Maybelline's Garden

  The garden orchard isn't big at all.  All the deciduous trees are espalier pruned to shadow the garden fence line.  (The citrus gro...

I would like to be more proficient with the Latin names of plants.  Right now there is only room for improvement.  There are plenty of scent...

All the deciduous trees were given the 1st application of dormant oil spray after each had a light pruning. Thinning out areas where necess...

O'Henry Peach Some of the fruit trees have finally lost their leaves. I understand that waiting to prune after all the leaves have d...

Good Ol’ Granny Smith takes 4th place in the fruit blossom competition in the garden.  This year look pretty good for the apple tree.  There...

  Santa Rosa Plum This past weekend the fruit trees enjoyed a little beauty treatment.  A light trim to encourage the leaves to bush out an...

  Look at what’s developing on the other side of the garden fence! The apricots have never made it this far in development.  Sure.  There...

  The skies parted for a time this afternoon for a little garden inspection.  After checking the progress in the vegetable beds (nothing to ...

What do you know?!  The volunteer fig tree has figs!  I never expected a thing out of this tree that was, not doubt, transported to my gar...

All the espalier fruit trees that are going to bloom this spring have bloomed.  The final tree, Granny Smith, opened up today.  Some of the...

What the heck is going on with the Granny Smith tree?!  The little darling has only been in the garden since 2009.  As a bare root, it was p...

Today Farmer MacGregor applied dormant spray to the deciduous fruit trees, grape vine, and roses along with some light pruning.  The spray s...

Okay.  I’m beginning my adventures in grafting.  Two of my espaliered (Am I even using that Frenchy word correctly?  I know what I mean.) fr...

The deciduous fruit trees are all being espalier trained.  These baby trees are entering their 2nd year in the garden.  They all had a ni...