Something is flowering....

......despite the dreary gray weather,  

rain, heavy wind - over the last two weeks.

 

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This rather old lilac tree doesn't mind this weather condition at all...

...neither does the bumble bee...

...nor   Clematis Montana  .....

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...and Mexican Orange - Choisya ternata

But....

...my 'beauty', the tree peony.....

should look by now like last year in April      here 

as well as some of the Peony shrubs...

At least I do not have to schlepp any longer watering cans around - every day!

Due to the drought last year and no proper rain during the winter and early spring months,

not only the nature was suffering, 

also the groundwater level went too low and has to be raised up urgently,

which means that it should rain and rain and rain.... preferably for another 3 weeks!!!!

When the weather turned "wet" just before Easter I was so pleased and prayed for weeks of steady rain.

Except that temperatures fell as low as plus 2 degrees Celsius in the mornings, far too cold for our region.

So, we all could do with a few warm and sunny days here and there, with a good amount of  Vitamin D...
...and certainly less heavy winds/storms.

No roses in flower so far, hardly no new shoots on the fruit trees..... like last year in early April     
  here   and    here

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But - at least 

something is flowering !

Brightening-up our lives during an unusually gray and cold April

Cercis siliquastrum 

 

 commonly known as Judas tree... 

 

or Love tree

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Our white Lilac...

 ...reminds me always of the old fashion German song "Wenn der weisse Flieder wieder blüht..."

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 And as mother nature always holds some surprises...

...our Camellia has - miraculously - survived the Sibirian cold in February!

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A bientôt

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By the way - next post will be  "Old Linen Part 2"   

promised!