Huzzah! Hooray! Yippee! Yahoo!
The long, dark, wet winter is over — spring has finally arrived! As soon as I arrived home in Cabril I noticed the first blossoms on one of our plum trees. The same plum tree that sadly limped through the seasons in 2009, bearing only six sad plums. Penfold went a bit overboard with some tough-love winter pruning and left it looking even sadder than before.
But now look! Each sad little branch is covered with these gorgous, tiny white blossoms. And that’s exactly why I love this ugly plum tree – he’s a feisty little bugger.
May the sneezefest begin …
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PS: Obrigada to daisyfae, djbeat and Daddy P for their comments on ReboundTAG.
The words “sad plums” and “Penfold” should not be used in the same post …..
[He's surprisingly good at pruning ..... must have been the job he enjoyed soooooo much in Kent many years ago]
My plums are very happy thank you…
Yes, he prunes well. Especially after a long time soaking in water …
I think that’s quite enough discussion involving my soft fruit selection…
wooohoooaaaaa! here’s to Spring! I think it is threatening to start here, too… “I wish, I wish, I wish” (as my daughter would say while scrunching up her face)
I find that face scrunching is almost critical when wishing …
Isn’t that purty. Plum trees are like that. We had a big one that used to produce hundreds one year and none the next. Welcome back. x
Thanks, it’s great to be back! I can already taste this year’s plum jam … x
Beautiful flowers! BTW, a little tough love never hurts anyone or anything!
I’m a big believer in tough love … so hard to do sometimes but a little goes a long way!
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