The flight of the Bumblebee

[Fiishergurl]

Ok so I see a bumblebee (one single one) every day. It might not be the same one but I never see more than one at a time. So today I was watering and he showed up buzzing around me and I stopped to see where he would go. This particular bumblebee does not seem to like red tomatoes (or in this case red tomato pollen.. lol). He started on cherokee purple, then bypassed the red cherry plant after buzzing around it, then stopped at Black and Brown Boar and hit up one or two blossoms, then headed clear across the way to Daniel Burson and hit several blossoms there before heading over to Jaune Flamme which he didnt find suitable so he passed on it. He then buzzed around but passed on Stupice and then Ugly Ripe. Next he buzzed around Purple Bumblebee and Blush but I was at a bad angle and couldnt tell for sure if he stopped at those plants or not. But I beleive he did due to the amount of time that passed before he popped back into view. Next stop was Daniel Burson again (his clear favorite) and he stopped and messed with 5 or 6 blossoms before finishing up with 3 Sungold blossoms. Then he flew off. I was tempted to mark those blossoms and save seed from those to see what I would get... :-) how do you explain a possible 5-6 way cross?????? Lol.

Of course I dont know how any of this cross pollination works but my imagination had fun thinking of the possible outcomes. And strange how he preferred the dark and orange tomato pollin to the red.... ;-)

All in all I think the ones he liked the best will be at or near the top of my list too... :-)

Ginny