Plants I'm Growing--First Blooms: Dwarf Peach, Nanking Cherry

First blooms today on the Nanking cherry by the birdbath (Prunus tomentosa), a bush cherry with very delicate pretty, ever-so-slightly pink blossoms. Yesterday we had the first blossoms--a rich, deep pink--on the dwarf peach in the back garden.

The Nanking cherry bloomed on March 2 in 2009 and on March 8 in 2010, for a year of 362 days this year and 371 days the year before, averaging to 366.5 days, close to an astronomical year. The Dwarf peach bloomed on March 2 in 2009 and February 22 in 2010, for a year of 377 days this year and 358 days in the year before, averaging to 367.5 days, also close to an actual year.