Flower first, THEN a fruit!

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Nature is amazing. While I eat fruit, I’ve never thought about “how” it is grown, start to finish.

My friend was excited to show me that her fruit trees are budding. A few years ago, she planted a cherry tree. The tree became huge, but no cherries. After investigation, they found that they needed a “second” cherry tree for pollination.

Here you see the Black Tartarian Cherry:

Next, the Santa Rosa Plum:

Here you have Nectarines:

I’ve always preferred nectarines over peaches. Although, sometimes peaches seem juicier.

Have you planted any fruit trees?

29 thoughts on “Flower first, THEN a fruit!”

  1. I didn’t know you’d need a second fruit tree! Growing up in Washington state, my parents planted a few apple and plum trees, but they never produced much fruit. In Palm Springs we moved into a 1930s house with 18 citrus trees. Mostly grapefruit, but we had oranges, tangerines and one special blood orange tree. I miss the fresh citrus.

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      1. We lived there for 28 years and we started to lose trees, I think to long life, before we moved. But there were still plenty of fruit trees left. We have a house guest from Palm Springs this week and he is an avid gardener. He has the best peaches I’ve ever tasted, juicy oranges and mulberries.

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  2. With my dad, we had tangelos, blood orange, lime, lemon, grapefruit both yellow and Texas pink, plums, nectarines, and peaches. The last three simply didn’t do well with our Arizona heat. We had blackberry bushes that were bred for AZ. We also had an Ana apple that was bred to survive in Israel and did well in Arizona. I miss them.

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  3. I have never planted any, but moved to a house with a yard that generated an overabundance of fruit (apples) and nuts (black walnuts). Early on, I would rake up the fallen, rotting products of those trees (while grumbling about having 2/3 of a Waldorf salad in the grass). The apple tree eventually got cut down and the walnut trees still please the squirrels (and displease my lawn mower).

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  5. Tried (and failed) apple and cherry trees in Colorado, even following the rules of multiple trees and so on. Either the high altitude or determined rodents won the battle instead. Trying (jury still out) a nectarine tree in South Carolina. It’s a challenge to produce the fruit according to local experts, at least for our region of the country. Also, we have fond memories of a persimmon tree in the backyard of our first house in California, but not-so-fond memories when the overabundance of fruit fell on the ground and created a mushy mess!

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  8. We have a very hardy cherry tree in Alberta. Some years it has a lot of fruit and some years not so much. They are very sour, small cherries. We don’t eat a lot of them, but the birds like them.

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    1. Cherry trees are interesting. Maybe the tree has gotten older, so small and sour now. Happy for the birds. Squirrels eat everything too. Our neighbor had a persimmon tree in California. I’m amazed at how a squirrel can carry a nice sized persimmon up a tree and even bounce from branch to branch.

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