New Trees: Peach and Mandarins

Every year, we get a little taste of spring in the middle of February. This year was no exception. We've had two weeks of mostly nice weather. We're glad to have days warming up to 65 degrees!

Two weekends ago (I know! I'm woefully behind!) we went out to Hodges and bought three new fruit trees. We got a Fay Elberta peach, a Satsuma mandarin and a Algerian Clementine mandarin. We sited the peach in the hole where the pear used to be, pretty much. It's almost exactly 8 feet from any other tree. That gives us plenty of room to move around. This isn't an orchard, it's a glade :) Here RickC fertilizes the tree in its commodious hole.

 And there it is.

 We put the Satsuma in the newly dug up flowerbed. There's still room for flowers around the base, and it gives some lovely height and evergreenness.

That weekend (2-5) the daffodils were just starting to bloom, and the quince was out but not much else.

The chickens think it's spring too, and they are laying well. I thought these 4 eggs were a lovely example of the color variations we get.

 And speaking of lovely, wow! The sunsets have been just amazing.