Over winter we have been madly planting bare rooted fruit trees; cherry, pear, apricot, and peach (oh and an avocado) were added to our existing apple, lemon, plum, nectarine, feijoa and fig. In order to make room we had to remove some Wattles that had given us afew years of their optimistic yellow early spring bloom but unfortunately they had past their best. Years ago i did a Diploma of Horticulture - Orchard Management at Massey University in NZ so it will be fun to put my knowledge to good use.

We have the cherry, apple and pear planted up against a wire framework and hope to trygrowing them as a

fan, hopefully the pruning won't prove too

challenging.

The nectarine that i have been pruning in a standard form is blossoming and due to all the rain we have had lately i am hoping for a good crop this year.