RaintreeNursery The finest fruit cultivars from around the world S P R I N G 2 017 Spring Sale • pages 2 and 3 Visit RaintreeNursery.com for even more sale items! 1 spring sale 2017 Sale going on through May 2017. Some items in the catalog are now sold out. Check For more information on each plant including the USDA RaintreeNursery.com for the current availability. Zones go to the page number listed. All are hardy in USDA Zones 5-9 unless otherwise noted. ITEM # ITEM DESCRIPTION Regular Sale Pg ITEM # ITEM DESCRIPTION Regular Sale Pg APPLES (See pollination chart on page 32.) C200 Reine de Mirabelle Euro Plum/Mar2624 $28.50 $22.80 52 A140S Bramley Apple/MM106 $26.50 $21.20 27 The largest of the Mirabelle plums; productive with great flavor. Best cooking apple, disease resistant, excellent flavor. Ripe Oct. C9003 3x1 Dwarf Combination Cherry $49.95 $39.96 45 A161D Red Boskoop Apple/M26 $26.50 $21.20 23 Dwarf tree; maintain at 10-15’ tall. 3 of the following: Montmorency, Emperor Top keeper apple in Europe. Huge size, great flavor. Ripe late Oct. Francis, Lapins, Early Burlat and Glacier. A420D Karmijn de Sonnaville Apple/M26 $26.50 $17.23 25 C9004 4x1 Dwarf Combination Cherry $54.95 $43.96 45 #1 in taste tests, rich complex flavor. Ripe in October. 4 of the following: Montmorency, Emperor Francis, Lapins, Early Burlat and Glacier. A520D Liberty Apple/M26 $26.50 $17.23 27 Most scab resistant and most nutritious. Great flavor ripe Oct. UNUSUAL EDIBLES A272 Golden Sentinel Columnar/MM106 $29.50 $23.60 29 D007A M. de Evreinoff Medlar/OHxF87 $28.50 $19.95 56 Columnars produce lots of apples along main trunk. Great in pots. Large productive medlar from France. Medlars are self fertile. A273 Scarlet Sentinel Columnar /MM106 $29.50 $23.60 29 D008A Pucia Super Mol Medlar/OHxF87 $26.50 $18.55 56 Large tasty red blushed columnar apple ripe in September. Large productive medlar from Italy. Medlars ripen in October.. A275 North Pole Columnar /MM106 $29.50 $23.60 29 D057 Limon Quince $28.50 $22.80 41 Crisp, juicy red McIntosh type columar apple Ripe September. A productive Turkish cultivar with a lemon fragrance. Self fertile. A320SA Foxwhelp Cider Apple/MM106 $28.50 $22.50 34 D090 Van Deman Quince $26.50 $21.20 41 Makes a wonderful full bodied aromatic cider. 3 for $60. A large oblong Luther Burbank selection. Heay bearing, spicy flavor. A379S Granniwinkle Cider Apple/MM106 $32.50 $26.50 34 D228 Prairie Star American Persimmon $39.95 $31.96 62 An old American cider apple, often mixed with Harrison. 3 for $60. A new self fertile, productive, flavorful American persimmon A387S Harrison Cider Apple/MM106 $32.50 $26.50 34 D373 NC-1 Paw Paw $27.50 $22.00 65 Great American yellow cider apple. Mixed with Granniwinkle. 3 for $60. An early ripening variety that ripens in cool summer areas. A430SA Kingston Black Cider Apple/MM106 $32.50 $26.50 34 D375 Rebecca’s Gold Paw Paw $27.50 $22.00 65 Makes the best single variety cider. Ripe in October. 3 for $60. Productive with sweet aromatic fruit. Need two varieties for pollination. D578 Yellow Fruited Cornus Mas $26.50 $21.20 66 PEARS (See pollination chart on page 38.) An edible ornamental with yellow flowers and flavorful yellow fruit. B110 Harrow Delight E. Pear/OHxF87 $26.50 $21.20 36 D703 Viking Aronia - One Gallon Pot $24.50 $18.38 21 Flavorful and heavily productive European. Ripe in early September. Aronias are 6-8’ beautiful bushes loaded with purple edible berries. B231 Suij European Pear/OHxF87 $28.50 $21.38 37 D703S Viking Aronia - One Quart Pot $18.50 $13.88 21 Flavorful, best keeper pear. Store and eat through winter and spring. Varieties are self fertile and incredibly productive. B540 Korean Giant Asian Pear OHxF87 $26.50 $21.20 39 D705 Nero Aronia - One Gallon Pot $24.50 $18.38 21 Leading pear in Korea, large size great flavor. Ripe in October. Fruit makes great jelly or wine. Plant four feet apart for a beautiful edible hedge. B570 Mishirasu Asian Pear/OHxF87 $26.50 $21.20 39 D705S Nero Aronia - One Quart Pot $18.50 $13.88 21 Largest Asian pear. Beautiful fruit with excellent flavor. Ripe in Sept. Nero and Viking cultivars are very similar in size, production and flavor. D738 Askola Sea Berry (Female) $26.50 $21.20 22 A productive variety high in Vitamins C and E. PLUMS AND CHERRIES (See pollination chart on page 55.) D743 Titan Sea Berry (Female) $26.50 $21.20 22 C057A Cocheco Asian Plum/St Julian A $26.50 $21.20 54 Titan has very large bright orange berries. Makes excellent juice. Red leaf Asian plum with tasty fruit. A great edible ornamental. D746 Male Sea Berry $24.50 $23.85 22 C141 Imperial Epineuse Euro. Plum/St Jul A $28.50 $22.80 51 A male is needed for pollination and will pollinate up to 9 females. The most flavorful prune plum. Prized for drying and fresh eating. J315 Psidium littorale ‘Lemon Guava’ $16.50 $11.55 67 C182A Jam Session Euro. Plum /St Julian A $26.50 $21.20 53 USDA Zone 10 or grow as indoor potted shrub. Flavorful yellow fruit. So loaded with blue plums for jam in summer the tree looks blue. BERRIES Cover photo clockwise from top right: Aronia, Sea Berry, Cherry, Misc. Ber- E202 Bushel and Berry™ Blueberry Glaze™ $19.95 $15.96 4 2 ries, Lingonberries, Honeycrisp Apples, And Goumi Berries. A 2-3’ bush ideally suited to grow in a pot. Flavorful and productive. ITEM # ITEM DESCRIPTION Reg Sale Pg ITEM # ITEM DESCRIPTION Regular Sale Pg E210 Darrow Blueberry $17.50 $14.00 7 VINES (Grapes are self-fertile.) Enjoy lots of tasty blueberries the size of a quarter. H430 Jumbo Arguta Kiwi (Female) $19.95 $17.96 76 E224 Emerald Blueberry $17.50 $14.00 6 Jumbo has large elongated hardy kiwis in big clusters. (Needs male.) Tasty low chill variety ideally suited for the South & Pacific NW. H480 September Sun Fem Kolomikta $19.95 $17.96 77 E255 Chippewa Blueberry $17.50 $14.00 7 The hardiest of the kiwis to USDA Zone 3. Very productive. 3’-4’ bush, very productive that is hardy to USDA Zone 3. H500 Arctic Beauty Male Kolomikta Kiwi $19.95 $17.96 77 E290 Tophat Blueberry $17.50 $14.00 7 The male has tri colored foliage and pollinates the September Sun. The most dwarfing blueberry to 18” tall. A great pot and bonzai. H550 Einset Seedless Grape $13.50 $9.45 73 E360 Bushel and Berry™ Raspberry Shortcake™ $19.95 $15.96 10 Red seedless grape with a hint of strawberry flavor. USDA Zones 4-9 Great tasting dwarf red raspberry grows 2-3’ tall, perfect for a pot. H575 Lakemont Seedless Grape $11.50 $8.05 74 E404 Jewel Strawberry (25 Plants) $12.50 $10.00 8 A green seedless grape with a very sweet flavor. Mid season strawberry for the Northeast and Upper Mid West. H580 Madeleine Angevine Grape/3309 $14.50 $11.60 75 Makes an excellent white Reisling type wine. Ripens in maritime climes. E445 Mignonette Strawberry $5.50 $4.40 9 Prohibited to NY, OR and CA. Wonderful red Alpine Strawberry with an intense sweet flavor. H582 Mars Seedless Grape $14.50 $11.60 73 E465 Pink Panda Strawberry $5.00 $4.00 10 Early ripening blue seedless with Concord flavor. Prohibited NY,OR, CA Makes a thick beautiful strawberry ground cover with pink flowers. H604 Regent Grape/3309 $14.50 $11.60 75 E475 Holiday Strawberry $7.50 $6.00 9 Disease resistant, early season ripener Perfect for organic, quality red wine. Old time June bearer famous for outstanding freezing and fresh eating. Prohibited to NY, OR and CA. E505 Apache blackberry-4 Inch Pot $8.50 $6.80 13 H607 Saturn Seedless Grape $14.50 $10.88 73 Upright thornless selection with lots of large flavorful fruit. Early ripening red seedless. Flavorful, productive. Prohibited to NY ,OR, CA E520 Cascade Trailing Blackberry-4 Inch Pot $8.50 $6.80 14 H630 Vanessa Seedless Grape $13.50 $10.13 73 A productive selection of native