Plants I'm Growing: First Blooms--Pink Flowering Japanese Plum Prunus Blireiana (February 2, 2012)

Our double pink flowering plum tree (Prunus blireiana) started blooming today, February 2. Only one or two flowers have opened, but it will soon be in full bloom if the warmish weather holds.  The plum bloomed on February 17 in 2009, but I can't find a record for 2010. The tree bloomed on February 4 in 2011. Thus, it's calculated a year of 363 days.

Plants I'm growing: First Blooms--Prunus Blireiana (2009)

Our double flowering plum tree (Prunus blireiana) started blooming the day before yesterday, February 15. Buds on the new apricot tree we planted last spring look set to start opening in the next day or two--probably as soon as we see the sun again. Today has been the fourth straight day of heavy rain--which is good. We have made up for some of the dryness of January, but we are still about seven inches below normal rainfall for this point in the season.