{"id":31931,"date":"2024-01-14T13:23:40","date_gmt":"2024-01-14T12:23:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/?p=31931"},"modified":"2024-01-14T13:23:42","modified_gmt":"2024-01-14T12:23:42","slug":"hundreds-of-thousands-of-flower-buds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/?p=31931","title":{"rendered":"Hundreds of thousands of flower buds"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>There was a heavy heavy snow fall during the night &#8211; heavy in depth of snow and heavy in that the snow itself is wet and branches were bent down to the ground including this hazel growing next to the pathway into the house. Bringing the branches down to ground level I was astonished to see that it was completely covered in male catkins in bud, each of which will have around 250 flowers which will emerge as soon as it gets milder in a few weeks!<br \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-31932 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/P1146378.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/P1146378.jpg 600w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/P1146378-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-31933 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/P1146376.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"777\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/P1146376.jpg 600w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/P1146376-232x300.jpg 232w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-31934 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/P1146373.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"806\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/P1146373.jpg 600w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/P1146373-223x300.jpg 223w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-31935 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/P1146372.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/P1146372.jpg 800w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/P1146372-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/P1146372-768x576.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/P1146372-640x480.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/>&#8230;and a few more pictures of the garden this morning:<br \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-31936 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/P1146387.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/P1146387.jpg 800w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/P1146387-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/P1146387-768x576.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/P1146387-640x480.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-31937 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/P1146385.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/P1146385.jpg 800w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/P1146385-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/P1146385-768x576.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/P1146385-640x480.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-31938 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/P1146371.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/P1146371.jpg 800w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/P1146371-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/P1146371-768x576.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/P1146371-640x480.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-31939 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/P1146370.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/P1146370.jpg 800w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/P1146370-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/P1146370-768x576.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/P1146370-640x480.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-31940 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/10480225_10152667694615860_3316746458196595234_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/10480225_10152667694615860_3316746458196595234_n.jpg 800w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/10480225_10152667694615860_3316746458196595234_n-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/10480225_10152667694615860_3316746458196595234_n-768x576.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/10480225_10152667694615860_3316746458196595234_n-640x480.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-31941 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/P1146368.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/P1146368.jpg 800w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/P1146368-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/P1146368-768x576.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/P1146368-640x480.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-31942\" src=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/P1146367.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/P1146367.jpg 600w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/P1146367-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There was a heavy heavy snow fall during the night &#8211; heavy in 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