Apple Blossom Time

Mar 27, 2013

Apple Blossom Time

Mar 27, 2013

It's apple blossom time.

Whether you wait for it, or the bees wait for it, it's here.

Albert Von Tilzer and Neville Fleeson wrote the popular song, "(I'll Be With You) in Apple Blossom Time" back in 1920 and then everyone from Artie Shaw to Harry James to the Andrews Sisters to Nat King Cole owned it.

But if you take a look at the Häagen-Dazs Honey Bee Haven on Bee Biology Road, UC Davis, you know who owns the blossoms--the bees.

Along the haven's Orchard Alley, the almonds and plums have finished blooming and now it's the apple blossom time.

 Malus domestica.