March weeds and peach blossoms

Chickweed

A weed is a plant that has mastered every survival skill except for learning how to grow in rows.  ~Doug Larson

 This being Spring, the chilly temperatures have not slowed the weeds at all. In a way, there is beauty in the flowers and the green. It is best to take pictures of the flowers and not think of how MANY of them there are.

Lovely, tiny blossoms. Too bad they aren't what we want in the yard

Don't forget to click on picture to enlarge

Common Stork's Bill

Common Stork's Bill

  It is fascinating to look up a flower, wild flower or weed with the
picture at hand.  I have lived with these weeds and wild flowers and
never tried to remember their names.

The weed blossoms are every bit as lovely as a wild flower. Unfortunately, they are not very well behaved and will take over an entire yard. The blossom is less than 1/2 inch across.


There is a wild flower called the Texas Stork's Bill.  The blossom is not the same other than five petals.  The Texas Stork's Bill is purple.

It is interesting to wonder why one is considered a "flower" and the other a "weed".

Common Stork's Bill

Ranger peach 20+ year old tree

More on weeds later.
The old peach trees are blooming.  The tired old trees may surprise us again this year. Nature got everything right in 2012 and we had peaches enough to share as well as dehydrate and freeze and make jam.
It would be lovely to share again.We are still asked if we have any peaches in summer.

Chocolate's okay, but I prefer a really intense fruit taste. You know when a peach is absolutely perfect... it's sublime. I'd like to capture that and then use it in a dessert.
fruit quote by Kathy Mattea

 

 

It could still freeze even in March and take away the hope of peaches

A friend told me this reminds her of a skirt blowing in the wind and leggings

This is the peach with it's blossom "hat"

 The ripest peach is highest on the tree.
fruit quote by James Whitcomb Riley

If well managed, nothing is more beautiful than the kitchen garden: the earliest blossoms come there: we shall in vain seek for flowering shrubs to equal the peaches, nectarines, apricots, and plums.
fruit quote by William Cobbett