Pomegranate has been a good ornamental flowering plant that I grow in a large pot. This plant will also produce ornamental fruit, but doesn’t ripen well for me.
Tag Archives: Fruit
Crabapple Birds
Seedling Crabapples are creating a lot of fruit. The fruit usually lasts awhile into the winter until the birds consume it.
Sap Beetle Invasion
Sap Beetles have been the biggest pest to fruit this year. Hordes of them have been found in fruit.
Nanking Cherry Seedlings
The Nanking Cherry bushes are a great ornamental that provides reliable fruiting most years. . The seeds tend to germinate very easy, as can be seen from the above photo.
Ussuri Plums Blooming
The Ussuri plums usually give a good flower display in early spring. Hopefully this results in a good fruit yield for me.
Lone Peach
Because of the bad winter that killed the flower buds, the Peach trees didn’t produce a harvest of fruit. Though one lone Peach fruit did appear high up in one of the trees.
Jack in the Pulpit Fruit
In August the Jack in the Pulpit fruit ripens. Animals help spread this woodland plant.
Sumac Flowers and Fruit
Smooth Sumac is flowering while the Staghorn Sumac are developing their showy fruit. .
Chokecherries Fruiting
Chokecherry fruit doesn’t interest my tastebuds, but the wildlife may find it worthwhile. Besides the ornamental appeal of the fruit, the primary ornamental aspect of Chokecherry bushes are when they are full of white flowers in spring.
Ginkgo Leaves
Ginkgo trees have unusual leaves. Ginkgo Biloba is a slow growing tree that I like planting for the future. I also have some Ginkgo cultivars that I have added lately.