Pawpaw, peach, fig, Asian pear, European plum.

Above: Rhubarb, bush cherry, peach, plum, haskap blossoms. Above: Juneberry, Asian pear, goumi, haskap blososms. Above: Elderberry leaves fronted by haskap blossoms and backed by goumi blossoms. Plus European pear blossoms. Approximate order of bloom: Haskap (blue honeysuckle berry), bush cherry (Nanking), Asian Plum, peach, goumi, Asian pear, European pear, Juneberry. Not pictured, just now… Continue reading Spring 2024

“Flying Dragon” citrus is an interesting plant where non-invasive. Sweet smelling citrus blossoms in spring couple with sweet smelling fruit in fall. The fruit itself is small by citrus standards, tart like a lemon, and very seedy. Hardy to zone 5.

Ranging from golf ball to ping pong ball size or smaller, Flying Dragon hardy orange is beginning to ripen its rind from green to yellow. Seedy with acidic juice, the fruit is in many ways much like a spherical lemon and can be used in some ways like lemon juice. Winter hardy to zone 6… Continue reading Flying Dragon Hardy Orange

The Bob Gordon variety of elderberry seems to be the biggest and best flavored. Autumnberry the most acidic, elderberry the least acidic, aronia the most astringent by taste. Fully ripe, each of these small fruits can be a flavorful delight, even certain strains of aronia, though aronia must be the most perfectly ripe of all.

Honeycrisp apple, this one bug-bitten but very flavorful, sweet-tart, probably picked early. A vigorous grower.

Amber Autumnberry (Autumn Olive). There are multiple varieties of amber Autumnberry. One has larger fruit than all other Autumnberry that I’ve come across, red or amber. It’s also sweeter, if not quite as flavorful as the red varieties. Another variety of amber Autumnberry is more prolific than the large fruit variety but with smaller and… Continue reading Amber Autumnberry

Canadice grapes, ripe for a couple weeks now, zone 6b northern West Virginia. A few seeds, tart skin, very sweet thick pulp. This vine grows on a bush, gets direct sun until about 3:30 p.m. These grapes are untreated. Black rot took a percentage. Some of the casualties can be seen as black, shriveled, raisin-like… Continue reading Canadice Grapes

White currants when full ripe are sweet with little or no tart flavor. The sweetest of all the currants. Great hang time with currant fruit. These fully ripe sweet currants are some of the same fruits photoed exactly a month prior – here – when they were also very edible though somewhat tart. Currant fruit… Continue reading White Currants

Wild chokecherry, small with sweet-tart flavor.