NW native trailing; larger fruit. Hardiest of the seedless to USDA Zone 4. Fruity flavor and pink color. E557 Onyx Trailing Blackberry-4 Inch Pot $11.50 $9.20 13 H635 Marquis Seedless Grape $16.50 $12.38 74 A trailing mid season blackberry prized for its delicious fruit quality. New white seedless from NY. Tops in flavor. Perfect for home garden. G136 Ida Lingonberry $12.50 6+: $7.50 ea 15 Large size fruit and two crops a year. Bush grows to only 8” tall. NUT TREES G370 Cherry Berries™ Wintergreen $11.50 3+: $9.00 ea 23 K161 Nikita’s Pride Almond/Lovell $26.50 $21.20 84 New! Wintergreen bred for nickel size showy tasty berries. Hardy, quality soft shelled nuts. Oracle and Nikita pollinate each other. G375 Berry Cascade™ Wintergreen $11.50 3+: $9.00 ea 23 K162 Oracle Almond/Lovell $26.50 $21.20 84 This new cultivar grows fruit the entire length of the stem. Late bloom and early ripening with good crop of soft shell almonds. K165A Reliable Almond/Lovell $26.50 $21.20 83 GOOSEBERRIES/CURRANTS (Prohibited to DE, ME, MA, MI, Self fertile. Sets reliable crops in the Pacific Northwest where others fail. NC, NJ, OH, RI and WV. Gooseberries and Currants are self K170 Titan Almond/Lovell $26.50 $21.20 84 fertile and hardy in USDA Zones 3-8) Very hardy with soft shelled nuts. Pollinate with almond or a peach. E607 Canada 0273 Gooseberry $13.50 $10.80 17 K240 Black Walnut Seedling $4.75 10+: $3 ea 81 A mildew resistant red gooseberry with excellent flavor. 3+: $8.50 each. Make profitable timber trees and produce delicious nuts too. Prohibited to E639 Hinnomaki Red Gooseberry $14.50 3+: $9.50 ea 17 TX, KS, AZ, MD, OK, NE, MI, IN, and CA. A Finnish variety with outstanding flavor and mildew resistance. K343 Chinese Chestnut Seedling (4-5’) $22.50 5+: $11.25 ea 82 E714 Ben Lomond Black Currant $14.50 3+: $9.50 ea 19 Seedlings of productive varieties. Plant a chestnut grove at a bargain price. Most popular in Scotland. Fruit of very high quality. Very productive. Prohibited to AZ. E716 Ben Sarek Black Currant $14.50 3+: $9.50 ea 19 Mildew resistant. Compact productive bush grows only 3’ tall. ORNAMENTALS L520 Woolly Thyme $6.50 $5.20 69 E725 Minaj Smyriou Black Currant $16.50 3+: $11.50 ea 18 A tough and hardy edible groundcover. Rust and mildew resistant, grows to 5’ with large fruit. L640 Rosa rugosa Alba $7.50 $6.00 79 E736 Risager Black Currant $14.50 3+: $9.50 ea 18 Plant 3’ apart for a beautiful hedge with fragrant white flowers and lots of Rust and mildew resistant. New from Netherlands; very promising. . hips. M071M Pee Gee Hydrangea $19.95 $15.96 78 E765 Rosetta Red Currant $14.50 3+: $9.50 ea 18 Loaded with showy white flowers that bloom from summer through fall. Very productive Dutch red currant with large glowing clusters of fruit. M183 Cornus kousa ‘Wolfeye’ $19.95 $15.96 78 E787 Pink Champagne Currant $14.50 3+: $9.50 ea 20 A large shrub or small tree with impressively beautiful tri colored foliage. A unique cross of the red and white currant. Excellent fruit. M360 French Pussywillow $11.24 $13.20 80 Use this bush for its abundance of showy catkins. E791 White Currant 1301 $12.50 3+: $7.50 ea NA This white currant variety grows 5’ with lots of delicious fruit. 3 Bushel and Berry ™ Huckleberries These new dwarf raspberry, blackberry and blueberry plants make it (Vaccinium species) Delicious and possible for American gardeners to grow delicious, full-size berries rarely available in nurseries, huck- on sturdy dwarf plants in pots on the patio or deck. Each of these win- leberries are so highly prized that ter hardy varieties provides gardeners in most of the nation with delicious people have their own secret wild fruit and the blueberries also provide year round ornamental beauty. All patches. The wild Pacific Northwest plants are in one quart pots. species generally are called “huck- leberries,” and the eastern species RASPBERRY SHORTCAKE™ For those of you with limited space, this are called “blueberries.” Huckleber- dwarf raspberry plant is ideal for container ries come in one-gallon pots. growing. It grows only 2-3’ tall with a compact growth habit. It is thornless and produces an EVERGREEN abundance of full-size sweet, flavorful red HUCKLEBERRY raspberries each summer. Your family will (Vaccinium love harvesting healthful fruit right from your ovatum) The patio and no trellising or staking is needed. It cultivar is will spread to fill any pot no matter the shape. “Northern Star” Like other floricane summer raspberries, once and is the best fruiting plant fruiting is finished, prune out canes at the base for the shade. that have fruited leaving new canes to fruit the A native of the next season. USDA Zones 5-9. E360: Was Pacific Northwest, this evergreen 19.95 each. SALE! $15.96 each, 3+: $13.50 bush is beautiful throughout the each year. In the spring and fall, the BABY CAKES™ THORNLESS BLACKBERRY N EW! foliage turns from green to a striking Finally you can grow flavorful thornless blackberries in bronze color. The late summer- a pot without a trellis. Baby Cakes, a new introduction, ripening berries are dark blue, tart, is a dwarf, thornless blackberry perfect for container flavorful and a little smaller than a gardening. It ™grows to only 3-4’ tall with a pleasing blueberry. The shrub grows best in rounded compact habit. In summer, large, sweet the shade where it can reach 6-8’ blackberries ripen on the tips of the canes. In regions without pruning. In the sun, it only without very high prolonged summer heat, this grows to 3’ tall. It has a compact, blackberry will also produce a flavorful fall primocane full growth habit, and spaced crop. USDA Zones 4-8. E512: $19.95 each, 3+: $16.50 about 3’ apart makes a beautiful each evergreen hedge. USDA Zones 7-10. E180: $19.95 each, 3+: $17.50 PINK ICING™ BLUEBERRY NEW! Pink Icing is ideal each to grow in a pot on the patio or as a year-round edible TALL MT. HUCKLEBERRY(V. landscape stunner. Grow it for abundant crops of ovalifolium) This rarely offered large sweet blueberries and intense pink spring and Pacific NW native sub alpine bush iridescent blue fall foliage. It grows only 3-4’ tall, and grows 4-6’ tall with oval leaves and fruit ripens in mid season. USDA Zones 5-10. E271: an abundance of tasty black fruit. $19.95 each, 3+: $16.50 each USDA Zones 4-8. E185: $19.95 BLUEBERRY GLAZE™ This plant grows 2-3’ tall as a each, 3+: $17.50 each bushy mound and is perfect on the patio in a decorative THINLEAF HUCKLEBERRY (V. container. With its small stature and glossy, dark green membranaceum) Its fruit is amongst leaves, Blueberry Glaze™ is reminiscent of a boxwood the largest and best flavored of all and can easily be sheared. Enjoy the white and pink spring the wild blueberries. Plants can flowers followed by lots of small, dark blue berries with grow to 5’ tall and produce pink intense wild blueberry flavor, which are rich in antioxidants. flowers and dark purple berries up USDA Zones 5-8. E202:Was 19.95 each. SALE! $15.96 to ½ inch in diameter. Declared the each state fruit of Idaho, these plants grow throughout the Northwestern states at elevations above 2,000 Blueberry Supplies and Books feet. They are adapted to cool, BLUEBERRY RAKES These blueberry rakes are handmade in Maine and designed for the most efficient harvesting of a specific size of berry. Each is extremely strong, made of sturdy lightweight aluminum with spring steel teeth. See Supplies section. ORGANIC BLUEBERRY FERTILIZER B lueberries, huckleberries, lingonberries, tea, wintergreen and other acid loving plants will love this natural fertilizer. Instructions included. 