{"id":9466,"date":"2023-04-14T00:26:21","date_gmt":"2023-04-13T22:26:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alpagrumi.ch\/fruit-trees-in-bloom\/"},"modified":"2023-04-25T23:00:28","modified_gmt":"2023-04-25T21:00:28","slug":"fruit-trees-in-bloom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alpagrumi.ch\/en\/fruit-trees-in-bloom\/","title":{"rendered":"Fruit trees in bloom"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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.<\/p>\n\n

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

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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1630,"featured_media":9400,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alpagrumi.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alpagrumi.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alpagrumi.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alpagrumi.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1630"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alpagrumi.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9466"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alpagrumi.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9466\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alpagrumi.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alpagrumi.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alpagrumi.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alpagrumi.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}