My red gem goumi … so much fruit.
And one heritage red raspberry ripening b4 all others.
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Peonies starting to bloom, beautiful white with a tinge of pink.
Spice roses, don’t know of them by any particular variety.
Azalea bush by our old house.
Osage blackberry with purple flowers-
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I had got a fairly big plant from a local nursery, so I did get primocane fruit last year, just not as many.
Primocane fruit was bigger, sweeter and firmer. This spring crop seems to get soft before being as sweet (but still better than store bought ones). It probably has to do with spring weather, sunlight (my plant gets 4 hrs of morning sun) or that the plant is putting energy into primocanes. The new primocanes are thicker with broader leaves, i tipped them at 15 inches and then at 30 inches. Looking forward to the fall crop! That’s the best part about this variety, two decent crops that don’t overlap with floricane blackberries!
(The only thing I don’t like about them is the slightly bitter after taste)
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hopefully my red gem looks like that this year. its still dormant. like mulberries its the last to wake up in spring.
@steveb4 … my red gem ripens fruit for a couple weeks… then plays out… and then my sweet scarlet ripens fruit for a couple more weeks and finishes.
Ideal timing…
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Looks like it could be a decent year for my patch of wild Maine blueberries.
Only trouble is this patch is half blueberry and half poison ivy… gotta figure that out…
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Looks like some strawberries in there also, are they any good too?
Yes, I have wild strawberry all over my property as well. They are small but tasty!
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my patches of bruinswick lowbush are starting to spread out and make patches as well around my highbushes which will make picking them interesting. also have alpine straws and arctic rasps in there as well.
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This strawberry patch that originated as a bird-planted volunteer seedling last year finally has some fruit swelling. I hope it tastes good since I’ve let it spread all over that area:
I’m pretty jealous of all the berries everyone else has while my strawberries and honeyberries (earliest things in my yard) are still nowhere near starting to ripen!
I posted it in the PNW thread, but for anyone interested, here’s a post full of photos showing the current state of wild berries around these parts:
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None of my pears set fruit, I assume Blossom Blast from Pseudomonas, except for Seckel which seems unfazed.
It rained non-stop this spring, plus late freeze - so I didn’t do any spray, in spite of buying a new sprayer 
Probably why got none, or almost no set on the Emerald Drop.
Splash pluot also set well, while the other varieties on the same tree didn’t. I have no idea how it got its name, but apparently Pseudomonas is spread by splashing water droplets, and it seems resistant.
Nadia Cherry Plum is another that is doing well so far.
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i dont spray either im testing its resistance to disease. yes we had a rather long winter i lost a few mulberries and figs. pears all doing fine.
I don’t mean to rekindle the “is it a fruit” debate, but I’m happy with the look of the rhubarb this spring. It’s one thing that didn’t mind our cold and rainy weather:
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