Special Solutions & Unique Styles
There is no One Solution to growing fruit trees.
Creativity and a "just do it!" attitude can overcome most fruit-tree-growing challenges.
I started moving unhappy potted fruit trees from our backyard and have been rearranging things. We just had three large trash-trees taken out, producing logs for my work-steps and allowing the sun to reach nearly off-camera viewer-left, where I planted a Royal Lee, Minnie-Lee and Snow Queen last night. I was able to find these cherries at San Gabriel Nursery because of your "which retailer has it" list I used Saturday - but I purchased the nectarine from Armstrong a couple weeks ago. There are Suriname and Rio Grande cherries behind. They would enjoy keeping company with an Eva's Pride Peach and/or Chocolate Persimmon (hint hint).
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photo courtesy of Sandy Soden Mascarino - CRFG member - Click Photo for Bigger View
Way-off left are oo-la-la berries and raspberries dividing our property from neighbors. Click Photo for Bigger View
Next row: cherimoya in front, white sapote, guava, budda's hand, lime. Moving right are Anna's & Williams' Pride apples just beginning to open, behind them: calamondin & kumquat. Next row right favorite spiney bottle who will probably get the axe for a fruit tree, followed by meyer lemon, pomegranate, fig. Last row artichoke concealing kaffir lime, Pink Pearl apple, tangelo, and room for an umbrella dwarf peach perhaps. Trees generally have about 3-4 feet between trunks or two feet to path. Produce grows under and between the trees all over. Everything is sized to what I'm physically comfortable reaching over. I have an articulating ladder, but intend to keep trees short enough to avoid ladder use so as not to spoil our view or sun hitting produce under the trees. All trees can either be pruned agressively or have dwarf or semi-dwarf rootstock.
This next planting is artistically arranged between backyard sculptural elements....
photo courtesy of Jeff Soucek
photo courtesy of Jeff Soucek
photo courtesy of Jeff Soucek
photo courtesy of Kathy Baker
photo courtesy of Kathy Baker
photo courtesy of Kathy Baker
photo courtesy of Bill
photo courtesy of Bill
photo courtesy of Bill
photo courtesy of Bill
photo courtesy of Mitch Shirts — here's an Espalier
