Daniel's Pacific NW Garden

Today I pruned the cherry trees in the Vancouver yard.  I cut back all new growth to about 5 buds, trimmed back a few older branches.  Cut o...

This is the recipe I used for Cherry Crisp using tart pie cherries from the North Star Cherry tree. All along the plan was to make a cherr...

Blackberries Feijoa / Pineapple guava  I may need to stretch how I define "orchard".   Since the feral Himalayan blackber...

Hollywood Plum. Fruit set is the best I've ever seen for this tree. Promising. Shiro Plum. Ditto.

Sweet Cherry. Iris bucharica. Muscari. These multiply rapidly with no assistance from me. Genetic dwarf peaches..

By necessity the yard is in a state of benign neglect now. Fortunately I did a lot of pruning and clean up in previous weeks. Nice the fru...

Now it's fall. It's chilly.  It's raining every day. Good time to move some more trees, I think. Better than summer, when I mo...

I bought some fruit trees, mail order, from One Green World . OGW is about a 2 hour drive from here. Not too far. I had them shipped groun...

Here's how the little orchard is progressing. I've planted all 3 of the planned Paw Paws, the unplanned Toka and Satsuma Plums (fro...

Honeycrisp mini dwarf. I did think the apples, but not enough. They overloaded the tiny tree and it broke off. Oh well. The apples ar...

Just when the plums are finishing, the Asian pears are ripening. Cool!

A good crop of tree ripened plums - enough to share with friends and coworkers, who loved them. Grocery store plums are hard and sour. The...

This looks to me like a plum seedling. I planted seeds in this pot in June. No expectations as to germination. These were not pits that I ...

Now I'm thinking about adding another row. There is room. That would be 5 more fruit trees. Which types? Maybe... - Asian Persimmo...

Most of this is just thinking. I have a mulberry that needs to go somewhere, and would like to add a black mulberry. With need for apple p...

This Spring I wondered if there would be any plums. That was due to frost, and I read that Shiro needs a pollinator other than the Hollywo...

Midsummer, the yard and backyard orchard is jungle-like in greenery. On the left Illinois Everbearing mulberry. This is year #3. Not ma...