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Plants for mediterranean gardens => Trees and Shrubs => Topic started by: Fermi on September 24, 2020, 06:44:38 AM
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This is a dwarf fruiting pear in our raised bed "Potager" ;D
The bees are loving the spring blossom
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fermi
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I've loved Quince blossom ever since I looked out of a second floor office window into the neighbouring garden where there was a huge tree in full flower I was in my early twenties and had never seen a Quince in flower before. Now we have a couple of named forms as well as a number which have come up from the understock of a couple of Sorbus! I had never heard of anyone grafting a Sorbus onto Quince stock and they sucker profusely!
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fermi
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This is a fairly young tree of Malus 'Royal Raindrops' which is flowering well
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fermi
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Malus 'Golden Hornet' is named for its yellow fruit in autumn - which we hardly ever get to enjoy because of the parrots >:(
However today they are filled with the sound of bees busy pollinating the flowers. They grow as a border to one side of our vegie area. The understock seems to have taken over part of the row but the main difference seems to be the size of the fruit - closer to that of a dessert apple,
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fermi
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Malus 'Pioneer Rose' - apparently this was a chance seedling which is probably a cross between a crab-apple and an eating apple,
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fermi
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A similar tree originated in Tassie and is called 'Huonville Crab' - this was only planted a few years ago
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fermi
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Malus mandshurica is considered by some to be a synonym of Malus baccata var. mandshurica. It has a stunning display of pure white blossom in spring but the parrots prevent us ever seeing ripe fruit!
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fermi
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Pure delight. We have had a long dry summer and the sight of the blossom is so welcome.
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Continuing on from last year, here are more pics of trees in blossom.
This tree was part of a row of purple crab-apples. When the understock started to flower we quite liked it so decided not to remove all the suckers. Each of the trees appear to have been grafted onto different rootstocks! This one produces large red fruit (when we can protect them from the parrots!). The large white flowers are particularly attractive and are set off by the dark pinky-purple crabapple flowers,
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fermi
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So your photos wouldn't go also?
I keep getting 'an error has occurred'
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Hi Hilary,
I posted something yesterday but not today.
Not sure what was different!
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fermi
Problem seemed to be sorted so I've added in the pics above
fermi
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Some more crabapple blossoms,
Sorry, I no longer have the names of these
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fermi
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This is the Malus mandhurica this year
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fermi
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Malus ioensis 'Plena'
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fermi
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I see that Spring is with you. What a wonderful sight! We are still waiting for our first autumnal rain.