I love white grapefruit. They are really hard to find. Every year we have to find someone with an orchard to buy from as they don't have them in the stores and hardly ever at the fruit stands. Then we have to buy a case so we are eating them like crazy to get through them before they go bad. That doesn't look too appetizing.I have a navel orange tree next to what used to be my pond, but which is now a big empty hole in the earth. I've been neglecting the tree and not watering as much as it needed, so, while the volume of fruit is ok, the size of the oranges is quite small. I ate one yesterday and it tastes pretty good, just small for it's kind.
Ever since the tree bloomed last spring there was a sucker branch coming off the root portion of the tree that I ignored. Later in its life it developed fruit, and that fruit appeared to be grapefruit. While my oranges were quite small for their variety, the sucker grapefruit are huge!
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I'm not a grapefruit fan, but I thought I'd give it a taste:
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LOL!!! I guess it would be ok if one enjoyed eating rind! The rind is an inch and a quarter thick! The fruit part doesn't look very appetizing. There are still four more on that limb!
I have a navel orange tree next to what used to be my pond, but which is now a big empty hole in the earth. I've been neglecting the tree and not watering as much as it needed, so, while the volume of fruit is ok, the size of the oranges is quite small. I ate one yesterday and it tastes pretty good, just small for it's kind.
Ever since the tree bloomed last spring there was a sucker branch coming off the root portion of the tree that I ignored. Later in its life it developed fruit, and that fruit appeared to be grapefruit. While my oranges were quite small for their variety, the sucker grapefruit are huge!
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I'm not a grapefruit fan, but I thought I'd give it a taste:
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LOL!!! I guess it would be ok if one enjoyed eating rind! The rind is an inch and a quarter thick! The fruit part doesn't look very appetizing. There are still four more on that limb!
My immediate thought was that the orange tree was grafted on. I had no idea what a white grapefruit was; thanks for sharing!I love white grapefruit. They are really hard to find. Every year we have to find someone with an orchard to buy from as they don't have them in the stores and hardly ever at the fruit stands. Then we have to buy a case so we are eating them like crazy to get through them before they go bad. That doesn't look too appetizing.
We used to have a nectarine tree. We let it get too big, then the fruit was so heavy, it broke the main branch. After that, all we got was the root stock fruit, which was horrible.
Our orange tree is a dwarf. We are lucky to get 10 oranges a year off it. They are excellent.
I think white and yellow grapefruit were the original varieties. Pink and red grapefruit were created later, in an attempt to make them sweeter. In my opinion, they ruined the flavor by doing this. I can put sugar on my white or yellow grapefruit to make it delicious. If you can find it, Oro Blanco is a cross between a white grapefruit and a pomelo.My immediate thought was that the orange tree was grafted on. I had no idea what a white grapefruit was; thanks for sharing!
That is beautiful! I haven't gotten brave enough to try one yet. Have seen some real beauties
I love the tulip poplars! Does yours attract any swallowtails?
Very pretty. Interesting bloomRhododendrons are blooming in Maryland. We have a few colors, but the purple most striking.
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Our very tall Tulip Poplars are blooming now too.
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I have a few clematis. I need to take some pictures, if the rain and wind ever stopHere are a couple of flowers that are blooming in my yard. Three different Clematis and my ever blooming Azalea bush.
A lovely photo!My first rose of the year
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Why thank you. 😊A lovely photo!
All very nice!Here are some of our plants in bloom now. The blue-eyed grass I put in my butterfly and hummingbird garden is the first to bloom.
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Some of hubby's native flowers are doing well: columbine, iris, spiderwort, and wood poppy. The wood poppy had powdery mildew on the leaves when we bought it. With so many other plants that we put in the ground that day, we didn't even realize it had powdery mildew until we returned to the greenhouse to buy more! The plants still seem to be doing well, which makes me happy since chipmunks apparently feed on their seeds (and I love our chipmunks).
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The irises and oriental poppies that the previous owners planted have come up again. We still haven't done anything with this little area of our yard. 😅
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