Spring Blooms!
A bunch of stuff is in bloom! The Cot N Candy aprium, Summer Delight aprium, Shiro Japanese plum, Flavor Queen and Flavor Grenade pluots are all bloom or close. They'll hopefully be totally loaded. I'm planning to shorten the apriums by cutting tall branches off when it's time to harvest the fruit. Hopefully, we don't have any hard freezes until November or December. I planted a Thomasville Citrangequat (cross between a kumquat with a citrange, with a citrange being a cross of inedible trifoliate orange and a sweet orange). It grew some flowers in the two weeks it was in the house. So I'm hoping to have some lime-like fruit around Winter. I also planted a US942 citrus grown from a mature cutting. It produces a sour mandarin-like fruit. It's used a rootstock, but it can survive into the teens or single digits. I'll wrap the citrus trees up when it's going to be very cold. They're somewhat sheltered, so hopefully they can survive in-ground. I planted ...