Maybelline's Garden

 Early in 2020, some new bareroot fruit trees replaced some failing trees. The Old Blenheim apricot was replaced with an O’Henry peach. An o...

Red Flam Grapes - 2019 The best/most productive crop in the garden for 2019 has been the Red Flame grapes. The quantity & quality ha...

O'Henry peach performed exceptionally this year.  The freezer is well stocked with loads of peach slices to enjoy in pies and cobbl...

 Here's what's going on in the garden after some nice rain before we head into a scorcher of a week. Several lavender plants are ...

Mid July is about the time of summer that I have had my share of swamp pants and am ready for the coolnees of fall; but that ain't happe...

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

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...

O'Henry Peach Mid to late August seems to be the best time for ripe O'Henry peaches in the garden.  This year, the tree has thri...

January 2009 - A line of fruit trees was planted along the garden fence with hopes of a small espalier orchard.  For the most part, the un...

Today, the peaches (O’Henry) opened their buds.  Peaches follow plums and apricots.  The conciliation prize will, most likely, go to the app...

Project Runway meets Maybelline’s Garden.  Tasteful scarecrow attire this season is all natural cotton fabric in pink tones.  Pink is compli...

Most the fruit trees in the garden are espalier trained.  Sorry if the word “espalier” is misused .  Though the trees grow two dimensionally...

Most all the fruit trees are producing great this year.  They are 3 years old and trained espalier to keep them manageable, tidy, and produc...