Honey Plants of the Triangle Checklist

Trees:
Red Maple
Prunus family ( apples, pears, plums, peaches, cherry, etc.)
Crabapple
Redbud
Holly
Tulip poplar
Locust
Sourwood
Chaste tree

Shrubs:
Oregon grape
Flowering Quince
Trifoliate orange
Blueberry
Winter Honeysuckle
Abelia
Hydrangea
Butterfly bush
Caryopteris
Sumac

Perenniels:
Winter aconite
:amium family (henbit, red)
Dead nettle
Blackberry 
Raspberry
Joe Pye weed
Echinacea
Salvias
Asters
Goldenrod

Herbs:
Lavender
Rosemary
Chives, allium
Borage
Horehound
Oregano
Mints
Heal-All

Annuals:
Soybean
Cotton
Smartweed
Poppies
Cosmos
Cleome
Clovers
Buckwheat
Sunflowers

We have the purple ones.

Extended Season

The grand experiment with raised bed gardening continues. It's been a while since I posted. The summer veggies were a mixed bag. We had plentiful tomatoes, okra and cantaloupe, but the rest was slim. Put in Fall crop, arugula, three kinds of kale, spinach, red romaine, broccoli, cabbage and others. As usual for us they have been slow to mature, so I built cold frames for all the beds to see how long we can grow over the winter.

This is the lettuce and kale bed and it is doing well.

This is the broccoli bed and shows what it looks like when covered. It's hinged in the middle, which makes it easier to open and water and harvest. I had to brace the corners of the frames today. We had a bad windstorm Wednesday of last week and they had some damage. Still working on a system to anchor them better in higher winds.

Romaine and arugula in the salad tonight!