We have one main peach tree and a few ferals around the place. When the main peach tree has fruit (and it is itself a feral grown from a mouse's winter food store), they are lovely white peaches and because they are fresh off the tree and not picked until they are ripe, have the most wonderful flavour. One year we had 40 peaches!
Last year was a disaster for fruit like peaches as it never really got warm after April, and this year will be just as bad. The blossom got frosted, there wasn't much of it anyway, and when there were flowers, there were no bees. I think I have found 1 tiny fruit ready to develop on the tree, so will use this year as a year to do the formative pruning I have had in mind for a while.
With all the rain around this spring as well, all the local peach trees, not just ours, are suffering badly from peach leaf curl. While there is a spray remedy, I don't like to use it because of the wild and not so wild life in the garden. The British remedy of taking the plant into a green house or covering it with protective fleece doesn't work here, where the trees get big. However we have found that after the first flush of nasty and distorted leaves fall off, you do get a nice flush of normal leaves to nourish the tree.
In case you have never seen it, the photo below shows the ravages of peach leaf curl - a rain borne virus.
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