If I count the nut trees, then I can squeak past fifty.
Yes, I'd love more, but on a tenth of an acre I'm pretty much out of space. I'm practicing pruning heavily.
They're all different. Even the duplicates are different cultivars.
I'm not dealing with the produce of fifty trees. Many have yet to bear, others bear intermittently or stingily. Others I have cut back to topwork and they haven't taken off yet.
For instance the ghost pine has made cones but not yet nuts. The pecans don't ripen. The plums I'm removing almost everything but the new grafts.
Five assorted citrus.
Four feijoas to make a privacy hedge.
Three apples and three pears and three cherries.
Two white sapote, two cattleya guavas, two seedling american persimmons, two multigraft asian persimmons, two figs, two multigraft plums.
One apricot, one multigraft loquat, one mulberry, one mountain papaya, one olive, a peach that never ripens.
Stuff that I'm not sure counts as trees, like grapes, bolivian fuchsia, elderberry, raspberry, currant, a couple of pomegranates reputed to ripen without heat that haven't matured to flowering age yet.
Several pawpaws that got stepped on and broke off the grafts and don't seem to want to grow.
Buncha wacky stuff from seed that will probably never bear, like the two cherimoyas, the one remaining macadamia, ice cream bean, bergamot orange, seedling olives coming up in the weeds.
And the stuff I'm postponing removing, like the European chestnut and possibly the cherries.
The number isn't static, I'm always planting and culling, finding and losing, breaking branches and rooting cuttings.
The stuff I actually harvest is mostly citrus, apricots, pears, apples, sapote, asian persimmons, cattleyas, olives, mountain papayas, feijoas, plums, fuchsias, elderberries, figs.
