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Blossom Report 2011
Fruit blossom in Rivers Nursery Site & Orchard is at least 2 weeks early this year due to the warm weather with temperatures on average 8C higher than normal for this time of year coupled with many hours of intense sunshine.
The apricots flowered during March and have now all gone over.
Plums followed quickly and some have reached 90% petal fall
Hedge Plums and wild cherry are in full blossom in week of 6-10th April
The Czar plum (a Rivers native) had 10% flowers open on 6th and by 9th was full flower.
Pears are now also in full bloom, apples have again advanced but not quite flowering yet, overall things have really speeded up with the constant warm weather. This has left us with glorious evening sunsets in the orchard.
Here you will find some recent images.
We will update this feature and post new pictures in the coming weeks as the blossom show continues its short season, so check back.
Enjoy !
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Week Ending April 24th 2011
Blossom is moving on very quickly at the moment due to the unseasonal warm weather, most varieties are at least 2 weeks early and there is a shortage of rain which is difficult to predict effect it will have.
Cherries, Pears and Plums have now all gone over and the various early Apple varieties are all lining up to put on a show.In the following series we show some of our past and present blossom from the Rivers Orchard site.
Check back in May for more on the apples as the dessert varieties come to full flower. Images courtesy of E.Keddy.
Week Ending April 30th 2011
Blossom show is now virtually over in Rivers Nursery orchard for this year and was well ahead of our scheduled Blossom
Breakfast event for sunday 1st of May.
Many thanks to Tim and Sue Farrer for all the recent blossom images below.
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