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JoeReal
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| Posted: Wed 03 May, 2006 4:57 pm |
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And here are my other flowers:
Bearded Iris:
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JoeReal
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| Posted: Wed 03 May, 2006 4:58 pm |
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Another one:
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JoeReal
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| Posted: Wed 03 May, 2006 4:59 pm |
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I like the blue ones the best:
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JoeReal
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| Posted: Wed 03 May, 2006 5:00 pm |
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I have more colors of beared irises, but had no time to take pics of them, maybe later, I will edit this thread. |
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JoeReal
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| Posted: Wed 03 May, 2006 5:02 pm |
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And here's the stage of blueberry fruit. Not much heavy yield this time because of the numerous rainy days we had when they are in peak bloom.
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JoeReal
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| Posted: Wed 03 May, 2006 5:04 pm |
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Spanish Yellow Cherry in bloom for the first time. Grafted 2 years ago. Will be excited to taste the fruits, already counting them before they set!
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JoeReal
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| Posted: Wed 03 May, 2006 5:06 pm |
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Jonagold apple blossoms amidst the citrus canopy. No, I don't do cross species hybrid, 
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JoeReal
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| Posted: Wed 03 May, 2006 5:07 pm |
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more late apple blossoms.
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JoeReal
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| Posted: Wed 03 May, 2006 5:10 pm |
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Hidden Rose pink fleshed apple. Grafted this season, produced a lot of fruitlets, and I have thinned these out. I would leave a couple fruits for tasting. This would keep this graft smaller which I wanted, in order to match the slow growers that were grafted at the same time on the same tree.
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JoeReal
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| Posted: Wed 03 May, 2006 5:26 pm |
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A glimpse of the walkway to the secret garden.
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JoeReal
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| Posted: Wed 03 May, 2006 5:27 pm |
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Geraniums. They help keep some of the pesky beetles under control.
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JoeReal
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| Posted: Wed 03 May, 2006 5:28 pm |
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Calla Lillies, I have them too.
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JoeReal
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| Posted: Wed 03 May, 2006 5:58 pm |
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My latest blueberry in bloom:
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Chops
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Location: Zone 6b, NY, USA
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| Posted: Fri 19 May, 2006 8:17 pm |
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Those are some GORGEOUS pics! Incredible! I need to take lessons from you. Do you have problems with the plum curculio? I have an apple tree and it was decimated last year from this bug and japanese beetles. Not one fruitlet survived. Do you spray your trees? |
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JoeReal
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| Posted: Sat 20 May, 2006 12:56 am |
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Chops, the geranium seems to help. I've got only about 5 to 10 fruits damaged out of a thousand. I spray my trees against blight, brown rot and peach curl. The rains this year was a big problem. None of my sprays seem to work. I don't spray for insects. I have nice resident populations of natural predators this year.
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