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Date variety discovered by outback horticulturalist now grown globally
By Victoria Ellis

Mitakoodi man Glen Oliver has nurtured a huge variety of plant species over the years, but the highlight of his career in horticulture has been discovering a new date palm.

abc.net.au/news/2025-05-05/gle

ABC News · How Glen's Oliver palm discovery in central Australia is now a hit in CaliforniaBy Victoria Ellis
#Horticulture#FruitTrees#FruitGrowing
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Ari Gardens as a Verb

Updated with photo, for what it's worth.

I got out yesterday after work and wrapped my fruit trees and currant bush, but I forgot about my raspberry and gooseberry bushes (luckily it didn't end up freezing last night). I don't have any way to get any sort of cover over them, and it is supposed to be in the 20sF early tomorrow, Tuesday morning.

I'm not what sure do. I guess I could set an alarm for some time in the middle of the night to check the temperature, then if it is trending below 30°F, run the hose spray over the bushes, hopefully making ice that would coat their leaves at 32°F rather than dipping below that.

Another option would be to put one of my temperature sensors out near the berry bushes to see what kind of microclimate I've got there, and then if that drops, protect them with the water. Those bushes are generally more protected by structures and the lay of the land than everything is out front. Maybe that area won't hit the freezing mark?

This is #Kansas, so I'm used to losing fruit crops because the weather in April didn't cooperate.

This dip tonight means we likely won't get any peaches or pears from local trees unless farmers go to extremes to try to keep those from freezing. I don't remember having Kansas peaches more than one time over the last 10 years because of April freezes.

Peaches seem to be the most sensitive, which is part of why I've never planted a peach tree. 😞

A sunny and bright native plant filled front garden in which you can see two covered raised beds, a small cherry tree with a pillowcase over it, my plum tree with a cardboard box around the trunk and a sheet taped over that with blue tape, and my giant clove current bush with two large cardboard boxes around the base and a mattress pad taped over the top. I'm leaving these covered today in spite of the warmer afternoon because it's supposed to be a lot colder tonight. Also in the shot are my gorgeous, single-trunked redbud tree that I've babied and pruned to this shape since it was a foot tall (they get weird and gnarly if your don't), and the Ukraine flag flying the flag pole angling diagonally off the porch. On the left of the shot is just a glimpse of the old ornate porch pillar on which the flag flies and at the top of the shot is a glimpse of very faded Tibetan prayer flags. I direct people to my house with the simple phrase, "it is the one with all the flags on it." Not pictured are my Gilbert Baker design pride flag, and my United Federation of Planets flag. No Doubt if Google maps were updated, you'd be able to find me easily. Heh. Secret pass phrase is: I've got nothing but Fedi for you.
#Gardening#FruitTrees
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Tom

An air layering attempt on the old Santa Rosa plum. Harvested the sphagnum moss from the rock seen in the background. Now we wait.

Yes, I could just buy another Santa Rosa plum but then it's not THIS plum. This also ignores the fact that the chances of getting the same plum is near zero because "looks like" is more important than "actually is" in the buy a plant world these days.

A photo showing a small limb on a plum tree that has had a blob of plastic and rubber added to it. What created this was freshly harvested sphagnum moss mixed with some dirt that came along with it and a little dirt and wood ash, then soaked in water. This was secured around the de-barked limb with some narrow plastic wrap and then it was covered with some wide plastic wrap to make 3 layers. The top and bottom was sealed with some splicing tape. The whole thing wrapped tight with narrow wrap, then more splicing tape on the ends. The goal is to retain the moisture of the sphagnum moss for a couple of months if it takes that long.
#gardening#orchard#PlumTree
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Tom

The Comice pear, the oldest Gravenstein apple, an early blooming peach grown from seed, and the Harcot Apricot. I saw quite a few apricots blooming when I was out and about today. The Japanese type plum here is a couple of warm days away from starting to bloom and it doesn't look like it's died much more. It's more than 50 years old.

A photo showing likely flower buds on a Comice pear tree. There are skinny pointy leaves and some bigger ones with a cluster of squiggly twisted yellow and light green things in the middle.
A photo showing flower buds on a Gravenstein apple tree. They are silvery green with some red highlights in a cluster.
A photo showing pink/red flower buds on a peach tree that has grown from seed. It's an early blooming type of peach which makes it susceptible to frost.
A photo showing apricot blossoms, only one blossom is fully open, some are partially open but most of the buds are still closed. The flowers are pinkish and the buds are dark red.
#gardening#GrowYourOwn#orchard
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Homestead Culture

You don't have to deer fence your entire property or orchard to grow fruit and nut trees.

