Spring Blossoms and Lush green trees!

Dear readers,

What a lovely season is Spring!!! It brings life to dead plants and unites hearts of living creatures. The mating season for honey bees,birds and in general 'love thy nature'.

Our garden is full of scents of 'Apricot flower blooms' a fruit belonging to Apple family. How this is grown in our garden is an interesting story.I am fond of  Apricot icecream and after eating tihe icecream , i threw the seeds of apricot fruit randomly in my garden. Lo! after few months, the seeds started germinating and a tiny green-brown leafed plant started emerging from it resembling apple fruit leaves. I loved it and now i have Apricot mini orchard in my garden full of apricot plants.Here is the first white flower of the fruit. The trees are three year old,medium in height and resembles a shrub.My hobby has grown into a venture and I think  Bengaluru has tlhe climate to grow apple ,apricots.

Apricot Flowers: Scientific Name:

Prunus armeniaca l.
Apricots were first introduced in Europe by the Romans in 70-60 BC through Italy and Greece and now Italy is one of the main European producers for apricots. An apricot tree plantation which has been grafted onto pure apricot rootstocks could reap fruit for as many as 40 years.
The apricot tree grows to be about 4 to 6 meters tall with white or pink flowers that start to blossom in March or April before the leaves and fruit start to appear. The flowers on an apricot tree are very similar to the peach, plum and cherry trees with each blossom displaying 5 sepals and petals.
Unterinnerhof, Italy is a picture of beauty in the spring months when fields of apricot trees are exploding with flowers in full blossom.

Apricot blossoms at Unterinnerhof, Italy, South Tirol, Europe, Europe 2006.

The pictures exhibited are from our garden to show the difference in colors of green, from spring green Ashoka Tree to lush green Honge Tree. See for yourself!