5 lb. bag. T 143: $15 each; Any 4 bags of fertilizer $11.50 each. 4 short seasons. They are grown from seed, so plant at least two Ripens mid-July and bears for a Unique month. Bluecrop is widely adaptable for pollination. Plants require a and a success in the Midwest and Evergreen well-drained soil, preferably one much of the nation. USDA Zones Edibles that is rich in peat. Plants are best 4-8. E 200 (18-30” size): $17.50 grown in pots until being planted SUNSHINE BLUE A each, 3+: $14.50 each; E200M out carefully with the soil around (3’+ size): $27.50 each unique evergreen the roots. We guarantee these selection with plants to arrive in good condition, JERSEY A attractive year but because of their unique habitat consistent and round foliage and requirements, cannot guarantee heavy producer hot pink spring them to grow. USDA Zones 6-8. of spicy berries flowers! The bush E188: $19.95 each, 3+: $17.50 with a distinctive grows 4’ tall and each old-time produces up to RED HUCKLEBERRY ( Vaccinium blueberry flavor. 10 pounds of delicious, light blue, parvifolium) A deciduous The fruit ripens medium-sized berries. They ripen huckleberry native to the Pacific from mid-August over a very long season from early Northwest. The bush is attractive until the first August through early September. throughout the year. It grows 3-5’ frost. Bright Hardiness to 0°F, a very low chilling tall and produces pea size pinkish yellow fall leaf requirement of only 150 hours and a red berries that seem to light up the color and yellow tolerance for higher pH soils makes bush. The fruit is tangy and great for winter wood on this a perfect choice for the Pacific making a pie or jelly. USDA Zones this vigorous NW, the South or California. USDA 6-9. E190: SOLD OUT. upright, 5-6’ tall Zones 7-10.E285 (18-30” size): bush, makes $17.50 each, 3+: $14.50 each Blueberries it a unique landscape and hedge plant. MISTY A perfect compliment to Sunshine Blue. This southern highbush variety thrives as a (Vaccinium species) Blueberry USDA Zones beautiful, 5’ tall evergreen bush, not bushes are easy to grow and 4-8. E 240 (18- only in the South but along the west provide home gardeners with 30” size): $18.50 each coast to the Canadian border. The delicious fruit and year-round HARDIBLUE Select Hardiblue for its bright blue-green foliage provides beauty. Raintree provides sweet, excellent flavor. Heavy crops a perfect contrast to the hot pink you with large 18-30” plants of medium size dark blue fruit ripen unless otherwise noted. spring flowers and the sky blue, in mid season. This old New Jersey very flavorful fruit. It yields best cultivar is a vigorous upright bush, when planted with another variety. Olde Time Favorites adaptable to heavier clay soils. The Hardiness to 0°F, Misty has a very BLUECROP The berries are light dark red wood is striking in a winter low chilling requirement of only 150 blue, very large and flavorful. The landscape. It is also a favorite in the hours and a tolerance for higher plant is extremely productive with Pacific Northwest. USDA Zones 4-8. pH soils. USDA Zones 7-10. E250 an upright habit to 4-6’ tall. Wood E226M (3’+ size): Was $26.50 (18-30” size): $17.50 each, 3+: color is red as is the fall foliage. each . SALE! $22.05 each $14.50 each Using Blueberries Glaze for gardeners with limited space or a landscape niche. How To Grow If you keep them well watered, the blueberries fiberous roots & Huckleberries SOIL REQUIREMENTS: Acid will grow in your amended area. IN THE LANDSCAPE: Plants Useful Facts soil, pH of 4 to 5.5, well drained, Mulch of more than 2-4” thick but can tolerate wet feet in can suffocate the roots. are particularly well suited to ORIGIN: Blueberries have been winter. If pH is high, water with 2 PRUNING: Renew older edible landscaping because of part of the American culinary tbls. vinegar to 1 gallon of water. branches to new shoots. See their varied and beautiful ap- tradition long before the white CULTURAL REQUIREMENTS: owner’s manual that comes with pearance. Bronze new growth man came to these shores. Blueberries are shallow rooted. your order or find it at Rain- in spring is followed by pink- POLLINATION: Two varieties Do not cultivate deeply around treeNursery.com. white bell-shaped flowers. are best, however blueberry the plants. Peat is an excellent In summer, the green leaves contrast with the blue berries, farmers get large crops in a single variety block. addition to the soil. They need to For Your Health be well watered the first summer and in the fall, the leaves turn red HARDINESS: Depends on vari- There is evidence that eating lots and thereafter will need some or yellow.When the leaves drop, ety, USDA Zones 3-10. of blueberries can reduce mem- moisture in arid summers. A light yellow or red branches appear. SUN OR SHADE: Full sun. ory loss and possibly reduce the surface application of organic Bushes can be used for hedges, LIFE EXPECTANCY: 80+ years risk of cardiovascular disease. fertilizer or ammonium sulfate in screens, foundation plantings, PLANT SPACING: Spacing, Cooked blueberries have even the spring is beneficial. If you live accent shrubs, and espaliers. same distance as the height of greater levels of antioxidants in areas with alkaline or neutral Any blueberries will thrive in a the plant. than fresh berries. Among soils; besides adding peat in the container. Try an 80% bark, 10% METHOD OF PROPAGATION: varieties testing very high in anti- hole when you plant try adding pumice, 10% peat mix. Softwood cuttings (hard to root) oxidants are Bluegold, Chandler, a foot deep of pine shavings Note: We offer dwarf selec- YIELD: 5 to 15 pounds per plant Darrow, Rubel, Elliott and Maine about three feet across and tions Top Hat, Northblue, Chip- depending on variety. Wild Blueberries. planting your blueberries higher. pawa, Pink Icing and Blueberry 5 REVEILLE NEW! Reveille has types. This plant has spectacular Choose early through great flavor and a wonderfully burgundy color in the fall. USDA late ripeners and harvest pleasing unique crisp, almost Zones 4-8. E275 (18-30” size): for up to 90 days! crunchy texture. It seems to have SOLD OUT a thicker skin than other cultivars BLUEGOLD Early Season Ripeners and anecdotal information from This blueberry Earliblue Top Hat Misty gardeners points to it being less produces very Bluecrop Sharpblue Polaris susceptible to the spotted winged heavy crops of Bluegold Spartan Reka drosophila fruit fly which lays eggs sweet, flavorful Brunswick Patriot in even firm fruit. More tests are needed. However its heavy pink fruit from early Mid-Season Ripeners spring blooms yield great crops of to mid-season. medium sized light blue colored The beautiful, Reveille Chippewa Hardiblue berries on an upright 5’ tall bush compact, Emerald Blueray Blueberry Glaze also making it a great hedge plant. rounded bush Olympia Toro Northblue It needs 600 chill hours and thrives grows only 4’ tall but bears large Rubel Chandler in the Pacific Northwest. USDA clusters of easy-to-pick berries. Zones 7-9. E279 (12-18” size): Unusual yellow fall foliage and Late Season Ripeners $16.50 each, 3+: $14.50 each yellow winter wood followed by Pink Legacy Aurora bright white spring flowers make Lemonade Sunshine Elliott Bluegold a year-round beauty. It Darrow Blue Cultivar for the South is among the more winter hardy Jersey Liberty & Pacific Northwest varieties. USDA Zones 4-8. E203 (18-30” size): $17.50 each, 3+: EMERALD™ E merald™ is an excellent choice for warmer areas, $14.50 each Extend Your Harvest because the Southern Highbush BLUERAY Select Blueray for its very large blueberries of superior flavor. by at Least a Month plants require only 250 chilling hours to produce record-setting Blueray performs well in many AURORASelected for its late quantities of very large blueberries. climates. It works in cold winters ripening, Aurora extends the Attractive bushes need little as well as areas with hot summers. blueberry harvest into early autumn. pruning to maintain good form and This upright open bush grows to Three to four pickings produce an moderate size (4-5’ tall and wide). 