....and flowers mean that there is a possibility of fruit.
We are shocked because this is just year 3 since we planted the two paw paw trees. Last spring and this spring we actually thought that they had died or were in the process of dying. We will need to remember that they are late blooming trees.
One of the trees has 9 blossoms and the other has 17. All the paw paw literature says that you need at least 2 trees for cross pollination. Unless these flowers get pollinated there will be no fruit.
They are great looking flowers, aren't they?? Can you imagine a 20 foot tree covered with these blossoms?
I doubt that we will have any paw paw fruit last on the branch until it is ripe. The fruit is quite large and heavy and the current state of the tree branches is more twiggy than branchy.
The blueberry bushes are blossoming, too. The flowers are not as striking or showy, as the paw paw blossoms, but I know that these branches can handle the weight of the blueberries.
This is a Jelly Bean variety of blueberries. It's a small compact blueberry bush with full size fruit. It is also a prolific fruit bearer and the perfect size for use in the landscape.
The only danger of fruit not lasting until harvest is from finger blight. That is where you pick off and eat all the fruit, one berry at a time, before you have a chance to harvest.
Sometimes R and I walk around the yard during the summer and graze. Then when lunchtime rolls around neither one of us are hungry. Win win for me.
R loves when fall rolls around and he can sample the apple trees every day. He found out that eating 3 apples in one day has an unpleasant effect. I reminded him that the saying is....an apple a day, keeps the doctor away NOT three apples.
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