Fruits, Flowers and Buds- 2026 edition

finally the nectarine starts to open

it’s first of the trees every year since I’ve put it in.

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Avalon Plum flowers in Hertfordshire, UK.

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Some spring fruits and flowers.


Blueberries. I have 4 different varieties setting fruit.


Slimleaf pawpaw breaking buds.


Tzimbalo flowering like crazy. Haven’t seen any fruit set.


Pepino flowering and setting fruit.


First fruit one my Sugar Belle. Hopefully it sticks. Going into its 3rd year in ground.


Blackberries finally going to have a year with more than a handful of berries. Maybe 100 flowers between the 2 plants.


Orticoli Orange Huckleberry (Black Nightshade) flowers.


Strawberries coming in steady from my ornamental variety. Still very tasty.


Wonderberries two steps ahead of the Orticoli. They have already set a handful of fruits.


Fennel in full bloom.


Chocoate Sweet Bell Peppers. My favorite bell so far, productive and tastes good green a chocolate colored.


Fall Gold Raspberry. Ate it right after this picture. It was delicious, reminded me of cacao in flavor.


Black Sapote loaded with flowers. Hopefully will get a fruit this year. Probably won’t let it keep too many, it is still quite small.


Elderberries are going nuts, got about 6 or 7 I planted going full bloom. Not including the dozens of plants in the woods.


My first Arabica coffee flower. Very excited to harvest my own coffee grounds.

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A roadside apricot in full bloom - too bad we have multiple nights of low 20’s coming :sad_but_relieved_face:

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Jellybean blueberry. 3rd leaf putting on some fruit!

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My Gerardi mulberry… so much fruit on one branch.

So many branches… :wink:

No more frost please.

Kiowa blackberry opening first blossoms.

Mt Royal plum getting started with blossoms.

A graft of Green Gage added last spring is blooming too. Nice.

TNHunter

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Way ahead of me on your Gerardi. Mine was only 2.5 feet tall, forked branches. I cut back some and transplanted to a raised bed so it will take a while to recover.

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Already enough growth to prune back my 4 on 1 pluot. Had 24-34” of growth already in 7 weeks.

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@Shibumi … Gerardi mulberry was my first graft a few years back.

It grew 6 ft .. first season.

Had a large stout rootstock.

TNHunter

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First cap drop.

Errante Noir

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I have a patch of a dozen or so wild azalea just off my back yard. This one is always first to bloom.

My Novamac apple opened first blossoms today. It has lots of blossoms coming on.. hope the fire blight does not come this year. Last year it took about half of my blossoms.

TNHunter

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Sweet cherry looks like itll be in bloom in a few days… i think lol. At.least some of them look like flowers.

One of my two honeyberry has about 40 flowers, the other one has 2. Damn i wish i lableed em better. This is their 3rd winter in ground.

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Opal apple flowers

Dolly plums

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Golden Russet Apple. In ground since 2021 and it’s going to have a good crop this year!

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Strawberries and blueberries on the way…

TNHunter

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Spent caps (calyptra). Pretty cool. I’ve grown grapes before but did not really get into it like now, since I have wine in mind.

Pretty decent pollination. Will be more obvious in a week.

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Sheesh this ones loaded with flowers.

My pther one has much fewer. Like 5-10

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What are those? Look like blueberries but the flower is different to what I am used to.

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honeyberry :slight_smile:

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Renet Symyrenko:

Kudos:

William’s Pride:

Contender Peach:

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