The other day The Man of the House got a dreamy look in his eye and said, “One day I’d like to own everything in the Raintree catalog.”

We took a step closer to that goal last week when we got in seven lovely trees from Raintree.  We purchased:

2 sweet cherry trees:

• Lapins – a dark cherry with red juice
• White Gold – a red and yellow cherry, a little like Rainier, with clear juice.

2 tart cherry trees:

• Surefire
• Montmorency

3 European plum trees:

• Geneva Mirabelle – a new variety that’s become a favorite at the Mt. Vernon Research Station
• Imperial Epineuse – an old French variety
• Seneca – well adapted to the Puget Sound area, a long time reliable producer

TMOTH is planting them in big, plastic buckets so we’ll be able to take them with us when we move.  Here’s a photo of the plum trees as they take their place in our mobile orchard/vineyard.