Not much to look at yet, but my newly planted Errante Noir grape vines are doing well. I’ll have to remove all the fruit clusters of course. All resources this year are to build the cordons. 16 days since planting dormant vine.
Great looking bare root vines from Double A Vineyards upstate NY. Highly recommend.
For those in Pierce’s disease areas (like me), this is one of the several varieties developed by Dr. Walker out of UC Davis.
Vitis arizonica variety was crossed with 50% Sylvaner (a white grape), and 12.5% each Cabernet Sauvignon, Carignane, and Chardonnay, so almost all vitis vinifera with the single resistant gene coming from the arizonica.
Aronia Viking has fruit! Very excited that my new black consort currant is blooming. And, flax flowers are just shinning right now, so had to throw one in the mix. My native spring bloomers are bursting my heart right now, but I would have to post 30 pictures to do each one justice
Whoops here’s a better picture of the blue perennial flax
Forgot to include the note that flax is not native. I don’t want to confuse anyone. It’s just really pretty! The blue flowers shine. It’s one of only three plants in my flower gardens that’s not native.
We did a trip to the DC zoo last Friday and I always notice the Pawpaws that surround Rock Creek on the edge of parking lot E. one year I saw fruit, this year, tons of flowers. I love how most people pass them by without a single thought about them and I am keenly interested as if they were their own exhibit.
I know! The canal is lined in them, they’re all over the parks, and I would run next them many times a week clueless until looking into native fruit trees 5 years ago. But, enough people know, because I still can’t manage to forage a single ripe fruit!
