A lovely Spring day!
By Gary Marsh
@garymarsh6 (23393)
United Kingdom
April 9, 2020 7:11am CST
This morning it is beautiful. It is on the verge of being warmer the skies are sky blue and all the appleblossom it is bloom. This is my most favourite time of the year when bulbs and trees are blooming preparing for the summer months.
Two of the most famous sights are:
1) Sakura pink cherry blossom throughout Japan. It usually lasts for around 2 weeks in April starting in the South of Japan and continuing on progressive dates the further north you go.
2.) A couple of years ago I visited Washington DC at the height of the Blossom season where we were given the most amazing sight of the Cherry blossoms lining the Potomac river donated to Washington by the Japanese. The first two trees were planted in 1912 and are still standing today along with 3018 others!
The photo I took this morning and although it is not a cherry blossom it is apple blossom which is as equally beautiful until you have to sweep up the fallen petals. I used to have a massive ornamental cherry tree in my garden that was beautiful but was becoming dangerous. I called a tree surgeon in to deal with it. I was really sad to hear him say it was over 100 years old. I felt like I had murdered something having had it chopped down.
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@garymarsh6 (23393)
• United Kingdom
9 Apr 20
Yes how horrible. The trees are letting us know it is going to be a good year and things will get better!
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@garymarsh6 (23393)
• United Kingdom
9 Apr 20
Yes I love the magnolia tree but their blooms are going in a week or two if you are very lucky!
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@marlina (154166)
• Canada
14 Apr 20
@garymarsh6 My neighbor has a magnolia tree, lovely to look at it but disappears too fast for sure.
@LadyDuck (458230)
• Switzerland
9 Apr 20
It is warm (too warm) and beautiful here too, I worked in the garden, now I am paying this with itchy eyes due to the pollen. I love the trees in Spring, the magnolia trees have already shred their flowers and they are growing the leaves, that is a shame.
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@LadyDuck (458230)
• Switzerland
10 Apr 20
@garymarsh6 I see the daffodils and the hyacinths in the gardens right now, it is a shame not to walk in the woods to see the bluebells. Our police is really busy stopping the Swiss German tourists from coming here today.
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@garymarsh6 (23393)
• United Kingdom
10 Apr 20
@LadyDuck Good. What do they not understand about lock down. We too have many morons breaking the social isolation quarantine. They fine them a paltry £60 which is nothing. I think it should be £1000 which would be a far better deterrent!
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@garymarsh6 (23393)
• United Kingdom
10 Apr 20
Magnolia is my favourite tree Anna. So sad the flowers do not last long. No countryside drives for us to see all the bluebells either this year! I bet they are gorgeous right now !
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@Hannihar (129481)
• Israel
10 Apr 20
@garymarsh6
I like the picture you took. Was that your first trip to the United States?
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@garymarsh6 (23393)
• United Kingdom
10 Apr 20
No I have been to the USA many times luckily for me. The first time was in 1981 when I went to California which was quite a rarity a Brit going all the way over to that side of the USA. I fell in love with America. My eyes were like saucers everything was so beautiful and big in comparison to the UK.
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@garymarsh6 (23393)
• United Kingdom
10 Apr 20
@Hannihar Although we were based in San Francisco we drove down to Anaheim and went to Disneyland and universal studios. We stopped in Monterey on the way down. We had the most wonderful time. I walked over the Golden Gate Bridge flew over it drove over it went under it in a boat. Walked and walked our legs off. I liked Sausalito across the bay! Everything was just perfect to me and lobster on fishermans quay was superb. I also enjoyed riding on the trams! What great fun and the views are fantastic. I walked up and down Lombard street I was in my element! The only thing I thought very funny was when people would hear our accents and ask us to speak English! I should write a post about it Hanni !
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@Hannihar (129481)
• Israel
10 Apr 20
@garymarsh6
Where did you go in California? Did you go to Disneyland? Something new makes one very curious.
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@Lakshman15 (2662)
• India
10 Apr 20
Wow amazing picture you taken. Thanks for sharing us.. Hear we have hot summer yaar
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@garymarsh6 (23393)
• United Kingdom
10 Apr 20
@Lakshman15 Yes it is a very beautiful state, We spent just over 2 weeks starting in Chennai and drove down to Madurai. Wonderful.
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@garymarsh6 (23393)
• United Kingdom
10 Apr 20
I was in India last January in Tamil Nadu it was very pleasant. A little hot on some days but apart from that it was nice.
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@Lakshman15 (2662)
• India
10 Apr 20
@garymarsh6 I am from Tamilnadu. Nice to meet you hear
Thanks for liking my home place..
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@garymarsh6 (23393)
• United Kingdom
9 Apr 20
I hope you get the opportunity one day!
