April showers are bringing May flowers. While we grow the petunia flowers for their beauty, we also have several edible flowers. Our harvest of violas continues, and this week, we added flowering chervil and horse radish flowers to them.

We have violas scattered throughout the Garden. Spring is their favorite weather, so we have plenty, which we are harvesting regularly.

The camas are blooming! We planted them in an area of the garden with a high water table during winter, hoping that they would thrive where everything else we have tried to grow in that area has failed. Finally, we have succeeded. The camas love their new home.

Weeds are plants growing where we do not want them. Since we spend increasing amounts of time dealing with weeds, it’s beneficial to look at their beauty while removing the unwanted plants. Baby Blue Eyes popped up in the middle of Clover in this photo.

We will have flowers from kale, collards, and broccoli until the soil dries enough for rototilling. We will include them in our regular edible flower harvest schedule.

This week despite some freezing rainy days, spring is marching on. We harvested the first of the pea shoots. We only have them for a short time in spring before they get turned under to feed the soil, so enjoy them while they are around.

The flowering cherry trees, which line the road in front of the garden, are in full bloom. This year, they are particularly spectacular because the weather has been benign.

There is nothing like a few days of sunshine and warmer temperatures to hustle plants into growing. For the first time in three years, the plums are blooming, and it isn’t raining, which means the bees will be busy pollinating.

This flowering quince is a promise of spring. What a contrast between last week and this week. The snow is gone, and though the temperatures dropped below freezing for a few nights, the sun made up for the cold nights. Spring is on the way.

March came in like a lion after lulling us into thinking that warm weather had arrived. The plants aren’t fooled. They are growing appropriately for this time of year.