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I'm a professional beekeeper. Do not buy a flow hive or any other expensive all in one hive. You need to get used to opening your hive and pulling the frames out, looking for disease, moving queens, breeding new queens, cleaning, etc etc and you cant replace bits of a flow hive easily.
It isnt hard and it's very rewarding. You will need to learn about plants, you need to know what flowers when, what temp is required to yield (just because something flowers doesnt mean it's yielding) and etc etc. Certain plants actually annoy the bees, some of the flowers will slightly close as the bee enters it which causes it to hit the bee and if you have a whole hive all collecting from those flowers the bees will be annoyed when you open the hive. The first 6-12 months you are learning the bees the next 4 years you are learning the plants.
