Thursday, May 2, 2019

Massachusetts dreamin'

Pink apple buds unfurl




Is it too soon to hope
On this chilly wet day in early May
For the sun, and a bountiful harvest

Is it too soon to long
For that warm day in July
When the first apples come
and the harvest begins?

Pink apple buds unfurl beneath a gray sky

5 comments:

  1. It is snowing in my part of the world, the Stockholm-area in Sweden. I fear for my appleblossoms. A few years ago the frost took the early blooming trees

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    1. That can a problem in my part of North America, especially when an unseasonably early heat wave teases out early blossoms.

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  2. Only my very latest variety is even in the middle of the bloom, everything else is done or on the down slope.

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    1. This is just a volunteer crabapple that has taken root in a sort of hedge between my house & my neighbor's. No regular apple blossoms yet afaik.

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  3. My trees are only now signs of life. It was a cold wet April in south western Ontario but May should bring warmth.
    Sorry to hear about the snow @Solbergarosen.
    @SkillCult thanks for videos on late blooming apples -- I think you have me sold on trying Court Pendu Plat.

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