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Several weeks of 80 degree weather brings an awakening to the peach trees of Tucson. During the 2nd week of March, our trees all over town began to flower. I don't know why people don't plant more of these beautiful trees into their landscape. They flower in Spring and create a lovely fruit in July. Here are some pink pics from El Presidio to make the mind wander......
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At first they appear as pink nodes.......and then........ Now imagine......branches full of them.....  And you have perfection after a dreary winter ends.............    These are from the El Presidio Garden. Two trees of the Red Baron Peach and Elberta Peach, but different shades of pink....interesting.....    Opuntia is a bloomin.......    |
Those a re enormously pretty blooms on the peach. what is the opuntia?- love that pink flower too.
ReplyDeletePeach trees seem to grow, give fruits for a couple of years and then die for an unknown reason over here...
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Yes, we in the cooler parts of the Desert SW take all our peaches for granted. Didn't know there were many that met their winter chilling req's in Tucson - very nice!
ReplyDeleteAnd the peach-like bloom on the Beavertail Cactus - those are going bezerk in Las Vegas NV, at the edges of town right now!
As far as I can tell, we have 3 or 4 different peaches that meet the chilling hours. I have peaches every July on these trees. At El Presidio, we have 3 Peach trees in the garden and I'll have a post on them in July when they are about to set their fruit. I love the color of the pad on the Beavertail Cactus and the spring flower.....beautiful.
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