Describes the blossoms and colour week by week, year by year, in a Zone 8 northern European shrub garden
Kerria Week
2008/18: All the varieties of Prunus are peaking now: our northern neighbour's double tree is full of blossom, and the fine avenue in the Schumacher Siedlung is a rich pink. Our eastern neighbour's lofty cherry near the house is raising its blossoms high in the sky [It later turns out this is a farewell display: the tree is chopped down in the autumn, being judged too overgrown and shaggy to give any pleasure from close up.] Our southern neighbour's plum is coming into flower. Our little cherry on the back lawn has a few big pink blossoms. In other gardens, Magnolia liliflora is just passing its peak.
A purple form of the latter can be seen in St. Jürgen's Churchyard. The daffodils and tulips are still richly and fully in bloom, while most Forsythia has faded. Amelanchier flowers have disappeared as suddenly as they arrived.
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