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HELLO, BLOSSOM

Spring is just so pretty you can forget that all those blossoms serve a serious purpose – to grow into sweet, delicious fruit at summer’s end. And spring means the end of a lean winter for bees – the blossoms’ sweet perfume attracts bees that transfer pollen from flower to flower and end up as fruit! Bees are rewarded with nectar. You, however, can have barrels – or bowls – of fresh apples, pears, peaches, nectarines, plums or cherries at your fingertips if you have a fruit tree in your garden.

1 SPRING ROSES

Apples are in the rose family and the five simple, fan-like petals of their blossoms show you just how far the development

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