I've been beekeeping for eleven years and have got hives on five different sites, my garden, my mate's garden, an allotment, an orchard and a farm. The forage is different at each and so the honey looks and tastes different from each. We sell it from my front door, to friends and to my bee buddy's wife's colleagues.
Paul, I'm a great fan of the polystyrene hives from Abelo. Bees overwinter in them a lot better than in cedar, and the full supers are a sight easier to carry.
As for lime trees doctorf obviously missed the email I circulated round our mutual friends a few years ago asking if anyone had a place in north Leeds where I could place some hives. In a good season a hive can bring in about 30 to 35lbs of honey during the few days they're in flower. But they're unreliable. There are lime trees in the park opposite my home and we've only had one good season in eleven years. Either it's too dry in the weeks before they flower or too wet during the flowering period.
Paul, beekeeping is a fascinating hobby, but can be frustrating. The bees don't read the same books as us, and just when you think you understand them they do the very opposite to what the books say they will. join the Beekeeping Forum. You'll get a lot of advice from its members, different advice from every one who responds to your questions, but there's a nugget of truth there somewhere.