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Blossom!!

suedun30suedun30 Posts: 7
in Fruit & veg
This morning I noticed that my apple tree has blossom open. Is this happening all over the country? I live in Cumbria, not the warm south!

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  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    It's happening in Japan too.   A feature of the weather this year.
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
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    Plato
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    You're not the first to say this has happened this autumn ... I think it's a response to the change from heat and drought, which put a lot of plants into a sort of torpor much as winter does.  The change in temperature plus rain seems to have woken them up and they're responding as if it's spring.  

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    I think that winter should reset the trees' rhythm and they'll produce blossom again in the spring ... maybe give them a good feed when they're waking up from the winter? 

    I don't think there's any need to remove the blossom now.  The weather is getting colder and I doubt if they'll set fruit. 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • suedun30suedun30 Posts: 7
    Thank you for your replies. It's good to know we're not alone and with luck the apple blossom next year won't be affected.
  • madpenguinmadpenguin Posts: 2,543
    My yellow crocus are sending up shoots already!
    “Every day is ordinary, until it isn't.” - Bernard Cornwell-Death of Kings
  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    They'll sort themselves out as time goes on m.penguin. Plants are a bit topsy turvy this year in lots of ways. 
    I've noticed a few things which have been 'out of season' a little bit too :)
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
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