Peaches, what a surprise!

I have two peach trees, one for fruit and an ornamental one for show......

My open planted tree (for fruit) had loads of blossom but all resulting fruit bit the dust :(

My pot grown ornamental "bush" however has produced about 16 fruits, between golf and tennis ball size, they are now ripe/ripening and they taste absolutely gorgeous

Thinking about planting it out despite it being "ornamental" ?

Both grown outdoors.

 

Nice one Vince, so instead of considering it as merely ornamental, you could now consider it to be functional. :thumb:

 

How lovely Vince. Your own peaches. YUM.:thumb:

 

Well done! :thumb:
I was told by a gardener friend of my son's, to feed pot-grown peach trees with tomato feed once a week. My little tree has given me a bumper crop from doing this. (see my post "Peaches!")

 

We've a potted peach and I normally overwinter in it the GH and bring it out in mid May. This year I kept it in the GH and the improvement in the crop was quite amazing. We picked our first peach in the latter part of July and the peaches were significantly bigger than the previous outdoor crops. The fruit set was very good but I thinned it down to about 15. It was lovely picking and eating a fresh sun warmed peach.
Only problem encountered was a touch of red spider mite.

 

We have a largish peach tree that was there when we moved in. First summer we had so much fruit a couple of the branches broke. This year we pruned it a little. As the fruit was growing we picked the smaller fruits (made crumble with an oaty topping,yum) this resulted in bigger and better fruits this year. Mind you a few dropped in the winds we had. We still had a good 100 peaches.