Headline news: The Russian Olive Tree has had babies. After three or four years this plant has now produced
fruit. And they are gorgeous, speckled orangey rough
little things. The olives are sweet tasting with a massive long seed running
down the middle. When we first planted
this it measured just one and a half feet, now it’s over five foot tall and
lush with green foliage which produces some much needed shade on the plot. It’s
also nitrogen giving. A winner.
Coming through this
spring is the new baby medlar, it’s very beautiful if not handsome. We only just got this in this year and already
it’s showing good progress. I can’t wait to see the medlar dog fruits when they
aren’t so pretty later in the season. The
quince is showing signs of improvement but hates this windy weather. Everything is a learning curve and if I’d
have know more I wouldn’t have planted this baby right in the middle of the
plot where the wind can whip through. We had to perform some minor surgery on a
small drooping branch to help with the balance of the structure as it was
showing signs of stress. They are so lanky and lollopy and rather proud.
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