It’s apple blossom time in my Lewes garden and the competition is open, folks, for which is the most of all the spring blossoms. It might just have to be apple blossom, I think with it’s many shades of pink from the deepest of blushes to the palest off-white. I think it gets my vote.
I tell you this on condition that you don’t pass it on to my cherry tree which is also looking wonderful this weekend.
Oh, I dont know, the cherry blossom is pretty good too. I’m just lucky to have both.
My apple blossom time is in May even though the old song says it is in June – whenever it happens, I suspect is lightens people’s hearts wherever they are. Here is an old 1931 recording: