The wild apricot tree, the equines love, looked like this
Just barely sitting buds
Then in three days —-
It started to burst forth—-just in time for the 60 mph cold, bitter winds and freezing temperatures at night.
Sigh!
Your friend on a western Colorado farm,
Linda
Life on a Colorado Farm 
Your apricots tree is a predictor of the cold storms that blow through in the spring.
In all these years, I can only think of one or two years that beautiful tree bloomed and you were blessed with apricots ~
Same with my crocus & daffodils out front. They started blooming and we got freezing rain, snow and high winds…
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Sigh. Spring can be hard
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The peaches in Palisade are budding out also. 😦
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I am always saddened by my beautiful tree flowers being hit by the bitter cold after they have bloomed.
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I so understand
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Java Bean: “Ayyy, I have heard that we used to have a couple of apricot trees just outside the fence! Rumor has it they spoiled Mama and Dada for store-bought apricots forever! Sadly, they both died at about the same time, of old age, Dada thinks …”
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Store-bought are hard and old and wrinkled. Maybe a couple of new trees in the future? Your area should be great for apricot trees
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No Apricots this year…so sad:(
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It’s a rare year if we get apricots
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Hang in there I would kill for 60 🙂
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60?
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We don’t have any fruit trees, but we’ve lost all the blooming flowers we had in our yard.
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Oh shoot
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22 the other night popped a bunch of fruit trees here too. 😦
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Crazy early 😞
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Oh no such bad timing with the weather
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Yes
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