Garden chronicles, the orchard~

It's been thirty years since I planted an orchard, today felt like Christmas when I added over a dozen more varieties of fruits, some I never even heard of. With level land I can't wait to harvest buckets full of goodness in the years to come!

I use my blog like a reference library, recipes I love, moments in time I enjoy and now recording my garden layouts so five years from now I can check back to see which cultivars names worked out the best. 28 years ago I planted a pluiot, no one had even heard of them, today you can buy them by the box full at Costco. As exotic as pluiots were decades ago, now spelled pluots, but I am old school, I had that same wild thrill today adding aprium, nectaplums and pluerrys. While the rest of the country is freezing, I have been planting on the dry days between the rain, flighty to enjoy our first springs rewards.

Nestled around the barn I surrounded the area with fruit~

Row one...

Bartlett pear

Comice pear

Comice pear

Red Bartlett sensation

Asian pear housi
Sugar twist pluerry
Kadota fig
Brown Turkey fig 2
Panache tiger fig
Black mission

Brown Turkey fig

Pomegranate 

Row two...

Satsuma plum

Pluiot flavor supreme
Santa Rosa plum

Existing old apricot
Flavor queen pluiot

4 way pluiot

         White splash

             Green geopride

                   Blue emerald drop

                        Yellow flavor grenade

Fuyu persimmon
Arctic star white nectarine

Honeycrisp apple

Golden delicious apple
Bing cherry

Royal Rainer cherry

Row three...

Blenheim apricot

Old apricot

Leah cot aprium

Goldmine nectarine

Arctic glo nectarine

Spice zee nectaplum

Granny Smith apple

Gala apple

royal rainer cherry

Royal rainer cherry

Black tartarian

Black tartarian

fence line...
6 Spartan blueberries left side
3 bluecrop blueberries  right side

 by casita...
Almond
mulberry
Almond
Santa Rosa plum

Front areas....

Hychiya persimmon
Coffee cake persimmon nishimua wase *

Black walnut

Old apple tree

Pomegranate wonderful 2

Meyer lemons 3

Courtyard

Navel orange

Meyers lemon

Side deck
Clementine

Kitchen garden
morro blood orange

Cassita
Tarocca blood orange

Bears lime

Grapefruit Rio red

White garden
Almond

orchard fence
...
gold flame honeysuckle

...

Spartan blueberry 6

bluecrop 3

bridal veil spirea 10

variegated weigelia

leptospermo patricia ann (pink)

leptospermo ruby glow

Leptospermo Martin's (pink)

weigelia pink

lilac pale pink

weigelia pink

Leptosperum Helene strybing pink

leptospermo ruby glow

Leptosperum Martinii (pink)
leptosperum Helene strybing pink
red tree peopny

camellia debutante pink

Barn

White crepe myrtles 2

White daffodils

Cecile Brunner

Eureka lemon

Red canna

Red and white rose of Sharon

Red roses 2