Tillamook Goumi,
Marshall Strawberry,
And a thornless Boysenberry.
Budding and flowering begins.
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Red gem goumi fruit forming…
On my red gem bush… this is a graft of carmine that I added last spring. You can see the size difference in the fruit in the early development stages .
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If you get lucky with that seedling - I’m always searching for later blooming/more frost “proof” stone fruit. To be fair my green gage was blooming a couple weeks ago, apricot a week ago, and peach this week … and it dropped below 20 last night. I have beautiful trees - fruit is too hit and miss though. I’m growing out a whole collection of Elberta seedlings from drought hardy orchard in the so cal high desert - fingers crossed something will do better, but i have other ones i could trade in another year?
March 15th!?
March 30th … 
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Illinois everbearing survived last nights frost, so it must not have been bad at all. Hopefully this was the ::sigh:: last one.
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Romeo
and Juliet bush cherries are looking like they’re going to be loaded this year (third leaf).
My…‘columnar’ Novaspy. I notched it above a bunch of buds, but it only looks like it’s going to have fruiting spurs the first four and a half feet.
Bonus blueberry plant. Not a great name, but it’s growing the best of the ones I’ve planted. A rabbit bit half the canes to the ground last year, so third year in I’m hoping to get an OK amount of blueberries, finally.
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It’s so warm in Chicago land, my J. Plum Shiro starts to bloom. I don’t blame it.It feels like summer here in 70s
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My Flavor Grenade pluot today. The best fruit set on these two branches. And yes I know I need to thin some.
Still, it’s exciting to see first fruit. https://youtube.com/shorts/DthkH9X6RQo?si=snMbOztSYF7hT2-s
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That looks good! Almost no thinning required. Im interested in whicj plums you have that it surpassed.
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Glad to see some fruit set on those trees that you have been waiting quite some time on!
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