Just noticed the Blue Forest™ honeyberry I added last year is flowering even though it’s hardly more than a stick:
In the greenhouse I’ve got three of my avocado cultivars flowering now.
Aravaipa:
Royal-Wright:
And finally Duke, which has been flowering for awhile and shows no signs of slowing:
just about every honeyberry cultivar i planted in the spring flowered and gave a few fruits in the 1st year. my northline serviceberry gave me a doz.
I was at Sky Nursery in North Seattle once and the Honeyberries were fruiting.Blue Forest stood out to me as the most flavorful,of the varieties sampled.
My plus berry has lots of fruit, which is surprising, I thought I have to buy another plum to pollinate it.
But Yali pear is not doing anything, this is the one I bought from Cricket Hill.
I’ll have some pictures later on of the plueberry.
My Indigo Treat honeyberry from the Hartman group buy put together by @lordkiwi has a few blooms. Unfortunately, nothing on Tundra, so no cross-pollination for a taste this year. Looks like I’ll need to baby them through at least on DC summer to see what they might taste like next year.
One of my honeyberries has a few blossoms developing today… my reliance ? Peach opened a few… blueberries developing on tifblue… and lastly my Lapins cherry looking quite fruity this year… no fruit from it yet but perhaps this is the year.
I think this is Sweat treat Plueberry, the tag is gone, but I’m really surprised that I have fruit the second year of planting.
Satsuma plum
Red Atomic nectarine
Plums / Pluots are in full bloom while Nectarines Peaches are starting to bloom. Although next week we are expecting frost and below freezing temperature. Every year we have chance of late frost what can you do ?
I am thinking to put large garbage bags on some branches just to protect some flowers any thoughts ?
If temperatures get low enough and for a duration(how long?),that will probably not work,without extra heat,inside the bags.I wonder if some kind of pocket warmers will help.One of mine is powered by lighter fluid and lasts several hours.
A lot of hassle for some fruit,but hey.
One of my Cornelian cherries is in full bloom. They are forecasting a low of 21 degrees next week so they will probably all be frozen.
I like this. What is the name?
Grape hyacinths were planted likely in 1930-1950 on Watson Avenue in Vancouver at the small house that became a duplex mom lived in, around 1995. I found them evidently covered up with 3 feet of soil by the rock driveway only appearing as if grass and mowed down by accident. I grew a garden there, and dug deep instead of building a raised bed. Then these bloomed! Such a surprise. I found a Buffalo nickel and some broken pottery and a rusted off gear for a tractor likely with rubber on the head for L or R. This is all why I guess at the year these were bought and planted. I rescued them when mom moved out and they have grown in Hazel Dell at my late gramma’s apartment ever since.
Although they took out my gardens, things by nature grew back. I have the whole place covered in strawberries of who knows what sort, and there are grape hyacinth and even iris and daffodils coming up where I never had any planted. I am glad they gave up and allowed so far these to live.
The planters are mine and I am trying to make them look full and cheerful. Any suggestions for zone 8b always open to listen. I mix flowers with edibles.
First open flower on my TDE3 mandarin (aka Tahoe Gold™), it hadn’t flowered yet since I bought it almost exactly one year ago:
It’s covered in more buds, so I’m optimistic about getting fruit! I’m planning to plant it in the ground in the greenhouse soon, since it came through the winter so well in there.
Hi. It’s a Japanese hardy orchid calanthe
Most things are coming alive here.
I wonder if any of these will survive 2 nights of 21 degrees Monday and Tuesday next week.
Natchez blackberry leaf sprouts
Pear bloom, looks like freeze got it
Pluot blooms
Early Zestar apple bloom about to open. Yikes.
Hillside full of daffodils
Those daffodils are quite a sight!
Yeah, they brighten up the place even tho it’s still cold some days. They’re always the first thing to bloom here. Alas, they’ll get fried Sat and Sun night, supposed to be 28 and 23 then. My wife’s been collecting them while she can.
Our two forsythia bushes are starting to bloom now.
