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HARDY PLANTS

In the rain

Since the beginning of May, it has rained 2 days out of 3. No big storms, just light rain, sometimes heavy, for hours and nights on end. Everything’s soggy, there are mushrooms everywhere, the grass is growing fast.

It’s raining today too, but it’s easing off.
The grass is green in the rows of vines. We’re going to have to cut it soon, every two weeks or so. Merlot, so these vines are also treated with fungicides every 10 days, between showers.
The path to the woods, slippery in the rain.
Chestnut trees sometimes die, fill up with humus, and another grows in.
A Nashi in the woods, protected from deer and roe deer.
It has a lot of fruit. Nashis are Japanese apples and pears.
Not all ungulates like trees. They didn’t hit the grenadier on the right. On the left, the Goumi was devoured and a net had to be put up.
The weather is not getting any better. Never mind, let’s get on with it.
The thornless blackberries bloom. I left a few rows of blackberries, as they were too badly damaged by Drosophila Suzuki.
Sticky raspberries (Rubus phaenicolasius) prepare their fruit. They come in pods that open only when the fruit is ripe. As a result, they’re not bitten by the Suzuki.
The mandarin trees are a little weighed down by the rain.
Flowering continues and there are already berries.
Another mini mandarin.
One of the earliest saskatoons.
Northline variety, the best in my opinion. Fruits are picked very purple.
Rye really appreciates all this water, just as it is forming its ears.
The Kousa dogwood (Cornus kousa), a spectacular tree. We’ll get closer.
These pink flowers last a long time, over a month.
Because in fact they’re not flowers but bracts. Special leaves that surround the fruit.
Finally the sun comes out.
The Japanese medlar (Eriobotrya japonica) has large fruit this year.
They can be eaten as oranges for another two weeks or so. The Japanese medlar is a staggered plant: it flowers in mid-winter and bears fruit as early as spring.
Late May is very early for raspberries, but there are already a handful ready.
Cara Cara orange trees begin to bloom, a little after the navelinas.
The sun came out over Bellinzona’s three castles: Castelgrande, Montebello e Sasso Corbaro.
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