In summer of 2020 I decided to create a small orchard for myself around my house in Seattle. I already had a mature fig tree and a plum tree, I added more plums and figs, and cherries, apples, pears, grapes, raspberries, and blueberries. Running out of room so I’m toning it down now … even with container gardening. I also like to root cuttings, mostly hydrangeas, and I am nursing a small army of pink dogwood saplings. I don’t know what forces I have unleashed in my life. I alternate between fear and sheer delight.

Plum: juicy cling plum unk, italian prune, green gage (espaliered), brooks
Cherry: skeena, rainier, lambert
Apple: fuji/honey crisp/gala (espaliered), honey crisp
Pear: Bartlett, Bosc
Figs: Black Spanish, Chicago Hardy, Lattarulla Italian Honey, Neverella, Olympian, Peter’s Honey, Vern’s Brown Turkey, Violette De Bordeaux, White Marseilles, Yellow Long Neck, unk from Greece
Blueberries: Sweatheart, Bonus, Duke, Northland, Reka
Raspberries: Latham, Canby, Boyne, unk
Grapes: Suffolk red, Glenora black