This year might become a great berry and fruit year.

May 12, 2023

a (2) — My plum tree (Czar) is in bloom. The risk of frost at night is minimal so I think it’ll actually give plums this year 🙂

We’ve had a rather nice weather this week. Pretty warm, up to and over 25C (77F). The wind has been rather persistent but lukewarm most of the time but now it seems to have calmed down a bit. I’ve mostly been able to see the sun this week but yesterday and today I’ve been “forced” to work inside the factory. Yesterday was quite awful but today I had an apprentice when I learned her what to do with the big washing machine before the weekend starts. She did most of the work and I said great work 🙂

a (6) — The Sloe, which I’m trying to get rid of flowers too.

The Juneberry trees/bushes are opening up as well.

We had the annual road association meeting on Wednesday and a few new people actually came!! and all behaved really well. The meeting itself didn’t take long, it was the coffee drinking, cookie eating and chatting after that made the meeting quite long 🙂 🙂 🙂 I hadn’t told anyone that I can’t eat gluten but since the one bringing cookies to the meeting have a work friend, who also just recently discovered that she can’t eat gluten, she thought it would be best to bring something gluten free to the meeting, just in case 🙂 It was of course something I’m not especially fond of but I just couldn’t bring myself to tell her that so I ate two of them just because 🙂 🙂 🙂 and she also brought pear juice just in case someone couldn’t drink coffee, which I hadn’t told anyone either 🙂 🙂 I do like pear juice though 🙂

Old variety of tulip. Today one mostly see tulips as annuals since they are so hard driven that they usually don’t survive till next year. These however comes back every year.

I’m planning on putting down the potatoes in the ground tomorrow and perhaps sow some lettuce and other vegetables that like and cane take cooler weather. The temperatures will drop some next week and we might even get some rain they say. At the meeting everyone was complaining about how dry it is now, everyone but me 🙂 I told them that I just had planted a walnut tree and a cherry bush and the ground wasn’t dry at all. All water in the ground runs down via my garden so I’m the last one that actually will notice if we’re having a drought 🙂

a (15) — This one will, believe it or not, become really beautiful. Suddenly it will be totally filled.

a (16) — Like this one, a filled Yellow wood anemone.

a (17) — We call this one Sulphur anemone, a natural hybrid between the white and yellow wood anemone. I have both so it’s no surprise this one popped up 🙂

a (18) — This is the Yellow wood anemone, quite much deeper in color.

It is time for a cup of tea even though it is after 4 pm, The dogs have woken me up before 4 am every morning so I’m pretty sure that no ammount of tea will be able to keep me awake tonight 🙂 🙂 I’ll also have the bedroom windo open all night for the first time this year 🙂

Nanking cherry. I unfortunately only had one bush and this needs two different ones to give berries. So I’ve bought another one but that one won’t flower until next spring.

a (20) — I have a suspicion this flower grows on a ground stem that survived when my old plum tree died, that is called St Julien. Gives small oval yellow plums that are quite tasty.

Eight pots with at least six new Apricot trees 🙂 I had the kernels (well the seed inside) in the fridge during winter and they are growing quite fast now. These kernels came from a red skinned variety of apricots.

Have a great day!

2 responses to “This year might become a great berry and fruit year.”

Caryn

May 12, 2023

When I saw the first photo and the title I thought Ooh, Christer’s been to the good ice cream shop. My wishful thinking intruding on the narrative and turning those into ice cream containers. 😄
What do you mean by “filled” when you write “filled wood anemone”? Is it to do with the color?
It does sound like you will have a fruit filled garden.
I mowed most of the lawn today. It’s 79⁰F with a warm, dusty wind blowing fairly briskly. The black walnut trees are just starting to break leaves so there’s no shade out there.
Have a great day.

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1. Christer.
  
  May 13, 2023
  
  Hi Caryn!
  We don’t have any good ice cream shops around here I’m afraid. I would have to go to either Lidköping or Skövde to find one of those and that’s just too far away 🙂 🙂
  
  Well it all has to do with the petals on a flower. For instance if it has one row of petals around the stamens and pistils it’s a simple flower. If it has two or three it’s a double but if it is full of petals, like that white wood anemone, it’s a filled flower. Filled flowers tends to be less god for pollinators since they usually have less pistils with pollen and sometimes less with nectar too. Then again they tend to flower for a longer time so perhaps that evens it out a bit?
  
  If we’ll get enough with rain I will have more fruit that I can use but if we’ll get a long draught it might just be the opposite, one never know with nature 🙂 :-)We’ve had a very sunny and warm day until now, it’s still warm but clouds cover the sky at the moment. The predictions on the coming weather varies by the hour now 🙂 Sometimes we’ll get lots of rain and Wednesday will be pretty chilly, sometimes we won’t get any rain at all and Wednesday will be fairly warm 🙂 🙂 🙂
  
  Have a great day!
  
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