Preston Looper

Thanks for the response, Robin. Hope you and your forest garden is coping with the brutal heat and drought- I hope its an outlier vs the new norm.  With equal doses of uncertainty and urgency, I decided to go for it and will be adding a veritable lollapalooza of inter specific stone fruit (pluots, pluerries, aprium, nectaplum), elderberries, and Goumis.

Thanks, Jay.

DFW= Dallas/Ft Worth area.

Combo of full sun and part-Shade. Shade is from mature oaks and elms.

I’ve had success with Methley plum, Loring peach, Fuyu persimmon, and blackberries.  Raps berries are gasping in the brutal heat in 1/2-day sun.

Soil at base is heavy clay now covered in wood chips.

Looking to expand my suburban food forest/orchard next winter/spring.

Seeking experience-derived feedback regarding suitability of the the following before I order/spend.
- pluots
- atriums
- nectaplum
- Goumi berries
- currants
- elderberry

Many thanks in advance for your wisdom.