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Apr 12, 2019 - 11:09 PM
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Wolfssohn
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Hi all,
mother nature is right now awakening and it' s so beautiful  and since we all live in different parts of the world, I' m curious, which trees and flowers are blossoming in your area right now?
I live in the midwest of Germany, 'bout an hour by car to Netherlands border.
Luckily we have all four seasons changing in the year.
I love that and I need that, though sometimes I hated the too hot summers and miss the real cold winters with snow, but I like the colorful autumn and the green spring.
Our February was unusual much to warm with about 20 °C on some days, so the trees and flowers
are very early this year.
It started three weeks ago with the beautiful white blossom of our wild plum tree right in front of our house.
Now in our garden our big old cherry tree is white bloosoming and on our golf range next to us, the pear trees are blossoming. So everything' s white here.
Some of the birches and maples are starting to green, but our little wood of beeches, where Jacy and I are often roam, is still naked.
In Bonn, a city in our area, the japanese cherry blossom has just started and the whole town is beautifully pink.
A lot of visitors come to just see the beautiful colors.
https://www.bonn-region.de/sehenswuerdigkeiten-kultur/kirschbluete.html
As for flowers right now the narcissus and the little hyacinths are blooming in our garden and out in the meadows the cuckoo flower is blooming.
... but the most I like, when our Nordman Fir starts blossoming.
We planted it 18 years ago after our first Christmas, when we moved here autumn 2000.
She was the only Christmas Tree, who survived and build strong roots and growed and growed every year.
Now she' s as tall as our hours, 'bout 12 meters high and a real beautiful lady.
greetings
Wolfssohn
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Apr 15, 2019 - 5:29 AM
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Tall Guy
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Our seasons are increasingly blurring into a confusing mess. Snowdrops and crocuses appear with the first sign of warmth, only to be frozen when the cold returns. Our apple tree is budding, but I gave it a particularly harsh pruning in March and a late-Winter wash to discourage the insects that have blighted our apples for the last few years. I'm not sure we'll get any kind of decent crop this year, but next year, with a year's growth and another wash, we might outdo Sainsbury's!
I've been able to mow the lawn twice so far this year, and it's had the first of its four treatments per year from a local chap who, in a previous life, was the groundskeeper at one of England's premier rugby clubs. It's prone to moss, and the treatments plus keeping it relatively long (ie not scalping it at every cut) helps to crowd it out.
It's quite a big garden, and it gets bigger with every year I get older! After several false starts, we've found someone who's able to come in and do the spadework that I'm now looking to avoid, a young lad whose dyslexia and one or two other issues dictate that he's destined for the outdoors life rather than being stuck in an office. He's doing a particular project for us in the next couple of weeks for a fixed price, and if what he does is good (which I'm convinced it will be) then he'll be on a retainer to keep the garden tidy and make a few changes that we're looking for before we decide it's time to downsize.
I still love firing up the petrol-engined mower, though! I didn't feel like a real man until I ditched the electric mower (and the attendant risk of death, or worse, embarrassment, by running over the cable) for something with a carburettor and a spark plug!
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Real men use Hayter self propelled petrol mowers...a proper piece of kit ...like mine.
It needs service, new oil and a new spark plug but soon be up n running. In the meantime the gardener can do it!
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TG - old cartoon made me laugh - two old girls sitting on a patio in front of a massively-overgrown forest of a garden.
One says "The lawn has got a bit out of hand since George died!"
And smack among the long grass is a mower with a skeleton draped over it!!! 
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Funny that you should ask... I live right next to a a forest (five minute walking distance) that is called "Wald der blauen Blumen", which means translated "forest of the blue flowers". From mid April to mid May, it's like an enchanted forest because nature there drenches the forest in a bed of flowers. Guess what color they have? :-)
Anyway, that's what is currently blossoming in my area. At this time of the year, it always reminds me a bit of the forest in Ridley Scott's LEGEND.
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wald_der_blauen_Blumen
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Mine’s a Briggs & Stratton and it’s never let me down with minimal maintenance. I do however like the look of the Hayter Harrier. Self-propelled grass cutting with the added benefit of vertical take-off.
I have a feeling my Hayter has a briggs n stratton engine.
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Most spectacularly are the state flower: the California Poppy. They erupt in giant fields and stop traffic in the hills:
Otherwise, enough else is blooming that the hummingbirds aren't coming to my feeder yet.
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A few things here and there, but mostly, it's still barren. While the weather has been sunny and nice recently, and not too much snow in the lowlands, it's still been too cold for much blossoming (temperatures rarely moving above 10C). The North and the mountains still have record amounts of snow for this time of the year.
Winter is coming....
...and not leaving.
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