The wild cherry plum trees in Goody Patchy have been in flower for several weeks now.
Today, after a morning of mist and drizzle, the remaining flowers were weighed down with water and many were dropping their petals.
As the petals fall, leaf buds start to open; a haze of green spreads round the edge of the wood.
Beyond the Window Box 
March 27, 2020 at 7:10 pm
We are still waiting for the sweet cherry tree in our garden to blossom. It’s always a lovely sight, along with the apple trees. Until the pigeons get to the blossom.
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March 27, 2020 at 7:12 pm
Do you get any fruit from the tree or does that go to feed the birds too?
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March 27, 2020 at 7:16 pm
Sadly the squirrels that live nearby are quickly onto the small applets (is there such a word?) before they can mature into edible fruit. If any apples do survive into adulthood they are often bitten and dropped by the squirrels.
As for the cherries, we have to enclose it within a net and frame to stop the blackbirds and pigeons eating them all.
What about your wild cherry trees?
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March 27, 2020 at 7:22 pm
Clearly your cherries are too tempting without protection. I don’t remember seeing fruit on the wild cherry plums but may not have walked that way at the right time last year. There are so many trees I’d be surprised if the birds strip all the fruit at once. As for our own young orchard, there are no squirrels in the area and the local blackbirds don’t seem to have developed a taste for apples yet!
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March 27, 2020 at 8:24 pm
The sad thing is that the squirrels dont actually eat the apple. They take one bite and then drop it onto the ground. Wasps and blackbirds then come along to eat what remains. You would think that the squirrels would work out that they dont actually like the flavour on the second or third apple.
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March 27, 2020 at 8:29 pm
The squirrels in our old garden in York sometimes tried burying the apples – a winter storage tactic doomed to failure!
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March 27, 2020 at 9:28 pm
Not the brightest are they.
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March 27, 2020 at 7:20 pm
Very delicate, esp with the water droplets. Cheerful!
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March 27, 2020 at 7:23 pm
They are very delicate flowers, even without the weight of the water droplets.
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