It's almost mid-March, and we still have another two whole months to go before we can be certain of no more frosts.
An overnight frost now, and it'd be 'curtains' for our Plums (above),
our Peaches (above),
and our Apricots (above).
With our Apples and Pears also about to flower, it's at this point in the year when I really begin to worry.
My fingers are crossed.
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If the weather gods are with you it will be a bumper crop.
I say that every year!
Blue sky and blossom - beautiful.
The blossoms are simply beautiful. Hope Mother Nature keeps her temper in control.
We are also watching the weather now our fruit trees are starting to blossom.... after a winter when almost each day had a hard frost, let's hope the frosts will have eased off.
Rainy and dull again this morning, but more sunshine forecast for your return. I also saw between 200 and 300 Cranes returning yesterday.... a good sign.
So do I, but she quite often becomes belligerent.
Roll on The Ice Saints, and let's hope no damage is done.
The magnolias here are budding up nicely......usually a frost as soon as they flower to turn them brown overnight!
It is a bit dull here this morning and has been raining.
So annoying, isn't it!
Same here; luckily I have some indoor work to do, so I'm not complaining.
Ok. I will bite. No one else is. Why do you worry at this time of the year? A surfeit of fruit?
The opposite. It all looks wonderful when everything is in flower, and we start to look forward to bumper crops of fruit. Then along comes Mrs Frost, and it's all wiped out. It's happened so many times... very frustrating.
I'd say we were a week or two away before the damson/plum blossom is out, but as we can get frosts up until late May we worry every year.
We gardeners are 'worriers' par excellence.
I will pray to the weather Gods to keep the frost away. It's quite mild here at the moment but ne'er cast a clout 'till May is out !!! XXXX
Danger, period.
I'm on my knees each morning.
Unfortunately so!
Oh Cro, it looks so beautiful there by you!
I will even cross my toes, if that can help, and wish that each blossom can turn into fruit.
Greetings Maria x
A friend to the north of you has, I think, 46 acres of plums. She really is on tenterhooks.
no blooms here to worry about other than some early tulips and lilacs. Fruit staying dormant which is good as our biggest snow storm of the year is predicted to hit tonight. you would think it was still winter or something.
I'm doing much the same, but am always philosophical. We now can only wait and see.
There are a lot of big orchards about 50 kms south of here in the Lot et Garonne. They never seem to have problems. A few kms makes a big difference.
Everything is starting to sprout here; too early.
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