Blossoms have appeared on this young peach tree, a Mid Pride variety planted as a bare-root transplant a year ago. We purchased this and a white-fleshed variety from the Phoenix Permaculture Guild. The other new tree survived the summer, but died in late fall. Our oldest peach tree fruits very early, usually in late April, and we hoped to extend the fresh-peach season by choosing some later-fruiting varieties.
The larger tree in the back is a Key Lime. I don't know that I would choose that variety again. The fruit is very small and therefore time-consuming to juice, and it is dangerously thorny. In an attempt to avoid being scalped, we try to keep the branches pruned higher than our heads. I didn't plant nasturtiums here this year; these reseeded and spread from last year's border planting.
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