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@garymarsh6 (23393)
• United Kingdom
10 Apr 20
@yumiko23 If we did not have the virus I would have been there today! 
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@yumiko23 (206)
• Philippines
9 Apr 20
@garymarsh6 i'll save up for that and i hope that this pandemic will be over soon.
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@simone10 (54189)
• Louisville, Kentucky
10 Apr 20
@garymarsh6 I totally agree! We have to make the most out of a bad situation and what better way to do that than enjoy nature.
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@garymarsh6 (23393)
• United Kingdom
10 Apr 20
Nature is full of beauty! These things should bring much pleasure at this time!
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@amadeo (111948)
• United States
9 Apr 20
Good morning gary thank you for sharing this.I am sick and tired of some of the people here complaining.
Can they keep their mouth shut and do something meaningful.They are terrible with people dying and getting sick.They complain they cannot find TP is this not pathetic it is.Sorry about the rant.
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@garymarsh6 (23393)
• United Kingdom
9 Apr 20
NO worries. It is good to get it off your chest. Of course you live in a beautiful part of America renowned for its beautiful colourful autumn. I have to say I prefer the spring because we know better weather is on its way. Keep in there we will beat this Alfredo! Just keep other people away from you !
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@amadeo (111948)
• United States
9 Apr 20
@garymarsh6 thank you Gary.So far have been.Mike does most of errands as I stay put.
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@garymarsh6 (23393)
• United Kingdom
10 Apr 20
@amadeo Good because you are in a very susceptible category. You are far more important than this damned virus!
@Tampa_girl7 (49013)
• United States
16 Apr 20
I noticed blossoms on our apple and pear tree yesterday.
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@garymarsh6 (23393)
• United Kingdom
16 Apr 20
Lovely that means summer is on the way!
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@garymarsh6 (23393)
• United Kingdom
10 Apr 20
It was such a shame but it was becoming dangerous!
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@thelme55 (76476)
• Germany
10 Apr 20
@garymarsh6 yes, it was better that you have cut it so that no one would be harm when it fall down.
@garymarsh6 (23393)
• United Kingdom
10 Apr 20
They are beautiful when they are in bloom!
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@nela13 (55700)
• Portugal
10 Apr 20
@garymarsh6 mine is still a young tree, but it already has blooms this year.
@garymarsh6 (23393)
• United Kingdom
10 Apr 20
Great I hope as the days pass in lockdown your trees will provide lots of colour and beauty in your garden.
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@garymarsh6 (23393)
• United Kingdom
10 Apr 20
It was terribly sad but it was getting a bit dangerous!
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@Butterfingers (66585)
• India
9 Apr 20
It used to be chilly here but today am experiencing like it's summers so we will soon have the intense summers and spring is gone
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@garymarsh6 (23393)
• United Kingdom
9 Apr 20
What part of India are you living?
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@garymarsh6 (23393)
• United Kingdom
9 Apr 20
@Butterfingers Oh nice I have not been there! OK I have not been that far North maybe one day once all this has settled down! It is handy to picturise where people are living.
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@Butterfingers (66585)
• India
9 Apr 20
@garymarsh6 Chandigarh. It's in the north
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@garymarsh6 (23393)
• United Kingdom
9 Apr 20
I expect it is all the same in Germany right now too!
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@changjiangzhibin89 (16533)
• China
9 Apr 20
Where I live,the common Cherry blossom is Kwanzan Flowering Cherry (Prunus-serrulata‘kwanzan’).Now they are in full blossom.
https://www.directgardening.com/241-trees/4660-kwanzan-flowering-cherry#/quantity-1
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@garymarsh6 (23393)
• United Kingdom
10 Apr 20
The county where I live is known as the garden of England. We grow lots of fruit here apples, pears, cherries so you can imagine how beautiful it is at this time of year!
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@DianneN (246906)
• United States
9 Apr 20
Yikes! Sorry about your tree!
I have a weeping cherry in my yard up north that lost a huge branch during a blizzard that subsequently sent us off to Florida.
Hubs trimmed it and it grew back. It’s in full bloom now.
My son’s cherry tree is also in full bloom. Our trees ate placed in the lawns, so no chance of slipping.
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@DianneN (246906)
• United States
9 Apr 20
@garymarsh6 They sure are! Too bad it’s for such a short time.
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@garymarsh6 (23393)
• United Kingdom
10 Apr 20
Spring is the best time of year for me.
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@garymarsh6 (23393)
• United Kingdom
9 Apr 20
Yes Washington. But I know this year the festival is cancelled. Never mind there will be other years!
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@Janet357 (75656)
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9 Apr 20
@garymarsh6 yes. So.many major events have been cancelled.
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@garymarsh6 (23393)
• United Kingdom
10 Apr 20
They call them surgeons because they cut things off or cut trees down! 
