20 Sunday Feb 2022
The Cherry tree outside my window has chosen these weather-beaten, wind-blown days of Storms Dudley, Eunice and now Franklin to open its first blossoms of the year. It’s incredibly cheering on a dull grey wet day.
22 Monday Mar 2021
At this time of year the ornamental cherry tree outside my flat is awash with blossom, of a warm white shade flushed with the merest tinge of pink.
It looks glorious, especially on sunny days, and, at a time when there are few flowers in bloom, it’s a magnet for newly emerging, hungry insects of the flying kind.
Yesterday, as well as a few Honey bees, I spotted half a dozen, all Buff-tailed, bumblebees doddering from one flower to the next, before lurching haphazardly to the next branch, dislodging the delicate petals as they passed.
22 Friday Mar 2019
Posted in 365DaysWildin2019, leaves, nature, spring, trees
I didn’t venture far today but I didn’t even have to leave home for this blog post. I figured the recent high winds would’ve blown away all the blossom on my Cherry tree while I was away and I was right, but I hadn’t really considered how much the growth of the new leaves would have progressed. The first photo was taken on 4 March and the second today. What a difference 18 days makes!
16 Saturday Feb 2019
Posted in 365DaysWildin2019, flowers, nature, spring, trees
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Today was a chores day so I just had a little tootle around my local haunts. But my photo was taken right outside my house. As a first-floor-flat dweller, I don’t have a garden but the tiny stone-filled front yard of my building has a magnificent Cherry tree, which fills half the view from my living room window and brings me great joy throughout the year. I have been watching its buds swell fatter and fatter until, finally, today the first several of its blossoms have opened.
16 Friday Mar 2018
The ornamental cherry outside my living room window is a little behind last year in its blossoming, probably because of that really cold snap we had a couple of weeks back, but the blossom started to open this week. Spring!
