Don't the various Phacelias have very brief flowering seasons?
 
On Sun, 9 Nov 1997 19:07:07 +0000 Paul Walton <[log in to unmask]>
writes:
>In article <[log in to unmask]>, Eunice Wonnacott
><[log in to unmask]> writes
>>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.
><snip>
>
>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.
>--
>Paul Walton
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