It’s June and we have some fruits developing on our haskaps and strawberries; I think something has gotten to our serviceberries and plums though (curculio maybe). And so many more flowers!
Geraniums, Spurge, Lily of the Valley, and tricolor Willow:
Blackberries and Irises:
Rhododendron with a solitary bee:
Some of the weeds have been going haam too; I think I removed about 2 miles of Asiatic Bittersweet (Celastrus orbiculatus) yesterday just from one garden area.
What’s growing on with you all?
figured out that our big fruiting tree is… an apricot tree! sadly, it seems to be struggling. it didn’t fruit at all last year, and some of the bark is sloughing off the trunk, so i’m not sure how much longer it will last. i think it’s nearly done fruiting, which is good because the fruit flies are going NUTS out there.
What a great kind of tree to have! It’s a shame it’s struggling - iirc y’all have some tough fungal diseases to manage down there and some of the treatments are pretty involved. Have you gotten to eat any of the fruit? I feel like that would be a wonderful way to really get to know the tree even if it is on the way out.
my partner ate some of the fruit, but they don’t seem quite ripe enough to eat.
and yeah on the fungus! it was heavily infected last year, though we pruned heavily and it seems mostly gone this year. i’ll have to take a pic sometime, poor tree was shooting off ten billion branches trying to survive the neglect so it’s really bushy and awkward looking.