Now we live in a very shady hole by a creek, and the bees don't like it here.
So we set up a hobby hive for a friend who has a beautiful situation on a nice sunny hill. The hive is on a stand at the edge of a woodline right beside a beautiful open pasture. Tons of tulip poplar trees in the woods. The bees are happy little productive rascals. We got 18 full frames of honey off the hive last year . . .
My happiest year, 1983, was when I got over half a ton of honey! Tulip Poplar and white clover mostly.