The fruit Orchard - page 2

The plum symbolizes the sun’s comeback after winter and colors abound in the plate… Here are a few fun facts for this sweet summer fruit!

The Alsace damson plum tree is a sweet variety of damsons.

Peach tree is an exceptional fruit tree, but needs special care to produce a nice harvest.

The Blackthorn fruit tree produces surprising fruits, sloes, that are always best when they’ve burst just after the first frost spells.

The almond tree is a simply magnificent fruit tree, famous for its spectacular pink-white blooming.

A few words about apricots in France… 2012 apricot production in France – 160,900 tons 1 Production areas in France – Languedoc-Roussillon, the Rhône river area, the Mediterranean coastal areas.

If you’ve got a sweet tooth but don’t have a very large garden for growing fruit trees, try planting exotic berry shrubs that survive in temperate climates. It is a brilliant and unique enjoyment. Here is a selection of small exotic fruits that resist the cold. Perfect for planting on a balcony!

Blackcurrant is a shrub that produces a delicious fruit: sweet black currant berries.

Blackberry shrubs offer delicious blackberries if you care for them well. Basic blackberry facts Name – Rubus fruticosus Family – Rosaceae Type – fruit shrub Height – 3 to 10 feet (1 to 3 m) Exposure – full sun, part sun Soil – rich enough Foliage – deciduous Flowering – summer Harvest – end of summer Planting, […]

Blackberry is one of the most prized berries for jams. Thornless varieties make the pleasure even more appealing! Here are

The bigarreau cherry tree produces beautiful cherries, sweet and fleshy and firm, and its productivity is abundant.

Tasty and vitamin-rich, currant is the chance to cook up delicious jelly.

The fig tree is an amazing fruit tree with very unique leaves.

Fall and Winter are the time to apply various treatments that will help eliminate parasites and fungus from fruit trees. This will reduce risk of disease in Spring.

Black goji is a a different species than the more famous red goji berry, but it shares similar growing habits and its berries give the same

Why not try your hand at growing grapes? Fall is the best season to plant a grapevine, why not start now?

Corylus avellana, better known as the common hazelnut and more rarely aveline,  is a shrub fruit tree that is very interesting for its blond or green hazelnuts.

Hazel is a fruit shrub that is sought after for its delicious green or blond hazelnuts.

So you’re bored with the usual apple sauce or strawberry jam, these are sooo conventional. Why not innovate and try a new fruit – quince?

The most commonly cultivated species, Moringa oleifera, is a smallish tree that grows fast. In temperate climates, it can only survive indoors.

The ‘Beurre Hardy’ pear tree is one of the earliest fruits for harvest in orchards at the end of summer.

Plum tree is magnificent from spring to fall, and offers abundant harvests of plums.

Raspberry is easy to grow and the harvest is abundant.

Raspberry, black currant, red currant: to ensure a plentiful harvest of small fruits in the following summer, plant in fall.

Picholine olive is a special olive variety native to southern France. Consumers are often unaware of the fact: olive oil from Nîmes was awarded in 2004 the title of “controlled designation of origin“: Appellation d’Origine Contrôlée (AOC) in French.