Rose Ramble

Planting justice has it right now. I have bought from them they are a legit company. They do ship out a bit slow hiwever

thank you for the replies. I think with 6 varieties in play they should have overlap bloom enough. I also will probably get a sargentii crabapple and a mary potter crab apple to beautify my patio so those would be additional pollen sources. My backyard has a flower patch so there are all these strange little wild bees out there to hopefully pollinate. i've decided lacking any evidence that it is bad to graft the apples by ripening time as it will look prettier to pick them all around the same time. one tree is a bit against a fence so it will be a little bit trained flat. i used to fiddle with bonsia when i was a child so clipping trees into a desired shape is just fun for me.

I have two sapling apple trees I planted one is a year in the ground this fall and the other two years. My yard is tiny so I want 3 way grafts however I also wanted a bunch of antique varieties so it seems I must do it myself. I am going to try grafting the 2 years in the ground tree this year. I also have a two years in the ground Asian plum I was going to graft.

I am wondering if I should attempt to graft fruit that ripens at about the same time so the tree does not become unbalanced when I pick half the tree or if I should graft a varieties that ripen all different seasons so the trees work is spread out.

My trees are a bardsey and an egremont russet apple both on dwarfing stock.