Then that is probably one more yes vote for Sunflower to be self fruiting.
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Oh yes they are! The biggest tree gave fruits for the first time when she was the only one on flower… i love pawpaws soo much! This year they are full of formed small fruits… lets see how they will end… 
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I planted some strawberries under our plum trees last year, Rainier under tree and Seascape under another. We did get some fruit off of them last year but should get a ton more due to the runners that formed.
Just stating to get blooms here:
Centennial Crab on B.118:
Golden Nugget on M.111:
Hewe’s / Virginia Crab on M.111 (3 trees):
Liberty on M.111:
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1… Red Gem goumi
2… Illini blackberry
3… Collard green… accidently dropped a seed in the edge of my woods… last Sept… it grew and survived the winter and is still growing.
Never seen that before.
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Looks great!
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That is the one plant the VHA put in that is nice looking.
Some of these photos are in my patio containers, but some are growing in the soil still outside my place and nature cannot be stopped.
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For those who do not know already, the apartments where I live decided during the hottest day in summer on Labor Day weekend to demand that I, disabled physically, dig up my entire garden and put into containers…which I bought quickly…to place on my patio…then they told the “landscapers” (butchers really) to take it away as junk, this during Covid.
AFTER that, and their cutting to barkdust a tree and spreading over the flattened hard soil (I had everything carefully arranged with good brought in compost to make things grow, and after they flattened it and took out what I was doing to build it up, some of what they planted DIED and drowned) the likely 5 strawberries I had not dug up went insane and took over. They had come back later, after I posted on Facebook a photo of the peony blooming, to tear it out…and it is now growing back too. I had grapes and a cedar arbor, and now a single grape is growing likely from a seed that dropped. I have a lot of iris coming back, and wonder if I will still have the large white dinner plate type still too?
While I lost thousands of dollars worth of plants, I somehow have God’s revenge as nature triumphed so big that they would be fools to spend hours pulling it out only for it to grow back again and again. I bet they give up now that a few strawberries have become around 500?
Let’s see.
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True. not getting my hopes up. I’ve seen a lot of comments about persimmons and specially NG dropping fruit. I’d be happy if I get to eat 2-3 fruit this year. I see about 30 flowers now.
Apricot, Blenheim, any day now
This year we removed the 4x1 pluot tree and Honey Jar is putting out more fruit than ever.
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Haas Avocado
Peter’s Honey fig
Fuju Persimmon
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Wow, that’s a lot of blueberries!
@northwoodswis4 … yes… love it.
Today’s strawberry harvest… patch 1 with blueberries in background.
Patch 2 with red gem goumi in background.
I saw several birds this morning fighting over position in the goumi bush. It is loaded.
They are getting plenty and us too.
After work… picked a bowl full of red gem goumi.
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Still no fruit here, so I’ll settle for sharing flower pictures…
The neighbor’s mountain ash, hanging over the fence:
A thistle I’ve decided to let grow next to my front steps, should be opening soon I’d say:
Volunteer columbine near the garden:
The patch of mostly volunteer wildflowers for the pollinators:
A bumblebee visiting:
Two types of clover that started flowering for the first time today:
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Planted a Michelia Alba next to the kitchen and it has started blooming. The fragrance is phenomenal as expected! The plant was in a pot since last year. I thought it’s ultra-tropical but many of my neighbors have large trees that are quite old.
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@vrk3 - wow those are some nice looking blackberries.
I started 3 PAF’s this spring, growing nicely now.
Did yours produce fruit in the first year in the fall ? on primocanes ? wondering if my new starts might produce this fall.
I understand they should next spring on floricans (rather early like yours)… that is what I need a blackberry that ripens late May - June (to avoid my SWD peak).
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