Literally busting out......

.....allover!  Our Stellata is flowering, as it always does, early in March.  Then we have a gale and all the petals get blown away!  Happens year after year. I tell it to wait a bit but does it listen....no, of course not!  I'm very fond of this tree, it's been moved once or maybe twice but always survives.  Bedroom cleaned, back aching.  I deserve a large gin, I think.