Well, I'm not too fussed about eating a handful of berries, but then being perched on a high branch on my Bramley trying to curl one down......nah!
it's a well repeated myth
if you have a weak/sickly tree it can affect it, but it's the same as the ivy myth which saw the usual suspects tearing down ivy wherever they saw it a few years ago (they even used to organise parties!) it's not true I have an apple tree in my garden which must be nearly a century old, plastered in ivy yet it seems to yield more fruit every year not less and I've been here nearly thirty years!!
Depends on the parasite- some host adapt others merely aim to reproduce and spread to others before the first host dies. Although many modern farming methods don't help.
Depends on the variety: one in a neighbour's garden opens before Christmas, mine is just starting.
Oh my - that's a bit early - if you get a frost you will be lucky to see any fruit ... I love apricots and they are supposed to be easy to grow but the two varieties I've tried just really didn't like my garden - don't thrive and they both got canker and i gavev up.
Some red ones like that around here.
Obviously, mine is a later variety.
Clearly and it seems mine is an even later one!
Mahonia Charity is a good one and gets quite large.
Is that a feijoa, lower left?
I'll still get fruit with a frost. A dry spring is the most important thing for fruit here.
