Summer tree planting

Hi all,

I live in Oakland CA, zone 9/10. I just moved to rent a new house that has a lot of garden potential and I’m looking into planting some fruit trees (pomegranate, peach, fig, and apricot) and some large natives (california buckeye, ceanothus, madrone). The rains stopped for the year in early April, so the clay parent soil is already baked into hard ceramic in most places. It’s a cool summer so far, though, and I have access to water.

Normally I plant bare root trees during the winter to match the tree’s natural growth cycles. I’m wondering what permaculture’s take is on planting trees in mid-June. I know I’ll have to be careful to water it for a while, but also wondering if planting trees at this point will damage the tree’s health longterm.

Warmly,

Brian