Looking strong.
Before we packed Ellie B aka Dogamous Pyle as the last item to fit into the car Friday night in the driveway of the Little Bitty, I took one last walk around the grounds to admire what my dear wife Karen and I had come up with this near-summer of 2015 in the Syracuse city neighborhood of Eastwood.
I stared at new arrival Cherry Cherry, the little Snow Fountain I’ve given plenty of space to here so far.
Healthy.
She is doing well, I thought, as something red caught my eye and pulled me in for closer examination.
I called out to Karen. She’s already seen this on her last watering of the gardens.
What is that?
Is our non-fruit-bearing Snow Fountain developing cherries?
Karen thinks not. She says it’s something else on those branches. Off-peak little berries of some sort that we haven’t researched enough to discover.
I don’t know. They look awfully similar to little cherries to me. I will look further onto these branches when we get back.
Thank you to Good Neighbor Tim and his Wonderful Wife Lorraine for keeping their eagle eyes on the Little Bitty while we are in Cape Cod.
Do you think our Snow Fountain by the name of Cherry Cherry is shooting off cherry cherries or something else? Do you think the tree is looking good in season one? What fruit have you grown in your yard, and was it edible?
Mark Bialczak 
Oh! Already! How exciting! How happy your tree is in her new home :). You must get a net next year to keep the birdies away long enough that you get first taste!
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I am foreign to this fruit tree thing. Thank you for the suggestioon of the net, Babe. 🙂
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You’re welcome.
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I want those to be edible cherry cherries! I do not have any fruit trees at this house, though my across-the-street neighbor has a loquat tree in her front yard that I covet. 😉
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I am lost in the weeds here, Rachel. Loquat?
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Interesting discovery, look forward to finding what you have blossoming.
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We’ll check them out, Ian!
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I’m not sure about the cherries, Mark, but we have lemon, orange, and grapefruit trees in our yard. I thought I had a lime tree…but they were immature lemons. That’s why you’ll receive no cherry opinion from me 😀
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Arizona is a great place for your citrus, obviously, Angie McFly. You’ll just have to buy the limes for your Corona at the supermarket though. Dagnabbit!
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Thanks for feeling my pain, Mark 😉
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I certainly hope it’s Bing cherries – I love those! It does seem unusual for a just-planted tree to bear fruit in the first year though. Then again, what do I know, Mark? ❤
Diana xo
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You know as much as me, Diana. I wrote the post! ❤
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i have no idea, but i’d guess, ‘cherries?’ i used to have apple and pear trees and raspberries and strawberries and made pies galore. good thing i’m now only growing herbs. )
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Yeah, good thing for who, Beth? I bet the daughters, sons-in-law, grands and mg would vote otherwise. 😉
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How on earth could it not be cherries? My fig tree doesn’t make things that look exactly like figs but are not figs. Fig doppelgangers…
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You know me and identifying doppelgangers, Kerbey. Sigh. I guess they’re cherries. 🙂
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If it’s a cherry tree I vote those are cherries! 🙂
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Unless they aren’t….then they are something else!
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Good choice, MBC. And yet I wavered as I wrote the post. 😉
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Well I’m not an arborist… but I would be damn shocked if that was a rasberry or apple or something….. 😉
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Ha! Yeah, well said.
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😉
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Yes those are cherries 🙂
They may be ripe when you get home!
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Wow! What a great treat that may await us, Joey!
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Wow Mark. If those are cherries, you are going to have to sit down with Cherry Cherry and have THE talk – you know that don’t you?
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Yeah. Who you been messin’ round with, Saki?
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It takes two…. Hmmm, maybe you should check out the neighborhood – maybe Cherry Cherry (aka Saki) is sneaking around at night ?
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Cherries. Definitely! 🍒
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Could be, LR!
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We have a plethora of citrus on our land. Lemons, Limes, Coconuts, Bananas, plus I have an herb garden, as well as a large gardens with tomatoes, peas, beans, peppers, lettuce, zucchini (out the woo hoo-soon) and who said you don’t grow anything other than oranges, grapefruits in sunny Florida???
