Been waiting for rain .Looks like we are going to get a gully-washer this weekend. Thank God! Usually this time of year we would have daffodils all over the place. A few flowers have managed to come up. The freesias are abundant-seeing that their bulbs are shallow.
We turned off our sprinkler system and are hand watering .The "cocktail" apple tree is blooming and setting fruit ... the old navel orange tree is full of blossoms and a buzz with bees while its fruits from last year are the size of grapefruits and the meyer lemons are the size of oranges.
New plants this year are two clementine oranges, a honey crisp apple tree, a "panache" fig, and an asian pear and a kieffer pear. Some have started to flower, but even hand-watering does not get water deep enough.
Hope this weekend's forecast of rain will help. I love the smell of the air just before it rains... like a foreboding yet magical calmness -- especially around blossoming orange and lemon trees.
Waiting for spring!
