#watercolor #watercolour #aquarell #aquarelle #watercolorflorals #flowers #baking #danish #pastries #blueberry #art #florals
The great blueberry harvest of 2024. #blueberry #gardening #growyourown
I love the pastel tones in this blueberry blossom macro
https://www.pictorem.com/551734/Blueberry%20Flower%20Bell%20Macro.html
Blueberry blossom are beautiful and romantic
https://www.pictorem.com/550933/White%20and%20Pink%20Blueberry%20Blossoms%20High%20Key.html
4-ingredient #vegan #blueberry cobbler baked in my diy low cost #SolarOven with free sun energy! #SolarCooking
Ingredients:
3 cups fresh or frozen #berries
1/2 cup water, divided
Juice of half a small lemon (about 1 tablespoon)
3 tablespoons plant-based butter (any brand you like)
yellow or white cake mix, 1 and 1/4 cups, about half a box (any brand as long as it's vegan, I used Betty Crocker)
This recipe is easy to double for a bigger pan! Use twice as much berries and a whole cake mix and whole lemon.
Instructions:
1. Mix the berries with the lemon juice and water in your baking dish (skip the lemon juice if berries are very tart)
2. Add 1/4 cup of cake mix to the berries, mix to combine
3. Dot the berries with butter (about 1 tablespoon)
4. In separate bowl, mix 1 cup cake mix with 1/4 cup water to make thick batter
5.Spoon the cake batter over the berries in the baking dish, dot with more butter (about 2 tablespoons)
6. Put the cover on it and place in the solar oven, bake until done (cake is cooked and berry juice is bubbling around the edge, thickened and translucent)
7. Serve warm or cold with ice cream or whipped cream if you want.
#veganfood #food #vegandessert #easydessert #simplecooking
Want to make it in a regular oven? Bake uncovered at 350°F 30-40 minutes or until done
Western honey bee distracted from blueberry inflorescence by sunflower. #HoneyBee #ApisMellifera #IntroducedSpecies #NonNative #BeeKeeping #bees #blueberry #vaccinium #pollination #npr #entomology #bees
[Blueberry flowers courtesy CC image by JaneDoughnut on Flickr.]
Furthermore, Western honey bees quickly lose interest in blueberries when other types of plants are in flower (cue the Distracted Boyfriend meme). Here's a quote from Suzanne Batra: "... honey bees do not prefer blueberry flowers, and they may depart for more favored hosts, within their foraging range." #HoneyBee #ApisMellifera #IntroducedSpecies #NonNative #BeeKeeping #bees #blueberry #vaccinium #pollination #npr #entomology #bees
Batra, S.W.T. 1997. Solitary bees for Vaccinium pollination. Acta Horticulturae 446:71-76. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/332522669_Solitary_bees_for_vaccinium_pollination
National Public Radio aired a segment on July 3rd that implied blueberries are completely reliant on Western honey bees. That is false. Blueberries are native to North America and are pollinated quite well, thank you, by native bumble bees and solitary bees. And growers who pack their fields with hives of (non-native) Western honey bees likely contribute to the decline of these indigenous pollinators. #HoneyBee #ApisMellifera #IntroducedSpecies #NonNative #BeeKeeping #bees #blueberry #vaccinium #pollination #npr #entomology #bees
Blueberries
Too early to harvest - but they will be all gone well before they are ready for us
We got many birds and squirrels…and chipmunks