Johnny Appleseed

Johnny Appleseed Day
celebrates John Chapman, legendary American pioneer and folk hero who planted apple trees across the American frontier. Chapman’s birthday is on September 26, but Johnny Appleseed Day is celebrated today.

I don't have a poem on apple blossoms. But here is a lovely haiku by Issa (1763 - 1828) on cherry blossoms, whose arrival in D.C. we are eagerly awaiting.

In the cherry blossom's shade

there's no such thing

as a stranger.