The apricot trees are in bloom throughout the valley.
These are the neighbor’s apricot trees: Bob prunes them, and I help pick them. Last year a late frost took the year’s blooms and there wasn’t any fruit. This year, the trees are blooming really fervently since it’ll be their first crop in two years.
Apricots are thought to have originated in the region where China and Russia butt together, and humans have been growing these trees for ages: they may date to 3000 BC. No one knows what the oldest cultivated fruit is, but it’s not the apricot. Contenders for the title include (in no particular order after figs)
- figs
- dates
- pomegranates
- mangoes
- bananas
- grapes
- lemons
- pears
- olives.
Since these fruits have grown for the longest time, you could call these our best loved fruits. For myself, it’s the olives and lemons.. but that’s just me.
how pretty! looks like spring has sprung in your area. Alice, Do you miss new england?
Pat, I miss the culture but not the weather! Alice
Those are beautiful!! I’m seeing a lot more apricot jelly in your future!!
Those tree are handsome specimens and should produce enormous amounts of tasty fruit. I never realized they grew in Colorado. You are all in for juicy treats.
Just an FYI, our 2 apricots are in blossom this week, in Western Massachusetts. Our daffodils are just starting to bloom, but my cousin’s were blossoming 3 weeks ago at the Cape(Cod). Did all of those apricots you had in your freezer come from these trees? That jam you made looked so yummy…
Some of the jam apricots were from these trees, but there are a lot of roadside apricots around here… and they’re so easy to freeze. (I just found another four bags). Alice