Honestly - this will be the last picture of fruit blossom this year, mainly as the medlar is the last of the fruit trees in the garden to blossom. Other colder areas might have other blossom still to come, but the only things that will flower from now on are strawberries, raspberries and tayberries.
The blossom has been extraordinary this year, and I think it is a combination of a cold winter, as the flowering shrubs and wisterias have been amazing too, and a later Easter, which as Easter is linked to moon phases, and moon phases often govern gardening activity, is another reason why the blossom has been later this year, and therefore less affected by poor weather.
We have also been lucky to avoid late frosts.
But while blossom is lovely, how about the fruit set? I know there is wide concern about the lack of bees, and I do think that the reduction in orchards affects this, but our apricot tree was buzzing with them at the right time and now the tree is starting to look uncomfortable with the number of developing fruits (I just stand under it doing my best Homer Simpson impersonation and drooling at the thought of all that yummy fruit). The same can be said for the cherry, thepear, the Worcesterberries, the black currants and the peach. It is still too early to say for the quince and the medlar.
So anyway, enjoy this lovely picture of a medlar blossom - isn't it pretty?
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