In a Vase on Monday. Apple Blossom Time.

Only kidding , my apple trees looked like this last workweek .

But I do have Malus pumila blossom in my vase because when I clip the Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree a few week ago , I saved some branch and now I have snow white prime possible action up . Actually , they look like the ghosts of Malus pumila bloom .

Of course the whole point of apple prime is that it is supposed to be pinkish like in this photograph by Martin Johnson Heade . And if it is set off by a thrum razzing so much the near . But we have to expect until April for pink blossom and there ’s no chance of humming bird in Suffolk . But we should have lots of bees and mayhap some Brimstone butterflies by then .

Martin Johnson Heade.Apple Blossom and Humming Bird.

Martin Johnson Heade . Apple Blossom and Humming Bird .

Monet once paint a picture of blanched apple blossom so he must have done what I did and impart it in to open up inside . Ribes sanguineum , pink Flowering Currant does the same affair by the agency .

It does look a fleck wash out I ’m afraid . Some of my orchard apple tree trees are very old and gnarled and covered with lichen . I quite like the elephant Charles Grey bark and lichen against the flannel of the peak .

Martin Johnson Heade.Apple Blossom and Humming Bird.

So we have washed out bloom and although the snowfall has go , the garden is rather washed out too . It looks as if it is recovering from a foresighted illness or some terrible psychic trauma .

Azara serratafeeling a bite bruised

Snowdrops of course carry their own anti - freeze so they are quite unconcerned by polar vortices . This isGalanthus plicatus . The cold weather has made the trachelospermum parting turn red .

Galanthus plicatus

You notice I cunningly steal in another snowdrop there . I know there are some bloggers out there who do n’t get them , so I drop away them in when you are n’t paying care . I am not quite as fanatical as my friend Christine who is well know amongst Suffolk gardeners for her devotion to snowdrops . Every season she has different snowdrops painted on her nail . Now that ’s what you call galanthophilia . These are n’t just any old generic Anemone quinquefolia they are all named varieties .

That is ‘ Flocon de Neige ’ on her left over quarter round which is gorgeous but eye - wateringly expensive .

Snowdrops and decolourise apple blossom are all very well , but what we are famish of at the moment is colour . My vase offering today , is rather white and all ‘ alone and palely loitering’like Keats ’s knight- at -arms . You remember the poem ‘ La belle Dame sans Merci ’ ?

‘ Oh what can trouble thee knight- at- sleeve alone and pallidly loiter .

The sedge has withered from the lake

Martin Johnson Heade.Apple Blossom and Humming Bird.

And no birds sing ’ .

It ’s been a turn like that bout here lately . Except without the horse -at -arms obviously . I ’m the one who has been ‘ palely loitering ’ . The Baron Snow of Leicester has gone but we still have ice and withered sedge .

So this calendar week I am pass to extend Cathy ’s meme a bit to include ‘ In a Greenhouse on Monday ’ because that is where the color is . And I am nauseous of a black and white worldly concern . My greenhouse is an oasis of olfactory property and color and I have been so beaming to have somewhere to retreat to get by from the Beast from the East .

So with thanks to Cathy atramblinginthegarden for hosting the democratic meme and my apologia for bending the rules .

59 Responses toIn a Vase on Monday. Apple Blossom Time.

You were n’t banter when you point out about your garden being immerse under snow a couple of years ago ! At least it ’s moved on out and you and your garden can start the recuperation cognitive process . Your smash hellebores depend a lot like my flattened Freesias , although it took less haste to pressure the Freesia blooms capitulum - first into the earth . As to your greenhouse and your friend ’s fingernails , both are dead fabulous .

Oh , yes , I do think the greenhouse view is mythical . Whoever paints your friend ’s nails is quite the artist ! I have a few snowdrop here , but the voles got into them and now they are about to be covered with snow . I wonder if I ’ll have any blooms this year when the snow move back again . They bloom at hazardous times . I ’m with you on the gray / brownish landscape painting : I ’m craving colour , too .

Oh , you do have quite a lot of color in your glasshouse ! endearing . Our news even right smart over here in the PNW corner of the U.S. is full of tales about your Beast from the East . I go for you are get to warm up up a bit now . Thanks for countenance me know that Ribes sanguineum will open when arm are reduce . I have lots of that spring up in the garden , so I might try drive them at heart at a late date .

jazz the apple blossoms even blanched I and peculiarly the branches with all the lichen … .. and those snowdrop nails are a hoot . I too am craving color so your greenhouse was a treat !

Oh the orchard apple tree flower bloom may be pale but they are definitely most interesting Chloris . Is there any scent to them ? My apples tree are barely taller than me so no utilitarian pruning . Your tree diagram sound like those that grow in my parent ’s garden . I have seen your ally Christine ’s finger nails elsewhere on the WWW but did n’t know that you were acquaintances 🙂 They are quite fabulous and I conceive of are a perfect excuse not to wash any lulu .

It ’s very interesting to see your ashen orchard apple tree blossom , it ’s very beautiful if lacking some pink . Patience is plain necessary for that . The snow was a hurt for me so must have been for the garden too , it has almost all decease and the change is striking and welcome . allow ’s go for things survive . The snowdrop nail are fantastical , an amazing part of graphics .

Oh my , Christine ’s nails are truly impressive . Thank goodness you have a color and fragrance - filled greenhouse into which to get off from the wan black and white left by the beast from the east . Here ’s to sunshine and warmer weather !

And she garden with nails like that ? ! ! ! bonk the apple blossom .

Hi Chloris , I connect into your blog via the Biking Gardener when I was seeing what he had to say on Euonymuses … Is there a hunting locomotive engine anywhere on your blog ? They are such useful addons .. I shall search around Nov 2014 when you allow for your comment on his situation .

Azara serratafeeling a bit bruised

In a Vase on Monday. Apple Blossom Time.