The fruit Orchard

Kiwi is a delicious fruit to savor and it’s also full of vitamin C.

Potted olive trees are a great idea to decorate a deck.

Fruit inducing pruning is an important step in the growth of your fruit tree and gives you control over its productivity.

Quince tree is a very beautiful fruit tree, that bears nice fruits called quinces.

Medlar is a fruit tree that has long been forgotten but deserves to be rediscovered!

Pear tree is the most common fruit tree in many orchards.

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!

Growing coffee tree for its beans is difficult, but it’s great to decorate a home. Coffee tree key facts Botanical name – Coffea arabica Common – Coffee tree, Arabica coffee Family – Rubiaceae

Damson is a delicious type of plum native to Great Britain and Europe.

The nectarine tree belongs to the same family as the peach tree, but without fuzz.

Starting in September, October and sometimes even November if the climate is mild enough, pears are harvested. Learn to store and keep them well.

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 apricot tree requires a bit of care to produce beautiful apricots, but it’s easy to grow.

Even if one of your olive trees has died due to freezing, it’s possible to grow it back.

Oh, the joy of growing an olive tree! Even though olive is associated to warm Mediterranean weather, freezing cold also plays a crucial part in olive bearing.

Over the summer, don’t pass on the few chores that will lead your orchard and vegetable patch to abundant and high-quality harvests. Just a few hour’s worth of care and your fruit trees will thrive!

You’re the proud owner of a brand-new olive tree, but recent cold weather got you worrying?

Grapevine is a beautiful fruit vine, offering us grapes at the end of summer.

The goji berry shrub is trending ever since its health benefits and antioxidant properties have been acknowledged. Lycium is the name of the plant, and its delicious berries have invaded shelves in supermarkets and drugstores alike.

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

The tiny, sweet hardy kiwi actually comes from a gigantic and productive vine.

Who hasn’t wondered whether those thousands of tiny black pips could ever amount to anything? We all have! And the good news is: yes!

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

Although pruning is definitely a human invention, and trees can go without it to develop naturally, it presents the advantage of renewing the plant’s vigor and increasing its fruit productivity.

The apple tree is among the most common fruit trees found in our orchards.

Why does a fruit tree’s blooming already share much about the quality of its fruit-bearing? How can we enhance the fruit harvest? Pollination plays a critical role in the formation of fruits.

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.

One fruit has what it takes to keep for many a long month, just for us to savor it deep into the heart of winter: the apple.

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!

Bilberry is an amazing small fruit tree which you’ll enjoy caring for.

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

Cherry trees are among the most common fruit trees found in our orchards.

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

The chestnut is definitely a fruit that symbolizes fall. Available from mid-September onwards, there’s a six-week time frame during which ripe chestnut can be harvested.

The acidic soil-loving chestnut tree is much appreciated for its round silhouette, its resilience, and most of all, its fruits! Chestnuts share an incredible abundance of nutrients, not to mention the delicious honey bees produce from the flower’s nectar.

Here are a few simple tips to succeed in growing strawberries. If you don’t want to eat bland strawberries sold in supermarkets, grow your own!

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

Currant bushes, some of which are called gooseberries, produce marvelous small currant berries in summer.

The fig tree isn’t reserved to hot-weather climates in the South. Some hardy varieties make it possible to harvest these sweet fruits even in regions up North.

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?

The pruning of a grapevine is an important step that determines proper fruit formation and harvest.

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.

September marks the beginning of fall, and it is a great time to plant your strawberries and layer them, too.

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?