"Broadback" wrote
All my fruit trees have abundant blossom this year, great, thought I.
However I was down by an apple tree this morning, warm, sunny little wind.
The abundant blossom was fully open, but now sight nor sound of bees,
would not it have been normal for the bees to be bust setting my apples?

Funny you should mention that but we had left our old brassicas (sprouts,
cabbages, swedes and kale) we hadn't used and they had all gone to flower
last week. I was worried about getting stung when we cleared them but
thousands of little yellow flowers and not one bee. Worrying for our
bean/pea crop later. Lets hope our Council finally allows one of our plot
holders his bee hives.

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Regards
Bob Hobden
just W. of London