Together with friends we admired the wonderful landscape, birdlife and flowers in April. This year the flowering was about three weeks earlier than last year. The poor rainfall in winter was also noticeable, whereas it looks much better in the mountains. Even swimming in the sea was possible at 20°C water temperature! Some impressions here:
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Hidden flowers of the Carob tree
End of October 2021: An observation I made for the first time is the hidden flowers of the carob tree. Apparently it is something similar to the rather rare phenomenon of trunk flowering (cauliflory), because the flower set is only visible inside the tree, on coarser branches. Well, they then also have to bear the weight of the fruit. Incidentally, the seed was the unit of measurement for the carat (gold) in ancient times.
