Q. We have some fruit trees in our back yard that just now began to bloom… can the brocho still be made this Shabbat as it is already Sivan?

A. This year, due to the earliness of Pesach, the blooming of trees at this latitude occurred very late on the Jewish calendar. Although “the days of Nisan” are mentioned in regards to reciting birchas hoilonos (Brochos 43b – Shulchan Oruch O.H. 226, 1), Poiskim maintain that when required it could be said earlier on Adar (Kerem Shlomo 226,1 – Shulchan Hatohor ibid. – Bais Hayotzer 12 et al.) or after Nisan. (Chasam Sofer , hagoos O.H. 226 – Zichron Yehuda – Magid Taaluma 43b – Nitey Gavriel, Pesach I, 6, 5) and even on Sivan (Aruch Hashulchan ibid. – Nitey Gavriel ibid, see also question 83 on this forum).

Rabbi A. Bartfeld as revised by Horav Shlomo Miller Shlit”a