The fruit Orchard

Peach trees are exceptional fruit trees that call for some care to produce a nice peach harvest.

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

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

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

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

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

The walnut tree is a fantastic fruit-bearing tree which is also very ornamental.

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

Kiwi is a delicious fruit to savor and it’s also filled with vitamin C.

A strawberry plant produces fruits with a tender and fragrant flesh, which bring to mind thoughts of summer, sun and refreshing snacks.

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

The persimmon tree is a unique tree that produces marvelous fruits in fall.

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

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

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

Purple hazel is a truly ornamental shrub fruit tree.

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

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

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

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

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

This tree isn’t reserved to hot-weather climates: some hardy varieties make it possible to harvest these sweet fruits even in regions up north.

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

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.

The medlar is a fruit tree that has long been forgotten but deserves to be rediscovered by all!

If you don’t want to eat bland strawberries sold in supermarkets, grow your own! Indeterminate strawberry plants or not? Whether you purchase your strawberry plants at the market, in horticulture stores or over the internet, you’ll have to choose from either determinate or indeterminate strawberry plants. What does this mean? Just like rose trees, the […]

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

What if you grew your own table grapes? Fall is the best season to plant a grapevine, why not start now?

The apricot tree is a wonderful fruit tree that requires a bit of care to produce beautiful apricots, but it’s easy to grow.

Acerola, also called Barbados cherry, is a red-colored fruit that is renowned and appreciated for its high levels of vitamin C.

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

Raspberries are easy to grow and their harvest is abundant.

Ficus carica, better known as the common fig tree, is the tree species that produces the famous green, black or purple figs.

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.

Potted olive trees are a great idea to decorate a terrace or balcony.

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.

Winter and the very beginning of spring are the most auspicious season for pruning a pear tree and an apple tree.

Want to discover how enjoyable it is to sink your teeth into an apple from your very own garden? Plant a formed apple tree and you’ll know it as soon as next fall.

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 – June-July Harvest – August to October Planting, […]

Pruning apple and pear trees to espalier or palmette is an interesting way to raise fruit productivity for apples and pears, and also to cover a wall.

Plum trees are magnificent from spring to fall, and offer abundant harvests of plums.

A small fruit tree is ideal for large gardens but they also fit right in to tighter spaces like a balcony, deck, terrace or small garden, both in the city and in the country.

The ‘Beurre Hardy’ pear tree is one of the earliest fruit trees of our orchards, harvested at the end of summer.

Over the summer, don’t pass on the few chores that will lead your orchard and vegetable patch to abundant and high-quality harvests.

Available growing space, altitude, soil quality are additional factors to consider when choosing the tree that will enhance your garden.

Starting in September, October and sometimes even November if the climate is mild enough, pears are being harvested.

Cherries, apples, pears… What a joy it is to harvest the fruits from your own garden! Fall is the perfect season for planting fruit trees.

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.

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

The Alsace damson plum tree, magnificent from spring to fall, offers abundant harvests of damsons.