A sunny but fresh day so I've been in the garden before breakfast to search for a shot. The top of the damson tree, where the blossom is more dense, is 25 feet high above the stream so we never manage to collect any damsons!
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Great shot. Love the blur of the trunk etc behind. I was just out in the garden taking similar shots of our damson tree! Not as good as this one. Our damsons fall on to the shingle drive each year and are usually too damaged to use even for jam!
I have just bought a damson tree. We had a lovely wild one where we lived before which was always loaded with fruit which I bottled, made pies and crumbles and lots of jam.
@w3n6y The damsons on this tree are very very small but a friend of Ray's has a tree which has damsons much bigger, the size of small plums almost. So maybe our tree is a wild damson. Along with the hazels, alder tree, and silver birch, it lines the bank the other side ot the stream.
@w3n6y@doblaine@creativeamateur@tishpics Thank you everybody! This blossom always seems so fleeting. Ray's friend gives us damsons from his tree so I do get to make damson jam and a crumble or two.
@creativeamateur Well here in the south of England with temperatures around 20 -22 C for the last week in March, we were beginning to think that we have had summer but after a cooler day, April 1st has turned out warm and sunny again. Our weather is very capricious!
The wild damson we had produced huge bunches of fruit almost like large grapes and they were so covered with yeast that they appeared to be bright blue. When you rubbed it off though they were dark purple, damson colour underneath.
