Some flowers have bitter nectar
@allknowing (153544)
India
March 29, 2016 12:51am CST
As a kid I would roam around our garden and pull out flowers and suck out the nectar from them. Most tasted sweet but some like that from allamanda flowers tasted bitter. That is one reason perhaps bees were never seen around them.
Hats off to the bees that they know where to get the best nectar from. If you want bees to visit your garden you should know what the bees know (lol)
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@allknowing (153544)
• India
29 Mar 16
Then you do not know what you have missed as a kid
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@sishy7 (27166)
• Australia
29 Mar 16
@allknowing I've always had this fear some plants are poisonous or simply not meant for human consumption - I guess I wasn't an adventurous or a curious enough kid... 
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@allknowing (153544)
• India
29 Mar 16
@sishy7 You were wiser than I was in that respect but nothing untoward happened to me luckily.
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@LadyDuck (502177)
• Italy
29 Mar 16
I know that there are some flowers that they love more, I see them all the time on my primulas and on sunflowers in summer. Lavender is another plant that attracts them, but where they come as soon as the little flowers bloom are the plants of rosemary and thyme.
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@allknowing (153544)
• India
29 Mar 16
@LadyDuck You really have a very useful garden having a bit of everything - a very healthy lifestyle.
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@allknowing (153544)
• India
29 Mar 16
I did not know thyme had flowers. When I was in New Zealand and passing through some sights the bus driver pointed out to a patch of green to me that was covering some mountains and said it was thyme. But from a distance I could not make out.
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@LadyDuck (502177)
• Italy
29 Mar 16
@allknowing The thyme has flowers only for a couple of weeks in summer, they are white or pale pink. I have plenty of thyme in my garden.
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@allknowing (153544)
• India
29 Mar 16
Maybe it gets mixed up with the lattice that some flowers have.
@allknowing (153544)
• India
29 Mar 16
Imagine kids having the same activity as distant as India and the Philippines
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@hereandthere (45628)
• Philippines
29 Mar 16
@ida123 @allknowing the santan we sipped nectar from as kids were yellow and orange and they were also sweet. the red gumamela (hibiscus) was for making bubbles. we would also 'pop' the leaves of bougainvillea.
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@ida123 (6206)
• Cagayan De Oro, Philippines
29 Mar 16
@allknowing
Even how far is our place, I think kids are more adventurous compared to us matured ones.
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@allknowing (153544)
• India
30 Mar 16
That one would have done as kids You missed the opportunity (lol)
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@jaboUK (64346)
• United Kingdom
30 Mar 16
@allknowing Aw shucks (as the Americans would say) - lost opportunities.
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@crazyhorseladycx (39503)
• United States
29 Mar 16
yepperz, they seem to prefer that sweet nectar 'long with the butterflies 'n hummers. 'course, i don't trust 'em coz they're fond'f marigolds' n those jest make me sneeze :D
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@allknowing (153544)
• India
30 Mar 16
How would their presence around marigolds make you sneeze
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@allknowing (153544)
• India
30 Mar 16
@crazyhorseladycx I like those flowers and their smell to. I have a few and luckily I do not sneeze 
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@crazyhorseladycx (39503)
• United States
30 Mar 16
@allknowing lol, not their presence, jest the marigolds 'emselves. great fer attractin' beneficial bugs, like the bees 'n keepin' the undesirable ones 'way from yer maters. i jest happen to be highly allergic to 'em :)
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@allknowing (153544)
• India
30 Mar 16
Practically every child on earth would have done that. That nectar that we got to taste was special.
