Canadian Cottage Garden on 6 August 2025

 This is the best the garden has ever been. 

Honey bees on 2 August 2025

 On the corner of Mayfair and Terrebonne; honey bees love these hydrangeas.

Honey bees in asters, early October 2024

Asters are the honey bees last collection of pollen and nectar before everything seems to close down in the garden. There is a long winter ahead of us and this is a short reprieve of still mild weather before the cold, snow, and short days and long nights. 

 

A bee hive at Mountainview School

 Photographs taken on 15 April 2024.

Honey bees and asters

    It’s October, summer has ended and with it early daylight. I noticed these asters full of honey bees and decided I will plant asters in my garden next year. 

Honey bees on the corner of Terrebonne and Mayfair

 Photographs from 02 September 2023.

A garden on the corner of Terrebonne and Mayfair

I've walked by this house, on the corner of Terrebone and Mayfair, for years. I usually stop in the summer to take photographs of honey bees in the hydrangea but the owners have transformed their property into a beautiful garden, no grass, just many different types of plants. Earlier this summer, when I was planning what next to do with my garden, I bought a hydrangea to fill in a place as you enter the side gate, only today did I realize that the hydrangea I bought is the same type as found on this corner. I look forward to having more honey bees in our garden because of this. 

Stopping by St. Philip’s Church

 It was at this moment that I discovered how much honey bees love asters. Summer has ended and the bees are preparing for a long winter, they are bringing in the last pollen and making the last honey that has to last them until next spring when they can, once again, leave the hive in search of pollen and nectar. This is serious business.