Flora Journal in Northeast Central Florida

I got my digital camera and there's a lot to see.  My garden is one big hot mess.  You probably won't want to see that, but I DID order trees from the Arbor Day Foundation , and when they come in, I'll snap some pictures so you know what to expect.  I floated all about the Internet trying to find out what these trees are like when you order them.  I got 10 trees just for becoming a member ($10), and then I got a discount, and on top of that, I got two free flowering bushes and a free red maple when I purchased my two pear trees at that discount.   They won't ship until the fall or so, so we'll have to wait for that treat.  I think I might have to give some to neighbors, because I don't know if my yard is big enough for them all to grow. Okay, so you can clearly see that my new digital camera is AWESOME, or cheap, but you can see the fruit right?  That's a persimmon tree growing right on the side of the road by my neighbor's house.  Do not try to see

I think what I have planted in a pot is a red mulberry.  I know it's some kind of mulberry.  Anyway, my camera is not working (one should be here today), so I can't take new pictures of it.  I want to prune it so that we can reach the berries when it starts growing.  The wild trees up the road are pretty tall and lanky, and there's no way one could reach the berries on them without a tall scary ladder or something. My watermelons I got one small watermelon out of my garden.  New ones start growing then sort of die.  We've had a lot of ran off and on, so I don't know if I've watered them enough or too much, but the new ones look like they rot.  One other small watermelon got a split in it, so I had to chuck it to the wild animals.