Week in garden

During last week

- even though it has been cold - 

in the garden has happened a lot.

Yes, a lot of weeds has sprout out,

but also a lot of beauty.

Like Armenian grape hyacinths...

Navelworts...

Narcissuses...

cowslip primroses...

Alpine pennycresses

(yes, I know they are "official" counted as weed)

More and more wood anemones

Elephant-ears, food of copse snails (arianta arbustorum)...

And few more  lawndaisies...

And my darling Gift from St Petersburg:

I bought it from Estonia late 90'.

It was Prunus triloba, but rabbits ate all the engrafted parts.

However it started the root growth,

and I decided to wait and see,

what it will turn up.

After few years of blooming I believed it is some kind of apple,

but then it made fruits.

Yellow, sweet, small, smelled different than anything I had smelled before.

The answer was closer than I guessed:

I have colleague from Estonia,

and she was thrilled to get these fruits she hasn't eaten after childhood.

And she knew the name :-)

It blooms so early,

that rather any pollinators are flying,

so harvest is very rare,

but it delights me,

when I wake up and see it from bedroom window,

when I come back from work,

and see it from library window...

It has made few descendants,

so I have confidence that it will be blooming for years more...

Every spring I wait for it bloom,

and every spring I am a bit worried,

if it hasn't make it through winter.

But it seems to be tenacious.