I have no idea about other people's lemon trees, but my Meyer's lemon tree starts budding in November and blooms in December. Some years bring more bees than others.
2022 was a major difference (Well I got the tree in 2020 and I guess my 2022 it was more mature) and able to really flower which attracted big bumble bees and regular sized bees.
I have so many videos and photos to post eventually.
It would be like at least 10 bees; I loved it, loved watching them, filming and making sure I didn't disturb them from their duties lol. I know it's a self-pollinating tree but they still have work to do honey, they be very serious and busy.
They make good company too. Feel like you're part of something natural and worthy to the Earth and life. I feel so special that they chose my yard and tree, I take it personally lol. So but yeah, the cold blast in 2022 was brutal and killed so many crops including fruit trees and some of the bees that didn't leave my tree in time for that cold snap. I covered my lemon tree up, I can't remember why I didn't bring it inside. I usually bring it inside from too much rain, cold (well below 30 degrees etc).
I am thinking maybe I knew some bees were still hanging out in there even when the cold blast was just a few hours away. They didn't want to leave.
I also covered up my small orange tree, which of course was planted in the ground, not in a pot.
The wind blew the cover off my orange tree. I remember I was so sick with something like the flu, I took a COVID test and couldn't tell if it was negative or positive, so maybe that's what it was. I was very sick but was out in the freezing cold trying to get my orange tree covered back up but I couldn't even find where the wind blew my cover to. It literally blew it out of the yard.
Lord I can lol at it now.
I was still very very sick a few days later when I pulled the cover off my lemon tree and the smell was awful, rotten, and the leaves were all slimy. The smell was awful and I knew I was in trouble.
I thought it was best to cut all the rotten parts off.
Then I get online and the weather channel posted that it's best to leave all the greenery on there so that cushion can help keep it warm and recover or something like that. I was like now you tell me.
Both trees were dying. Months later, I decided to finally accept that my orange tree had died. It had gotten down to just a small branch, I mean it was already very small and had not matured, but it was down to no more green and the remaining branches were not holding on.
I told it I was sorry 😥😥😥😥😥
It knows I tried and did my best but man, Mother Nature has the last say. I like to think it's in tree heaven, a paradise or something where it's still alive with all my other plants and flowers that didn't make it.
My lemon tree died as well, all except a tiny little speck of green. From there, a new tree grew and was back to its pre-storm size which was awesome, but there wasn't any blooms or bees in 2023.
Took some time, now the blooms and bees are back.
We were on the patio the other day and Moonflower noticed that the bees were back. Nowhere near the same amount as in 2022, but it was still awesome to see about 4 or 5.
I had previously noticed the bees, and I was glad that she noticed them on her own.
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Soon-to-Bee, Wall Art Prints by Zuri
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