At last, we have had rain! Our gardens and the farmers certainly needed it, plants yesterday looked happy once more and I think we are going to have quite a soaking today even though the sun is shining at the moment. My six today are mainly trees and shrubs that are now flowering with just the odd late flowering spring bulb joining in.
Apple trees
My eating apple tree up near the top of the garden beside the farmers field is absolutely smothered in blossom at the moment, but I think the rain will have brought a lot of it down..
So much blossom, you can hardly see any leaves. I think a lot of the small apples will fall off in the June drop otherwise I’ll be eating them forever!
But look at the difference between the eating apple on the left and my Bramley cooking apple on the right. The Bramley had a bumper crop last year and I was giving so many away, this year there is hardly any blossom, I might get a couple of crumbles!
My last Narcissus.
My last narcissus to flower, Narcissus poeticus var. recurvus always looks so beautiful with its pristine white petals, it also has a beautiful perfume.
Viburnums, two for the price of one this time! in the front is Viburnum plicatum Mariesii and behind, across a wide strip of lawn, is Viburnum opulous roseum with its white spherical flower heads.
V.p.Mariesii has lovely lacecap flowerheads on horizontal branches.
V.0.roseum has lovely snowball sized flowers!
Azalea.
Rhododendrons and Azaleas are getting ready to flower, this is Azalea Persil with a super perfume, eventually the flower will be mostly white, must make time to have my morning coffee on the swinging seat next to it, so that I can enjoy it.
Wisteria
The Wisteria is flowering on the garage wall, enjoying all the sunshine that we’ve been having.
Hippeastrum.
I’ll finish with my Hippeastrum which is in the kitchen. I was so pleased when this one came back to life and put up a flower spike, the others are still forming lots of leaves.
It has just dawned on me that, except for the Wisteria, everything is white this week! We have a lot of rain forecast for today and then every day for the next week or 10 days, well, it will save on the watering! Thanks to Jim at Garden Ruminations for hosting, if you would like to see gardens from around the world, do pay him a visit.