ive never seen the pink ones and our white ones have a red center. i too have alot of the maroon ones with the plain green leaves.
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Buds forming on my PAF Blackberry
Buds forming on my jujubes
Flowers continuing to form on my Goumi
Buds popping on my persimmon
Flowers are spent on my 2 older Cornelian Cherries
Flowers buds just starting to open on my clove currants
My Glenndale Gooseberry is the first one to form leaves and flowers. it is the biggest of all my gooseberry bushes. this one was covered in pollinators
buds on one of my pawpaws are beginning to swell
Google made an auto filter for my prairie fire crab apple I just picked up from tractor supply the other day. first pic without filter and second with.
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How quick from seed to blooming does it take?
I got what I assume was a tiny rooted cutting 2 years ago, so I’d say about a year and a half. Pretty sure they don’t produce seeds being a cross. It held a couple fruit for a month or two until it dropped them due to a lack of light in say November or December. Pretty confident it will ripen a lot of fruit this year.
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I’ve wondered before about growing babaco papaya as a semi (as in grow in pot one year then in the garden the next, fruiting) annual. The main possible limiter that is still a unanswered question is how resistant to inbreeding is it? Like is it practically immune like the garden vegetables or will it cause problems?
Biennial is the word you are looking for. Any particular reason for babaco specifically? There are some papaya that can start fruiting within a year from seed. I feel like they would be better options for this type of growing.
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I was thinking it took the least time to fruit. Which ones take the least amount of time?
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The first Primula farinosa. I just love these cute little flowers!
Also, the first pear blooms are open, of course on the South side of the House.
Precoce du Trévoux
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My Crimson Passion bush cherry flowered for the first time in its 3rd year. We’ll see if we can get a taste of it this year.
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Hunted morels on 3/31 and again today 4/5.
We have had lots of rain and warm days… but have not found a single morel yet. Hot spots showing nothing.
I did find some old friends… see these every spring in my woods.
I may not have all the names right… these are just what I have heard them called.
Devils urn
Sweet william
Trillium… found none in full bloom yet. This one was just starting to open.
Indian paintbrush. ?
Pink wood sorrel. Note when they are more mature the leaves have a purple stripe across them.
Wild violet.
TNHunter
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The creek finally went down enough for me to cross and check on things in the orchard:
Duchess D’Angouleme
Magnum Bonum - lots of buds this year
Wolf River - first time blooming for this one
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@wdingus … thanks that sure looks like a match. Now if my old brain can just remember that 
TNHunter
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