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@Gkight … next year… a fruit and berry sampler for you.
My granddaughter is 11 months now and she has not met a berry that she did not like 
Congratulations!!!
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congrats!
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What’s the cultivar’s name?
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Haha it’s a new strain called “Raya”
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This Mountain Laurel never had this many flowers. Almost all flowering shrubs and trees have more flowers than usual this year. I don’t know why.
Buds on Mountain Laurel; they will open to white in a few days::
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Bought this one from a local nursery almost 15 years ago. Most years nothing. But looks like this year will have a few. Not my favorite - bland yellow orange apricot. Can’t even remember the variety. I was told it’d be a later blooming one. And it often is … by 1 or 2 days. 
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Wow that looks fake it’s so pretty!
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Joan J and Fall Gold Raspberries, White Carolina Pine berries, Issai Mulberries, couple early blueberries
Day before harvest was good too, with a couple Royal Anne Cherries, and more honeyberries
Jewel Black Raspberries
Patiently waiting…
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2nd Year Joan J Raspberry (3 bare root canes from Stark)
Powder Blue Blueberry with a Mother of Thyme ground cover patch
Figlets are here!
Panachee:
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Carmine Jewel cherries getting ripe. I’d like to wait until at least this weekend to do the first picking to get the sugars up, but I’ll have to keep an eye on the birds to see if they start hitting them hard. So far they are busy destroying my Gerardi mulberries.
My first few Tayberries are ripening up. Birds certainly like these as you can see by the small strike on this one. They’re growing at my community garden plot where there aren’t a lot of other things for the birds now, so they are on the prowl for anything they can get. I’ve tasted a few as I try to determine what level of ripeness I like best. If really ripe, they’ll pop off the core like a raspberry, but I think I actually like them better before they are that ripe. I think they’d be awesome for jam with some added tartness from gooseberries, but they are almost too sweet for me when fully ripe. Then again I enjoy Carmine Jewel cherries right off the bush.
My first Cara’s Choice blueberries are ripening. I tried a few that were still a day or so away from ripe and they were spectacular as usual. The strange thing is that for me these are ripening ahead of Hannah’s Choice, which I thought was earlier. I have found ripening order for blueberries to be a lot more varied by area than other fruit.
Herbert blueberries are ripening as well, which most places list as ripening in late July. These are very nice blueberries with good size, nice balanced taste and a crispness that gives a bit of a pop when you bite them. Not as crisp as Sweet Crisp, but crisper than most others I’ve tried. Although perhaps I’m eating them before fully ripe and they may soften more when I get a net on these and can let them ripen more without the birds grabbing them.
And a few Chandler strawberries. I have a row of these in front of my 6 blueberries at the community garden, plus some Lingonberries that don’t have a single flower this year (grrrr…), and a rabbit mowed them all to the ground repeatedly this spring so I had little hope, but they’ve exploded with growth and are providing a nice bowl of strawberries every other day or so. They were planted as plugs from Ison’s in the fall. Great flavor, but I think I prefer Earliglow (one of the parents I believe), although these are larger.
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My Crandall clove currents have been ripening for about a week… I have tried a few two times.
A little tart flavor and a little sweet. Nothing strong flavored at all.
These are first year fruits… so hopefully they improve with time.
Those dark ones (near black and plump)… a little soft… . Those are ripe … right ?
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Yes. I mostly eat them a little underripe. And if available with a splash of formic acid. Black ants love them and I stopped trying to fight them off because the acid adds a nice punch.
Last year I jammed these with black alba mulberries and a handful of black currant and added that on top of 3/4-filled jars of apricots. It was also nice to look at as the colour bled downwards. My second best preserve from last year - right after pear+ginger+mint jam.
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they arent strong flavored like black currants. i get a little concord grape taste.
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First stone fruit of the spring. Weeping Santa Rosa plum.
It appears I let it go too long as half the inside was rotting.
There were droplets of syrup on the outside of the fruit. Perhaps that’s a sign it was over ripe?
I’d call it spur-sweet.
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Some of Starlings’ Best about 20m from our old cherry trees. I suspect the parents are our large old spicy variety (2 weeks later) and a neighbour’s early cherry (1 week earlier). This one has firm flesh and falls into the heart shaped crunchy sweet cherries with a distinct dark cherry almost cola like flavour. A definite keeper.
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