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With the temperature reaching nearly 80º F yesterday, many plants and trees are blooming or budding. These photos were snapshots from my morning walk. It is still early in the season, so we’ll see if it is genuinely an early Spring or if there’s more winter yet to come.
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Wow, how early are these blooms? I saw one of our maples begin to have buds, then they got covered in ice. This whiplash weather can be quite devastating.
Bradford Pears are early bloomers, but this is about three weeks earlier than usual. Normally I would expect to see this much bloom until mid-March. Many other trees and flowers are budding or blooming as well. I hope this doesn’t mean our summer will be a taste of ‘hell.’ LOL
Seems nature knows what it’s role is and when to partake in it. It always amazes me. Glad you are getting an early taste of spring and hope it stays. Seems if that many trees are blooming then it’s here. I know nothing about the Bradford Pear trees so looked them up. I was surprised to see so many negative comments on them. In fact they are panned in some places with cities offering replacement trees of they are cut down and removed. I did not read anything about the fruit and whether it is edible.
The beautiful blooms in Spring seem to be the most significant selling point of the Bradford Pear, but you’re correct in that many places are banning them. In some locations, they are even referred to as an evasive species. But there are a lot of them in this area and the southeast. There is no fruit, but they can cross-pollinate with other pear trees and cause problems.
What a flowerage, Earl, marvellous! Here in Bavaria we alterate between spring temperatures of about 15°C during the day and snowfall and freezing temperatures at night. Snowdrops are out, but trees and bushes still hold back. Only Hazels polliinate like mad already, as my itching eyes and nose tell me.
I also suffer from pollen-causing itching eyes and a running nose. Luckily the worst part for me is only for about 30 days. Thanks, Markus.