We prefer to order Dwarf Fruit Trees online from Amazon when giving them as gifts or deliberately planned purchases for our landscape and interior home whenever possible. Due to the compact size of the plant and the incredible convenience of having trees arrive with the friendly delivery person at the front door, we generally shop with the mouse.
In addition to the magic of the internet purchase and delivery system, there is the ever present opportunity to invest in the perrenniel yield of a new tree from your local mega store via the impulse buy.
Nurseries worldwide, have produced Dwarf Fruit Trees in the millions, as noted in the original Dwarf Fruit Trees post, driving lower and lower the cost of popping one into your cart along with - in our case - that new Victa Enviromower cordless electric lawn mower. Thus driving the impulse buy to the practically irresistible.
For an additional 1% on the purchase cost of the large item we set out to acquire from the big box store home center, we head home with both a ficas for the office and the Bonanza II Dwarf Peach Tree.
That riot of slightly blurry pink is due to the vehicle motion as the tree rides home on my lap from the local Mega Store (they actually call it that) here in New Zealand.
Here in the “top of the south” in New Zealand we’re just coming into spring with all the allure of new pink blossoms to grace the sunny porch off our Master Bedroom.
The tag you see in the photo says
“Peach - Bonanza II 45cm Std - Dwarf peach with largish orange, blushed red fruit with firm yellow, melting flesh and juicy, aromatic flavour. Early ripening and freestone. great plant for containers and city gardens. 2m”
YUM!
This tree is presently at around 45cm and will grow to a max height in the neighborhood of 2 meters. What could be better than that for our little sunny bedroom porch where it’s pink blossoms greet us in the morning? It’s a gorgeous tree that can’t ever outgrow the space.
If you care to keep colors ever new for your view simply move the little tree to another spot on the terrace when the blossoms fall, then replace the prime viewing spot with a different plant in full color for that time of year.
The sales woman at the Mega Store, Karen, kindly suggested a 2 year slow release granulated fertilizer from Yates for adding to the soil when planting the tree at home.
We appreciate the convenience of this suggestion, however we prefer our fully organic, non-chemical, and stress reducing, life-enhancing, home-made Compost fertilization method that we immortalized in Part 1 Secret Passkey to Lower Stress and Part 2 The Master Key to Successful Composting.
Though our response in care preferences for the Dwarf Peach Tree didn’t offer an additional impulse buy sale for the store, it did elicit a warm smile and nod of agreement from the garden center clerk, Karen.
October 2nd, 2008 at 6:57 am
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