I think the third photo is dogbane
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That is a beautiful orchard. My orchard, not near as big was in full bloom early spring. Very warm for a couple weeks in March/April.
Being at 6000 ft in Northern Az, what I expected, happened. Had a late winter blast. 65 mph winds, temps in the 20s and a late blanket of snow. Lost all my peaches, apricots and plums. Apples and cherries held off, so they look good. My potted blueberry plants were in greenhouse and they are loaded. The wall O waters protected my early planted tomatoes.
It is a bit of a challenge growing pretty much anything worthwhile here, but I love it.
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Well, it’s just a pasture that the tree was in, but yes it does look nice. I do want to plant some fruit or nut trees in it, just can’t have branches within a cows reach and it has to be able to survive the area around it being burnt (trees that cows can walk under and lay in the shade of mostly have no old grass to burn under them.).
We normally have lots of problems too with peaches plums and apricots getting frosted out. Like last year our apricots bloomed in early February and our last freeze was in May, so we had no stone fruits (including wild plums) other than a small cherry tree that we covered through multiple freezes.
I feel like we live in the garden of Eden here though with how I can grow things without having to spray to keep things alive and I don’t have to water any established trees even in the dry months to keep them alive and have the option of any soil type within a 1/4 mile of both ends of the ph scale from basically a swamp to a rocky hilltop that dries out the day it rains.
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Natchez Blackberries
Golden Delicious Apple
CrimsonCrisp Apple
Honeycrisp Apple
Red Haven Peach
Few Pictures of my fruit trees and blackberry bushes. To the left of grain bin is 3 Pears (Warren, Moonglow, Bartlett). To the right is Methley Plum and Flavor King Pluot (I will be adding more plums/pluots as time goes on). The others in the front yard are 5 peaches(Red Haven, EarliGlo, FF Jumbo, Belle of Georgia, and an Unknown local peach) and 5 apples (Honeycrisp, CrimsonCrisp, Golden Delicious, Red Delicious, and Arkansas Black). I have a potted Contender peach that needs to be planted as well.
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Those are very dark purple citrus buds. I don’t think I have ever seen them look like that second photo. Looks like a hand coming out of the ground.
plant some mulberries in there. they grow fast with very erect growth if not pruned and the leaves are very nutritious for livestock and they create heavy shade quickly… i just put 2 red mulberry in my big chicken run. what berries i dont harvest will benefit them. just make sure you protect them with heavy posts and wire until they can survive the cows rubbing on them. if you can get barbed wire to wrap the outside with, all the better.
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the last weed you’ve got pictured is in my yard too. I’m pretty sure it’s black medic. I’m letting it stay then I’ll chop and drop, it’s a legume
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Yes, they look black from distance. When I looked at it closely, I really liked the color and shape; anyway, this is my first lemon (potted).
Single peach set on Redhaven that was planted in the Fall, tree is only about waist high. Crazy surprised! Almost pinched it off, but my mom asked me to leave it alone in case it happens to develop/ripen.
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I didn’t count them yet, but thinned by Flavor Grenade today…final time.
Might have pulled off 60 -70 fruitlets.
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The majority of my trees have a lot of fruit but this Burbank plum takes the prize. Pollinators love this tree. They pretty much ignore everything else until its done blooming. I think they got ro every flower.
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Pickles now?
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It feels like the first time I’ve ever seen it not rain constantly during peak bloom.
Seedling white peach
Rainier cherry
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My potted Liberty is loaded this year, and so far I haven’t seen any coddling moths. Covered in Surround early anyway and will be thinning as soon as it stops raining so much.
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The seedling white peach flower looks more like a nectarine, almond or donut type peach. Peach flowers are not that big or as pretty.
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It wouldn’t surprise me if there’s some almond genes in it. Last year I let it set fruit for the first time without thinning. There were three and they were rock hard and green, then eventually split open. This year I’m going to thin heavily to see how it turns out.
This is where I got it:
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this picture angle seems more from the top, can you share a more straight on picture? looking for form ideas for my citrus. please and thank you.
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