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Elaeagnus multiflora

As soon as the goumi started putting out flower buds I put its pot next to the blueberries but the bees are mostly ignoring it. 🥺

Spent over an hour hand-pollinating it.

J blue

Fuzzy little punks!

Three days the flowers were blooming and no insects came even though they were swarming the blueberries.

I spent over an hour hand-pollinating this bush this morning and now 3 different species of bees are visiting the flowers.

WERE THEY WATCHING ME???

Habropoda laboriosa, blueberry digger bee
Osmia taurus, tuarus mason bee
Apis mellifera, western honey bee

@jblue They were afraid to go first.

@SunnJax I kinda wonder if this is true. I was checking it for pollinators since it started blooming.

It bloomed last year, but nothing touched the flowers and so I got no fruit. (It was in a different location.) I didn’t want to leave it up to the nature this year and waste a good harvest.