Country diary: A blossom-laden spring to make up for last year | Virginia Spiers
St Dominic, Tamar Valley: First the pear and now the apple and cherry trees are in full show. We should be in for a bumper harvestAfter five days away near the sun-dazzled Solent, we returned home to a verdant haven. Fruit blossom has dropped with some apples already set; and the 50-year-old Judas tree is covered with purple flowers, vivid against diaphanous beech and swags of native May tree.Before going upcountry, I walked on my mended hip in James Evans and Mary Martin’s documented and
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