Instant Inspiration: Photos from The Life & Love of Trees
Extraordinary images from some of the world's leading nature photographers.
Ontario, Canada
Species: Prunus persica
Photographer: Chris Tomaidis
A nectarine orchard in bloom in the Niagara Peninsula
of Ontario, Canada, is a beautiful and increasingly rare
sight. The cultivation of peaches (nectarines are a kind
of peach, but are a cultivar group with a recessive
gene that prevents the growth of the fuzzy skin) is
increasingly less commercially viable in Canada due to
global competition and the marginal weather
conditions of the region. Peaches originally came from
China, but are now cultivated and farmed around the
world, being the second largest fruit crop after apples
in the United States.
From The Life & Love of Trees by Lewis Blackwell. Image © Chris Tomaidis
From the
November 2009 issue of
O, The Oprah Magazine
