The first tulips are blooming now, as is the peach tree, the plum tree, and the morello cherry. You can see the latter in the background here:
The little one in the foreground is a dwarf apple tree (an old variety, called Goldparmäne) that was not overly happy on our friend's balcony, and consequently was allowed to go to a new home in our garden. It is showing small leaf tips now, and we hope very much it will like its new spot, and make apples for us.
The willow fence is also working on its new shoots - it always takes a little longer for the fully pruned willow to sprout again from the latent buds. On the picture, you can see how much difference in thickness there is between individual stems - and you can also see that the lower arches are troublesome, as they tend to die off at about halfway or three quarters up, and so we're re-bending a lot of last year's shoots to close the arches every spring (that's the slim, bright green ones).
