And the actual snowy day

[tilia_tomentosa]

22 March
This was the sight I would have loved to see through my window... in January, or at most during the first serious snowfall in Late January/early March.

Comments

snow

[pigshitpoet]

oh my, so it caught the blossoms?

Re: snow

[tilia_tomentosa]

It did, but they survived - well, most of them; there were no more "casualties" than a rainstorm would take. This has happened before, so I know that the future fruit inside almond and cherry plum blossoms are pretty cold-resistant, but I'm still worried about the apricots.

Now the temperatures are slowly rising, and I can only hope the insects will soon be back to work if they aren't already because the lack of pollinators while the trees are in bloom can be a worse problem than snow.

RE: Re: snow

[pigshitpoet]

yes, nature is pretty resilient.. even to itself!
; )

hope your apricots make it. i love apricots. the riper the better
do you grow any varieties of plants to attract pollinators?
that's a whole thing in itself.

https://www.gardeners.com/how-to/attracting-butterflies-hummingbirds/7265.html

Re: snow

[tilia_tomentosa]

Wow, do you have hummingbirds? Poor European me has never seen them in person.

Our main pollinators here are honeybees and the local bumblebees. We have plenty of both (we can't keep honeybees in or around apartment buildings, of course, but enough of them live near our end-of-town area). What worries me is that the low temperatures make them lethargic.

We have plenty of wild flowers around and even when they get mown along with the glass (again consisting of local wild species), they quickly grow back. And we don't have the English-speaking world's obsession with getting rid of the dandelions, so these are always available.

[puddleshark]

So beautiful - that combination of snow and blossom!

I hope the apricot manages to recover.

[tilia_tomentosa]

Thank you! :)

It's now a waiting game with the apricot; it looks fine, including those flowers and buds that were enclosed in ice, but one never knows what really is affected with apricots until the young fruit appear... or don't appear.