Return of the blooms

Back in February we thought we had a  magnificent magnolia display in the garden as our favourite tree seemed to be flourishing remarkably early.
As it turned out it was rather too soon, because no sooner had we blipped the beauty of our magnolia, along came the overnight snaps of frost and put paid to the very early blooms.
It seemed they were taking a long time to recover, and when seemingly on every other road we passed or drove along, there were gorgeous displays of magnolia in the gardens.  Why should it be our tree which was hit by the frost, we asked, when everyone else’s appeared to have survived and continued to flourish.
Now it seems our patience and envy of all those trees we have seen around us in full bloom, is it seems paying off.  Once again the blooms are back and our tree is beginning to look much more like the tree we imagined, and indeed see every year.
Perhaps the positioning of our tree is not ideal when the frosts come, and is insufficiently sheltered, or is it that it does not get enough of the early morning sunshine?

Whichever, we can look up our magnolia with pride once again. That doesn’t men to say we still envy all those we see around us, also full of bloom, and have  seemed to have escaped the cold snaps.