Masses of white and pink blossoms in a rare almond grove in the Czech Republic appeared earlier than usual after one of the hottest winters on record. The almond trees are usually among the first to bloom at the beginning of spring, on the turn of March to April, in this southeastern corner of the Central European country.
A couple kiss on a warm day at a blooming almond grove in Hustopece, Czech Republic, Tuesday, March 19, 2024. Masses of white and pink blossoms in a rare almond grove in the Czech Republic appeared earlier than usual after one of the hottest winters on record. People enjoy a warm day at a blooming almond grove in Hustopece, Czech Republic, Tuesday, March 19, 2024.
Almond-growing areas include California, the countries around the Mediterranean Sea, Chile and Australia. But the Czech Republic, given its colder climate, is definitely the odd one out.“It really is nothing out of the ordinary,” Katerina Kopova said on Tuesday about the early blossoms. Behind the Iron Curtain, there was a significant shortage of goods from the West, from bananas to almonds. Communist states’ currencies were not convertible and the struggling command economies failed to produce enough decent goods to sell in exchange for hard currency.
By 1960, the grove had some 50,000 trees covering an area of some 185 hectares, a rarity in Central Europe. Some 15 years ago, students from local schools discovered that the town had something extraordinary, and encouraged the town hall to acquire the neglected property.
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