投稿の詳細: 萌えの季節 Flowering time

花の季節です。桃、スモモ、サクランボ、りんごの花が咲き始めました。そして、いよいよ周囲の山の色も薄い緑がかって来ました。山桜がまだ茶色のかった山肌のそこかしこを淡く白く飾っています。例年に無く寒い朝が続きますが、気持ちのいいシーズンになってきました。明日（28日）はいよいよワイン葡萄の苗植えです。昨日までは、いい天気という予報だったのが、今晩になったら雨模様の天気です。早めに終えて早めにBBQですね。

We are in the flowering season now. After ume plums and cherry blossoms(sakura), peaches, sumomo plums, cherries(sakuranbo) and apples have started having their flowers. The pictures above are sakuranbo and peaches respectively. Early apples like Tsugaru and India are also in bloom but it takes some more time for fuji apples. Did you know the petal colour is different for Tsugaru and Fuji the former is pink and the latter is pure white. Flower thinning which is an important work in the orchard to remove 5 side flowers by leaving center flower to make better fruit. From one base bud,usually six flowers are produced. Only center flower makes good apple but the other side flowers do not. Only one flower can grow to a bigger fruit, too. But this theory does not apply to Fuji apple. In case of Fuji apple, side flowers can make good one. So whichever it is,only one flower is left on the branch. However, all the branch is not the same. Flowers on the new shoot do not make good fruit so they are usaully all removed during flower/fruit thinning operation.