These are more appropriately called "Peach Shrubs" than trees, they are so small. Small shrubs at that. I covered them for the winter, using upturned trash cans. Today I thought, "I wonder what's going on under there". It turned out, one is already blooming and the other is growing, both very very pale from no sunshine.
I covered these for the winter to avoid issues with Peach Leaf Curl Disease, which makes inroads into the peach buds through the rainy fall and winter. I don't know if that will be an issue with uncovering now. There is still some rainy season ahead. With these so pale, it's possible the sun will damage them. I decided to just go with the flow and see what happens.
If I remember correctly, the blooming one is called "Garden Gold" and the nonblooming one is called "El Dorado". That second one was far smaller when I planted it last year . I pruned off the moldy looking branches.
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