IT'S APPLES

The strange weather has really fooled our apple trees.  Usually they would drop their leaves in winter and have flowers in September. 

This year we had a mild winter, not one frost and have also had the most extrordinary amount of rain. (Not that I am complaining - our tank is overflowing and there is still green in the paddocks where usually in November there should be brown.)   My apple trees still had leaves in September and not one blossom in sight.  A friend suggested taking all the leaves off, which I did.  This week when I went up to the olive grove, there were my two little trees with lots of new leaves and IN FLOWER - about 6 weeks late!

So it looks like it's apples again - Gala on the left and Grannysmith on the right. (See post on 25 January this year for pics of our wonderful first crop.)