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Plants for mediterranean gardens => Fruit and Vegetables => Topic started by: John J on March 07, 2017, 04:36:57 PM

Title: Spring blossom
Post by: John J on March 07, 2017, 04:36:57 PM
Our almond, plum and apple trees are in full bloom.
Title: Re: Spring blossom
Post by: Hilary on March 10, 2019, 07:26:41 PM
We went for a drive today to the area between the sea and Ancient Corinth.
This are is called Valto which means marsh, the ground looks like dried up mud
There is a mixture of holiday homes, factories,  abandoned grape vines, abandoned orange trees, beautiful tidy olive groves, bee hives, and  even an  excavated ancient cemetery in this area .
The photos are from three orchards in flower today.
I wish you could hear the buzz of the bees visiting the blossom 
Title: Re: Spring blossom
Post by: Alisdair on March 11, 2019, 09:05:55 AM
Peach blossom, Hilary?
Title: Re: Spring blossom
Post by: Hilary on March 11, 2019, 10:03:14 AM
I am afraid I don't know.
Apparently I should have looked at the shape of the leaves
Title: Re: Spring blossom
Post by: Fermi on March 11, 2019, 11:03:10 AM
They look like peach blossom and the third pic shows the leaves damaged by peach-leaf curl!
cheers
fermi
Title: Re: Spring blossom
Post by: Fermi on October 14, 2019, 03:07:17 PM
The lady who had owned our house previously had planted out a row of 4 crab-apples which were one of the purple leafed varieties. When the understock came up and flowered they appeared to be different on each tree! We liked the largest one better than the crab-apple and so we kept them all. This one has beautiful flowers and produces really great eating apples ;D - if we can keep the parrots from getting at them!
cheers
fermi
Title: Re: Spring blossom
Post by: John J on February 27, 2020, 10:02:30 AM
The first sign of blossom this year on one of our apple trees.