This Most Unusual Spring

This has been the most unusual spring I’ve ever experienced. Unusual because – due to the coldest, wettest, latest spring in living memory – all the spring flowering periods have been condensed into one. We’ve had cherries, plums, apples and pears all blossoming at the same time. Even our very late blossoming apple – which gives a very good impression every year of being a dead tree until June – has been brought into this year’s blossomfest. For the first time it isn’t a solitary bloomer.

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