Sure the peppers, potatoes, onions, and garlic all look great. And yes, they are reminders that for local Arizona desert farms, summer is here. But it was the flowers on display that demanded my attention. After July 1st the flowers will be few and far between out at Tonopah Rob’s Vegetable Farm, a matter of fact, the farm will fall into a dormant state of brown until those first green shoots reappear come late September. During the winter months, while lettuce, spinach, beets, and carrots riddle the plots with salady wonderfulness, there is nary a flower to be found. Come around May and the explosion of color is hard to miss. With love-lies-bleeding, amaranth, carrot flower, sunflower, millet, cockscomb, freesia, and a host of vegetables that have bolted to seed, the local bee population is abuzz in delight as were my eyes this Sunday at Tonopah Rob’s Farm Stand.