A Plum

In the garden in the morning. Work goes on with the long flower bed. Today the first of our few autumn phloxes was dug up. We got many pieces of plants by dividing it. Other gardeners took them with a great pleasure, because they are strong after growing on the ground compared to small young seedlings in shops. In the allotment we also have a spring market after a week and we put up some of these for sale to outsiders too. Our garden association will have the return.

However, the blip of today is of our dying plum. It has been doing it for years now. After every winter some branches, bigger or smaller, are dead. The big branch in the picture is left anymore. Still it continues to bloom and product fruits. It seems to be full of flower buds once again. I suppose there will be 3-6 buckets of plums in autumn. The plum is yellow-fruit 'Victoria', an old English species. It is able to get itself to death by producing plums very much. That's why the small green plums have to be gathered off to help the tree to survive the work.