{"id":1038,"date":"2013-08-15T15:48:19","date_gmt":"2013-08-15T01:48:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hobbsorchard.co.nz\/blog\/hobbsorc_blog\/wordpress\/?p=1038"},"modified":"2013-08-15T15:50:04","modified_gmt":"2013-08-15T01:50:04","slug":"early-spring-photos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hobbsorchard.co.nz\/blog\/hobbsorc_blog\/wordpress\/?p=1038","title":{"rendered":"Early Spring Photos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s some more early spring photos folks.<br \/>\nThe blossoms on the Sundrop and Earli Rill Apricots are almost at full bloom and the bees are working flat out.<br \/>\nWe&#8217;re meant to have some wet weather coming in over the next few days so I had to race out this morning and apply a blossom spray.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve been lucky enough to not have any frosts over the past couple of days.<br \/>\nWe did have a slight one on Tuesday morning but the temp didn&#8217;t drop down to -2c until just before 6am so I only had to run the sprinklers for a couple of hours until the sun was up.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1043\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hobbsorchard.co.nz\/blog\/hobbsorc_blog\/wordpress\/?attachment_id=1043\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1043\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1043\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1043\" title=\"IMG_2281\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hobbsorchard.co.nz\/blog\/hobbsorc_blog\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_2281.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hobbsorchard.co.nz\/blog\/hobbsorc_blog\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_2281.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.hobbsorchard.co.nz\/blog\/hobbsorc_blog\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_2281-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1043\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sundrop Apricot Blossoms<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_1041\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hobbsorchard.co.nz\/blog\/hobbsorc_blog\/wordpress\/?attachment_id=1041\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1041\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1041\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1041\" title=\"IMG_2358\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hobbsorchard.co.nz\/blog\/hobbsorc_blog\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_2358.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hobbsorchard.co.nz\/blog\/hobbsorc_blog\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_2358.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.hobbsorchard.co.nz\/blog\/hobbsorc_blog\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_2358-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1041\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Looking down from up by the dam.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1042\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hobbsorchard.co.nz\/blog\/hobbsorc_blog\/wordpress\/?attachment_id=1042\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1042\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1042\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1042\" title=\"IMG_2264\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hobbsorchard.co.nz\/blog\/hobbsorc_blog\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_2264.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hobbsorchard.co.nz\/blog\/hobbsorc_blog\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_2264.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.hobbsorchard.co.nz\/blog\/hobbsorc_blog\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_2264-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1042\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Almond Blossom<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_1044\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hobbsorchard.co.nz\/blog\/hobbsorc_blog\/wordpress\/?attachment_id=1044\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1044\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1044\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1044\" title=\"IMG_2344\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hobbsorchard.co.nz\/blog\/hobbsorc_blog\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_2344.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hobbsorchard.co.nz\/blog\/hobbsorc_blog\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_2344.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.hobbsorchard.co.nz\/blog\/hobbsorc_blog\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_2344-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1044\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sundrop Apricots in partial bloom.<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_1039\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hobbsorchard.co.nz\/blog\/hobbsorc_blog\/wordpress\/?attachment_id=1039\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1039\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1039\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1039\" title=\"IMG_1490\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hobbsorchard.co.nz\/blog\/hobbsorc_blog\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_1490.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hobbsorchard.co.nz\/blog\/hobbsorc_blog\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_1490.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.hobbsorchard.co.nz\/blog\/hobbsorc_blog\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_1490-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1039\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Me applying a blossom spray to the Earli Rill Apricots.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hobbsorchard.co.nz\/blog\/hobbsorc_blog\/wordpress\/?attachment_id=1040\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1040\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1040\" title=\"IMG_2353\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hobbsorchard.co.nz\/blog\/hobbsorc_blog\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_2353.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hobbsorchard.co.nz\/blog\/hobbsorc_blog\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_2353.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.hobbsorchard.co.nz\/blog\/hobbsorc_blog\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_2353-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s some more early spring photos folks. The blossoms on the Sundrop and Earli Rill Apricots are almost at full bloom and the bees are working flat out. We&#8217;re meant to have some wet weather coming in over the next few days so I had to race out this morning and apply a blossom spray. 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