4-6’ tall with bright red and yellow extremely high yield of flavorful fruit. Berries with excellent flavor ripen fall color. USDA Zones 3-8. E211 Aurora grows to 6’ tall and develops early (May or June) in the South and (18-30” size): $17.50 each, 3+: deep red fall color. USDA Zones California, later (mid-July to early $14.50 each 201 (18-30” size): $17.50 4-8. E September) in the Northwest. USDA each, 3+: $14.50 each Zones 8-10.E224 (18-30” size): Put Your Yard in LIBERTY H eavy production of big Was $17.50 each. SALE! $14 each. berries with a nicely balanced, Mid-Season Form robust-juicy flavor make Liberty the Start Your Blueberry TOROA perfect most popular new blueberry. Fruit all-purpose plant ripens late season, and the upright Season Early for the backyard bushes, which grow to 8’ tall, make EARLIBLUE E arliblue is ripe a grower, this a stunning hedge in fall when the couple of weeks before any other stocky, strong foliage turns bright red/orange. variety. Enjoy the sweet juicy large bush grows 4-6’ USDA Zones 4-8. E246 (18-30” berries. The bush has an upright tall and is covered size): $17.50 each, 3+: $14.50 habit and grows to 4-6’ with bright in pink flowers each red fall color. USDA Zones 5-8. that turn white, contrasting nicely ELLIOTT E lliott can extend your E220: $17.50 each, 3+: $14.50 with bronze-colored spring foliage. blueberry season into September. each The leaves are large, wide and Pick it for 5 weeks. The berries REKA E njoy bountiful crops of early attractive. Toro sets heavy crops are medium size and flavorful season, medium-size, flavor-packed even in bad spring weather. The and particularly healthful. Elliott blueberries on this vigorous, fast berries ripen in late July and are is very productive and is rated growing variety. Developed in New large, firm and powder blue with among the highest of all varieties Zealand, it adapts well to a wide an outstanding, spritely flavor. The in antioxidants. The 4-6’ bush has range of northern climates and soil fall foliage and winter wood are an burgundy colored leaves and wood. attractive red. It grows well in USDA USDA Zones 4-8. E221 (18-30” Zones 4-8. E295 (18-30” size): size): $17.50 each, 3+: $14.50 each Some blueberries have proven $17.50 each, 3+: $14.50 each themselves in the Midwest and OLYMPIA Rarely available at World’s Largest East. Bluecrop leads the way nurseries, when others are less and Bluegold, Blueray, Chandler, successful this berry thrives. The Blueberries & Tasty, Too! Jersey, Patriot, Hardiblue, Elliott, fruit is large with a superb flavor. It CHANDLER Introducing one of Draper, Aurora and Liberty have ripens in late July. The vigorous and the world’s largest blueberries. also shown adaptability. highly productive bush is spreading, Chandler has a very long ripening 4-6’ tall and has light red wood season providing more than a and red leaves in fall. Developed month of sweet, firm, delicious, in Olympia, WA. USDA Zones 6-8. quarter-size fruit. These vigorous, 6 E270: SOLD OUT. upright bushes grow 5-6’ tall and CHIPPEWAThis blueberry makes a great compact edible ornamental. This release from the U of Minnesota grows to 3-4 feet tall and wide. A mature plant produces 4-7 pounds of large, light blue, excellent flavored berries. The foliage turns a fiery red each fall. USDA Zones 3-8. E255 (18-30” size): $17.50 each, 3+: $14.50 each provide consistently high yields. A (Vaccinium angustifolium) Often TOP HAT The most called Maine Wild Blueberries, high chill (700 hours) variety from dwarfing blueberry the New Jersey testing program, the deciduous bushes have waxy plant, it grows up to foliage that turns fiery orange each named for Jim Chandler, a Corvallis, 18” wide and high OR, grower. USDA Zones 6-9. E209 fall. It is the copious amounts of with many branches. delicious wild-flavored blueberries (18-30” size): $19.50 each, 3+: The berries are $15 each that make this the lobster of the wild medium size with plant world. They thrive in USDA DARROW Produces huge berries, excellent flavor. It is Zones 3-8 in both maritime and the size of a quarter. The bush great as a border, colder climates and do well in sandy grows 5-6’ tall, vigorous and rock garden or or clayey soils. Plants spread out via upright. A consistent heavy container plant for underground runners to become an producer of firm, light blue, tart those with limited edible mat. Each is self fertile with flavorful berries. A good choice in space. Its small leaves, gnarly trunk deliciously tart, light blue fruit. the Pacific NW. Ripens throughout and slow growth make it the best the month of August. USDA Zones edible bonsai plant. It needs sun to BRUNSWICK MAINEPictured at top. 5-8. E210 (18-30” size): Was ripen the fruit. USDA Zones 3-8. In From Nova Scotia, it grows only 1’ $17.50 each. SALE! $14 each 1 gallon pot.E290: Was $17.50 tall and has glossy green foliage each SALE! $14 each and delicious, pea-size blueberries. E205 (4” pot): $11.50 each, 6+: Great for Northern Gardens Wild $8.50 each PATRIOT If you require a cold hardy variety that bears consistent Blueberries In the Pink crops of large fruit, you Full of Antioxidents PINK will want this University LEMONADE of Maine selection. RUBEL Twice as high in This new The dark blue berries blueberry are highly flavored and antioxidants as other isn’t the 4-5’ tall bush spreads to 4’. It blue when ripe but instead a performs well in many soil types blueberries, and a great beautiful reddish pink. The including wet soils. Its showy berries are medium size, sweet white spring blossoms, dark green selection for the health and productive. The 4-5’ tall summer and fiery orange fall colors bushes ripen fruit in mid to make it a winner in the northern conscious. It was the first ever selected from late season followed by leaves landscape. USDA Zones 3-8. E278 turning a pretty yellow/orange (18-30” size): $17.50 each, 3+: the wild as a commercial variety. It was found in the Pinelands of in fall. Spring blooms are $14.50 each pinkish and winter twig color New Jersey in 1912. While it has long since been surpassed for is red, providing color in your Hardy Dwarf Blueberries size and ease of machine picking edible landscape in all seasons. by new varieties, its flavor and USDA Zones 5-9. E272 (18- Our winter-hardy dwarf blueberries 30” size): $18.50 each, 3+: grow great in a pot or planted in the health qualities are unequalled. It produces thousands of small-size $15.00 each ground. Also see our hardy dwarf Bushel and Berry™ blueberries on dark fruit of intense flavor, ideal for page 4. baking. It is a strong upright grower to 6’ tall and is a consistent mid to We offer 2-to-3-year-old, NORTHBLUE Northblue is a great late season producer and easy to landscape plant and proven well-rooted, bushy plants hand pick. E282: SOLD OUT. producer of quality fruit in cold 18- to 30-inches tall. climates. The fruit has a “wild” taste Raintree provides you with large 18-30” that is excellent for baking or fresh plants unless otherwise noted. These larger, eating. Northblue has survived winter temperatures to -35°F, Try a Blueberry Hedge! better-shaped plants will provide a usable blueberry crop one year or more sooner. They although production is maximized Liberty grows to 8 feet are ready to dig in and thrive for you. We have when snow protection is adequate. tall and makes a beautiful the Bluecrop, Jersey, Rubel and Olympia Northblue is recommended for varieties in an even-larger 2’-3’+ size. At our those desiring a higher yielding, edible hedge. For a hedge, garden center we offer mature bearing plants cold-hardy variety. USDA Zones space the plants 3 to 4 feet too big to ship. 3-8. E 262 (18-30” size): $17.50 apart. Our other varieties each, 3+: $14.50 each can make a shorter hedge. 