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This is not spam but a useful promotion for bee health. Invest in the future of your bees and get some cool honey - manuka honey in our local shop is £9.99 because of it's healing quality
Wild alpine manuka seed only £1.50 for a generous amount of seed and manuks plants available too plants, protection for your bees, anti bacterial, anti fungal anti viral and antiseptic too, works for humans too, they are now making wound dressings with a film of manuka honey.
http://beehappyplants.co.uk/products/le ... anuka/154/
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Some useful and cautionary comments from bee-keepers on this forum

http://www.biobees.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=5247
Cred air o bob deg a glywi, a thi a gei rywfaint bach o wir (hen ddihareb Gymraeg)
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alan refail wrote:Some useful and cautionary comments from bee-keepers on this forum
http://www.biobees.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=5247

Sorry Alan, was there something specific about Manuka on the link you provided? When I tried it, it asked me to login & didn't show any specific messages, so I guess you already have an account there.
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Colin_M wrote:
alan refail wrote:Some useful and cautionary comments from bee-keepers on this forum
http://www.biobees.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=5247

Sorry Alan, was there something specific about Manuka on the link you provided? When I tried it, it asked me to login & didn't show any specific messages, so I guess you already have an account there.


Hi Colin

It's doing the same to me now :(

Essentially what the comments were saying was that the trees do not grow well as far north as the UK, and, even if you do get them to flower, the bees will not give you manuka honey. The only reason that Manuka honey is produced so easily in New Zealand is that the trees are about the only source of nectar for the bees.
Cred air o bob deg a glywi, a thi a gei rywfaint bach o wir (hen ddihareb Gymraeg)
Believe one tenth of what you hear, and you will get some little truth (old Welsh proverb)
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