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You have a grove and an orchard and a supermarket, Cheryl. When’s dinner? 😉
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Ha-Mark I have a healthy-hearty eating husband and 5 lovely children ages 10, 8, 6 and twins (fraternal) 4 and I cook 3 square meals a day including treats, healthy snacks, etc. It helps tremendously at the specialty markets (Seafood, Italian, Greek Markets-weekly) as well as two major grocery chain stores. I do also freeze a lot of foods ie. breakfast burritos, muffin
egg cups, pancakes. It is one busy household I run. Lots of mouths to feed-HeeHee.
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You are a superhero to me, Cheryl. I bow to your growing, shopping and cooking prowess. 🙂 ❤
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Let us genuflect to each other my friend!!! Have a wonderful time in the Cape. Hee Hee
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We live in the middle of apple-growing heaven, Carrie, so we leave that to the professionals. Our purposefully downsized yard is too small for any of that, really, so our aspirations are more toward the scenic. Imagine our surprise at these cherries. 🙂 I like your idea for citrus. But like you, I’d cringe at the thought of upheaval (yet),
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I’d love to have a fruit tree, but we don’t. Not that we could have much for fruit trees in NE Ohio. Maybe an apple tree. But I’ve always loved the idea of a citrus tree in my backyard. But then, that would mean I’d have to move…
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They are either delicious cherries or something deadly poisonous. It’s hard to tell from this distance.
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Next sentence you really wanted to type but held back on, I know it, Scott: Why don’t you taste one and find out? Am I right?
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Only in the interests of science, of course.
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I’ll try to answer from my coma. 🙂
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Your coma will be answer enough.
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Looks like cherries, smells like cherries, tastes like cherries. The scientist in me says “duh, cherries”! Congratulations, the tree looks beautiful.
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I now have scientific proof. Duh, Mark! Thanks, DE. 🙂
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I don’t know much about fruit trees. I hope you do share whatever you find out.
I’ve only seen huge cherry trees and how the birds loved the fruit. I had a purple plumb tree that took forever to get started and then shot up like a fruit tree on steroids. Even a nine-foot ladder wasn’t high enough to pick all the fruit at the top. The raccoons had a party hanging onto the branches scarfing up the plums I couldn’t reach in fall.
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I don’t want any raccoons hanging out at my house, Tess. Last year we had an adventure a gopher and a skunk. That was enough Wild Kingdom in the city of Syracuse for me. Birds I love!
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She is just living up to her name! Cherry, Cherry! She is looking mighty fine. I have a potted lime tree in AZ. I have had currants, plums, apples, and cherries too. (actually my Mom and Dad) But I had to pick them though!
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A potted lime is perfect for Corona Light in the Arizona desert, I think, Nancy. And all the fruit picking for your parents is what got you rugged for the exploring you do with your sweet, sweet man nowadays, right? 🙂
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I’ve never seen a cherry tree to look like that one, although it’s a pretty tree. In my yard, I’ve grown cherries, peaches, apples and plums. All fruits edible. We no longer have the cherry tree. But when we did, the birds beat us to the ripe cherries. 😦
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Yeah, the birds will probably reap the benefits of these, Freeda. Good point. If they don’t, then they’re probably not edible.
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You bet they are! Those are Bing Cherries!! They are rapid growers. Your tree looks like a dwarf bing cherry tree I think
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Well now I gotta wear a fedora, tweed and smoke a pipe, Lisa! The Binger!
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If the shoe fits… you know the rest- I think that fedora would suit you!
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Yes. I believe I already own it, Lisa. 🙂
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Saki sure has adjusted well. She is looking fine. In fact your whole yard looks healthy an happy Mark. Well done. 😀
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The yard is looking good for early June, especially after the winter we had. Thanks, Paul.
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I think Cherry Cherry is looking AWESOME.
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Thank you awesome Ann.
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