The Accidental Smallholder Forum
Growing => Fruit => Topic started by: doganjo on May 09, 2014, 11:09:34 pm
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I really can't remember what this is and the label has long since disintegrated - any ideas :fc:
It's either apple or plum I think. :innocent:
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Umm - fruit tree ;D. Apple I'd plump for - mostly because my plums seem to blossom before their leaves appear whereas the apples wait a wee while. But in a couple more weeks you'll know for sure. Once you've got fruit, you can send off a sample to Brogdale and they'll let you know what the variety it is (for a fee)!
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Hmm? Not sure. Can you get a good piccie of a leaf or two too? There's loads of blossom, I'm very jealous :o :roflanim:
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I would say apple for the same reason that Hester gave.
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I would say it's plum because you're north of me and my apples are only just starting to open their buds, whereas my plums etc are producing displays like yours. I need to check some of my plum blossom close up and compare it to apple, plus a pic of leaves would help :tree:
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I'd say plum too - my apple blossoms are clustered differently and pinker, where the plums (and damson) are that paler shade with that shape flower. And tho your garden is more sheltered than mine my apple blossom is barely out, just the leader in the middle has petals out and the rest in pink buds around it.
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I'd say plum, but there's also a chance it's a crab apple looking at the flowers... :-\
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Thanks, folks. It's definitely not crabapple. What is confusing me is that my apple trees are in full blossom in the front paddock. I had a feeling this was a plum (could it be a pear? :thinking: ). I'll try to get a good photo of the leaves, or drag Bloomer down here and he can decide :roflanim: (or you Ellie :innocent:)
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get ellie i cant tell till its got fruit on :-) xxx
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Call yourself a landscape gardener? :roflanim: ;) :P
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im a hard landscaper i don't do plants
unless i can use a chainsaw on them!!!
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:excited: Got a few big plants for you to play with :excited:
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Plum.
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I hope
A) it's a plum and
B) the bees and insects know there is another one in the front paddock. :excited:
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Looks more like my plum than my apples (they are pinker) - but the plum has almost finished flowering... Different variety? Or possibly pear after all???
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I don't think you can go by the colour of the flowers. I've got 34 different varieties of apple trees and the colour of the blossom varies enormously from a deep pink to a pure white. Ditto timing - one pear flowered way back in February and now has decent sized fruit on it, some of the apples are still coming into flower now. That's why you have to be careful to plant trees that will cross-pollinate because otherwise you could end up with some trees that just don't overlap their blossoming period with anything else.
Anyhow if you think it's a plum, it probably is a plum! The bees will know as well. I was very worried with my early pear because it really was out all on its own except for the very last couple of days and I didn't see a single insect near it but some creature managed to do its job thankfully.
Let us know!
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Picture of leaf
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No more ideas? :eyelashes: :innocent: :fc:
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i still say its a tree!!!
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i still say its a tree!!!
:roflanim:
Well it's not one that's being chainsawed, that's for sure! :innocent:
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i'll try come visit next week i promise! house hunting has eaten into my diary!!!
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i'll try come visit next week i promise! house hunting has eaten into my diary!!!
No rush - no winds just now anyway. Sorry you haven't got anywhere yet.