Yes, it is! We may have had ice yesterday and 21 degrees last night but spring is on the way. Know how I know? My lemon tree told me so! 🙂
Lemon Blooms
The Meyer Lemon tree is full of blooms . . hundreds of blooms. Even the sad little Meyer Lemon tree that puts forth leaves and then loses them all and never produces a lemon . . it has new leaves.
Meyer Lemon Tree
Even the agarita is ready to break out in full bloom. I have no idea what makes some years good for agarita and some years not so good but last year, I don’t think we had a single bloom. Since we have so many buds, I’m hoping this means we’ll get some good berries this year. The wind was blowing and it was hard to get a good picture but you can see the buds a bit on the photo below.
Agarita
We probably wasted our money as this is probably more novelty but we bought this “5 in 1” apple tree.
Apple Tree
We’ll see what it does. Our area isn’t ideal for apple production but there’s a good chance we could get a few apples. It was worth $30 to try it.
Over the weekend, I checked the blackberries and all three of the ones I planted last year have new growth. It will be interesting to see what’s happened to the other fruit trees. Some of the fig trees are supposed to be good to 15 degrees and our pomegranate is good to 15 degrees but we had a few nights with temps lower than that so we’ll just wait and see .. not much else we can do.
Lavonna Campbell says
The “5 in 1” apple tree actually does produce apples. We have one and last year we got a couple of varieties of apples on the different branches. I was as skeptical as you, but this was one thing that worked for us. The apples were nothing to brag about, but it was the first time the tree had produced, I think, and they had a great flavor. Good luck with you tree!
Linda H says
Not a farmer, nor do I live on a farm … but … I recall as a little person that whenever we planted an apple tree on our property we planted TWO … one to pollinate the other. My mom planted one tree and for YEARS it didn’t flower or have apples. She planted another small tree nearby and BAM! the very next year we had flowers and tons of apples. The second, little tree never bore fruit and never got very big but the original apple tree seemed VERY happy to have “him” in the neighborhood.
JudyL says
Since these have the different varieties, the tree is self pollinating. The problem with our area is that we don’t usually get enough chill hours for apples to produce or it’s too dry. We’ll probably never have a great apple crop and these trees are more for fun than for heavy production so we’ll try it.
Libby in TN says
DaddyBill planted a 5-in-1 in Richmond, VA in the late 40s. I don’t remember ever getting an apple off of it. I do remember that we had a terrible problem with Japanese beetles eating all our fruit before we could harvest, especially the pears.
Angie says
My dear mother in law had the 5-in-one apple tree in her back yard, and it did produce some wonderful apples! Hope yours does too!
Hilary says
Judy, my figs have frozen to the ground in Dallas. I had to cut the tree down and noticed it produced a new tree from the roots. You might be fine there with your apple. My girlfriend grew them in Plano. She had bumper crops when we had bad winters. My Meyer Lemon hasn’t put on any new leaves. It’s in a darker spot in my home, though. It will soon be put in the new greenhouse. It did give me about 30 lemons this year. They were good but I don’t think its a true breed. It wasn’t golden like the ones I buy. They were more yellow on the inside. Tasty, though.
Karen says
I have thought to get the 5 in 1 apple tree and haven’t done so – where did you order yours from? best to plant in spring or fall? (north west corner of Arkansas here on the south end of that if that makes any sense towards the central part of the state)
Carol says
The lemon tree looks great. I just bought 2 and have them in the garage near a window for now. Yours does stay protected in the winter, right? The ones I bought had blooms and even one large lemon. Love Meyer lemons. Want to try the tart on your recipe page.
Marsha says
We could use spring here in Indiana. -6 degrees here this morning. It’s always refreshing to see new growth after the winter. Good luck with your fruit trees
Susan says
It’s good to know it’s spring-like somewhere, as I look out the window at snow blowing sideways in the new storm. =)
Melinda says
When I lived in San Jose, CA I had an apple tree in the front yard that had at least 3 kinds of apples on it. It was fun to see the different colors on the same tree. Good luck with yours.
Sharon Eshlaman says
I wish spring was coming here in Michigan. I left the house this morning to meet my quilt group and it was 9 degrees below zero!