After tempting the deer to eat leaves from hundreds of trees, from dozens of species, I learned so much about what I can get away with and what I can't.

🦌 Learn more in the link 👇🏼 and be sure to grab the sale, which is this week only 🙌🏻
homesteadculture.com/protect-t

#deerresistant#foodforest#homesteading
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Carson Hill 📎

I was feeling under the weather today so I took a nap instead of a walk. When I got home from work, our thundercloud #plum tree greeted me the best way it could.

Here's the first blossom of the season!

Tomorrow and the days that follow will yield more, but this was the first one (at least, the first near the ground) that opened up to say hi.

Thankful for small joys like this.

A single open plum blossom, pink and new, at the end of a narrow branch with a lichen-coated trunk out of focus behind it. Several other buds are about to open, to keep it company soon.
#sakura#plumblossom#bloomscrolling
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J Mills

Make your own apple trees—Online grafting classes from Seed Savers Exchange (US)

SSE sends you the materials you need (rootstock, grafting knife, etc.), classes meet online

seedsavers.org/events/apple-gr

Grafting is a great skill to have. You have many more options for varieties, and it saves a lot of money versus nursery-grown trees. I graft 20-30 fruit trees every spring to distribute in my community.

SeedSaversApple Grafting - SeedSaversLearn to graft your own apple trees through our series of virtual presentations and small-group sessions.
#grafting#FruitTrees#horticulture
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Malte Rod
Sorting through the fruits trees I grafted last year. Had some miserable failures (looking at you mullberry), but am very happy with those that made it. There's Sweet Rowan, plums, about 50 different apple varieties, quince, sweeter and larger hawthorn, cherries sour and sweet, walnut, sea-buckthorn, asian nashi pears, hazelnut, you name it. Large root systems grown in the earth and not a single pot in sight. Those trees will be much healthier as they won't have any of that root girdling you find in potted trees. These are ready to find their forever home in some garden - maybe yours? Learn more at the most punk plant nursery with zero investment in marketing through the tech oligarchy: @rodoglund@social.data.coop #PlantNursery #BareRoot #FruitTrees #FediBusiness
Bare-root trees lying in bunches on the ground
Bare-root trees lying in bunches on the ground with polytunnel in the background
Bare-root trees lying in bunches on the ground with polytunnel in the background
#fedibusiness
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Ms. Que Banh

Here is River. They are the #WellandCommunityOrchard coordinator/educator for the 2025 Winter #FruitTrees #pruning #apprenticeship program - funded by local #FoodSecurity #nonprofit organization, #LifecyclesProject. Today was day 1 of the hands on apprenticeship learning program which runs for just over a month.

Here, River is giving a pruning saw demo on a dwarf apple tree.

#VancouverIsland#Educational#OrchardCare
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Ms. Que Banh

I applied & was accepted into the new LifeCycles #FruitTrees #internship program. I start my first sessions in early January - shortly after returning from adaptive snow sports program on Mt. Washington. I'll be doing hands on learning over a period of 8 weeks; minimum of one session per week. Happy about growing my fruit trees practical knowledge 🙂 I love learning more about #FoodSecurity elements.

I am the only disabled applicant who was accepted into the internship program 💗

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OtherRyn

My fruit trees arrived yesterday and I didn't have the energy to get them out of the box. Just opened them up and my goodness, they are very good trees. Packed well, reasonably mature trees. I'll be ordering from them for my fruit tree needs in the future.

Kinda tempted to get a Pawpaw tree and see if it'll take in the food forest I'm creating. Definitely getting fruiting dogwood next year.

This year's trees and bushes to plant in the next week or so...

Asian Pear - Hosui
Pear - Red Bartlett
Nectarine - Harco
Sour Cherry - Pandy
Mulberry - Red nr 2

Bushes:
Saskatoon Berries - Northline, Sleyt
Haskap - Honeybee
Blackberry - Thornless Evergreen

obstbaumshop.de/
#gardening #FoodForest #FruitTrees #FruitBushes @gardening

www.obstbaumshop.deTutifruti DEObstbaumshop
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