Old School Orchard | California Farmhouse Garden | 20+ Pollinator Plants & Fruit Trees

  ABOUT Truly an orchard gone wild. Sink into the blossoms of spring and the fruits of fall with this lavish farmhouse collection of fruit trees, berry bushes & pollinator attracting flowers. Plums, apples, grapes and peaches (or apricots) will flow forth from your humble homestead after 2-3 years with this exhilarating grocery-bill-reducing plant package. Fruit trees are not drought-tolerant. But it will become less thirsty as the shade canopy and understory of grasses and flowering herbs fills in. Why Ornamental Grasses in an Orchard? Ornamental grasses serve an important habitat function in regenerative agriculture. Their blades shelter valuable predatory insect populations which keeps the garden's food chain in check. Plus in the winter they become a valuable source of mulch and straw when they're trimmed.    PLANTS Small (150 sq.ft.): Apple 'Fuji' or Heat-tolerant variety, Plum 'Burgundy,' Classic Rose, Creeping Rosemary, Yarrow White or Color-blend, Lavender, Creeping Strawbe