Knock Out Honey Bees

[blackcatofmisery]

My mom's garden has a vigorous knock out rosebush just beside it, and various bees adore it. Although I'm severely allergic to bites and stings, I will still follow honey and bumble bees; they're too busy to care about me.

_{Fun fact about me: I cannot smell typical roses. Knockouts are the only roses I can smell.}

Comments

[yourlibrarian]

Great to see them on the job 🐝

[turlough]

Lovely roses and such excellent busy bees!

[full_metal_ox]

Those roses (and they’re breathtaking; an embodiment of early summer, and kudos for having captured the bees in midair!) have the air of some sort of heirloom rose, not that far from the wild state: the foliage seems to be strongly textured in the fashion of a rugosa, and the individual flowers are not only single but tiny (with the honeybee for convenient scale), borne in an almost desperate profusion (expressed in the lacy fractal bud clusters.)

Does this rose bloom only in late spring/early summer, or is it a repeat bloomer?

[blackcatofmisery]

You know, I honestly don't remember. I believe it's just the one seasonal blooming, but they do seem to last. We have red ones in a different spot; they bloom at the same time but don't seem to attract as much attention. Possibly because they're by themselves and not right beside a garden or other blossoms.

=^..^=~

[lizardjay]

Very pretty!

I don't know my flowers well at all; if you'd asked me I would have no idea those were roses. I've learned today! :D

[full_metal_ox]

The basic wild rose structure is five petals (1); if they resemble apple or cherry or crabapple or peach or pear or plum blossoms, it’s because all of the above are cladistically related:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosaceae

(1) The four-petaled Rosa sericea is an outlier.

[gingicat]

I learned this when someone pointed out the commonality between fruits I'm allergic to. *wry smile* (Turns out I am allergic to all rose fruits when raw, except for raspberries and other drupes. It started with strawberries.)

[full_metal_ox]

Well, damn. That’s a massive category of human food plants (and all you can stomach are the most costly, fragile, and transient!)

[gingicat]

Fortunately it's fine if they're cooked, and light poaching appears to be enough.

[blackcatofmisery]

Right?? They really don't look like rose-rose blossoms. I only know they're knock outs because I was told. I guess it's a brand? When I looked them up, there was a registered trademark ® beside the name.

=^..^=~

[cmcmck]

They've been hard at it in our garden too!

Great pics.

[kaishin108]

How wonderful, all that pollination going on!

[adafrog]

Lovely.

[gingicat]

Great pictures!

The New York Times Spelling Bee encourages readers to submit photos of bees. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/23/crosswords/bee-forum-photo-submissions.html

[shirebound]

Three cheers for busy bees! Your pics make me smile on a cloudy and chilly morning.

[ribirdnerd]

Those might be multiflora rose, an invasive introduced species. They have many blooms around this time of year, but they can really take over an area.

[ribirdnerd]

https://www.ecolandscaping.org/07/landscape-challenges/invasive-plants/multiflora-rose-an-exotic-invasive-plant-fact-sheet/