The Bees Returned - 2007

Early in the morning of August 9, 2007 we were awakened by the sound of a thousand bees at work in the Jabuticaba trees. The scent of the blossoms filled the entire house with a delightful aroma all day. The bees worked steadily from sunup till close to 4 p.m. That was much longer than last year because there were so many blossoms this year.

We have lovely photos of the trees in full blossom with far more blossoms than last year. Even the male tree, which usually has very few blossoms is loaded. Look at rest of this post and see the fabulous video on making "Geléia de Jabuticaba".



These trees are over the wall in the yard next door. Look at thousands of blossoms.




If you look close enough you may be able to see some of the bees.




The bees made an incredible noise.




Look how tightly packed the blossoms are.














This is the male tree in our yard.




You can see there are fewer blossoms but still there are many more than last year.






You can see the bees is this close-up.





Another view with bees.





You can see some little berries beside the blossoms.





Look at this bee hard at work. He paid no attention to me!





Up close the blossoms are very fine.




Here the detail shows the blossoms with emerging berries.




There are many thoudands of blossoms this year and so we are planning to make some "Geléia de Jabuticaba".

It should be fun! Go to this YouTube site and see the marvelous video of making the Jabuticaba Jelly. When we make our own "Geléia de Jabuticaba" we will have photos and hopefully our own video making the Jabuticaba Jelly.


Click here to watch the Video


Come back soon and see more photos as look after and then harvest the Jabuticaba berries.


Big News . . . A month later we picked some Januticaba Berries and made our own "Geléia de Jabuticaba". It turned out FANTASTIC!




Judy made these two jars of "Geléia de Jabuticaba".




It spreads easy on the toast. It also goes down easy too!




Unfortunately we were so busy making the "Geléia de Jabuticaba" that we forgot to take photos. However we followed the steps in the video exactly. We will try to remembert to take photos when we make the next batch.


Photos by Urso Branco