Elegant Things

[flemmings]

My plum tree is blooming, a fortnight earlier than usual. My plum tree was mightily trimmed last year and all the lower branches removed, so now I can only gaze forlornly up at the plum blossoms from below. But the s-i-l brought the extenda-cutter back from the cottage and snipped us off some branches last night. I put them in water in the kitchen and this morning my kitchen smells of plum blossoms. How elegant!

Today is also winter's last hurrah AKA never send your winter coat to the cleaner's before June (because we had the last hurrah *last* Friday with snow and two Fridays before that with below freezing, and...) Result of these 4C/ 40F temps is that the cherry blossoms and the Novemberish clouds are the same colour. How elegant!

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[i-am-zan.livejournal.com]

Ohh to have my kitchen smell of plum blossoms. Lucky you!

Elegant indeed. ^__^

[mvrdrk.livejournal.com]

Oddly, it makes me happy to hear about your plums and know they are blooming there. Ours are all done and the cherries nearly done, too.

[flemmings.livejournal.com]

The Left Coast behaves like Japan. Took me years to get over the wrongness of plums and cherries blooming at the same time, not a month apart.

[flemmings.livejournal.com]

Yabbut-- you get flowers all year round there.

[i-am-zan.livejournal.com]

hmmm they wilt far too fast though and in a five minute rain they all come down and get smooshed around and brown quickly. The mess is perpetually cleaned up so I guess one does get the 'blooms all year round' feel.

There is s little patch of spider lilies on the way to the children's school that lets off quite a heady scent in the evenings if it is a cool one. Although on a humid one it just cloys a little.

Plum blossom, I imagine to be light and refreshing. Because even frangipani here is pretty strongly scented.

[flemmings.livejournal.com]

Yes, light and refreshing is exactly it. The faintest hint of maybe sweetness but nothing like tropical flowers. Cherry blossoms OTOH have a smell but no fragrance, at least not the ones here.