Photos by Rick Gush
Bluebells
The apples are just about the last fruit tree diagram to blossom in the garden , and they ’ve lastly start flowering .
The plum tree flower almost a month ago and are now loaded with tiny fruits . I ’m trying to get my wife concerned in make some kettle of fish or something with the bumper crop of angry plums we ’ll get this year .
I ’ll have to put out heavy net underneath the Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree to catch a meaning portion of the falling fruits . My wife ’s not crazy for them , but I am , and a few of the neighbors are too .
I ’ve set about one apple plant on the side subdivision of the garden where there is a thin bed at the bottom of a twelve - fundament cementum wall . I set the apple there a few years ago and have been training it to grow flat against the wall . It ’s doing very well and last year we harvested the first fruits .
Rennet flush
This tree is a Rennet apple , a very vulgar variety show among the small granger around here . I think it ’s common in the south of France also . Rennet is a very onetime form , but has maintained a reasonable food market share . Both the small markets and the supermarket trade Rennet apples .
The fruit , which hold back very well , looks sort - of like a russet , but the shape is not as crisp . The fruits are slightly flattened and covered by an untempting slow immature - chicken skin . The flesh is neither snappy nor gritty , but very saporous and perfumed . The fruit can be huge . We had a few fruits last year that were the size of softball . It ’s a large cooking Malus pumila , but we mostly feed them fresh .
The second exposure present a piece of bluebells that are also flowering at the mo . This is one of the tempestuous works I found on the drop-off when I first started clearing the slopes .
The ten bulbs I dug up five long time ago have require well to seam planting and have multiplied nicely , to the period that I give bulbs to friend as gifts .
The blue flowers are a nice foil for all the reds and yellows in nosegay , and the cut bluebells last very well in a vase . We ’ve got a big patch of harebell in the bed where we grow basil in the tender weather condition . We can use a lot of basil , so we unremarkably grow almost a hundred plants packed together in a narrow-minded layer . The bluebells are in the same bed , and they do n’t mind the summer basil growing on top of them .
Being an X - nurseryman myself , I ’m always abashed when a nurseryman makes a mistake . The Rennet apple we ’ve got espaliered now was say to be a local Genovese orchard apple tree variety with low red fruits . Oh well , at least it ’s growing well .
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