"Fruit Trees...."

About a month ago, Don and I stopped in at Garden Goods Nursery (http://www.gardengoodstc.com) to find out when they expected fruit trees to be available.  I was told mid-April was when they expected them and they were kind enough to get our phone number to call and inform me when they arrived.  We received a call last Thursday and I drove to the nursery on Friday, picking up six trees!

As I'd hoped, they were all able to be loaded into our small Pontiac Vibe and arrived back at our house in great shape.  Fortunately, Don had not accompanied me because in order for the trees to fit, the back of the front passenger seat had to be put in the flat "down" position, too!

Now that the temperature is rising once again and the recent snow from the past 2 days has melted, the warm air can now continue its work on the piles of snow from this past Winter.  Soon it will be gone and I can begin planting our trees.

As I mentioned, I bought 6 fruit trees.  Not all are dwarf trees but I plan to keep the taller ones trimmed to a shorter height.  Here is a close up of the tags.......

Our 2 apples.......

Our 2 Peaches.......

And lastly, our 2 cherries.......

I look forward to getting them planted so that they can begin to "settle in" and send out roots.  Any fruit that is set this year will, unfortunately, have to be picked right away so that all the strength of growing goes into root growth.  I also will not do any pruning until next Winter, too, so again, all the strength of growing goes to the root system.  This Spring is going to be an exciting one!  ;)