Fruiting Trees and Shrubs - Traditional Apple Cherry Tree Choke Cherry Hazelnut High Bush Cranberry Huckleberry Peach Pin Cherry Plum Saskatoon
Apple Trees at Creston, BC
Apple orchard in the BC Okanagan
Rain soaked leaves of apple tree in autumn
Apple leaves in the fall
Orchard - mainly apples and pears.
Crab Apple Tree
Crab Apple Tree Trunk
Crabapples
Crab Apple tree in bloom
Visions - Now what is a chokecherry you might wonder? How did this bush get into this cultural outline ? Surely there must be others more important ? Actually this tree has been overlooked and neglected. The fruit some say is inedible. Not so ! A taste for its fruit must be acquired and cultivated. At first it chokes ones mouth up, and people often spit out the berry. However, if you keep nibbling away it starts growing on you. You can't eat too much, but it makes an excellent snack. Trees are highly individual in the taste of the fruit. After you develop a taste your mouth will water at the sight of these delicious berries. The chokecherry symbolizes the spicy, tangy nature of Canada. Perceptions and views of Ray W
The colour of individual chokecherry bushes can vary from lighter green to a purplish colour.
Chokecherry Blossoms
Chokecherries
Beaked Hazelnut in bloom - tiny female blossom on the tip of the twig will later produce nuts - male flowers produce the pollen.
High Bush Cranberry in bloom
Pin Cherry Tree
Pin Cherry in bloom
Mucky Plum Tree
Wild Saskatoons (some ripe and some unripe berries)
Saskatoon Bush in bloom
Clump of Saskatoon bushes in bloom
Saskatoon bush in the fall.
Saskatoon leaves in autumn
Saskatoon Berries domestic - pick your own at McLennan, Alberta
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