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The plum trees came into bloom while I was away.*

Did the cherry trees seem to bloom in more distinct waves this year -- pink, then white, then puffball pink? It seemed like it to me -- maybe it's just that Cook Street Village blooms differently than James Bay, where I remember streets of pale and bright mixed, leading to various vague internal ramblings about aesthetic juxtapositions during various vague external ramblings through its streets.

The plum trees* are also pink (or white) but a much more satisfying pink, darker and more lipsticky without ever being in danger of becoming red.

There is a strange message on our voicemail from a hotel in New Brunswick. inlandsea?

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*I think they are plum trees. They look like cherry trees, only not. Actually, I have no idea what they are, but for the purposes of making me seem like an observant fan of the natural, let's assume plum trees. Thank you.

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plums

[xcaro.livejournal.com]

I could be wrong, I'm on the wrong coast and I've been away from all these things for so long but I think that you're likely seeing malus in bloom - apple and apple family, crab apples and whatnot. I don't remember a lot of plums in Victoria. I'm cool with being wrong.

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Re: plums

[radiantfracture]

There are plum trees -- I was walking by the TV studio one day (years ago) and a strange man gave me some off of the trees growing there. I'm not really plum-oriented, but I ate one and it was quite good. (I guess that makes them not properly ornamental plum, since they actually produced fruit.)

Here's Some bloke talking about the Trees of Victoria. He says crabapples are also very common, so I am still stumped. I'd have to go back and look at the leaves.

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Re: plums (crabapples)

[radiantfracture]

Right. I went and had another look. The have slightly serrated leaves, green shading to red, and small ball-shaped buds on stalks. Survey says: crabapples.

Sigh. Now do I amend the post, or what?

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Re: plums (crabapples)

[xcaro.livejournal.com]

Pfleh, I would just leave. It's a botanical discussion, it's supposed to be vague and floofy.

Btw, isn't it cool that roses and apples are in the same family? If you eat fresh rosehips, they do have a slightly appley flavour.

[penelopesque.livejournal.com]

I think you're a pretty observant fan of the natural even without the categorization.

[radiantfracture]

Thank you! When I was young I saw nature as more or less an undifferentiated mass of green, and I have been trying to learn to be particular ever since. I feel inadequate as to my knowledge of genera and species.

Which is not to say that taxonomy is the best way to understand things, but it gives the option of specifying.

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taxonomy

[xcaro.livejournal.com]

But it is a fun way to know things, especially for us OCD types in the audience. I loved horticulture school - wish I could have done it for four years rather than just one!

Mass of green - nothing wrong with that either of course, but I don't know, I guess I like knowing what stuff is. I like looking clever, which will be no surprise to anyone I'm sure.