Australian and New Zealand Gardening: TEA ROOM # 22, 1 by dalfyre

dalfyre wrote:
I had a huge plum tree out the back, only the dogs loved it.
The plums were very bland but they would gobble up all the fallen fruit then stand on hind legs & eat everything they could reach.
I even found Copper 6 ft off the ground having climbed the lower branches like a ladder.
Wish I had known to take my camera out with me, I cut the branches off to stop him doing it again as I was worried he would fall.
I had the tree cut down - what a difference that has made to how much sunlight reaches the rest of the my garden - and next door's.
There is still one plum tree, the fruit stays green for a long time & then is purple with lime green flesh which goes yellow once it is fully ripe.
The dogs don't wait that long.
Copper has already stripped all the low fruit - he likes crunchy green plums!
The taste is very tart & would probably make fabulous plum sauce.
Between dogs & birds I don't see much of it.
I would love to espalier the tree as it is hard up against the fence.
Why do people plant things so close?!
One of these days I will get the men with chainsaws onto it.