White clover in the grass

White clover flowers from May to September, low in the grass, with a flower tube short enough for a honey bee to work easily. It once made most of Britain's honey, when it was sown into permanent pasture. A clover ley is grass and white clover sown together and left down for some years.

It is a fine plant, and clover honey is the plain light honey every other honey is priced against. But a ley flowers with the wild clover already in the fields, at the top of the main flow, when the colonies are full of work. It adds to a peak that did not need it.

In this game a clover ley flowers with the wild clover from the summer after sowing, at half its nectar that first year, and is worn out after five years.