Nancy Reading wrote:Pippa, you've got a nice variety of trees and shrubs. Post some pics of the unknown tree when it shows leaves and flowers, there's some pretty knowledgable people on here.
Which way is South, right or bottom of picture? If the quince is chaenomeles japonica, then the fruit are edible. They make a nice jelly, and I think you can use them as lemon flavouring as well....
That sounds like a great idea if I can't identify it myself once it comes out into flower. Ideally I would like to take it out as it is competing with the Amelanchier and shades the grape vines when it's in leaf. But I need to ID it before I make that descision.
Yes it does produce edible quinces and between this bush, the one in my grandmother's garden and all the quinces that my father dumps on me from their quince bush I normally end up with more quinces than I know what to do with. lol... but I had an idea that it might produce some half-decent chutney so might try that with some of the fruit I have bottled.
South is Bottom Right of the image. I do need to add a compass indicator to the plan as well. North-South runs from the Top Left corner to the Bottom Right corner, which is quite nice as there is road on both the right and bottom of the plot and the land slopes from left to right and from top to bottom too. The whole garden is in shade in the evening from the neighbours hedge which isn't so great from the using the garden socially point of view but for the getting the most from the sunlight for the plants its great.
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