Spring Blossom September 2016

Spring Blossom September 2016

I took these photos today, it has been a wet spring to date.

 Cherries in blossom

 

  Placing bee hives on cherry orchards is a must.

 

 

 

 Royal Hazel cherries above and below

Solar Glow Apricots above and below

Same variety that was shown in blossom in the last post.

 Around the Garden

 Lavender

 

 Freesias

Armeria Bee's Pink

 Clivea above and below

 

 Chinese Wisteria

 Some plants ready for the nursery

Past the spring equinox now, there have been no frost issues this September but, it has been wet. Stonefruit has set nicely. The majority of the cherries are in blossom and time will tell how they shape up this season. Best wishes to all.

Apricot Blossom 21st of August 2016

I took these photos today, Sunday the 21st of August. It was the full moon on the 18th. Solar Glow Apricots in blossom. Will take approx. 90 days from here to harvest for this variety of apricot, weather permitting.

 Close up of Solar Glow above and below

Candy Gem Plum Blossom.  Would harvest approx. mid November.

 Princess Time peach blossom (Yellow Peach)

Close up of same peach.

 

  This is the stage of the bud swell of Royal Hazel above and Royal Lynn below.

 Both of these varieties are in the 500 hours chilling units range.

 A look down the row, these were planted July 2013. (see previous post)

 An older block of cherries, planted 1999. Took this photo from my tallest ladder.

 Stage of bud swell, Empress cherries. Full moon in September would see most cherry varieties in full bloom, full moon in October will show straw colour in this Empress variety. Weather permitting.

 In the greenhouse with some of the plants for the nursery. A simple relaxation.

My mum Fay on a Sunday afternoon visit.

 Lily and Molly soaking up the sun.

There is no stopping this thing once it starts to unfold, no steering wheel, no brakes. As we go through the wild temperature fluctuations that spring brings in this country.

Best Wishes to all.

Cherry Dale June, Winter

We have been giving the garden around the fruit barn a facelift

 over the past eight weeks. A new fairy house for children to enjoy. 

Widening old paths and adding an  80 metre long decomposed granite path around

 the nursery and gardens to link to the new fairy house and some new garden beds too.

 This photo of me taken next to some young Royal Hazel cherries was taken today. 

Have had the first few frost of the season, rain in the forecast, starting to feel the cold of winter.

Photos below show a sequence of garden work completed around the nursery and the fruit barn.

 Fairy house, beginning

 We are going to paint ourselves a fairy house.

Mark and Jenny

Painting of the fairy house finished, Yes it is bright.

 Jenny standing at the beginning of the decomposed granite paths.

 Some lovely  fairy stepping stones.

 Mark on the mattock, I'm gunna dig me a path.

The finished look

I'm gunna lay me some pavers, but seriously it is good to have a son to work with

It is hard to imagine getting through all this work by myself.

 

 My dad showed me what I now get to show him.

Older path which has been widened. Above and below.

 Some block work.

 New garden construction at fruit barn and nursery intersection,

Jenny planting lime lava grass, an Australian native (schleranthus bliforus)

Alpine region plant. 2 year old plants in garden in background. Beautiful in a rockery.

We will have a number of these in our nursery in spring.

Photo of the older widened path leading to the fruit barn. (Below)

 

This sign says that there are fairies at the bottom of our garden, perhaps there are. Why don't you come and see in the spring when the cherries are being harvested. Best wishes to all.