Buds Flowers and Fruit - 2023 Edition

YES to this! The smell of orange blossoms is my favorite smell in the world. I planted several citrus near my deck so that I can enjoy this wonderful feature! :blush:

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Pleione orchids

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Early Fuji Chip Bud Graft Blossom on Seedling Rootstock.


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Hazelnut, female

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So curvaceous!

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it’s early days here as you can see; daffies and tulips and the saffron crocus are barely beginning to wake. the iris are also peeking. wine mom turtle approves




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Impressive camera work and beautiful flower.
The actual female flower of hazelnut is very tiny.
This is mine:

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Daffodils are almost done and Irises have started picking up. They are slowly spreading throughout the garden

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you’re zone 5 with these going so early,! mine are still asleep in zone 6.

Artic Blue in the rain

Vick’s Caprice today

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White volunteer freesia

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Wenatchee Moorpark Apricots
03/28/23

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White Himalayan mulberry

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And we have a winner! Duke, as usual, and it looks like it’s already midway between :female_sign: and :male_sign: (but not yet releasing pollen):

That’s the only open flower on either Duke graft today, it looks like more will open tomorrow, and a few other cultivars aren’t far behind.

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Ebb Tide
This morning

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Artic Blue
This morning

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Another volunteer Iris

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Early Mcintosh

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Azeala

Young Lycidas

Cloud 10

Flanders fig, breba, and I don’t trim this tree down, I want it to reach for the sun, plus using it to stake my rose Young Lycidas, a twofer, lol.

best yet, I’ve been wondering whatever happened to my artichoke plants, well here it is, finally a bud, exciting.

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Bacon avocado

Hass avocado

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My Glenglo peach bloomed early this year. It spent a couple years in a pot which runted it out. Maybe it’ll gain some vigor now that it spent some time in the ground.

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Sweet cherries , Shiro Plums , Brubank plum , Multi grafted pecahes and zyper Nectarines. While pluots and Apricots got fully damaged with frost .







Lovel Rootstock flowering!





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Naeem, thanks for posting the pictures. I didn’t realise Lovell rootstock has showy flowers. It seems worthwhile to save a rootstock branch while grafting other scions onto it just for the flowers .

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