![]() ![]() Anyway, the bumblebees are not awake yet so they won’t miss them. The Hellebores are shooting up and I have so many this year I did not mind cutting some for a table decoration. The garden seems to have decided to push forth with vigour. We were able to source a Nashi “Kosui” and we hope it will thrive in its new home. So despite the rain we took the decision to buy a Nashi. The grafts were unsuccessful and I wonder if this is because that despite its appearance of a sleek, round apple the Nashi is Pyrus pyrifolia – a pear. Kourosh had tried to graft the unknown fruit onto our apple trees. So the decision was taken to cut down the apricot tree (see stump on the left of the new Nashi.) The fruit was delicious, it looked like an apple but was extremely juicy with a flavour reminiscent of pears. However, our apple and pear trees are more successful and Kourosh has wanted a Nashi for some years after he found a tree with the delicious fruit nearby in an untended garden. The highs and lows of our spring temperatures here mean that we seldom get a good crop of apricots. We have cut down the last apricot tree and I gathered the twigs and brought them inside to watch them blossom for the last time. This is a nostalgic photograph of one of the last apricot flowers from our garden. Our little river is on the left of the photograph and although both strips of water are moving fast, I don’t expect it to get high enough to overflow into the garden. The land rises towards the house and the water passes into the vast stretches of marshland around the Seudre as it heads for the sea. This is the canal that was dug about 70 years ago to make sure the road was not flooded. More and more in this area, the trees and hedges are cut down to give larger fields to cultivate maize, sunflowers, rape and cereal. Looking from the same spot to the left of the road, the fields are completely under water. The house is just behind the line of trees on the right. We wonder at the planning permission when we see films of the houses washed away by the rain and flooded by the high tides. The river Seine in the Paris region has flooded some houses so frequently that there is a plan by the municipality to buy the houses and revert the area back to nature. These winter floods are becoming recurrent and coupled with hot dry summers as the world climate becomes more perturbed. Many parts of France are suffering from floods. ![]() in a winter that has been exceptionally dull and rainy. At the bottom of our garden the river has been rising.įrance is now under a curfew at 6.00 p.m. ![]()
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