7 Strawberries cial varieties here. Instead, choose among luscious June-bearing types and incredibly productive “day neutral” varieties that begin bearing in June and bear heavily from July until fall frosts. We also offer Musk, (Fragaria species) Raintree offers the most flavorful Lipstick and Alpine strawberries that make great ground strawberries that are also easy to grow and disease covers. All the varieties we offer are proven in the Pacific resistant. Don’t expect to find the flavorless commer- Northwest and most of the nation. The Best Day Neutrals raving about its excellent flavor, large size and disease resistance. the nation. Plants bear large crops of medium to large, firm, dark red Everbearing Strawberries are also Plants don’t need much chill to berries in late June every year. A called “day neutral” varieties be- set fruit, so berries ripen early delicious choice for award-winning cause they do not depend on day and continue to appear non-stop strawberry shortcake. USDA Zones length to initiate flowering. They over a long season, from June 6-10. E410: Each bundle of 25: produce fruit non-stop from June, to October. Proven successful $12.50; 3+ bundles: $10.00 each through summer and fall, all the in California and the Pacific way up until frost. These incredible BENTON S uper easy to grow, this Northwest, it is sure to entice variety tolerates wetter conditions producers will reward you with high gardeners in other parts of the yields of beautiful, scrumptious nation too. USDA Zones 7-10. and scoffs at disease problems. In strawberries longer than any other E 415: Bundle of 25: $12.50; 3+ late June, large, flavorful, bright red types. bundles: $10.00 strawberries offer both wonderful each fresh eating and good results for TRI STAR T his delicious, heavily freezing. USDA Zones 6-10. E400: productive berry is favored as the ALBION A lbion Each bundle of 25: $12.50; 3+ top variety through much of the has large, firm bundles: $10.00 each nation both for fresh eating and conical fruit with for freezing. Tri Star bears fruit the a sweet delicious PUGET CRIMSON T his late season first season and produces excellent flavor. Enjoy cultivar has outstanding flavor, is crops from June until frost. It is large harvests of productive and maintains large so popular that we sell more Tri- these delectible berries. Puget Crimson is a proven Stars than any other berry plants strawberries for winner for Northwest backyard and in the catalog. USDA Zones 4-10. many months in the summer and market gardeners. USDA Zones E420: Bundle of 25: $12.50; 3+ fall. Albion also resists verticillium 6-10. E406: Each bundle of 25: bundles: $10.00 each wilt, phytophthora crown rot $12.50; 3+ bundles: $10.00 each SEASCAPE E ach cluster of this and has some resistance to highly productive, anthracnose crown rot. It is Best for East and Midwest day neutral variety versatile, doing well in dry and hot EARLIGLO E njoy success with this produces an or cooler summer areas. USDA Zones 4-9. E 401: Bundle of 25: highly flavorful, disease resistant, impressive center $12.50; 3+ bundles: $10.00 early season strawberry that is berry that is ideal for each particularly useful in the Northeast dipping in chocolate. and upper Midwest where red stele All up and down EVERSWEET W ith outstanding flavor root rot can be a problem. Deep the West Coast, and adaptability, this new cultivar red berries are medium size and backyard strawberry is unique in its ability to produce very sweet, either eaten fresh or aficionados are prolific crops of large, intensely frozen. USDA Zones 5-9.E402: delicious berries, even when others Each bundle of 25: $12.50; 3+ fail because of high humidity and bundles: $10 each scorching temperatures. An ideal DAY NEUTRAL selection for the South or for JEWEL F ollow up an early season harvest from Earliglo with this REQUIREMENTS growing in a greenhouse. Drawing highly productive, mid-late season rave reviews, Eversweet will defy Plant by April 15 to get a good crop the expectations with non-stop crops of strawberry that succeeds reliably in first year. Keep mulched with compost sweet, luscious berries from spring the Northeast and upper Midwest. or manure. Plant one foot apart. One Plants are hardy and drought method is by poking plants through through fall. Perfect choice for the All Season Strawberry Planter tolerant with large, glossy, red black plastic. Remove the first blossoms berries that boast both fine flavor from the day neutrals. Remove the run- listed on page 10. Zone 6-10. E417: Bundle of 25: $12.50; 3+ and firmness. From Geneva N.Y. ners during the first season. Pruning off runners will give you larger berries. Keep bundles: $10.00 each PP5897. USDA Zones 5-9. E404: plants well watered if the summer is dry. Each bundle of 25: Was $12.50. SALE! $10 Add soil amendments before planting. If the foliage turns light green in late July The Best Backyard and August, this probably means your June Bearers Musk Strawberries day neutral plants need a small addition SHUKSAN Tops for both freezing of nitrogen to support their continu- Astonishingly delicious and highly and fresh eating, this flavorful fragrant, these heirloom strawber- ous-bearing habit. The June crop from variety performs the day neutrals will be light with small ries from Italy have fantastic flavor fruit. Expect heavy production from July consistently in the with hints of raspberry and pineap- through the summer and early fall. Northwest, and its ple. The sweet, soft fruits are round- winter hardiness er and smaller than more familiar makes it a good strawberries, but they send out 8 choice for most of runners and make a very effective We’ve Brought Back These Delicious Old Timers elongated, red berries with sweet flavor. First cultivated 250 years MARSHALL NEW! Famous food connoisseur ago in France, these Alpine natives James Beard called the June-bearing Marshall thrive in either sun or shade. Space the most delicious strawberry ever grown. one foot apart. 4” pots. E440: Discovered in Massachusetts before 1900, it was $5.50 each, 6+: $4.75 each grown commercially in the Pacific Northwest until the 1960’s when after being infected with viruses MIGNONETTE T hese exceptionally it was replaced by modern varieties. Our plants productive plants bear intensely are grown from virus-free stock from the USDA sweet fruit that is large for an alpine germplasm repository in Corvallis, OR. USDA type, up to an inch long. You will get Zones 5-9. 4-inch Pot. E470: $7.50 each plenty for fresh eating, for making HOLIDAY NEW! Long-time gardeners have asked us to bring back delicious pastries as they do in Holiday for its firmness and outstanding flavor. It was popular after France, or for dropping into glasses its introduction in 1972 and is a parent of Honeoye. Holiday is an of champagne. 4”pots.E445: early season vigorous grower that ripens in June and has large fruit, $5.50 each, 6+: $4.75 each bright red skin and light red flesh and was rot resistant and prized for YELLOW ALPINE The fruity freezing and fresh eating. 