Jackie French: Smell that? There’s a whiff of spring in the air | The Canberra Times

This is a magical week for the gardeners where Winter’s Daphne, Winter Pokers, Hellebores and Camellias are still full of blooming, but the spring symptoms have started. The first two yellow daffodils bloom and the more daffodil trunk throws out of the soil, thicker and more gray-green than the previous Jonquils. Crabapple and other leaf -shed fruit tree buds show a color clue, a time known as “Budburst”. This clue of red or pink, apricot, peach, plumcot, rose and burning, mold, bacterial sewing, curly leaves or blackheads, should produce you to spray other leaf trees prone to the juzras of the flower world.