Plums from the Fruit Cocktail Tree
This is year 5 of the fruit cocktail tree experiment. The tree is a dwarf, standing about 15 feet high. It’s supposed to have peaches, plums, apricots and nectarines. I have yet to see any apricots, but this year, I had a couple of nectarines and lots of plums – all dropped before maturity, but each year a little more happens. Last year, a couple of peaches appeared and then disappeared (probably taken captive by the guerilla squirrel brigade.) All is not lost, though, It’s been exciting and the tree is lovely all abloom in the spring.
The plums, though abundant this year, are all on the ground now and never fully matured. They look like giant blueberries. I’ve been pickling them so as not to waste anything. I’ve been waiting so long for this tree to produce… something!
The first couple of years, I wondered if the tree would really produce 4 different kinds of fruit, or if it would make some kind of new, alien fruit like a peachaplumacotarine. I would have been ok with that, but I’m glad to see that it’s trying to live up to it’s advertisement.
