Thought I ought to introduce myself, since I've been posting on this great board for a bit

I live in N. San Diego county, California. Native born Californian that spend 13 years out of state (Indiana, then Maryland), and now "back home". While in Indiana I was able to complete my Master Gardener's certification in Elkhart, Indiana, one of the finest Master Gardener programs in the country (associated with Purdue University). All my gardening experience had been in coastal S. California, so living in Indiana with an entirely different climate and plant materials, figured it was the best way to learn how to garden properly in Zone 5 Midwest. Moved back to California in the fall of 2009 and was able to find a very lovely home with a few existing, but struggling fruit trees, mainly citrus. Married, 3 adult daughters, an RN by trade, and member of a couple of gardening groups (SD Hort Society, CRFG, San Diego Floral Society). I currently have the following lineup:

Citrus:
Meyer Improved lemon
Eureka lemon
Possibly a Lisbon lemon (still recovering, might not be thorny enough)
Some variety of Valencia
Rio Red grapefruit
Melogold grapefruit
Cocktail grapefruit (not really a grapefruit, I know)
Oro Blanco grapefruit
Cara Cara navel
Smith Red Valencia (blood) orange
Moro blood orange
Wekiva Tangelo
Page mandarin
Gold Nugget mandarin
Pixie mandarin
Algerian clementine mandarin
5 variegated calamondin
Bearss lime
3 Miewa kumquat
1 unknown kumquat (probably Nagami)

Apples:
2 Anna (one existing espalier tree, but not in a good location)
Dorsett Golden
Pink Lady
Red Fuji

Pomegrantates:
Wonderful
Sweet
Eversweet
Parfianka
Red Silk
Phil's Sweet
Pink Satin
unknown (was here, yet to ripen)

Cherries:
Royal Lee
Minnie Royal

Avocados:
Possibly a Hass (was a stick when I moved in, now 9-10 feet tall, and hopefully will have fruit set this year)
Lamb Hass
Littlecado (Wurtz)
Holiday (small, probably a couple of years for fruit)
Sir Prize
Jan Boyce
Nimlioh
Kona Sharwil

Blueberries (in containers):
South Moon
Jubilee
Misty
O'Neal
Sunshine

Blackberries:
Prime-Jim

Mango:
Valencia Pride (tiny, will be 2 or 3 years before I see fruit)

Figs:
Panache
Brown Turkey
Flanders (discovered buried inside a gigantic rosemary bush)

Tropical/Sub-Tropical:
White Sapote

So far, that's the lineup. Very fortunate to be in an area that has nearly ideal weather. So far, things are very young, except the Meyer, which produces prodigiously Sort of like a zucchini, I'm trying to come up with a million "things to do with a lemon", lol!!

Patty, welcome to the forum. We thank you for joining, it is a pleasure having you as a member. Your collection of fruit trees is quite impressive. We hope to see you around here for a long time. - Millet

Thanks, Millet. I have about an acre that gently slopes from north to south and is mostly DG, so heaven for citrus and avocados. Which is why I'm surrounded by both commercially I have a few more trees I'll be putting in, a few more citrus, and probably 4 or so more stone fruit (personally, I think stone fruit is a bit of a hassle to grow, with needing regular spraying, and netting). Will be putting in an apricot, nectarine, pluot and probably an aprium down the road. Glad to have found this very nice board, with lots of experts. Have a board question: I'd like to put my weather sticker in my sig line, but I keep getting "sig line too long". How are folks adding their nice little weather sticker? Fun to see where everyone is from, and what their weather is around the world.

Welcome Patty,

You have a very enviable list there. Unfortunately I cannot grow some of those. Please post a picture tour of your garden.

Welcome to the forum.

Thanks Todd & Charles! I have some photos, but let me try to really do a "walk through the garden" in a more progressive way. Then, I'll have to figure out how to post photos in this forum. Can't be too hard I'd think. I have all my photos up on Photobucket, so I would think it's probably the same as GardenWeb, with copying and pasting the html links?

I can grow just about anything, except grapefruits that need intense, prolonged heat. So, those won't show up in my garden, but thankfully, the varieties I prefer taste-wise are designed for my climate, so I lucked out.

And, with all the low-chill stone fruits and apples available, I can grow those as well. The big experiment are my cherries. Lots of rave reviews on these two, even right at the coast (I'm about 6-7 miles inland), so we'll see.

I missed this post. Welcome to the forum neighbor. We have a lot of the same varieties although you have quite a few more than I do. How are your low chill cherries doing? I'm gambling on the chill hours with a stella and self fertile bing, but there's others in San Diego that have reported that they do just fine.

Phillip

Thanks, Phillip My Royal Lee and Minnie Royal are leafing out nicely and look very robust. No blossoms yet. I am going to be planting them, along with 4 apple trees down on the south part of my yard on the east side, which is the lower part of the yard, and my cold spot. You get more chill hours in Ramona that I do, so you may have success with your cherry varieties. My only hope for right now, would be these two. All are in pots right now, as I'm going to try to get our lower part of our yard re-designed this spring. My plan is to plant all my apples and stone fruit along the fence line down in this lower part of our yard, which are to the left of the walkway down there. So, the walkway would be lined with lovely fruit trees I'm planning on keeping them all pruned to "walk and pick" height so fruit will be at eye level for the most part. I hope I can get all I want down in this part of the yard - a small greenhouse, small little patio with some sort of pergola, a hammock (that's requirement per the hubby), electricity run down for lighting and at least two hose bibs - one for the the greenhouse and one for the general outside area. Have sprinklers down there already, so that's a plus. It's just kind of a mess right now. Overgrown, and ratty looking.