Hello everyone,
I am looking at the fruit trees at the moment to plant in my future 10 x 10 back yard.
So I will have three 10m long fences and want to plant as many trees as I can there. My back yard is facing south-west so I hope it will be OK for the trees and not too hot over summer.
I have come across two websites which I really like.
One is for the grafted fruit trees with up to 6 different fruits on one tree
http://www.fruitsaladtrees.com/
I have seen a few trees like this in our Bunnings. Have anyone bought fruit trees like this before? Would love to hear a feedback. I am not sure if 6 fruits per tree is what I am after but if I can have say three different sorts of apricots on one tree, peaches on another tree, plums and apples that would be great i think.
Another interesting site with the dwarf fruit trees
http://www.daleysfruit.com.au/fruit%20pages/dwarfs.htm
I really want smaller trees as I have two huge peach trees on my back yard right now and it is a nightmare to tell you the truth. Peaches are so nice and tasty but the trees are so big so we can't put the net over it and birds are eating almost all of the fruits. Not only it is unfair to us but it is very noisy and so messy on the back yard during the fruiting time
Any thoughts on this one?
And the last but not least I am thinking to put either japanese maple tree or weeping wisteria tree (would be first choice if I can find it at reasonable price) on the front yard in the middle of it. The size is 5m deep x 10m wide but at least 3 meters will be taken by the drive way from the width and 1 meter by paving around the house from the depth. So the actual size of the planting area will be about 4m deep by 6.5 m wide. On the border with the foot path I want to plant standard roses (I think I can fit 5 there). Along the fence next the the neighbour's garage wall I want to plant two lilac trees and right in the middle will be this plant (maple or wisteria). The rest of the ground will be covered by instant turf.
I am also looking at concrete garden edging either done by professional or diy option.
Would be interesting to hear any comments or suggestions about my plans.