I have the following in mind for 2025 and watching from 2024:
Plums:
Toka, Lavina, and Pamela trees on order for Spring 2025.
Beach plum (dwarf) seeds from two different sources germinating to be planted out Spring 2025
Goosesaw plum seeds germinating to be planted out Spring 2025
Prunus hortulana seeds germinating to be planted out Spring 2025
2 St Julien rootstock on order for Spring 2025
Cornus Mas:
Aliosha on order for Spring 2025
Coral Blaze was on order for Spring 2025 but shipped early in Fall 2024 and was planted (unclear if doing well)
Sunrise-Planted Spring 2024
Apples:
8 M26 rootstock ordered for Spring 2025
Scionwood for following on order Otterson, Robert’s Crab, Golden Sweet
Seedling project from 2023 not sure on if I will keep the seedlings
Goumi:
Sunrise on order for Spring 2025
Monez and Wang Bo scion on order for Spring 2025
Pears:
Harrow Sweet, Harrow Delight, and Yoinashi on order for Spring 2025
Aronia:
Raintree select and 3 seedlings on order for Spring 2025
Black Currant:
Titania and Minaj Smyriou on order for Spring 2025
Mulberry:
Girardi dwarf scion on order for Spring 2025
Citrus:
Various trifoliate hybrid seedlings germinated in 2024 will see if any survive the winter
Most of the time, it’s 4am, we can’t sleep and my toddler and dogs are watching me behind the screens of the back door while I pot things up
I bought a hand cart to help me move things and I have 800mg of ibuprofen and lidocaine patches to numb the pain of everything. Bought a slingshot as well to help me get rope around the middle of the trees I’ll be taking out. My husband will purposely sabotage my stuff or complain all day if i ask for too much help because he doesn’t like this stuff so i can’t depend on him as much as I would like. All my friends offline who really garden are either still stationed at Fort Carson or they permanently live in Colorado Springs. So yeah it’s 99% all me unless it involves really heavy lifting, a lot of mosquitoes, or harvesting
disaster lol. They put in small showers/tubs in the new house so only me and one dog can fit it in so… it’ll be up to me to give them baths. I’ve trained digging out of them but sometimes they still get the urge.
I placed my first ever scionwood order with fruitwoodnursery this year, as well as my first bare root order from Simmon’s! Everything I’ve grown before now has been bought locally in pots or grown from seed.
All in all I’ve already planted everything from Simmon’s that I wasn’t expecting to come so fast, hopefully they won’t break dormancy too early, we have had a heck of a mild winter here in North Florida this year.
It was so hard to pare down my scion order, because there are so, so many things I want to grow, but I didn’t want to overwhelm myself with more than 20 varieties to graft my first season. I’ve bought a sharp knife as well as a grafting tool that makes a whip-and-tongue graft. I’ll start practicing using them soon on sticks around the yard to get the hang of them.
So far,there are two Citrus additions.I visited my sister in Myrtle Beach,SC during Christmas.We went to McKenzie-Farms in Scranton,about 70 miles west.
A Ten Degree Tangerine and Brown Select Satsuma Mandarin were picked up.
I ordered two Sunrise Ruby Goumi and Im still on the hunt for more kinds I don’t have.
I have leftover scions for Goumi that I tried grafting last year. I’ll see which grafts made it through winter and I’ll graft what I can again this spring. I’ll try grafting some on autumn olive also.
I also ordered
-3 Catherine’s Find Goumi scions for grafting.
-1 Black Prince Mulberry
-1 Galicia Mulberry
-1 Susidka Mulberry
Impulse on the mulberry. I’m zone 4. So the mulberries are risky I’m guessing.
What I’m still debating on ordering.
Galicjenca Aronia.
I’ve order some seeds as well of random trees and plants. That should keep me busy.
I had also ordered sunrise ruby goumi but received an email today stating that there was a crop failure for it so it does not look like I will be getting one yet. I’m not sure if it was a full failure or not so I’ll be curious to hear if you get the ones you ordered and what they end up being like.
I used to use sprinklers to save time, but gave that up due to fire blight. I literally move hoses for about 4 hours a weekend in the summer. But I have learned to do chores in the same area and set a timer, so it’s not so bad.
Hate the tool. Sharp knife and a whetstone. And you missed the extra pack of bandaids. And gauze and iodine. You may be more coordinated than i am but better to have and not need …
I think my favorite was when i had piped in bubblerd at my previous house. About 1000 ft of pipe. Took a couple weeks but for stations and every tree got well watered.
Now I’m in a cooler zone and 6000ft on a rocky mountainside. I do some hand watering of trees and have to avoid having spray on the older trunks. But potted 1-3 year old trees … yeah just hit with sprinkler.
I got a bunch of seed that are hardy (but “questionable” er… unlikely for Northern WI) including persimmon, pawpaw, hican, peach, chestnut. All from plants claimed to be growing in zone 4ish. Figs (thanks @ampersand) which will be in pots for now (eventually in the greenhouse). Some hybrid plums from Fedco which should do fine and a couple cherries that might be hardy enough. For me, a failed attempt to grow something is an open spot in the garden…kinda like a reservation .
I’m laughing at my self. I actually stsrted this thread. Went to post on buying some more trees and re-read my post.
I had actually forgotten the Isons order!
Now where am i going to grow these trees? I think I’ll have pot some.
Restoring Eden
Meiwa Kumquat
Pomegranate, Wonderful
Kiwi, Prolific
4-in-1 Fruit Cocktail
Frost Peach, Puget Gold Apricot, Hardy Red Nectarine, Stella Cherry, Italian Prune, Lapin Cherry.
Wellsprings Garden
Kona Sugarloaf Pineapple
Elite Gold Pineapple
Florida Plants
Black Pepper - Piper Nigrum
Vanilla Bean Orchid
Double A Vineyards
Thomcord Grape
6 Errante Noir Grapes
Isons
Shiro Kaga Apricot
Plumcot “Spring Satin”
Black Ruby Plum
Their 4 in 1 trees are of pretty good sizes. I’m about to head over to pick up a sprite and delight cherry Plum sometime tomorrow. I didn’t like the ones i got from other nurseries.
Just grabbed:
[v] Sweet treat pluerry
[v] 4 in 1 pluot
[v] Sugar twist
[v] Candy heart
They have 3 in 1 pluots but some have 4 grafts.
Still need to grab an Indian free peach from them as well.
it’s 99% all me unless it involves really heavy lifting, a lot of mosquitoes, or harvesting 
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