Fruit trees in bloom

It finally rained last night. It’s a very dry spring, a bit worrying.
The sun came back quickly, so we might as well go around the flowering fruit trees.
The most classic ones first.

12 year old Burlat cherry tree (prunus avium).
4 year old Imperial white cherry tree.
The white sails are against the fly, more details in about two weeks.
There are many beehives on the hills of Monte Carasso. Underneath the branches, it seems that the tree itself is buzzing.
9 year old Reinette apple tree (malus domestica).
Last year I had to prune a master branch, it was pierced inside. Probably the zeuzere.
A progressive flowering. New buttons are still emerging.
Cognassier (cydonia oblonga) 6 years old.
This is the first year it has been covered with so many flowers.
Maybe finally a real harvest. Last year only three quinces on this tree.
A 7 year old goumi (elaeagnus multiflora).
Well named “multiflora”, the flowers are tiny but countless.
They are 2 to 3 millimeters long before they open.
And not much more once hatched.
Are these flowers on the mountain ash? (sorbus domestica)
Not really. They look like fruit outlines.
This is the first time it has produced these clusters in the 3 years it has been planted. To be continued.
Ribes Aureum, a species from the American West with black fruits like blackcurrant.
6 years old and still skinny, he didn’t find a favorable ground.
It produces very few fruits, a few shiny black balls, to be harvested very late, very ripe.
Pomegranate trees (punica granatum) do not have flowers yet, they will appear only in mid-summer.
But the first leaves have already the color of the fruit.
As for the kiwi (actinidia chinensis) it will be necessary to wait until May for the flowering. For the moment it is re-leafing.
The latest American blueberry trees (vaccinium corymbosum) have also brought out their bells.
Blue Crop variety, quite big blueberries of 0,5cm.
Rosemary (rosmarinus officinalis prostratus) spreads in mats.
The prostrate variety grows much more slowly than the classic rosemary, but it is also more resistant, especially to drought.
Far from all that, 3000 meters higher, the patrol passes in its Pilatus.
Training not quite there. One more effort.
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