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Gardening

Ocelot II

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3. Mine, too! It's very late this year but it finally did it.

Reply to Siwsan (Original post)

Tue May 10, 2022, 05:30 PM

May 2022

It's a Harbin pear, developed for extreme cold conditions, produces small, hard, inedible pears but it blooms beautifully in the spring.

Here's a photo of it that I took on April 17, 2017! It actually looks even thicker this year but it's 3-1/2 weeks late. Or maybe 2017 was early?

So here's the same tree today: