Buds, Flowers and Fruits- 2025 edition

both indigos and honeybee ripening fruit as well as flavorfest strawberries. ate my 1st ripe one this morning. no pics as its 90 and 80% humidity out there. feels like a sauna. dogs dont even want to go out.

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a few things





gravenstein, comice pear survived an aphid attack, himrod grape, Arctic jay, overactive fig





pepper flowering, a candy roaster squash, sunflower volunteer, meyer lemon tree doing a lot all at once, the first tomato! (hogheart).

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Blueberries, and my first ever black currants and gooseberries!



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Red currants. Don’t know what I am going to do with them yet.

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Our first red currants coloring up.

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We are very excited because we have fruitlets on our garden prince almond, flavor supreme pluot, Toka plum, Packham’s triumph pear, Utah giant cherry, Bing cherry, black Tartarian cherry, Montmorency cherry, English morello cherry, silver logan peach, Rio Oso gem peach, harko nectarine and Improved French prune. Not a lot of fruitlets on any of them, but so happy to see them start producing.

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Such a gorgeous fruit. I wish I could grow it here.

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Veilchenblau


American Pillar


Pauls himalayan musk

First cherries

Dianthus superbus

Melanargia galathea

Rhinanthus alectorolophus

Scabiosa columbaria

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I think this is painted lady runner. If not then it is scarlet.

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Tamarind flowers blooming. Lots of them all over the tree.

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These two broke the small branch they were on so I pulled them.

Anyone have experience with Hosui and how long to refrigerate for best flavor?

Of course I don’t know if these are far enough along to ever get to eating ripe. This is 1 month before I picked my first very small crop last year (it’s first year to bear).

Please ignore your local calendar. Everything happens much faster down here.

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:grapes:

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Beautiful!!

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Let the season begin…

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Egusi Watermelon flower and a quick harvest. Lots more tomatoes and groundcherries to pick.

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That’s a great picture. Nice.

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A red hickory in my back yard.

Looks like it may be a good year for hickory nuts.

TNHunter

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Illini Blackberries, brightwell blueberries.

Found a few more gerardi ripe… but they did not make it back to the house.

TNHunter

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Bing Cherry

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I started drooling when I saw your berry pic……like Pavlov’s dog.

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