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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