We have been slowly trying to get around to planting fruit producing trees and bushes in our home garden. A while back I wrote about the Apple Trees in our garden. I have also previously posted about our Fig trees. Well, recently we've been planting a few more fruiting trees and shrubs so my husband asked me to document them and it seems as good a place as any to record it here. In the process of taking the photos and working out just what we have, I also made notes about when they need feeding, pruning, harvesting. I keep a monthly list of things to do in each garden: home garden, and community garden. It was quite helpful to work through all the fruiting bushes and trees and add various notes to the list. We are years off having anything truly productive but you know, if you start, then someday there will be fruit - and that will be good.
We have:
- 5 Dwarf apple trees
- 2 fig trees
- Dwarf Peach tree
- Mulberry tree
- Eureka Lemon tree
- Gooseberry bush
- 2 Blueberry bushes
- Raspberry
- Passionfruit vine
- Red currant
Dwarf Peach tree (planted 2004)
Mulberry Tree (planted 2008)
Lemon Tree (Eureka) planted 2011
Gooseberry bush (planted 2011)
Blueberries (planted 2010)
Raspberry (planted 2011)
Pandora Passionfruit (planted 2011)
Red Currant (planted 2010)
Behind the currant is an Ivy League vine - a deciduous vine that changes colour in autumn - Virginia Creeper. I've wanted one ever since we moved into this house. One of my kindly community gardeners has it growing in her garden and she generously gave me three cuttings. We have a large west facing brick wall and during a landscaping course, I was advised to grow a vine on this wall because as mentioned here
Virginia creeper can be used as a shading vine for buildings on masonry walls. Because the vine, like its relative Boston ivy, adheres to the surface by disks rather than penetrating roots, it will not harm the masonry but will keep a building cooler by shading the wall surface during the summer, saving money on air conditioning. As with ivy, trying to rip the plant from the wall will damage the surface; but if the plant is first killed, such as by severing the vine from the root, the adhesive pads will eventually deteriorate and release their grip.
