Category Archives: Fruit
Blueberry Jubilee
Jubilee a Southern Highbush developed in Mississippi thrives well under adverse conditions – heavy soils summer heat and sudden winter cold. Recommended throughout areas in the South and California with at least 500 chilling hours. Very productive bearing large clusters
Peach Tree Sweet ‘N Up
Upright semi-columnar tree with vertical growth for small spaces. Excellent yields and flavor. Beautiful red-blushed yellow fruits. One of the best flavored peaches we have tasted ultra sweet and juicy. Ripens in midseason a week later than Crimson Rocket.
Blueberry Northblue
Northblue is a great landscape plant and super producer of quality fruit in very cold climates. The fruit has a wild taste juicy and is excellent for baking or fresh eating. Northblue has survived winter temperatures to minus 35?F although
Currant Red Lake
Large and juicy red berries ripen in late spring through the summer months with intense flavor ideal for making preserves. Red berries although tart can be eaten fresh picked and are attractive to birds. With showy bright red fruits and
Blueberry Duke
The most widely planted early ripening northern variety. Heavy consistent yield with an attractive firm light blue high quality berry. Duke blooms late but ripens early which protects the blossoms from spring frosts. Branches may droop to the ground when
Gooseberry Hinnomaki Red
Upright plants are very productive with medium-sized red berries. Fruits are very flavorful with the skin tangy but the flesh sweet. Easy to grow and nice as hedging with lobed leaves that turn red in the fall. Plants have good
Blueberry Toro
Considered to be one of the most beautiful blueberry plants with bright red foliage in fall the large and sweet berries that form in clusters make Toro an exceptional home garden variety. Fruit flavor is rarely tart and berries are
Watermelon Sugar Baby
Sweet fine-textured medium-red flesh. The round 12 lb. dark green skinned melons grow 8 in. across. GARDEN HINTS: For early fruiting and to overcome a short growing season plants may be started indoors in peat pots. Water during hot dry
Gooseberry Pixwell
These almost thornless plants produce berries that are borne on slender stems hanging below the branches and so easy to pick. Bred in North Dakota Pixwell is very winter hardy very productive and resistant to powdery mildew. Good for fresh
Blueberry Sweetheart
Very productive plants with medium to large firm very flavorful berries. Plants are vigorous and fruits around the same time as Bluecrop. Beats the yield of Duke. One of several blueberries developed by the USDA breeder Dr. Mark Ehlenfeldt.
Blueberry Jewel
These large firm berries tend to be tart but sweeten when fully ripe. Plants are upright and bushy with numerous buds and heavy flowering. A flavorful addition to your southern blueberry patch.
Raspberry Killarney
Killarney is the hardiest raspberry we know; it’s also disease-resistant and bears medium-sized very bright red berries that have good flavor and freeze well. Ripens early and bears for 4-5 weeks. Recommended for colder climates.
Raspberry Bristol
Upright growth habit allows for excellent air circulation which keeps the foliage and berries clean and free from fungus. A mid-summer fruiting raspberry that has a nice cluster for easy harvest of the firm glossy berries no bleeding.
Fig Letizia
A family heirloom named after plantsman Steve Castorani’s mother Letizia whose parents brought the fig all the way from Italy. Since the 1930s over many years the plant has grown to a multi-stemmed tree dense with beautiful neatly lobed green
Hops Cascade
Very productive with large attractive flowers used for flavoring beer. Its aroma is very distinct spicy with citrus-y quality. Green cones ripen in midseason on disease-resistant vines. Plants can climb to 25′ in one season and grow into beautiful vines
Strawberry Toscana
Edible architecture doesn’t come any sweeter;or prettier;than this stunning new strawberry. With its explosion of deep-rose blooms lush habit and delicious harvest of sweet dark red fruits Toscana becomes a gorgeous feature on the patio balcony or in the garden
Blueberry Reka
Selected and developed in New Zealand Reka is vigorous fast growing and adapts well to a wide range of northern climates and soil types. Abundand yields of early ripening medium sized exceptional tasting berries. Fall foliage is burgundy and blooming
Strawberry Alpine Fragola di Bosco
Fragola di Bosco is an Italian alpine strawberry that enjoys popularity in gourmet salads. Plants are everbearing and productive. As with other woodland strawberries fruits are delicately sweet and best eaten straight freshly picked. Early to flower and fruit plants
Blackberry Ouachita PP17162
Large firm sweet berries are bursting with flavor. Thornlesss sturdy canes produce 2-4 quarts of glossy juicy black berries. Vigorous easy to manage plants are garlanded with lovely large white flowers. Fully erect 4-6 ft. tall canes allow for denser
Blueberry Nelson
A variety widely planted because of its dependable fruiting of a large lighter blueberry that is very firm with good flavor. The plant grows very upright and needs little pruning because of its open spreading plant habit.
