I've mentioned that 2008 was our first year growing edibles here (aside from the resident citrus trees), and we had little money. One of the things I did was to join up on freecycle and was lucky enough to score some small fruit trees. I picked up a Loquat, apricot, peach and guava. Unfortunately the guava and apricot died but the Loquat and Peach go from strength to strength. I was surprised though to go out into the garden and find this:
That YardCraft readers is a Peach flower! Yep I have flowers on my Peach tree! Now I have NO IDEA how old the tree is, but height wise it's about 2' high so I'd estimate around 4 years? No clue! Anyway, the tree is flowering and putting out new leaves :) Lovely! Even if it doesn't fruit I'm happy that the tree is happy :)
Oh, how I would love to have peach blossoms--and a peach tree. But here in Montana, that's not realistic.
I've left you a message over at Blotanical--me and several other folks. Come by sometime.
--Kate
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