The Pollening [status]
Mar. 26th, 2026 09:45 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rebeccmeisterI just did an image search, and there are like 20 different versions of this meme for 20 different places across the globe:
Last summer,scrottie and I went and visited the best of the gardening stores in the region, I think we were searching for a sour cherry tree? It was too late in the year to find a sour cherry tree, so instead S decided to go ahead and get an apricot tree.
Since this house is a rental house, he repotted the apricot tree into the 5-gallon Chicken Bootie Bucket (bucket given to me when we had chickens and participated in the Tour de Coops; everyone was asked to wear booties at each coop site to avoid tracking diseases from coop to coop). When he left for California, he brought the apricot tree indoors onto the front porch.
Right around the time the snowdrops appeared outside, I noticed the apricot tree had its buds going. Here it is, right when it was just about ready to burst:
The first full flower:
More flowers:
Really starting to pop:
I have been keeping front porch access open for the cats via a cat hole in a window. Last night in the middle of the night I woke up and could tell it was from pollen allergies. I took some loratadine, closed up the porch window, and turned on a second air purifier, but it was too late.
The tree sure looks pretty, though. Apparently apricots can self-pollinate, although it's probably necessary to get out there with a paintbrush since we generally don't have any bees on the front porch.
I'm tempted to just move the tree out to the catio now, but then I would have to pay closer attention to the times when we have freezing overnight temperatures.
Last summer,
scrottie and I went and visited the best of the gardening stores in the region, I think we were searching for a sour cherry tree? It was too late in the year to find a sour cherry tree, so instead S decided to go ahead and get an apricot tree.Since this house is a rental house, he repotted the apricot tree into the 5-gallon Chicken Bootie Bucket (bucket given to me when we had chickens and participated in the Tour de Coops; everyone was asked to wear booties at each coop site to avoid tracking diseases from coop to coop). When he left for California, he brought the apricot tree indoors onto the front porch.
Right around the time the snowdrops appeared outside, I noticed the apricot tree had its buds going. Here it is, right when it was just about ready to burst:
The first full flower:
More flowers:
Really starting to pop:
I have been keeping front porch access open for the cats via a cat hole in a window. Last night in the middle of the night I woke up and could tell it was from pollen allergies. I took some loratadine, closed up the porch window, and turned on a second air purifier, but it was too late.
The tree sure looks pretty, though. Apparently apricots can self-pollinate, although it's probably necessary to get out there with a paintbrush since we generally don't have any bees on the front porch.
I'm tempted to just move the tree out to the catio now, but then I would have to pay closer attention to the times when we have freezing overnight temperatures.
