Pictures will be included in future posts as my peaches are about to bloom, and my apples and plums have bud swell and a bit of green showing. How about your trees? Spring is definitely in the air here. Besides the Almond trees the cherries are starting to bloom as well.
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Such an exciting time of year! My new apricot goes in this weekend. My Api Etoiles apple trees turned out to be trees instead of scion (checked the wrong box). Tippy, thats why they were so expensive. 40 euros for two trees not including shipping. So now I have four apple trees on my terrace. My Grosse Mignon white peach is about to burst. My apricot is blooming and my apples are in tight cluster. I am sorting out the buds from the leaves on my Mirabelle de Nancy, but it has quite a few buds. My Four Seasons lemon still has 20 lemons on it waiting for warmer days. My garriguettes (six plants) are still waiting for transfer into their new strawberry pot. My three tomato plants are waiting for their new pots too! I love this time of year, Waiting for bags of new soil to arrive, Spraying, fertilizing, and the smell of the earth. Its all soooo good. I miss my in ground trees but this has to be second best. I hope my pots are big enough. So far so good! I have started to weed my pots. Get them while they are small.
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Here is a Double Delight nectarine tree in full bloom at my parents house in Fair Oaks. Spring has sprung here in Northern California.
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Wow, Double Delight has beautiful bloom
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Yes it does, and very good nectarines as well.
You made me wanting a double delight next year🤗
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This variety is a lot of work, as those beautiful double pink flowers attract a boat load of thrips so it requires spraying spinosid. Red Barron peach is double red flowers, no spraying for thrips. Another great peach is Saturn, and its blooms are almost identical to Double Delight. For nectarines, Flavor Top has slightly less bloom, but better nectarines, very pretty bloom, and less need to spray. Arctic Glo nectarine is also fantastic blooms and fruits.
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That’s the round one,right and not the donut?I’ve been reading good things about the variety.
I was hand pollinating some early bloomers and what looked like a bee fly or hover fly,landed on a Splash Pluot flower.Glad to have him or her.
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Here is what I have so far. I only started this Orchard in Spring of 2019, so the trees aren’t too impressive yet.
3 in 1 Pluot Tree (only one variety blooming so far)
Pluerry just starting to bloom
2 in 1 Chum half in bloom
Santa Rosa plum just starting to bloom as well
Early apples and peaches are swelling. This year I have had way more bees than than last year, so hopeful for a decent fruit set. I also have a bunch of potted citrus in my garage, and I think that has drawn them to my yard. I kept the garage door open all day this week and part of last so they could get into the flowers and back out.
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All of my plum trees are up and blooming(Beauty, Methley, Flavor Supreme, Rubrum, Weeping Santa Rosa). Here’s a shot of my Methley
Tennousi ready to pop! Tons of blooms. The red wasps were already trying to get to them.
All of my apricots(Moorpark, Tisdale x2, Peggy) planted last year are about to explode with blooms. Shot of one of the stems with a ton of blooms below. Just absolutely covered. I’ve never had a fresh apricot before so I’m hoping I get to try one this year! My Royal and Sweetheart from Legg Creek this year are awake and ready to grow!
Couple of figs started last year that I kept in the garage are already awake and pushing out leaves. Few with breba.
LOTS of stuff still snoring away.
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@chadspur fresh apricots are delicious! Personally, I really like Moorpark. Though I have nothing to compare it to aside from grocery store apricots, and there is no comparison between fresh off the tree and store bought.
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A large sign of Spring is also gathering all the necessary supplies from the nurseries. The French are quite strict about over the counter non-biological products (sprays etc.). Even fertilizers except for citrus, as most citrus is grown in pots. I was very happy to find Bordeaux mixture as that will keep Peach Leaf Curl away from my peach tree this year. The rest, except for the lemon tree fertilizer is just a guess. The pesticide is general, but I was told to spray it onto the soil and lower trunk of my trees.
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We had two beautiful weeks here and spring has really started. All the pears are beginning to wake up.
Josefine de Malines is covered in fruit buds:
The willows and hazels are blooming:
Little spring flowers. They are called Leberblümchen (liver flowers) because of the shape of the leaves:
(Hepatica nobilis):
Seidelbast ( daphne mezereum):
Pretty but dangerous
But now they say that there will be at least 40 cm snow and I’m very glad. Otherwise things will rush into an early spring and we all know how that turns out…I prefer two weeks of snow over one night of frost during bloom time…
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I’m trialing 6 varieties of garlic this year and the first of the bulbs popped out on the first 50 degree day of the year
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My peach tree is in bloom, next is my mirabelle de Nancy, then apples and the new Apricot. The apricot is in petal drop. The lemon just got a boost of fertilizer and I watered. Starting to look like real spring. Chilly today 60 only with a breeze.
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Just lovely! 
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Mrs. G.
That is exciting. The lemon tree with a bunch of lemon looks fantastic.
In your last pic, what is the tree in a small black pot? The size of that pot seems a lot smaller than other fruit trees of that size.
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Its the new replacement apricot about to go in the last pot. Waiting for a soil delivery.