We are busy packing herb plants and sending them south, where spring is well under way. Once again, when weather expresses itself and it does so in dramatic fashion. From what the news says, the pounding rain we received all night was felt along the entire Atlantic Seaboard! Just like the snow-storms this winter, a little does not seem to be enough.

Despite the poor Monday weather, Saturday was as beautiful as a spring day should be. I took this photo of our dwarf peach orchard in full bloom. On closer inspection one finds varying shades of light pink. Each cultivar of peach tree has been carefully bred for peaches, so the flower color is of no importance.

I thought about how as a greenhouse grower, I am mostly interested in the flowers and how well a plant can present them. The reason we grow a spring crop of flowering annual plants is because we believe herb gardening would be boring indeed without flowers.