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[spindle_ella]

Fingers crossed for a good cherry crop this year.



I think the snowstorm last week did for the plum again.

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[cyprinella]

Oooooh. I hope you have a good one too! I'd love a cherry tree but I don't think they'll do well this far south. I'll just have to make do with apples and the magic of supermarkets.

[spindle_ella]

I'd love an apple tree too, and a morello cherry, (and a pear, and a peach, and a...) but space is limited. It's a bit far North here, but the local chemical works gives us a warmer micro-climate and I've had some luck with Mediterranean veg. I have been naughty and bought a fig and a pomegranate this month, but they were very cheap so it's worth a shot. XD

[cyprinella]

I managed to find an orchard here in VA that specializes in heirlooms and managed to get to taste a bunch of them to find trees perfect for the area that I like. I'm growing them espalier so I have space to fit them in my townhouse yard. Figs do very well here and my pomegranate was definitely successful last year. Gardening is about experimenting!

[spindle_ella]

Aaaaah, so nice! I have a small-ish yard with raised beds, so I have to try to fit everything in those (Chris whines about random pots strewn about). And there's a major house drain under the full length of one bed, so no trees in there. We have a cheap shop here, Wilkies, that has been getting more exotic plants in recently and I got them from there; experimenting is easier when the exotics are £3 each rather than £20 each. XD

[solarbird]

Ornamental cherries do very well here, and there are always plenty of cherries at the summer farmers' markets, so. And the late windstorm didn't seem to blow away too many blossoms, though I'm told that some orchards did badly.

(Bing cherries are my favourites, which apparently don't ship well? But they're so good.)

[cyprinella]

I haven't heard for sure, but the snow storm we got in March was supposed to be really killer for the peach crop. Hoping it's not the case.

I miss good sour cherries from Michigan but like you said, they don't ship well. So I make my maraschino cherries out of whatever sweet cherries I can get at Whole Foods.

[spindle_ella]

I can't remember if mine are sunburst or stellar, but they're supposed to be good for Northern regions, and they do taste good when I actually manage to get to one before the birds do.