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Apple trees

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Apple tree Photo: ©nini.tjader.2015

This year I didn’t visit the old orchard in the vicinity of where I previously lived and I regularly use to visit this time of the year to take pictures of the apple trees and their flowers. The weather simply has been much too unreliable. As the flowering time for apple trees is very short I decided not to go there this year.

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Apple tree Photo: ©nini.tjader.2015

I did however discover that there are apple trees just around the corner, in my immediate neighborhood. They are just as beautiful.

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Apple tree Photo. ©nini.tjader.2015

The trees above are in the abandoned “wilderness” in my housing cooperative. Owned by nobody and everybody in the area. The bigger tree gets plenty of apples every year – but you need to be fast to get any of them. Either the deer, who like to hang around in this area, gets them. Or any of the neighbors seeing that they are ripe for picking. Lat year all the apples disappeared over night from one day to the other.

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Apple tree at the green. Photo: ©nini.tjader.2015

The small apple tree at the common green – which is probably the result of a thrown away apple at some time – also has several flowers this year. Last time that happened was two years ago. Then it had one flower – which someone broke off the tree. Last year was hard for that little tree because of allt he digging going on for the cable for the fibernet, so no flowers then.

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My own apple tree. Photo: ©nini.tjader.2015

The small apple tree – also created by a stray apple seed, and not so small any more – that I have in the flowerbed outside my patio, has never had flowers. It is probably sterile. I cut it every year by the end of August so it doesn’t get too big. No flowers, no apples. It is good for creating shadow for my patio. Better than an umbrella. I hang my solar-charged Ikea-lamp in it. My yellow honeysuckle climbs into it. This year there will soon be yellow flowers in the tree, but not for apples…

Below some close-ups of apple flowers. Love those flowers. Their form, their colors.
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The old orchard

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Photo: ©nini.tjader.2014

There is this old orchard in my previous hoods that I try to visit every year at this time of the year. It is a beautiful place when all the apple trees are in bloom. My main reason for visiting is to take photos of the trees and the flowers. When I lived closer to it, I did that over all the seasons, to compare from season to season. Now I only go there once a year, when the trees are in bloom.

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Photo: ©nini.tjader.2014

Because of the early spring and the warm weather I was about a week and a half late this year. Some of the trees – those with pink and white flowers – were already done. Only the ones with white flowers were still in bloom, but soon done too. It is difficult to get there at the right time when you don’t live in the neighborhood any more.

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Photo: ©nini.tjader.2014

It is a magic place. Reminds me of some scene in a Swedish film for children called “The Brothers Lionheart” from 1977. Somewhere in the film I think they were wandering through an orchard much like this one. But I might remember wrong.

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PHoto: ©nini.tjader.2014

My oldest photos from the same spot of the same trees are from 2005 and can be found here. That is on my old site which is to be re-built as soon as I find the time for it.

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