Has anyone had any experience with the planting and culture of medlar trees? This would be in Zone 6.
Medlar tree
My medlar sadly succumbed after about 5 years of tortured existence.
Never bore a fruit.
I think it was devastated by hawthorn-cedar rust.
I'd have pulled the plug sooner, but I recall Kavorkian got 10 years for doing the same thing.
So I enrolled him in my (rather extensive) hospice program instead. I don't think he suffered.
LOL,Weerobin !!
I had one when I was living in the San Francisco Bay Area. It bloomed twice, bore fruit once. Unfortunately, I discovered, it is very susceptible to fire blight. Bradford Pear trees are/were very common street trees. I was able to save the apple trees that also got fire blight, but the medlar died rather quickly.
I loved the large white flowers it produced. If I could keep it healthy, I would grow it for the blooms. I never had the courage to taste the fruit. Bleating makes the fruit look rotten, which I suppose it is.
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I am now thoroughly convinced not to get one, though I have admired their pictures in the mail-order catalogs.
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