Daniel's Pacific NW Garden

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

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...

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...

There are many conflicting versions regarding how to sprout wild plum, and other stone fruit seeds. I have a pretty good supply, from colle...

Not ripe yet, but getting closer. This is the best crop so far from Hollywood and Shiro. Shiro. Hard to see in the picture, since the ...

This is how you stimulate fig trees to initiate fall crop. It's very easy. If I don't do this, I barely get any fall figs. If I d...

Once fruit has set on the tree, it's time to thin the baby fruits for best yield. By thinning, each of the remaining fruits will get mu...

Most of the fruit trees are near the end of blossoms. Some of the apples are midway through blooming, and a few blossoms straggle on, on th...