Ussuri Plums can have good fall color. Too bad most of them are dying out.
Category Archives: Fruit
Bunches of Pear Fruit
The questionable Pear variety that I think is Kieffer, had a lot of pear fruit this year. The tree has large bundles of fruit, yet the tree has a strong frame and does not break with the load. There is probably hundreds of pounds of Pear Fruit currently in the tree.
Jujube Variability
Another one of my Jujube seedling rootstocks developed fruit this year. This tree had bigger fruit, maybe showing variable fruit genetics. The conditions were right this year, as they have flowered for multiple years, but this year was the first that any Jujube tree created fruit.
Predictable Fall Color
I keep transplanting the root suckers of the Devil’s Walkingstick and spreading them throughout my Oasis. The fall color of these suckering shrubs add early fall color in the landscape and are easily spotted with their purplish foliage.
Chestnut Litter
My Hybrid Chestnut is full of Chestnut Burrs. The ground is littered with all the burs and empty shells. Because of lack of cross pollination, the nuts are empty, but this bur had 7 in it! Every once and awhile I do find a filled Chestnut or find the remains of one, as the wildlife […]
Chinese Lantern
My small Golden Raintrees have previously flowered and now have their inflated seedpods. The grove of Rain Trees should look amazing in flower when they are more mature.
Invasive Rose Hips
Multiflora Rose has been a part of this farm as long as I can remember. These Rose bushes create a lot of rose hips that the birds eat and spread the seed around. Red Rosette Disease killed a lot of the bushes though.
Bird Fruit
Aralia Spinosa can flower in late summer and by fall have berries for wildlife. The birds will quickly devour the fruit.
Oklahoma Silver Red Cedar
Oklahoma Silver Cedar is a lot bluer than the native Red Cedars. This selection also has the cedar berries for attracting wildlife.
Jujube Fruit
Jujubes usually bloom every year for me, but this year was the first that I got mature fruit to eat. This fruit is on a seedling rootstock, so it is small and sour.