4 inch pot. USDA Zones 5-9. E475: $7.50 fragrance and sweet flavor of each these delicious berries is a scrumptious mixture of strawberry and pineapple. Similar in size and groundcov- RUSSIAN MALE MUSK 4” pot. growth habit to red Alpine varieties, er. Plants E433: $5.50 each these beauties are yellow with produce MUSK STRAWBERRY PACKAGE brownish seeds when ripe. 4” pots. lightly for Two each Profumata Di Tortona E450: $5.50 each, 6+: $4.75 the first and Capron and one each of the each 2-3 years, Male Musk and Russian Male Musk. WHITE ALPINE (Fragaria vesca var. then be- EMUSK: $30.00 come very albocarpa) Unlike other Alpines, productive, this variety produces runners and cropping Alpine Strawberries makes an excellent groundcover or heavily, (Fragaria container plant in sun or dappled though vesca) shade. The 8” tall plants bear a light briefly, in June. Raintree offers Exception- crop of small, sweet, creamy-white American gardeners male musk ally win- berries from spring till frost. Native strawberries that should increase ter hardy to mountainous regions, it is not production of Profumata and plants bear the best choice for areas with hot, Capron, which generate mostly fe- heavily humid summers. USDA Zones 5-10. male flowers. Plant 18” apart. Zones from June 4” pots.E444: $5.50 each, 6+: 5-10. 4” pots. through $4.75 each PROFUMATA DI TORTONA Berries October. GOLDEN ALEXANDRIA NEW! are slightly larger than those of Although A beautiful compact edible Capron. 4” pots. E430: $5.50 they pro- groundcover with lime green and each, 6+: $4.75 each duce no gold foliage. Enjoy its bright red, runners, plants will reseed to form flavorful fruits from summer through CAPRON Plants are slightly more a dense, edible groundcover. USDA fall. The round fruit is sweeter than productive than Profumata plants, Zones 3-9 unless otherwise noted. most alpine strawberries. The and they also produce a small fall RUGEN ALPINEBeautiful, upright plants are great grown in pots or crop. 4” pots. E435: $5.50 each, plants, about 8” tall, are exceptional in the ground as a groundcover or 6+: $4.75 each additions to the edible landscape, edging plant. USDA Zones 3-9. 4 MALE MUSK Planting one male in rockeries, border plantings and inch pot.E458: $5.50 each, 6+: plant for up to five females will other sites where they will fill in $4.75 each increase fruit harvest substantially. and cover an area quickly. The 4” pot. E 432: $5.50 each everbearing plants produce ¾”, ALPINE STRAWBERRY PACKAGE Two Rugen, one Yellow, one Golden Alexandria, one Mignonette and How To Use Strawberries RIPENING: “June” bearers in June one White. EALPINE: $27.00 through July; day neutrals from June IN THE LANDSCAPE: Use in planters, though early fall. hanging baskets, borders, ground covers, raised beds. Easy to grow for the beginner. PROPAGATION: Seeds or runners. PLANT A BIG STRAWBERRY FRUITING LIFE OF THE PLANT: 2-3 PATCH & SAVE! Useful Facts years (Best to replant day neutrals after 2 years.) Alpines, musks and Lipstick last Tri-Star, Seascape, Eversweet, Jewel, Earli- POLLINATION: Self-fertile unless noted. many years. glo, Shuksan, P. Crimson, Albion or Benton. HARDINESS: Our June bearers are hardy Mix & match 5 or more bundles of 25: $9.50 to -15°F. Tri Star, Lipstick and Alpine straw- berries are hardy to at least -30°F. How To Grow each; 10 or more bundles of 25: $8.50 each; 25 or more bundles: $7.50 each. SUN OR SHADE: Full sun unless noted. SOIL REQUIREMENTS: Rich, well YIELD: ½-1lb. per plant. drained, high in organic matter, pH of 5-6. SPACING: 12” apart; in rows 18” apart. If drainage is poor, plant on mounds. 9 Strawberries for strawberries to thrive. Apply 1/2 pound per ten feet of row or ten Grow Dwarf Your Landscape square feet of bed. Instructions Raspberries in a Pot PINK PANDA NEW!Makes a thick, included. 5 lb. Bag. T140: $15 RASPBERRY SHORTCAKE™ For attractive ornamental spreading each; Any 4 bags of fertilizer those of you with limited space, groundcover strawberry with $11.50 each this dwarf raspberry plant is ideal lush green foliage and bright pink for container growing. It grows repeating flowers throughout the spring and summer. Plants produce a few small tasty red strawberries. It Cranberries only 2-3’ tall with a compact growth habit. It is thornless and produces an abundance of full-size is also beautiful in pots and window (Vaccinium sweet, flavorful red raspberries boxes. From England, a Potentilla macrocarpon) each summer. Your family will love palustris, strawberry cross. USDA You don’t need harvesting healthful fruit right Zones 4-8. 4” pots. E465: $5.00 a bog to grow from your patio and no trellising or each American cran- staking is needed. It will spread to LIPSTICK Similar berries. Just fill any pot no matter the shape. Like to Pink Panda, this make a well other floricane summer raspberries, beautiful edible drained bed. If once fruiting is finished, prune out ornamental has lovely you don’t have canes at the base that have fruited bright pink flowers good drainage you can add peat or leaving new canes to fruit the next from spring through sand. Cranberries need a very acid- season. USDA Zones 5-9. One- fall. Hardy to USDA ic soil and need to be well watered, quart pot. E360: $19.95 each, 3+: Zones 4-10, Lipstick like their relatives the blueberries. If $17.50 each; 6+: $15 each thrives in sun or temperatures dip below 10°F, plants shade, spreading rapidly by runners. need a heavy mulch to protect next July Bearers With Great Space 1’ to 1 �’ apart. 4” pots. E463: years fruiting wood. Plant one foot $5.00 each, 6+: $4.50 each apart in rows two feet apart. The Flavor WILD STRAWBERRY (Fragaria evergreen foliage has a reddish TULAMEEN T his chiloensis) Our Northwest native cast. The small profuse flowers are extraordinary groundcover makes a lush compact reddish pink. A beautiful, self-fertile introduction from mat with white flowers but not many ground cover. USDA Zones 3-9. British Columbia berries. Foliage is green, tinged with STEVENS CRANBERRY A productive produces red in the fall. Full sun or partial shade. self-fertile cultivar, selected for its enormous, light red, USDA Zones 5-9. 4” pots. E443: large deep red berries, and light aromatic fruit with $5.00 each, 6+: $4.50 each green foliage. Cranberries are very a wonderful flavor. Besides berries high in antioxidants. It is a great that are 25% bigger than Meeker, edible ornamental groundcover. Tulameen uniquely extends the Strawberry Supplies Plant it in the ground; or in hanging summer raspberry season through ALL SEASON baskets or planters for a delicate July and August, producing for STRAWBERRY cascading effect. 4” pot. G040: up to 50 days. It is a great find for PLANTER Grow lots $9.50 each, 6+: $7.50 each backyard growers who can provide of the best tasting well drained soil. USDA Zones 6-9. strawberries in a small space. The late Tom Wood Raspberries E391: $5.50 each; Pkg of 5: $20; 3+ pkgs of 5: $16.50 each pkg MEEKER For many years, this very designed each (Rubus idaeus) The best way to productive, easy-to-grow, late planter with a full have an abundance of raspberries is season variety has set the standard length drip tube to grow them yourself. Raspberries in our region for raspberry flavor inside. Fill a planter are easy to grow, and the rewards that is equally good for fresh eating, with potting soil. of growing them at home range freezing and juice. Plants produce Then hook one or from enormous cost savings to im- manageable canes and a bountiful a series of planters proved health. Freshly picked, ripe harvest each July. Eat plenty for to each other and to a garden hose. raspberries are among the most high quantities of cancer-fighting Instructions included. T295 (3’ delicious culinary treats available. Ellagitannin. Botrytis resistant. planter, holds up to 50 plants): USDA Zones 5-9 unless noted. We USDA Zones 6-9. E381: $5.50 $39.95, 4 for $120; T297 (4½’ offer stocky, well-rooted, virus-free each; Pkg of 5: $20; 3+ pkgs of planter, holds up to 75 plants): plants. 