Fruits

Do Blueberries Have to be Blue

Well you would think blueberries have to be blue!  There are exceptions to the blue rule!  For example, I am growing pink blueberries and regular blueberries.  There are black blueberries, but I am not growing this variety yet. Let’s start out with the Bluecrop Blueberry.  This blueberry plant has white flowers in the Spring, medium […]

Fruits

Thornless and Compact Raspberries

This is the first year that I started growing raspberries.  I didn’t previously because I thought the plants had too many thorns and were not attractive looking.  I wanted to put my raspberry plant in my herb garden which is right next to our patio.   Here’s my solution. . . I am growing a Raspberry […]

Blooms Fruits

Cherry Blossoms

When we purchased our Reliance Cherry Tree in May 2012, it looked fantastic!   While we were worried that bugs might attack it, we did not realize that the real “pest” would be the deer in our neighborhood.  The deer ate most of the bottom branches and rubbed their antlers on the bark (see below). […]