Getting ready to try a bee house but I've read having flowers near by increases honey quality. Is that flowers you have planted, or the small 'background' ones that show up in grass which you can pick, or even touch? What I guess I mean is, are those flowers just window dressing and do nothing for honey?

Honey is only affected by the flowers where you must till the soil, plant from seeds and water every day. They only affect the honey once fully grown, so your first couple of honey harvests every season will be wild honey.

Forage items don't improve your honey.

Thank you so much. :D

So I guess if you harvest your crops they day the are able to be, the hives never get a chance to produce the other honey?

That's right. Don't harvest your flowers until the last day of the season.