I had anticipated this for a while, but today I finally witnessed the first peach blossom flowers opening up.
Very exciting indeed, as - although we have eaten a couple of dozen yummy peaches from this tree, last Summer - we hadn't seen its flowers. After all, we only acquired this plot of land, last July.
In other words, this is our first Spring here.
Just before that, I had noticed many white flowers on a series of wild plum bushes on our land. I am glad that we decided to leave loads of these guys out there, even though they are prickly.
It is extra exciting that we have two actual plum trees directly next to our house. One is starting to flower just now and the other, directly near our wall, is a bit behind. It has plenty of buds on it though. Last Summer we had 3 to 4 kg of plums from one of the trees. The other was emptied by someone else. Possibly the previous owner of the land or the neighbor.
After photographing the wild plum flowers, I spend a bit of time freeing up some more of these bushes by removing brambles and ivy and then adding the latter to our improvised hedgerow, made up of cuttings and leaf litter.
Later, near our old well, around which we cleared loads of brambles - snip by little snip - I marvelled at these turkey tail mushrooms.
I believe they are not directly edible but they do have powerful medicinal properties when dried.
Correct me if I'm wrong, @clareartista .
Our olive trees looked especially nice, in the sunshine and so did the daisies. We have thousands of them and loads of other ( even more ) colorful flowers.
The weather these days is a perfect balance of sunshine and rain, warmth and cold. Nature is happy and so are we.
You gotta love Spring!
Beautiful springtime. We saw snowflakes today, but winter is on it's way out here. I hope you have a marvelous growing season!
Snowflakes as in the flowers? ;^)
Thank you, Melinda.
I wish! 7 inches possible tomorrow!
It doesn't get better than that. I'm happy for you.
Thank you :^)
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Beautiful post, Beloved!
Re: the Turkey Tails, I believe a medicinal tea would be acceptable, but doubt that they're good as a food... 🙏🙏🙏 More research about dosing is required!
Yes, I am loving this spring more than any other spring I ever enjoyed!! It is simply glorious on every level!!
Tea it is then 🍵
Favorite Spring so far.
I will take that as a compliment ;^)
Ah Spring is so exciting and even more so it's the first one in your land! What more can you ask for - plums Turkey tail, olives. Will you plant more fruit trees?
We/ Clare planted apple, apricot , mulberry , lemon , orange and or mandarin, caper and kiwi but all from cuttings ( from the gardens near @clareartista 's previous house ) not young plants.
Our garden already has a mature cherry tree, several fig trees, a pomegrenade tree , two plums, cornelian cherry trees and hazelnut and walnut trees.
Not too shabby ;^)
Haha not too shabby at all! Brilliant. Claire is quite the capable gardener! I'm my new place I have two existing apple, and planted a Nashi, two oranges, a cherry, a lemon, a lime amd soon a grape, a nectarine. Amazing what you can fit in a small yard! You are lucky you don't have the birds we have here that totally maraud the fruit trees.
we got peach flowers too! apricot flowers aswell!
Nice one! We hope that our baby apricots that @clareartisrmta planted recently make it to adulthood. 🤞
Seems a strong plant, take care until it grows up
I love it when everything flowers ^_^ Is it warming up? The warmer weather will probably be able to make fixing up your house a bit quicker or at least easier :) Does it get hot where you are? That might be something to start thinking about too if you haven't already ^_^;
It is warming up a bit but we still have relatively cold days too and there is a chance of frost up till late April, I guess.
And yes, it can get pretty hot here. Atound 40 Celsius so we are enjoying the cooler/ wetter months as much as we can.
And yeah, everything is becoming a bit easier now, energy wise.
How is early Autumn treating you guys?
Ahh your summers are like ours 😆 our temperatures are all up and down at the moment, week before last plummeted to high 20s from high 30s but over this week just gone there's a slow climb back to high 30s (the gradual changes will be much better for the people who are susceptible to fast temperature changes).
Similar to you the shift has made some types of work a bit easier 🙃