Gris

Great species for bees and copious amounts of honey are trees, Lime, sycamore, Blackthorn, Sweet and Horse Chestnut and flowers like clover, greater celandinnd as the woods grow all the woodland plants.

Andy

If you have good wild country away from big agri and all the sprays a colony is a really good surplus to have, if you go for a traditional top bar hive you can soon pick things up really quickly, if your working the hive at the right conditions the bees are far too busy working to bother you.

With honey bees you get many medicinals like these.

http://www.beeliefbotanics.com/