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Feb 19, 2012 7:56 AM CST
Name: Mary
My little patch of paradise (Zone 7b)
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Barely fruity here...

wild black cherries amongst the other trees behind my house, a couple very young crab apples (one ornamental, the other might have crab apples at some point in its future), and 2 golden delicious apple trees that I got for a steal.

Walked into Lowe's one morning in summer or early fall 2010, and the garden center lady grabbed me and said "You HAVE to buy these!" It was 2 golden delicious trees that had fallen out of their big tubs overnight. This was 8am, so they hadn't been out of their soil very long. She looked at them, looked at me, and said $3 each. So we put the tubs on the cart with the trees beside them, and I planted them as soon as I got home, in a mixture of their tub soil and my own red ga clay with various amendments added in. They're still alive, so I might have apples one day. These trees were easily 6' tall when I planted them... how could I pass up such a deal? If they do ever fruit, they'll probably be the only trees where I compete with the critters for the fruit. They're my favorite apple. Unfortunately, by the time I got them, I had already planted almost 20 trees in my front yard, so they might not get as much sunshine as they need, once the other trees grow up.

I still have some rearranging to do in other parts of my yard (a fence to move, for instance), and once I've done that, I'll plant some other fruit trees for the birds over in the wildlife section of the yard.

Oh, and there are wild strawberries creeping around in various places, too. I have some brambles that might be berry bushes, but I keep cutting them down cause I don't like where they're growing.

And I have some elderberry plants that may or may not develop fruit some day. Again, they're fairly young, and I don't think I've even seen them bloom in the couple years since I planted them.
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