Fruits, Flowers and Buds- 2026 edition

Took some New Years flower and fruit photos to start off a new thread! Cheers to another year of fruits and flowers!

Sunshine Blue blueberry. My earliest variety, actually started opening flowers just after Christmas.


Pigeon peas (Cajanus cajan). Winter staple here, fruits and flowers from October to May. This is my black pea one, with prettier flowers.

Last Peanut Butter Fruit (Bunchosia glandulifera) hanging on in the cold. Should be ready this weekend.


Moringa (Moringa oleifera) flowers. Flowers a ton, but no pods yet.

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Mapua Boysenberry


A bit of a taste of what’s going on here in New Zealand

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Still very small Pickering mango with a flower spike on all of it’s branches.


Tall namwa banana clump with two bunches and a papaya that’s pretty loaded.


A dwarf orinoco bunch that should start ripening any day now.


Inca Peanut (Sacha Inchi) has some pods developing nicely.

Also have a bunch of pigeon peas and a handful of everglade tomatoes coming in.

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Have you had any fruit of your Sacha Peanuts? I am allergic to tree nuts which honestly is a very annoying allergy to pin down (the only thing in common with cashews and hazelnut is they make my mouth swell up) so I have always been disuaded from getting them. But they look super cool and I hear grow super fast.

No i haven’t eaten any yet but hope to soon. Mine has grown moderately well, not super fast. It is producing pods though and is looking pretty healthy. I think it is about to put in a flush of new growth.

That would be great if it could be a peanut alternative for you. I like the idea of growing something peanut like that is perennial and low maintenance.

I have a tree nut allergy, not a peanut allergy. An easy mistake, but peanuts are not nut. Granted, neither are most “tree nuts” but my throat says otherwise. The real question is, is Sacha Peanut a tree nut? I might dare to find out one day (my allergy isn’t life threatening, just annoying).

Oh! I misread that sorry. Hopefully your throat sees it as something other than a tree nut. It’s a vine that isn’t related to those other common nuts as far as i know. What does tree nut even mean? Haha. What about the saba nut? I’m trying to grow that one too.

Received my first bare root of spring.

Restoringeden. 4 in 1 multi-grafted Pluot.

Flavor King, Flavor Queen, Flavor Supreme, Dapple Dandy.

Unfortunately DD and FK are not opposite each other. I’ll face FK SE and DD SW. Also some already have flower buds swelling. I was hoping of taking some scion for grafting from them since they are all off patent.

Healthy looking multi-grafted tree. 1-1/4” caliper.

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We’ve (again) had a ridiculously warm winter in PNW and my ume-s have been at it for a few weeks now.

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My Peggy Clarke ume is blooming as well:


As are the feral almonds at work:


My small collection of Oxalis obtusa:

Camellia Frank Houser, a reticulata hybrid

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Even though I know it’s not the Oxalis, the sight of “Oxalis” makes my heart skip a beat and my chest clamp up

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My FK, FS, FG, DD Wilson 4 on 1 pluot via Restoring Eden is in the ground.

Trimmed back the grafts quite a bit to outward facing buds. FK in the most favorable direction SW.

New fire ring. Soil mix coco coir, perlite, tree & shrub soil.

Mulch to follow. I have some rain lilies coming in tomorrow I want to plant first.

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Saturn, Mid-Pride, and Double Delight arrived from Grow Organic. Great caliper, though roots didn’t have much packed around them to keep them moist. Doing an overnight soak before planting.

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Cherry laurels and black cherries (respectively) in bloom. Seems their flowers weren’t really effected by the cold.

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Siam Jumbo Mulberry is the first thing fruiting.

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keep em coming guys, im jealous as hell here in new york. I probably wont get my first buds till next month when my honeyberries start going

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Some starfruit flowers opening. And, then falling off.

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Early apple flower buds

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