White Lily Dreams - A Book and Garden Blog

Well my Carmine Jewel Cherry is on it’s way!

I’m so excited!

I can’t wait to taste my first grown cherry, although I know it may take a couple of years.

I’m also getting a blueberry bush from Gurney’s - I emailed them and they let me add another one in since I didn’t get a credit for the original ones, but it won’t ship until next year.

And - someone broke into my backyard, and among other things, ate my snowsweet apple, even thouth it wasn’t ripe.

Crazy people.

I can say that the apple is slow to oxidize - the theif left it sitting in the yard, and only the edges of the half eaten apple were brown - the places where they dug in with their teeth were still white.

I was so looking forward to trying that apple too.

Oh well.

 Here’s a picture of my Snowsweet Apple that I took a few weeks ago.

The apple is still doing great, and I really hope that it will make it, so I can find out what a Snowsweet Apple tastes like without having to wait another year.

When we bought our Snowsweet Apple tree it had about 5 blossoms on one branch, and one of them turned into an apple.

I’m so excited.

Jeff and I were fortunate enough to stop by an orchard before we went searching for apples, and were able to taste a variety of apples - unfortunately none of them were as good as our favorites, Fuji, and Gala, so when I heard that the Snowsweet was similar to Fuji apples, I knew I had to have it.

We actually found one at the second nursery we went to that day, even though we’d been there a couple of weeks before and hadn’t seen any apple trees that were new to us.

Do you have an apple tree?

What’s your favorite kind of apple?

Leave a comment and tell me about it.

We finally trimmed our poor Fuji Apple Tree.

We got the tree at Lowe’s last year, and I knew it wasn’t hardy here it’s a zone 5, and we’re zone 3 or 4 depending on who you ask - but I love Fuji apples, so I figured it was worth a try for $20.00.

The tree didn’t leaf out until the week before Memorial Day, and even then only a few tiny leaves grew on two of the three branches.

Unfortunately, they quickly shriveled up and died.

We do have some sprouts coming about 6 inches away from the ground, and they look like apple leaves, but I’m not really sure if that’s what they are or if the tree was grafted and the sprouts are something else.

I hope it’s apple though :-).

What do you think?

Does it look like apple tree leaves?

The leaves are the same shape as our Snowsweet Apple Tree, but they aren’t as fuzzy as the Snowsweet.