Peaches

Spaniards had brought figs, pomegranates, and peaches to the region a hundred years before Carolina was founded by the English. Naturalized and well established, these and other exotica were taken for granted by Charlestonians from the beginning, even though peaches won’t grow on the coast. The nearest orchard to the “Holy City” is about 60 miles inland, but as soon as the first clingstones begin to ripen, trucks full of half-bushel baskets appear along the Ocean Highway and in suburban parking lots for the rest of the summer.