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2025 year end for flowers and fruits

Here are some photos of my 2025 veggie garden’s fruits and flowers. I already did a year end on the veggies but didn’t include these and want to share now before I start planting for 2026. The flowers were gorgeous and the fruits did very well last season. Enjoy! Garden eye candy for winter!

FLOWERS

I grow many different varieties of flowers each year. I love the color and the pollinators they attract.

FRUITS-Perennials

I have 4 apple trees, 1 pear tree, 1 apricot tree, rhubarb, raspberries, blackberries, strawberries, currents, and grapes. The pear tree is only 3 years old so it only had two tensie pears in 2025. The apricot tree only gives us apricots sporadically now as it is mostly in shade now but is a lovely shade tree as well

 

Bumper crop of apricots this year in Santa Fe

Every 7-8 years, I get some apricots off my tree. This is year 8 and my second crop since moving here 16 years ago. Not a great success rate but usually here in Santa Fe, we have a freeze in late spring that freezes the apricot blossoms and hence no crop.

But this year, it’s been exciting as I’ve seen apricots everywhere in town and out-of-town. What a bumper crop this year! So I made apricot jam, dried some and the other day I got ambitious and made an apricot tart from one of Juliet Child’s books that my friend John gave me! I gotta say, it was good. Really good.