those trees. Lately, I've been on a willow kick since it's one of the earliest sources of pollen and nectar in the spring. According to Dr. Doug Tallamy, the willows are one of the top "keystone" trees for the ecosystem. And even better, you can make really nice baskets out of them! Seems like a win-win situation.
We have thousands of willow trees in and around our wetlands. The mable trees beat them out as first resource trees here. Willows fringe my apiary to the west so I know when things are blooming :)
*Gr* eat video Fred. I am looking for trees to plant. i have about 20 fruit trees, Catalpa, Chestnuts, Tulip poplar and lots of elderberries. This is great for later in the year. I will add a couple of these. Perfect timing. As always, my favorite teacher
How do they like the chestnuts? I have some in ground planted this spring and some still in pots I grew from seed this year. I have about 30 I’m planting for my hives.
We bought a home two years ago and the previous owners planted a Hawthorn on the boulevard. I enjoy the trees blooms and winter berries but because there’s a sidewalk, it becomes dangerous quickly if any branches start to grow too long. It has NOT been fun pruning. Even the tiniest of pokes from the thorns send an awful pain for days!
This is awesome! You have planted an awesome yeard there. You mention the bees dont spend a lot of time on each flower. It depends what time of day it is when the nectar is in abundance, and how long the flowers have been open. Its the same with our Tea Trees (Leptospermum) One day they do brief visits and another they will take ages on each flower How much nectar is also determine by temerature aswell We grow the one Crataegus Monogyna and its called May Blossom here and I plant Fire Thorn (Pyracantha) in same area which come into flower just after the Hawthorn starts to finnish and call it June Blossom as it starts with out fail begining of June and it helps keep the flow going with a similar tasting honey. .
Most of our farms and fields are hawthorn hedgerows 🇬🇧, not sure if they are similar but ours flowered in April-May then they will develop red berries for the birds , we have a tall one that’s very thorny in the garden even stabs through my gloves ,
I’m always on the hunt for trees or bushes to plant on my farm that bloom when we’re in the triple digits (now) and nothing else is blooming. Vitex and crape myrtles are the only trees I see blooming then. I never see bees on my crape myrtles. I looked at some heavy blooming crape myrtles in town yesterday and never saw any pollinators on them either. I also have Texas sage which will summer bloom if it rains but getting rain here in the summer has about the same odds as winning the lotto. The pollinators love my 5 Shoal Creek Vitex trees. Bumblebees really like them. I’ll rank Vitex #1 here in Texas because it’s blooming heavily when everything else has already finished and foods scarce and it’s famine time for our pollinators. The right variety makes a difference. Mine (Shoal Creek) are in heavy bloom now in triple digits and I see others in town with very little blooming. Shoal Creek, Montrose Purple and LeCompte are the 3 Vitex listed as Texas Superstar varieties by TAMU horticulturists. I’d never buy a unnamed Vitex. You see a lot of those for sale. My bubba desert willows are blooming now in this heat but they don’t produce the amount of flowers the Vitex do.
We see the same with acacias. When they bloom the honeybees are happy and all present to collect. At the same time mason bees and other solitary bees are around and collect also. They won't bother each other. Thing is... Our 'nature preservers' have decided acacias are exotic trees and therefore must be removed. The same for other non-natives. After several years of devastation we live in a sort of desert, green yes but desert. No flowers or whatsoever. My brain tells me they are wrong. And yes this year we had bee losses to 75%. Anyway thanks for the beautiful footage.
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Wow, my little Arbor Day Washington hawthorn will look that amazing one day too?! What a gorgeous tree. 😮❤
Great video! Loved seeing the fly that looks like a bee.
Glad you enjoyed it!
We have a Weeping Cherry that the bees love!
A wonderful video! I planted mine a couple years ago, and I love getting to see what it could look like in the future when it is mature. Thanks so much for sharing! It's beautiful!
Thank you so much :)
what a lovely educational video! thank you! super calming i love watching pollinators do their thing :)
Glad you enjoyed it!
Very nice specimen you have there. I took some cuttings from mine a couple weeks back in hopes to grow a thick hedge for the birds. I'll just have to wait and see if they make it.
Happy Friday Mr,Dunn,,🇱🇨👍🏼♥️
I have some Hawthorns on the property that bloom early April and along with bees loving them, they have a wonderful fragrance. All the best to you Mr. Dunn
Here in South Central Pennsylvania our Washington Hawthorn bloom a good bit lot earlier. They have already set small fruit here hanging in clusters. Those thorns are deadly and don't ever run over one with a mower the tire will get punctured in quick order! Cutting one down... the wood is tougher than nails too.
