Yellow Gum or Eucalyptus leucoxylon has been flowering throughout the winter in the northern country of Victoria where we have some hives. It has been yielding nectar freely and is expected to flower until the end of November.
Last week I visited the hives and found that each one had up to three boxes full of honey. I have extracted the honey this week and have been very happy with the heaviness of each frame and the consistency of the honey.
It is gratifying to have a Spring yield of honey and is due to the increased rainfall of the past season. Yellow box is now flowering and hopefully, along with some Blue gum will refill the stickies when placed on the hives. This all remains to be seen because, as they say, don’t count your honey until it is in the shed!

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Hi 🙂 sounds like you have gotten a pretty good honey yield, we have quite a few hives over here in the lower SE of SA, and so far we have had a bit of a slow honey flow… fingers crossed that it starts to increase soon. Often we think we have found various crops flowering, only to find small honey flow! 🙂 it’s certainly not an exact science 🙂