I caught blossom season in Japan during one of my pre-pandemic visits, admiring the plum blossoms which usually come before cherry blossoms. Not quite as famous as cherry blossoms, but they can look similar enough / the same to the uninitiated.

This is a Japanese white-eye perched on a plum blossom branch in Tokyo's Koishikawa Korakuen Garden.

#Photography #PlumBlossom #PlumBlossoms

**Tom** @firephoto@mastodon.social · Apr 16

Apr 16

Tom @firephoto@mastodon.social

A small native pollinator on the Imperial Epineuse Plum, Prunus domestica.

A photo showing a single plum blossom with a tiny bee on one of the petals. The flower is white with 5 petals. The bee is black with a gold/yellow and black striped abdomen.

#orchard #prunus #NativePollinators

**Tom** @firephoto@mastodon.social · Apr 11

Apr 11

Tom @firephoto@mastodon.social

Honey bee and plum blossoms.

A photo showing one honey bee on a cluster of Santa Rosa plum blossoms. The bee is on the lower left side of the flowers. The flowers have white petals. There are some emerging green leaves amongst them. There are some poplar catkins hanging within the flowers that are sorta purple.

#BloomScrollingWithBee #bees #pollinators

**すもも** @yumiko@vivaldi.net · Apr 6

Apr 6

すもも @yumiko@vivaldi.net

すももの花
春の光に輝いて咲いています(´∀｀*)

#すもも #すももの花 #plum

**Victor** @flmmkch@pixelfed.fr · Mar 31

Mar 31

Victor @flmmkch@pixelfed.fr

Printemps à Montreuil
Mars 2025

Sony Alpha 7C
#photography #photographie #flower #flowers #flowerphotography #urbanphotography #paris #montreuil #plants #tree #trees #plumblossom #nature #naturephotography #spring #printemps #bee

Small, white blowers and young leaves budding on the branches of a tree, against the backdrop of a blue sky with white clouds. A bee is flying in the middle of a group of flowers, in the middle of the picture.

#bee

**Kazue Mino** @Minocampbell3@mastodon.scot · Mar 29 *

Mar 29 *

Kazue Mino @Minocampbell3@mastodon.scot

Some more spring impressions from my hometown.

We had several days of warm spell (high twenties) and today we're back to 5-6C. Sometimes I feel like I'm still in Scotland..

Two tiny white crocus blooms (about 1 to 1.5cm wide in diametre). The ground around them are carpeted with small green leaves.

Pale pink plum blossoms agains the background of light blue sky.

Camellia type deep and bright pink flowers and their dark green leaves.

A miniature blue flower (about 5mm in diamitre) with five petals and whitish yellow disk in the middle, blooming on the ground with some light green (some brown) leaves on the ground. As I was taking this picture, our dog got curious and nosed around the area I was photographing. Thus, on the upper left side of the picture, we can see a massive, creamy-coloured, and out of focus muzzle of our dog.

#Spring #ScottishWeather #crocus

**mizblueprint** @mizblueprint@mastodon.online · Mar 25

Mar 25

mizblueprint @mizblueprint@mastodon.online

Fruit trees are blooming! #PlumBlossom time, and the #BOBS, #BlueOrchardBees are at work.
#Gardening

White plum blossoms with slender stamens and yellow anthers, with out of focus bulbs and trees in the background.

A weathered bee house on a white wood lap sided garage, with most mud plugs opened and a dark smudge where a group of Blue Orchard Bees are mating.

**Kazue Mino** @Minocampbell3@mastodon.scot · Mar 18

Mar 18

Kazue Mino @Minocampbell3@mastodon.scot

Some spring impressions in my hometown.

White, small daffodils blooming in the sunshine. A carpet of tiny purple flowers can be seen at the back, along with some glimpses of a bamboo forest and blue sky.

Looking up at leafless branches of a tall tree, against the background of bright blue sky.

Some pink plum blossoms of a tiny tree. Warm sunshine and blue sky with some Japanese style houses in the background.

A view of a very quiet but nice and warm street on a sunny day. On its right, some houses can be seen. On its left side, a park with green lawn, some trees, and some benches and a simple roof above them, can be seen.

#daffodils #trees #plumblossom

**Carson Hill** @dicenbuttons@mastodon.social · Mar 11 *

Mar 11 *

Carson Hill @dicenbuttons@mastodon.social

I was feeling under the weather today so I took a nap instead of a walk. When I got home from work, our thundercloud #plum tree greeted me the best way it could.

Here's the first blossom of the season!

Tomorrow and the days that follow will yield more, but this was the first one (at least, the first near the ground) that opened up to say hi.

Thankful for small joys like this.

A single open plum blossom, pink and new, at the end of a narrow branch with a lichen-coated trunk out of focus behind it. Several other buds are about to open, to keep it company soon.

#sakura #plumblossom #bloomscrolling

**すもも** @yumiko@vivaldi.net · Mar 10

Mar 10

すもも @yumiko@vivaldi.net

ピンクの梅の花
少しずつ暖かくなって春の足音が日増しに大きくなってきました♪

#梅 #梅の花 #plumblossom

**The Smartphone Photographer** @AverageS@pixelfed.social · Mar 9

Mar 9

The Smartphone Photographer @AverageS@pixelfed.social

Blooms Against a Blue Sky. #SpringFlowers #CherryBlossom #PlumBlossom #PinkFlowers #BlossomTime #NaturePhotography #FloralPhotography #SpringInBloom #spring #springtime #blossom #smartphonephotography #photography

#photography

**Tanuki.no.mori** @tanukinomori_jp@mastodon.social · Mar 6

Mar 6

Tanuki.no.mori @tanukinomori_jp@mastodon.social

Early spring in Kyoto: Plum and cherry blossoms

1. Jonangu Shrine (Minami Ward, Kyoto City)
2. Kanchiin Temple (Minami Ward, Kyoto City)
3. Koshoji Temple (Shimogyo Ward, Kyoto City)
4. Chotokuji Temple (Sakyo Ward, Kyoto City)

#japan #kyoto #spring

**Mera.tabi** @mera.tabi@pixelfed.social · Mar 4

Mar 4

Mera.tabi @mera.tabi@pixelfed.social

Plum blossom.
梅。

#japan #ibaraki #plumblossom #日本　 #春　 #梅　 #茨城県

#茨城県

**Jim Rion・ライオンジミー** @JimRion@pixelfed.tokyo · Feb 22

Feb 22

Jim Rion・ライオンジミー @JimRion@pixelfed.tokyo

The ume are just now starting to bloom. Better later than never!
梅がやっと咲き始めた。まだまだですが、それでも綺麗だ。
#Japan #PlumBlossom #Nature #梅

A view down a grassy hillside dotted with low trees. They are bare of leaves, but one in the foreground is covered with white blossoms.

A shot through the branches of an ume tree. Blurry pink blossoms dot the branches, with one in sharp focus in the center.

#梅

**John Englart** @takvera@c.im · Aug 16, 2024

Aug 16, 2024

John Englart @takvera@c.im

Hope the bees know it’s time to wake up, as my plum trees think it’s spring.

We’ve had a string of days in the top 5% measured against average temperatures for this time of year. Melbourne was 6-8C above average yesterday. This is climate change loading the dice.

This may produce environmental mismatch as early fruit blossoms lack insects for pollination.

#plumblossom
#winterwarmth
#FoodSecurity
#climatecrisis
#temperatures
#temperatureanomaly
#Melbourne #Naarm
#lifeInFawkner