In article <[log in to unmask]>, Eunice Wonnacott
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>You might want to investigate a plant known as Phacelia.
>Good nectar producer, long season of flowering, much liked by bees. You
>may need to import seeds from Germany. I can't give actual address -- I'm
>sorry.
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I have often seen bumble bees on phacelia tenacetifolia but have never
noticed honeybees working it. I may be wrong but I had assumed that the
honeybees tongue must have been too short to reach the nectary.
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