Bob, can you tell me if the honey is as dark as knotweed
honey?

I do not know of the taste or color because only a minor source and mixed
with other honey. As with most sources of nectar the bees only visit at
certain times of the day and then disappear.

Also bees may work a certain source in Missouri and are not interested in
the same source in another part of the U.S.

 Soil conditions, humidity and temperature  are also factors.

Report from the book "American Honey Plants " by Frank Pellet:

"Bevan  Hugh of White Rock, British, Colombia ,reports that with him Silver
Lace Vine blooms from spring until frost  and that the bees work the flowers
so eagerly that at times it sounds like a swarm is in the air."

In certain years the bees work our Black Locust trees in a similar manner
and the flow is never long ( many years only 3-4 days if a flow at all) but
the honey brings top awards at our state fair in the light extracted
category.

I have actually had the owner of a farm with a hedgerow of Black Locust
trees call and say my bees were swarming into the Black Locust trees. When I
arrived there was no swarm and only bees gathering nectar.
Sincerely,
Bob Harrison

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