“I promise I won’t buy any more fruit trees.” I said 2 weeks ago after my husband planted this for me. After which I heard, “Don’t make promises you can’t keep.” And he was right. I couldn’t argue his point.
After taking out a lack luster vine from this spot, I knew what addition I wanted to try in it’s place. I’d read a post from Hanbury House about her new Spice Zee NectaPlum that she’d gone so far as to sacrifice a Red Baron Peach to make room for after a neighbor gave her some amazingly sweet fruit from her tree. She described it as “the best tasting stone fruit I ever tried”. It’s a white-fleshed, nectarine-peach-plum hybrid.
In a sea of green leaves while I overlooked the fruit tree section of my local Green Thumb nursery, I could see the Spice Zee NectaPlum all the way in the back. The dark purple leaves are extremely unique and turn green after they mature.
In a way it’s an ornamental and a fruit tree all packaged in one.
This season I’m also growing a unique tomato with a strawberry type shape, aptly named German Orange Strawberry.
It’s shape also resembles the ripening Red Baron peaches that it sits next to:
Love that color!
Bountiful Backyard 