I couldn’t resist featuring Cherry Ingram’s ‘Great White Cherry’ again. The weather has been pretty endlessly cold and wet, so the foliage has been held back while the flowers stay with us longer.
Our cherries are easily the brightest thing in the valley, filled with blossom at the moment.
And as it starts to get dark, there they hover like four little white clouds. They are doing exactly what I wanted them to do – in terms of shape – when I planted them. Looking like something out of a Japanese paint. Sometimes things work out perfectly…
It’s only today that I’m starting to see a bit of petal flutter – not much though, because I’m lurking inside, keeping dry from the rain. You can see from my photographs that the river has flooded, coming into the bottom of the garden. It’s about the third time this year, I think.
The rain is a nuisance, since we’ve had so much of it that the ground is completely saturated and I’ve a lot of planting and sowing to do. It’ll have to wait until the sun comes out and the temperature warms: we are promised that this will begin tomorrow!
On Easter Monday, our reward for all that rain was the most glorious rainbow.
Have a wonderful week!
Garden Dreaming at Châtillon 
very interesting. Lovely rainbow pictures xxx
It all looks gorgeous. Especially the cherries. The rainbows are landing in the right place for you 😉
beautiful moody pictures! Your garden looks perfect Cathy! Keep the good work going! Beatrix
Beautiful spring images and a double rainbow. A positive feature of a spring shower.
Wow, lots of rain, but what a delight to see a rainbow. Your cherries are gorgeous!
Yes – and it was raining AGAIN today, 2 May!
Cherry and other fruit bloom are so pretty. I grew up with mostly stone fruit orchards, with a few pomme fruit trees nearby. To me, they are as alluring as their fruitless counterparts that were developed for showier bloom (such as flowering cherries and flowering crabapples).