5: $16.50 each pkg $65, 4 for $170 GROW THE BEST STRAWBERRIES y Louise Riotte, 31 pages. Learn B when, how and where to plant and care for your strawberry plants from Mix or match any 18 4-inch pots and save $18! this Garden Way booklet. S200: $3.95 Flats of 18 are less expensive to ship, and we pass that savings on to ORGANIC CANEBERRY & you! When ordering online, please note the 18-pack savings in the STRAWBERRY FERTILIZERHelp Order Comments box. The discount will NOT automatically show on your raspberries, blackberries and your order! We will deduct your discount when we confirm your order by email. 10 AUTUMN BRITTEN A very flavorful Golden Raspberry and particularly early everbearing red raspberry, Autumn Britten ANNE GOLDEN thrives in the Pacific Northwest NEW! A New and is rated as the best raspberry Golden Prize! The for the upper Midwest. Plants bear exquisite flavor large crops of big, exceptionally of this beautiful, flavorful, firm, red berries that golden fruit has start ripening before Caroline hints of apricot, and a month before Heritage and making this first continue through fall. It is both year/primocane raspberry a special Northern cold hardy and tolerant treat. Fruit ripens from August of heat in the South. E335: $5.50 through frost. USDA Zones 5-9. each; Pkg of 5: $20; 3+ pkgs of E355: $5.50 each plant, Pkg of 5 5: $16.50 each pkg plants: $20; 3+ pkgs of 5 plants: $16.50 each CAROLINE V igorous and full of healthful nutrients and antioxidants, this heavy yielding, red raspberry Rooting for the produces loads of delicious fruit on Purple and Black primocanes from late August until JEWEL BLACK L arge, glossy black fall. Proven successful from coast raspberries boast a flavor that to coast, Caroline responds well is richer than that of the red and to warm summer temperatures by yellow types, so they are delicious April Doolittle smiles at the perfect- ripening earlier. The delicious fruit eaten out is large, red and firm. (PP# 10412) of hand and Black raspberries ly aligned everbearing raspberries E320: $5.50 each; Pkg of 5: $20; (she got plants from Raintree) on they make are rated 11% higher 3+ pkgs of 5: $16.50 each pkg outstanding in antioxidants than her son Peter’s wedding cake. POLKA This everbearing red preserves blueberries. They rate raspberry from Poland is famous and pies. very high in anthocy- CASCADE DELIGHTBecause for its excellent sweet flavor, heavy Bushes are anin and vitamins A, C, Cascade Delight shows outstanding yields, firmness, disease resistance larger than resistance to root rot, it will thrive E and folic acid. and vigorous, and upright growing other types in wetter gardens where other habit, which makes it successful too, as well varieties have failed. Similar over a wide range of climates in as vigorous and highly productive. in season and productivity to Europe and the U.S. Its fall crop Each will grow to 7’ tall and will Tulameen, this variety boasts big, ripens early, substantially extending bend over and root at the tips. To firm, delicious berries. Expect the harvest season. Favored for prevent this, pinch or prune the a heavy yield of berries with an fresh eating and freezing. It is one tips each summer when they reach intense, traditional raspberry flavor, of the best raspberry introductions beginning in July and continuing for 5’ tall. Although many blacks are a month or more. USDA Zones 6-9. in recent years! considered more disease prone E325: $5.50 each; Pkg of 5: $20; E367: $5.50 each; Pkg of 5: $20; than reds, Jewel is quite disease 3+ pkgs of 5: $16.50 each pkg 3+ pkgs of 5: $16.50 each plug. resistant. Space plants about 3’ ROSANNA U navailable elsewhere, apart. USDA Zones 4-8. E364R: $7.50 each; Pkg of 5: $30 Everbearing Raspberries the sweet, superb flavor of this raspberry from Italy has been PROHIBITED TO CA Need No Trellis compared to candy and has ROYALTY PURPLE The large fruit Everbearing raspberries, also called generated tremendous excitement. of this highly vigorous, productive primocanes, produce fruit on one Expect an abundant harvest of big, purple raspberry from New York and two year old canes, so instead bright red berries ripens on 5’ tall state offers a unique, delicious, of trellising, cut canes a few inch- canes in July. In warm climates, sweet flavor and aroma. When es above the ground each winter. prune plants as everbearers, ripe, berries turn from red to Starting the following August and cutting canes a few inches above purple. USDA Zones 4-8. E397: continuing until frost, plants will pro- ground in late fall and primocanes $5.50 each; Pkg of 5: $20; duce crops of delicious fruit each set a fall crop. USDA Zones 5-9. 4” E3974 (4-inch pot): $5.50 each year, even the first season. pots. E3614: $8.50 each PROHIBITED TO OR & CA. Caroline, Meeker Raspberries Rated Highest for Health Raspberries (as well as blueberries and black currants) contain especially high levels of antioxidants, which are known cancer-fighting agents. Caroline contains about 50% more antioxidants than other raspberry vari- eties, Caroline was also found to be 20-44% higher in beta-carotene, 27-43% higher in vitamin A, 16-77% higher in vitamin E and 25-48% higher in vitamin C according to Ohio State University studies. Recent clinical tests conducted at Medical University of South Carolina and dozens of other prestigious research centers, have shown that ellagitannin, a phytochemical found naturally in high quantities in raspberries, can help pre- vent cancer and inhibit the growth of cancer cells. Meeker was found to be the best source of this element. 11 Groundcover Raspberries A Rare Himalayan Native for Northern Growers ALL FIELD RUBUS LINEATUS NEW!An attractive Himalayan native, these Blackberries BERRY rare, 5’ tall bushes have beautiful (Rubus species) Why grow black- (Rubus glossy leaves and produce small berries when they grow wild along articus x tasty red fruit. USDA Zones 8-10. 4” roadways and paths? The cultivated stellarticus) pot. E315: $8.50 each varieties we offer are easy to grow, Rarely they produce reliably huge loads of seen in Native Berry Bushes fruit and they have delicious differ- ences in flavor. Not only that, but we the United States, these super hardy THIMBLEBERRY have many varieties without thorns! groundcover raspberries were (Rubus parviflorus) Raintree offers one-year, well-root- developed in Sweden. Thick This Northwest ed vines that will grow rapidly. Un- raspberry foliage grows only one native, related less stated, they may be bare root foot tall each spring and dies to the raspberry, or potted plants. BLACKBERRIES completely back to the ground each produces small, ARE PROHIBITED TO HI. winter, only to resprout vigorously bright red fruit from the roots the next spring. shaped like the top of a thimble. In Therefore, the potted plants which spring, white, 1” fragrant flowers Grow Dwarf we offer may be without top foliage appear on the erect, thornless 4-6’ Blackberries in a Pot if purchased in winter. The pink bush, and in summer the harvest of BABY CAKES™ THORNLESS fragrant flowers and juicy, delicious rich, tangy fruit arrives. Plants thrive BLACKBERRY NEW! Finally you bright aromatic berries add to its in full or partial shade. USDA Zones can grow flavorful thornless landscape attraction. The fruit 4-9. E 305: $13.50 each, 3+: blackberries in a pot without ripens over about 6 weeks starting $10.50 each in July and looks ripe before it is a trellis. Baby Cakes, a new ready to pick! Wait until it separates SALMONBERRY (Rubus spectabilis) introduction, is a dwarf, thornless easily from the plant to harvest. The Loads of beautiful pink flowers ripen blackberry perfect for container plants are fully hardy since they are into golden fruit earlier than any gardening. It grows to only 3-4’ tall a hybrid of Alaskan and Swedish other berries in Pacific Northwest with a pleasing rounded compact arctic raspberries. They appreciate forests. The fruit, which resembles habit. In summer, large, sweet a well drained soil and full sun. Plant raspberries, is very mild, but blackberries ripen on top of the at 1-2’ spacing and weed and water passing hikers and birds enjoy it. plant. In regions without very high well to get the plants established. Grow the 6’ tall and wide bushes prolonged summer heat, this It will take 3 years to start fruiting. (not canes) in partial shade or full blackberry will also produce a Plant at least two varieties for sun. Watch out for prickly stems. flavorful fall primocane crop. USDA pollination. All varieties are very Hardy to USDA Zones 4-9. E310: Zones 4-8. E512: $19.95 each, 3+: similar. 