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Posted: Jul/20/2006 9:50 PM PST

...should you pinch them off?
Herbyann
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Posted: Jul/21/2006 1:33 AM PST

[COLOR=green] I always pinch my bloom's until fall. It wouldn't hurt to cut them back a bit too. Are you planning on drying some of them. I esp pinch my mints before they go to seed. The bee's love them and other good insects so I try to leave them fer a while. The plants get interpollinated and usually what ye get from seeds are now worth much of anything taste or smell wise. [/COLOR]
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Joined: 7/30/2004
Location: The Great Plains
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Posted: Jul/21/2006 5:14 PM PST

Oh yeah! The bees are lovin my garden right now! So fat and slow I even managed to snap a few pictures.

Last week they were inside a low hanging magnolia flower...this one little bee was soooo packed full of pollen I didn't know how he was going to fly home lol! It so interesting to watch them. They would pull off the stamins and then roll in the fallen pollen. It was a Young Frankenstein moment....roll, roll, roll in the hay lol!

Dora/Garden Goddess
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Joined: 1/18/2005
Location: Michigan
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Posted: Jul/21/2006 6:50 PM PST

Dora, isn't it nice to know even insects can overdo it from time to time? lol
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Posted: Jul/21/2006 7:14 PM PST

I wonder what they take for a pollen hangover???

Dora/Garden Goddess
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Posted: Jul/21/2006 9:40 PM PST

probably a little pollen off the flower that bit them.
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Posted: Jul/21/2006 10:05 PM PST

A little hair of the flower eh?

Dora/Garden Goddess
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