My apricot tree hasn’t opened any buds!

[Doggydoggydoggy]

I’m so annoyed, it arrived today and I expected to see a nice leafy tree but what I took out the box was freezing cold with tightly closed, tiny brown buds, it’s still alive at least (scratched a bit of bark).

Obviously no apricots for me this year

It will have been kept coldish to prevent it from coming on too soon, and then suffering in transit. What part of the country did it come from? If it is from a long way up north, then it will be further behind seasonally anyway. I have a little willow that I bought last autumn online and it has only just produced some pussy willow in the last two days. It is probably the last tree to make a move in my garden and I put it down to the tree thinking it was still in the Hebrides.

Wait and see