Butterflies and bumbles… loving my blueberries.
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Which pluot? What pollinators do you have for it? Are the pollinators blooming too?
Have Flavor Supreme, Flavor King and Dapple Dandy all grafted to the same tree. Temps got up to 56f today and the bees came out for a few hours to pollinate.
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I have no experience with espalier, but most apples will do well if thinned to one fruit per every other spur. This is a special case & you might already know how heavily Novamac sets. If you leave all the spurs on the branch & thin to every fourth spur, it will have outstanding leaf surface for feeding fruit, so there is that to consider.
On the other hand, depending on how large Novamac leaves are, you may find they shade the fruit & pruning spurs to a greater distance may serve the purpose better.
You are sharp enough to gauge from experience what will work best, given a few seasons with this branch.
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Dwarf Bonanza peach which I suspect is actually Flory because it produces peaches with a white flesh. This is its second season in ground. No disease issues, very tropical looking in the summer.
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Black Arkansas Apple today, 2nd leaf
Beautiful blooms all over 2nd year Candy Heart from RainTree
Lovely highly productive wild high bush blueberry we found clearing our property last year, it is covered in blooms this year. Excited to see what it tastes like.
Panache tiger waking up early (loaded with breba, even though all of them will likely fall off) after a winter in an unheated greenhouse
Joan J raspberry is covered in flower buds, 1st awake and producing this year.
Asian pears covered in blooms
Strawberries putting on flowers
Currants, Honeyberries, Gooseberries all blooming.
Sweet cherries waking up now.
Baby Florea cutting rooted in January already pushing a fig:
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I can smell that orange tree just from looking at the picture. Mmmmmm…,
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I think I grafted an OHxF87 on OHxF87 today and was thinking it would be amusing to create a small garden block of random mistakes. The upside-down rooted fig could be a great centerpiece…
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Haha that’s a pretty genius idea, wish I had the room for one. One day, or I guess in the eye of the beholder it could already be my whole yard haha
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My new Crandall clove currants… about to bloom.
I planted 2 Jeanne goosberries today and one montmorency cherry.
Noticed all 6 of my plum grafts… are pushing green now.
My plum trees are AU Rosa and Shiro.
I have added to them by graft… AU Producer, Alderman, Superior, Beauty, Spring Satin Plumcot, South Mtn EB Plumcot, Vic Red American plum.
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I seem to have developed a hobby that precludes me from so many fruit choices because they won’t grow here.
Love the photos above ^, especially the currants.
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“Jade” avocado seems to be going full steam, opening multiple flowers per panicle per day since it first started just a few days ago:
“Walter Hole” has been flowering for a couple weeks, but is also just starting to get going with multiple flowers per panicle in the last few days:
“Duke” opened its first flower a few days ago, but then hasn’t opened any more since then, just sitting there at the ready:
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What is the name of this butterfly. Spectacular. Every time I see your posts I’m further convinced my next big move will be to Portugal. Haha
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Wonder if you can basically put the entire cutting under the soil and that way the shoot will start growing “straight” and then maybe in a few weeks/months you can cut it into multiple plants (cut the “roots” I mean) if the whole thing roots and you get multiple stems - or maybe it just works out? IDK. I don’t have any actual experience with this. Fun little surprise though.
Yeah I’ll bury the whole thing when I repot or plant.
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Strawberries Earliglow, Gerardi mulberry, Mt Royal EU Plum.
Apples… Early Mcintosh, Akane (first blossoms), Gold Rush.
Red gem
Sweet scarlet
The larger blossoms that show up front left on red gem… is a graft of carmine goumi. They have larger blossoms, leaves and fruit.
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Joan J already pushing flower buds:
Production on this young Issai dwarf mulberry is incredible. Every node has production. Just picked it up in a one gallon at a local nursery.
Royal Anne cherry is flowering ( Along with Van, BT, Lapins, Sweetheart, and an old mystery backyard Rainer in full bloom). Mona just showing buds. Montmorency showing a lot of buds.
Willa Honeyberry (Japanese):
Blue Pacific (Russian):
Goats!
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If I had room in my yard, I’d add a serviceberry. I think there is one with ‘autumn’ in the name that had good leaf color.
Nice showy flowers.
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