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🌳 Trees and Shrubs for Bee Forage

A 3D hedgerow of UK trees and shrubs that blossom on their real calendar — move through the year and watch nectar flow, forager bees and forage gaps appear.

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Ten characteristic UK trees and shrubs planted along a hedge line, each blossoming only on its real calendar window, so you can watch nectar flow rise, fall and gap through the year.

🔬 What It Demonstrates

Woody plants stagger their bloom across the whole season — willow and blackthorn open the year, hawthorn and lime carry the summer nectar flow, and ivy closes it in autumn. Removing shrubs or restricting the planting site opens up forage gaps.

🎮 How to Use

Scrub the day-of-year slider (or press Play) to move through the seasons, switch planting site to see which species suit a hedgerow versus a garden or woodland edge, and toggle the shrub layer and foraging bees on or off.

💡 Did You Know?

A single mature lime or willow tree in full flower can outproduce an acre of wildflower meadow for nectar — which is why the article argues trees and shrubs are the backbone of a forage landscape.

⚙ Under the hood

A 3D hedgerow of ten UK trees and shrubs that bloom only within their real flowering windows as you scrub through the year, with a live nectar/pollen forage index, a 12-month gap chart, and instanced bees that redistribute toward whichever plants currently offer the most nectar.

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3D · Three.js / WebGL renderer · 60 FPS target · runs fully client-side, no install