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Thanks! As far as I can tell based on fruit color and season, and on the tree size and the leaf shape, it's a common fig. The previous owner...
Thanks for the advice, Tarman! I actually did prune the fig tree quite severely about a month ago, concentrating on removing the overlapping...
I'm not sure about other varieties, but most of the local varieties only have an early (Breba) crop that is self-fertile. I've read that there...
Thanks so much for the information! I do pay quite a lot of attention to my fruit trees and was puzzled as to why I could never see blossoms, yet...
Hi Mekira, I just did a bit of research and I strongly suspect that my yellow plum is Shiro. The plums are not particularly big, but they have a...
One of my neighbors also has a huge fig tree less than 3 m from his house, which was built in 1990. There is no visible damage, to his driveway...
This is probably way too late to help you much, but I would advise against trying to grow a peach tree in the lower mainland. It rains too much...
Very interesting way of doing it! I have 2 grape vines in my back yard; one marechel foch and one gewurztraminer, yielding about 120 lbs. total...
good idea! The house was built in 1998 and our neighbor who we share that fence with said that the previous owner of our property attached a...
I can't see any baco noir grape vines for sale in the Vancouver area, and I see that Garden Works sells Marechel Foch, and Garden Works is where...
Thanks! I think you just might be right, I googled an image of Baco Noir, and the leaves look very similar, plus the ripening fruit looks like a...
When we bought our house in New Westminster 12 years ago, there were two grapevines in the back yard; one had a gewurtstraminer tag on it, but the...
Hi Margot, Well, you're absolutely right. The ladybugs did chow down on the aphids on my plum tree, and with the rain the other day, the leaves...
thanks!
By the way, I agree that catmint, aka Walker's Low, is well behaved. I have a clump growing under my pear tree and it requires very little...
Have you considered a low-growing evergreen like wintercreeper or short varieties of azalea? I have an azalea about 2 m from my blueberries and...
Hi Michela, You would need to tell us how hot it gets in the summer, how cold it gets in winter, what direction your balcony faces, and whether...
Interesting, I'm seeing all kinds of sour cherries along the road allowance on River Road in Richmond now. I had to chop down my cherry tree last...
I work for the City of New West, and just happen to know that we bought a new vermeer chipper last week. Our arborists do a lot of pruning every...
well, depending on how much you need, I have to cut off a branch of a 15' mugo (?) pine in my front yard which is pushing out my brick wall, if...
