Comments on: agave update http://www.soenyun.com/Blog/2009/12/31/agave-update/ Sat, 11 Feb 2012 06:51:50 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: lostlandscape http://www.soenyun.com/Blog/2009/12/31/agave-update/comment-page-1/#comment-3769 lostlandscape Fri, 01 Jan 2010 21:38:49 +0000 http://www.soenyun.com/Blog/?p=8305#comment-3769 Brad, I'd be curious about agave honey, too. We had a hive find its way into the back yard for a few years a decade ago. Nearby was a cassava tree. The honey was OK, nothing special. Susie, thanks! I'd read somewhere about the mysteries of hive collapse being solved and linked to pollen that was low in protein. Basically the bees were starving. Hopefully the agave pollen is more nutritious. Loree, I'm not sure if this agave will produce pups on the bloom spike, but the plant is really generous about producing offsets below the main rosette that flowers. We've been giving away big chunks of this plant. Pam, thank you. Have an amazing 2010 yourself. TM, the bees sometimes take a while to wake up and venture out, but unless it's raining, they make a "bee-line" (yuck yuck, I'm sorry...) for the plant... Brad, I’d be curious about agave honey, too. We had a hive find its way into the back yard for a few years a decade ago. Nearby was a cassava tree. The honey was OK, nothing special.

Susie, thanks! I’d read somewhere about the mysteries of hive collapse being solved and linked to pollen that was low in protein. Basically the bees were starving. Hopefully the agave pollen is more nutritious.

Loree, I’m not sure if this agave will produce pups on the bloom spike, but the plant is really generous about producing offsets below the main rosette that flowers. We’ve been giving away big chunks of this plant.

Pam, thank you. Have an amazing 2010 yourself.

TM, the bees sometimes take a while to wake up and venture out, but unless it’s raining, they make a “bee-line” (yuck yuck, I’m sorry…) for the plant…

]]> By: Town Mouse http://www.soenyun.com/Blog/2009/12/31/agave-update/comment-page-1/#comment-3760 Town Mouse Fri, 01 Jan 2010 04:13:12 +0000 http://www.soenyun.com/Blog/?p=8305#comment-3760 Amazing plant. And what a surprise to find bees this time of year. I saw a few stumbling around myself today...Meanwhile, I had to scrape the car yesterday. Happy New Year! Amazing plant. And what a surprise to find bees this time of year. I saw a few stumbling around myself today…Meanwhile, I had to scrape the car yesterday.

Happy New Year!

]]> By: Pam/Digging http://www.soenyun.com/Blog/2009/12/31/agave-update/comment-page-1/#comment-3759 Pam/Digging Fri, 01 Jan 2010 03:15:54 +0000 http://www.soenyun.com/Blog/?p=8305#comment-3759 Fabulous. Looks like the bees are having a happy new year, and I hope you do too! Fabulous. Looks like the bees are having a happy new year, and I hope you do too!

]]> By: Loree/danger garden http://www.soenyun.com/Blog/2009/12/31/agave-update/comment-page-1/#comment-3758 Loree/danger garden Fri, 01 Jan 2010 02:47:08 +0000 http://www.soenyun.com/Blog/?p=8305#comment-3758 WOW! Beautiful! I am rather jealous and will be checking back for further updates. Do you know, is A. attenuata one of the agaves that develops plantlets on the bloom spike after the flowers are spent? WOW! Beautiful! I am rather jealous and will be checking back for further updates. Do you know, is A. attenuata one of the agaves that develops plantlets on the bloom spike after the flowers are spent?

]]> By: Susie http://www.soenyun.com/Blog/2009/12/31/agave-update/comment-page-1/#comment-3757 Susie Fri, 01 Jan 2010 00:22:53 +0000 http://www.soenyun.com/Blog/?p=8305#comment-3757 Great New Year's Eve post! Let's hope the bees start a resurgence in 2010. Great New Year’s Eve post! Let’s hope the bees start a resurgence in 2010.

]]> By: Brad B http://www.soenyun.com/Blog/2009/12/31/agave-update/comment-page-1/#comment-3756 Brad B Thu, 31 Dec 2009 18:43:10 +0000 http://www.soenyun.com/Blog/?p=8305#comment-3756 I sampled a lot of honeys at the SF Flower and Garden show this last spring. I'm wondering what agave honey would taste like. I sampled a lot of honeys at the SF Flower and Garden show this last spring. I’m wondering what agave honey would taste like.

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