A fabulous photo from Avalus,
A bunch of bees roaming around in a big thistle flower at my local fruit and veg shop. It was an amazing buzz. I did try a video, but with lots of people talking loudly (highly frequented open shop) I could not use it.
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“And rapidly backwards and forwards
The early bees are assaulting and fumbling the flowers:
They call it easing the Spring.”
--Henry Reed
Isn’t that flower artichoke? They look really cool, though I guess for practical purposes you might indeed consider them a type of big thistle.
lumipuna, artichokes are big thistles however you look at it :-)
It is an artichoke, but, for the life of me, I could not remember the word when I send the photo and typed the text :D
@ ^ avalus : Thanks I was wondering. Looks like a bit like a gum (eucalyptus) blossom stuck on top of a leucadendron flower! ;-)
Eg. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leucadendron_album#/media/File:Leucadendron_album.jpg