In a message dated 24/03/2008 02:33:08 GMT Standard Time,  
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I was  taught that darker honey tends to come from woody plants eg 
> >  trees and
> > ericas and lighter ones from herbaceous  plants.



As an aside, the chap who told me that became a beekeeper when, keeping his  
head down in a foxhole in Flanders in WW1, he noticed that the honeybees were  
peaceably and busily working the flowers unconcerned by all the human 
carnage.  He made his mind up then that if he survived he would take up beekeeping 
for a  living. I think he made 93 and had a hive until the end.  His name was  
Arthur Worth.
 
Chris



   

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