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In My Garden Today Posted by Alvin in Motown, z6 on March 25, 2025, 10:33 pm I received two new bareroot, dormant apple trees, from Trees of Antiquity Nursery. They specialize in heirloom, old-fashioned varieties of fruit trees. I only ordered ONE tree, but they were gracious enough to send me a free tree. How cool is that! Although I opened the box, yesterday, I didn't discover the second tree, until I cut the string that tied the two trees together, today, before planting the trees. Anybody plant any nursery stock, yet? If you look closely, you can see that leaf buds are swelling... Carolina RED JUNE: This variety is one of the earliest to ripen in summer. In Western North Carolina, this variety ripens in JUNE. Yet, the trees are hardy down to z4- https://photos.app.goo.gl/AgqobrDkGW46GWB99 GRIMES GOLDEN... This is my free tree. This is an old yellow variety of apple - https://photos.app.goo.gl/8FgaLfL85aRnBP6WA Check it out! The PIE PLANT is beginning to emerge. Anybody know what this plant is, known botanically as, Rheum rhubarbarum? https://photos.app.goo.gl/yxe6LpiBz36fGnVH7 Another type of Dutch bulb is chiming into the budding spring flower season. This little bloomer is known as, WINTER ACONITE, Eranthus hyemalis: https://photos.app.goo.gl/ghU9MHW8X18SjtjN8 I removed the rose cone from my BLUE HEBE (hee-bee), to see how it came through the winter. Here it is: https://photos.app.goo.gl/Kbqxq5fGv5ijnm4D6

Re: In My Garden Today Posted by Fred SC on March 26, 2025, 5:06 am, in reply to "In My Garden Today" Alvin, Grimes Golden Delicious is a really good apple. I remember it from when I was a kid. Back then back then everybody had apple trees . Apple trees were really tall,then. they’ve developed new varieties and dwarfed them down. We had a small stripped apple called Fox apples. They were so delicious . We had a little apple called ancalled a June apple, which was a kind of soft apple, but it was very very early. We also had a little small dark red apple we called the red apple. I remember winesap Apple was widely grown. My great aunt had a big apple orchard. We would go there and pick apples at my mother would make applesauce and apple butter, and we would fry for breakfast and all that sort of thing all good memories. We also had peach trees and cherry trees. But all those trees now are all dead and gone years ago and none of those people where I grew up grown no fruit at all on that street. Alvin, I wish I could grow rhubarb here. I tried it, but it’s just too hot. I think in the summer but now they do grow up the mountains of North Carolina. Nothing better than a rhubarb pie.. My mother and Mam Ma grew it. The winter aconite is beautiful. The Blue Hebe came thru the winter quite well.

Re: In My Garden Today Posted by Mark z7 Sharptown, MD on March 26, 2025, 6:15 am, in reply to "In My Garden Today" Does the rhubarb spread for you?

Re: In My Garden Today Posted by Alvin, z6 on March 26, 2025, 8:21 pm, in reply to "Re: In My Garden Today" Thanks, Fred. This is my first time growing Grimes Golden apple. When I was in my late teens, while living at home, I had a Starkspur Dwarf Golden Delicious apple. After two years, from planting, it became a very productive tree, producing many large apples (after manual thinning, of course). I kept it no taller than 7 ft tall, through annual prunings. Golden Delicious apples are reputed to be a tad larger than Grimes Goldens. Believe or or not, I now have FIVE dwarf apple varieties, planted over the last two years, on my tiny 41 x 121 ft lot. One is a Red Stayman Winesap. I believe in planting alot of stuff, in my yard, rather densely planted, LOL. In the above pics, you can see other things growing near to the apples. The dwarf apricot tree, I planted, late last fall, is just about 5 ft away, from the Red June apple. I also have other fruit types, too, including a few that were allowed to get too tall to keep birds and critters away, through netting, etc. Yeah, it is a tad too warm for rhubarb, in the Deep South. Even up here, it starts going partly dormant, by mid-summer.

Re: In My Garden Today Posted by Alvin, z6 on March 26, 2025, 8:26 pm, in reply to "Re: In My Garden Today" Mark, rhubarb stays pretty well-behaved, in my yard. Since rhubarb does produce flowers ( and later, seeds), I'm guessing that it could spread, through making more seedlings. I usually remove any flower stalks that may form, because they not only sap the energy from established clumps, it could produce volunteers.

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