Garden News

There is not a lot one can say about the garden during the winter. There might be hints of color in California but not here. My back yard has been a symphony of taupe, tan, and gray for months. In the past two days that has begun to change. We have the beginning of blossoms on some fruit trees!

My apologies that this one is not in focus, but at least you can get some of the color on the peach blossoms. The Red Haven peach has swollen pink buds and will follow very soon. The Red Haven is the one that bore two peaches last year, and they were incredibly delicious.

This is the one that bloomed yesterday.

And you can see that though only a few have opened the Santa Rosa is covered with blossoms.

My concern, of course, is that with blooms this early and the likelihood of another frost (or full-on freeze) in the next month and a half being pretty high, I have no idea whether fruit will set, or if it does, how much. Still, flowering trees for Easter seems pretty exciting.

The cherries have buds but still have a ways to go and the yellow delicious apple is much further behind.
--the BB