That was pretty cool. My daughter has one on her property in West Virginia and her neighbor across the road has two. When I get her bees out there, they should like them.
I have all those all over my property here in rural Washington, hated them because of their thorns but then I saw bees all over them.😁 Thanks much Fred, I had planned on looking up information of the Hawthorne.👍Ours bloomed about 6 weeks ago I think, we did have a real big bloom this season.
Awesome channel
Amazing. I have 2 growing.
bees have taught me more about trees and deer hunting, as i encounter them,or old timers tell me about specific trees like catalpa, for the caterpillars, are great fishing bait,black locust, and tulip poplar, and many others besides all the flowers ,im into chestnuts,and ozark chinquapin, paw paw, and American persimmon
Sounds like a great variety you have :)
I'd love to have one of those trees. Lately, I've been on a willow kick since it's one of the earliest sources of pollen and nectar in the spring. According to Dr. Doug Tallamy, the willows are one of the top "keystone" trees for the ecosystem. And even better, you can make really nice baskets out of them! Seems like a win-win situation.
We have thousands of willow trees in and around our wetlands. The mable trees beat them out as first resource trees here. Willows fringe my apiary to the west so I know when things are blooming :)
@@FrederickDunn Have you found one species of willow more productive than another?
*Gr* eat video Fred. I am looking for trees to plant. i have about 20 fruit trees, Catalpa, Chestnuts, Tulip poplar and lots of elderberries. This is great for later in the year. I will add a couple of these. Perfect timing. As always, my favorite teacher
How do they like the chestnuts? I have some in ground planted this spring and some still in pots I grew from seed this year. I have about 30 I’m planting for my hives.
@@jamesbarron1202 The loveee Chestnuts. You get a unique dark almost black honey. Bees love them. Tree buzz when they are in bloom.
We bought a home two years ago and the previous owners planted a Hawthorn on the boulevard. I enjoy the trees blooms and winter berries but because there’s a sidewalk, it becomes dangerous quickly if any branches start to grow too long.
It has NOT been fun pruning. Even the tiniest of pokes from the thorns send an awful pain for days!
Yes, the thorns are long and potentially very annoying.
This is awesome! You have planted an awesome yeard there. You mention the bees dont spend a lot of time on each flower. It depends what time of day it is when the nectar is in abundance, and how long the flowers have been open. Its the same with our Tea Trees (Leptospermum) One day they do brief visits and another they will take ages on each flower How much nectar is also determine by temerature aswell We grow the one Crataegus Monogyna and its called May Blossom here and I plant Fire Thorn (Pyracantha) in same area which come into flower just after the Hawthorn starts to finnish and call it June Blossom as it starts with out fail begining of June and it helps keep the flow going with a similar tasting honey. .
Most of our farms and fields are hawthorn hedgerows 🇬🇧, not sure if they are similar but ours flowered in April-May then they will develop red berries for the birds , we have a tall one that’s very thorny in the garden even stabs through my gloves ,
I’m always on the hunt for trees or bushes to plant on my farm that bloom when we’re in the triple digits (now) and nothing else is blooming. Vitex and crape myrtles are the only trees I see blooming then. I never see bees on my crape myrtles. I looked at some heavy blooming crape myrtles in town yesterday and never saw any pollinators on them either. I also have Texas sage which will summer bloom if it rains but getting rain here in the summer has about the same odds as winning the lotto. The pollinators love my 5 Shoal Creek Vitex trees. Bumblebees really like them. I’ll rank Vitex #1 here in Texas because it’s blooming heavily when everything else has already finished and foods scarce and it’s famine time for our pollinators. The right variety makes a difference. Mine (Shoal Creek) are in heavy bloom now in triple digits and I see others in town with very little blooming. Shoal Creek, Montrose Purple and LeCompte are the 3 Vitex listed as Texas Superstar varieties by TAMU horticulturists. I’d never buy a unnamed Vitex. You see a lot of those for sale. My bubba desert willows are blooming now in this heat but they don’t produce the amount of flowers the Vitex do.
We see the same with acacias. When they bloom the honeybees are happy and all present to collect.
At the same time mason bees and other solitary bees are around and collect also. They won't bother each other.
Thing is...
Our 'nature preservers' have decided acacias are exotic trees and therefore must be removed. The same for other non-natives.
After several years of devastation we live in a sort of desert, green yes but desert. No flowers or whatsoever.
My brain tells me they are wrong. And yes this year we had bee losses to 75%.
Anyway thanks for the beautiful footage.
How long did it take you to grow that beautiful tree?
Planted in 2000. It was just a two foot twig at that time.
@@FrederickDunn wow ok thanks.