Sometimes plants know when to give up and die. This American Plum, even in the dead form, can provide habitat for small animals.
Category Archives: Fruit
Iowa Goji Berry
My Goji Berry is fruiting in the pot. These sprawling bushes are also called Wolfberries. I transplanted it into its permanent spot now. Birds have like this late season berry.
Nanking Cherry Fruit
The Nanking Cherry is producing some fruit this year. The birds are quickly eating this fruit this year, because the hard Spring freeze knocked out other fruiting plants.
Honeyberry Fruit
Honeyberry bushes are the earliest fruit in the spring. The fruit is blue and quickly eaten by birds.
Freeze? No Please
The early, warm spring was going to cause a problem sooner or later. It finally caught up to us and a lot of plants have foliage burned off by the freeze. This photo shows the sensitive Kiwi vines.
Flowering Fruit Trees
This spring the fruit trees are flowering early. Double Red Delicious Apple full of flowers. Northstar Sour Cherry with many flower blossoms. 3 pears in our orchard are flowering: Kieffer, Pineapple, and Starking Delicious Pears. The Sun ‘n Snow Poplar is always looking like its flowering. Golden Leaves are very easy to notice.
Chinese Catalpa Bean Pods
The Chinese Catalpa(Catalpa ovata) starts flowering at a young age. This turns into seedpods that are filled with a lot of viable seed.
September Garden Harvest
A lot of different things were harvested in the garden this September. It was a great melon year and also had a good amount of potatoes. Large Sunflower heads were collected for their edible kernels and enough Butternut Squash will be ate this winter.
Wolberry Fruit
The Wolfberry is related to peppers and tomatoes. This plant is a sprawling bush and creates little, orange fruit. It is more widely known as the Goji Berry.
Flowering Vines
Vines are some fast-growing, flowering plants. Morning Glories and Firecracker Vines attract hummingbirds to the garden. The Hardy Passion fruit has amazing flowers. It is also known as Maypop and can create edible fruit in milder climates than mine.