The Fruit Trees
We still haven't identified all the trees in the garden, but now that the fruit is beginning to form on many we at least have some clues. Here is a list...
- Grapes, of course. There are approximately 200 vines -- less a few that will be lost as the house is rebuilt.
- Orange: There are three trees, of which two are actually Tangerines.
- Olive: (not a fruit, you say? well where else am I supposed to put them?) There are four or five of these, a couple of them very old.
- Cherry: One huge tree towering over the house, plus one other medium sized (and shading the new lawn).
- Peach: There appear to be at least two (judging by the slightly furry young fruits now growing).
- Plum: One at least, and possibly two. I have no idea what type of plums they would be...
- Apple: One rather old-looking tree. There are a couple of younger apples, but they have grown from seeds. They won't be any good unless/until they are suitably grafted. (A decent productive apple tree is a graft of some kind of rootstock -- there are a number of standard varieties -- and a a fruit variety.)
- Kaki (Japanese persimmon): One tree.