One tree can bear three different fruits? It is true and it is real. The tree is called the fruit cocktail tree. This is the perfect tree for those of you who love the fresh fruits and especially the fresh fruit lovers who have limited space in their gardens. Instead of harvesting different fruits from different trees, you can simply harvest different fruits from the same tree. The Fruit Cocktail will enable the gardeners to harvest nectarines, plums, and peaches for all season long from one tree only. Amazing isn't it?
This is a unique tree and a unique specimen. The uniqueness of the specimen comes from the grafting of three fruits of the single stones together. The three trees are then grafted into one fruit tree. That is why one fruit trunk can bear 3 different fruits. It is quite an intricate grafting that for those beginner gardeners, the process is not recommended to be done without supervision as the level of success may be quite low. Just make a purchase in a local nursery instead. After all, the process to get the right one may take up to years. There are nurseries who have already come up with the amazing combinations of three great varieties. The tree is considered of small to medium size with height of only 10 to 15 meters.
Just like the other fruit tree, the fruit cocktail tree will begin to blossom during the springtime. The garden will suddenly come to live with the explosion of different colors. If the gardener chooses the nectarines fruit cocktail tree, then most likely the garden will be so fragrant until the blossoms turn to fruits in addition to the smell of the flowers blooming around it. And then, in just a few months when it is the middle of summer, the gardener can finally see that it is time to harvest.
Each of the fruit cocktail fruit will provide the gardener with quite an ample amount of fres fruits. These fruits can be eaten fresh, cooked into many great dishes, and the leftover can be canned or frozen to make them last longer. There are tons of dishes, both main dishes as well as dessert that can be created from these fruits. They will certainly make the dining table more interesting. Otherwise, you can always slice them and eat them fresh with a scoop of ice cream while enjoying the hot summer days.
