Fruit Cocktail cut short

Our fruit cocktail tree was quite a producer last year. We didn't thin any of the fruit so the branches were laden with nectarines, plums, apricots, and a couple of peaches. The peach graft was less robust than the rest, but we were counting on a better harvest this year.

The blossoms are coming in nicely.


Independence Nectarine


Santa Rosa Plum


Blenheim Apricot

What happened to the peach blossoms? Well, there was a pruning incident. :(

We didn't give clear instructions to our gardener about the tree. While he and/or his helper were in clean-up mode, they ended up cutting off the peach branch. Ouch! Fortunately they didn't cut it flush with the trunk so it's doing its best to come back. There won't be any peaches this year.


Gold Dust Peach

Since then, we've marked all the trees that we don't want pruned with nursery tape and let our gardener know. I'm going to miss those peaches this summer.