What a great size for a pond! I'm jealous!
And I will definitely go with rosemary, then! Sounds like it will be a hit. I can't plant anything next to the fence anyway (it'll be electric - sooooo many predators here), so it should work ok.
Our raspberries do spectacularly (they are native, and thorned, or I'd recommend), but we've had weird winters of late - sometimes don't get enough frost/chill hours for fruiting. Most need 400-600 hours, though there are a few cultivars from U of F only need 300 or so. You must have a pretty unique microclimate. Look to Southern Highbush varieties.Blueberry grows great here in the woods. There are some plants that grow well here that shouldn't in 9a. Strawberries, for example. They grow like weeds in our lawn - haha!
My flock are foragers, primarily. They aren't free range because they are fenced in, but their primary diet is whatever they find. They get pellets, fermented feed, and calcium, too. They start out eating that in the mornings and go back to the feeders right before turning in, but so far, the added things they find in the yard hasn't caused issues. I figure this is how they'd eat if living wild. I think it's a pretty good life.
Fantastic resource!
Most plants that can grow in zone 8 in full sun can grow in zone 9a in partial sun. Peaches, plums, apricots, almonds, walnuts, pecans, persimmons, cherries, cherry plum, and I am sure I am forgetting other trees on my property and the surrounding ones. I feel lucky to be in zone 9a. I haven't found too much fruit that can't grow here.Blueberry grows great here in the woods. There are some plants that grow well here that shouldn't in 9a. Strawberries, for example. They grow like weeds in our lawn - haha!
My flock are foragers, primarily. They aren't free range because they are fenced in, but their primary diet is whatever they find. They get pellets, fermented feed, and calcium, too. They start out eating that in the mornings and go back to the feeders right before turning in, but so far, the added things they find in the yard hasn't caused issues. I figure this is how they'd eat if living wild. I think it's a pretty good life.
Its not the growing that concerns me, its the fruiting. Most peaches require even more chill hours than the blueberries. Still, if you go that route, i offer another UF resource. (needed chill hours per Peach cultivar - has an understandable FL bias)
Understandably, I live in zone 9a and have peaches. There are lots of peaches in my neighborhood. One neighbor down the road sells peaches off his homestead. There are probably some varieties that don't grow as well here. But there are like 50 varieties of them. They are really delicious, and now my mouth is watering just thinking about delicious peaches.
