I just noticed one little cherry has escaped from the squirrels!
They do that to my lemons too! Just knock them off and leave them. But for some reason they never bother the orange tree. We have a cherry, plum, pear, and crab apple in the yard they are welcome to, but they feel a need to come up on the patio for the lemons . Sounds like I'm going shopping for some liquid fence! Thanks, I like the weeping ones also.chopped it and left it -
Sounds like I'm going shopping for some liquid fence!
Looks cool, but if it grew there and isn't glued on, REALLY COOLSeems to be a recurring theme, lots of flowers but just the one cherry. View attachment 208869
Lol, then it's REALLY COOL, not glued on, swear.Looks cool, but if it grew there and isn't glued on, REALLY COOL
Thanks Anthony. I agree that it does look like the other Weeping Cherry, even though it was sold as a Dwarf Barbados Cherry. I have a few of the them, and have had good luck with clipping them back to a few leaves per branch, to induce new, bushier growth. I have only had this one a short time, so plan on doing the same with this one.Carol,
The Malaysians have figured out a way to get them
dense like a real Barbados cherry.You may wish to
Google.
I think you have a Weeping Cherry, used to be Malpighia
Punicifolia, now has another name.
Not sure if the fruit is edible.
Not easy to maintain. At least down here.
Thanks for showing, a beauty.
Good Day
Anthony.
Blue pots seem to be recurring as well. ?Seems to be a recurring theme, lots of flowers but just the one cherry. View attachment 208869
I haven't, but I will try it tonight, before the squirrels steal it.mmmmmmmm cherries
I'm a firm believer in using edible trees for bonsai. Either fruit, nuts, leaves, or shoots. So did you ever taste your Barbados cherry? Even if it is not the ''culinary'' Malpighia, it won't kill you, the non-edible ones are simply not tasty, perhaps a bit bitter. Give it a try, you won't know until you do.
mmmmmmmm cherries
I'm a firm believer in using edible trees for bonsai. Either fruit, nuts, leaves, or shoots. So did you ever taste your Barbados cherry? Even if it is not the ''culinary'' Malpighia, it won't kill you, the non-edible ones are simply not tasty, perhaps a bit bitter. Give it a try, you won't know until you do.
I have one and tried them, this was before I knew the difference. I was expecting a tasty treat, not so much. I was basically flavorless, it tasted more like uncooked yellow squash or zucchini. At least it did not kill me.
Haven't tried it yet, not quite ripe. Amazing the size difference between the cherries on the regular versus the dwarf.Different cultivars can have better flavors, what you describe is what the books basically mean by the word insipid. Bland, with out flavor.
There are several species of Mapighia, maybe Carol got lucky, and got a tasty one.
I just planted seeds of a Eugenia species from Belize that the Mayans have been cultivating. Don't know which species it is, my niece brought seeds from the village she stayed in and thought it was really tasty. If they sprout, it will be a few years before I can report back. Hoping for something good.
As I've read, so too the flavor varies with the root stock.Different cultivars can have better flavors
Different cultivars can have better flavors, what you describe is what the books basically mean by the word insipid. Bland, with out flavor.
There are several species of Mapighia, maybe Carol got lucky, and got a tasty one.
I just planted seeds of a Eugenia species from Belize that the Mayans have been cultivating. Don't know which species it is, my niece brought seeds from the village she stayed in and thought it was really tasty. If they sprout, it will be a few years before I can report back. Hoping for something good.