Phil Keymer | Roseland Online

June 2010

It is now the end of May as I write this and all my colonies, such a short time ago advanced or behind in their development just like our garden plants, have...

May 2010

At long last, it has been warm enough (at times) for me to be able to open up my hives to check what is happening inside. All colonies bar one had plenty...

April 2010

Well, after last month’s report I thought we would now be well into the flying season, but the weather has let us down yet again. Whilst we have had some good flying...

March 2010

Well, things have moved on a little since my last report. We have had some warmer days, with temperatures up to 10 degrees on the warmest. This encourages the bees to loosen...

Well, what a month! Whilst we (locally) managed to escape the worst consequences of the cold weather, with very little snow (and temperatures that were positively tropical compared with parts of the...

September 2012

I seem to have spent much of August at war with pests. More rain and some warm, damp evenings have heralded party time for slugs and snails. They seem to appear from...

August 2012

August is a tricky month to write an article and, to be sure that I don’t bore you to death, I usually check over what has been written this month over the...

July 2012

A hotch potch of things to talk about this month as however much we plan ahead June and July always seem to be the months when you have to act now and...

June 2012

If we do not have more rain soon and in proper but gentle quantity for days on end then our gardens are going to suffer badly. No doubt we will get a...

May 2012

May – those darling buds bursting out everywhere and there is so much to do and so much to write about I am not sure where to start!! This month there is...