Finding wild fruit trees is one of my favourite spring/summer/fall activities. It amazes me that nature provides so much wonderful food for us all, and in so many unique varieties. My current project is cataloguing all the wild apple trees in my area for precocity, sweetness, tartness, fruit size, texture, etc, and selecting the best of the for grafting onto rootstocks and possible further development.
Keep up the looking and if you’re anything like me it’ll go from the occasional “oh, look, an apple/cherry/fig tree!” to seeing dozens of new ones every time you go for a walk in a new area. And who knows, you may find a new favourite amongst all the fruit you’ll come across, I have.
Any chance you could find a reference to that? It does not sound like something anybody here would put up with. At all. And I mean if it happened what you would expect is a huge jump in the number of fruit trees planted.
Here politicians get voted out of office for much less than that.
Exactly. Why would you tell the world about your gold. I have a few spots and don’t need any help. I looked on the map and my area only has some mulberries. Odd since the area is loaded with wild persimmon, black walnut, and pawpaw.
Made me laugh. Alright, fair enough, my source is my son-in-law, who grew up near Wasilla and lived in Anchorage for fifteen years. I offered a fruit tree of their choice for their yard, but he turned me down saying that was why.
I’m just curious if they ever attempted such a feat of stupidity. Usually that’s the sort of thing you would expect from the left coast, south of Oregon, north of Tijuana. If it was ever attempted I guarantee you it was ignored the very same day it came into force.
did the same to my front lawn. no complaints from my neighbors not that it would matter anyway. i could park a burned out car on my front lawn and grow daises in it and nothing would be said about it.
I moved to California years ago for a job and to my surprise found I love it here. I’ve got 19 fruit trees in my backyard and wouldn’t trade those for anything.
Speaking of which, the fig picture that started this thread looks like my Black Jacks when they’re just starting to turn color (which they are right now.) The leaves are small for a fig, that’s a match, too. It’s a very slow-growing variety and doesn’t get very tall, which is nice when you’re trying to cram lots of fruit trees into a fifth of an acre like I did.
Wild american persimmon… growing in the edge of the woods on the road that goes to our local walmart. It is about 8 ft tall and wide.
I noticed it last year early December with lots of persimmons still hanging on. It only gets evening sun and this year has less fruit on… but still has some.
I will keep an eye on it this year and hopefully harvest some fruit.