4” pots.G220S Sophia: $13.50 each, 3+: $10.50 each $16.50 each $7.50 each; G220V Valentina $7.50 each; G220A Anna: $7.50 each; G220B Beta: $7.50 each; G220K All Field Berry Six Pack How To Use Raspberries How To Grow (includes all four varieties): $36 IN THE LANDSCAPE: Use for hedges or SOIL REQUIREMENTS: Lots of organic fence rows. The colorful berries beautify matter and good drainage. They cannot NAGOON BERRY your landscape and fruit salads. Try three take wet feet. If you have wet ground, T hese plants were everbearing plants in a large pot on your plant them on a mound, 18” above the collected near Juneau, deck or plant a pot with the dwarf Bush- water table. Cascade Delight, Anne and Alaska. Because of el and Berry™ Raspberry Shortcake™ Autumn Britten do better than the others their excellent flavor, variety. on wetter sites. Nagoon berries are CULTURAL REQUIREMENTS: Plant with a favorite for eating Useful Facts well rotted manure and fertilize the fol- fresh, making jelly or POLLINATION: Self-pollinating. lowing spring with more manure. Provide wine. They are closely SIZE AT MATURITY: 4-6 ft. Bushel and adequate moisture during the growing related to R. articus and considered Berry™ Raspberry Shortcake™ 2-3 ft. season. to be a form of that species. The HARDINESS: Hardy to at least -20°F, de- PRUNING JULY BEARERS: Prune out spineless groundcover grows to 6” pending on variety. Everbearers are hardy second-year canes in the fall after they tall. The plant has attractive pink in most of the nation if cut to the ground are through fruiting. Don’t prune out new flowers and produces small, very each fall and mulched. USDA Zones 5-9 shoots since they will produce fruit the fol- flavorful, red, raspberry like fruit ripe unless otherwise noted. lowing year. Raspberries make excellent in August. The flowers are either male SUN: Full sun. hedges or fence rows and benefit from or female with both sexes eventually SPACING: 20” between plants in rows 5 feet apart. trellising. present in the same plant. Grow in a PRUNING EVERBEARERS: Caroline, PROPAGATION: Cutting or digging up good well-drained loamy soil in sun plants that come up from the roots out- Autumn Britten, Anne, Polka and Rosanna or semi-shade. This plant is smaller side of the established rows. bear on one and two year old wood. Prune than R. articus and has smaller fruits. FRUITFUL LIFE: Replace every 10-15 or mow the canes each winter to get a free 4” pots. G223: $9.50 each, 6+: $8 years as they decline in productivity. standing fall crop without using a trellis. each YIELD: Up to 2 lbs. per foot of row. Or prune like a July bearer and get both a BEARING AGE: 1-2 years. July and a fall crop. 12 Support Needed Enjoy Delicious to Eat Them All Marion Flavor TRIPLE CROWN THORNLESS BLACK DIAMOND THORNLESS T his cultivar can produce 30 (NZ9128-R) This thornless selection lbs. of large, very sweet, shiny was bred in New Zealand and blackberries per plant, making introduced by Oregon State it, with Chester, by far the most University in 2005. It is disease productive. Fruit has superb resistant, easy to grow, very flavor both eaten fresh and productive and firm and is prized for used to make jelly, toppings or making jams. It has Marionberry- juice. Vigorous canes, up to 2” like flavor but with larger, firmer and in diameter and 15’ long, thrive of course thornless berries. Harvest in areas of the country too for up to a month each July. USDA cold for other blackberries and Harvest the First Year! Zones 6-9. 4”pot. E573: $8.50 produce huge crops in July and each, 6+: $6.50 each early August. Grow it as a vining PRIME ARK® FREEDOM blackberry. Cut new canes the THORNLESSUnlike other MARIONBERRY A lthough thorny, first summer when they reach blackberries, this unique upright, Marionberry has such an incredible, 6’ tall and snip the laterals back free standing “primocane” rich flavor that many people prefer to 2’ long in winter. With this blackberry bears ON FIRST it to any other berry for eating out of method, use a 3’ spacing and a YEAR CANES, like everbearing hand and for making superb pies, top wire to tie the upright canes. raspberries do. Allow the jellies or juices. Plants consistently USDA Zones 5-9. 4” pot. E 588: blackberries to grow for a season. produce heavy crops of high quality $8.50 each, 6+: $6.50 each; Then each winter, cut the canes just fruit starting in July and continuing E588R (bareroot): $8.50 each above the ground and allow them to for several weeks. USDA Zones 7-9. grow back. In September through Bareroot E572R: $8.50 each CHESTER THORNLESS To extend the harvest, plant Chester, which starts the fall, simply harvest the fruit or, its huge production right when Triple if you wish, like with raspberries, Wild Berries Tamed Crown leaves off. Very large, flavorful you can allow the canes to grow for WILD TREASURE THORNLESS An berries start ripening in August and a second incredible find from Oregon State an extremely heavy production year University researchers: the wild continues all the way until frost. Very and they meets the thornless. This cross similar to Triple Crown, fruit is borne will also between the wild Cascade trailing on vigorous, thornless canes that produce blackberry and the thornless resist cane blight. Plants fruit well in a crop Waldo blackberry combines the warm weather but don’t fully ripen in in July. best qualities of both. Berries, cold maritime autumns. USDA Zones Prime which are smaller than Waldos 5-9. 4” pot. E525: $8.50 each, 6+: Ark® but bigger than Cascades, are so $6.50 each thrives in the Pacific NW and as far sweet, delicious and numerous north as central Minnesota and that they have amazed and won Freestanding! No New York. It is a low chill selection, every tasting panel. The self-fertile, however it doesn’t produce well early ripening plants are vigorous, Support Needed in places like the deep South, disease tolerant and thornless. Now grow loads of delicious, where summer temperatures are Wild Treasure will make a winning thornless blackberries easily ei- consistently above 90°F. Plants are addition to the garden, its fruit ther with or without a trellis. These hardy in the winter to 10°F or below prized for fresh eating and baking. large, round berries are scrumptious, zero if cut back to the ground and Wild Treasure retains excellent juicy and abundant. Plant them 2-3’ heavily mulched. The large, very flavor of the wild berry and has the apart for an edible hedge. To grow sweet berries ripen in June or July highest nutritional content of all the them as freestanding plants, allow and again in September. Plant in a blackberries we offer. USDA Zones the erect thornless cane to reach 4’ row 2-3’ apart. USDA Zones 6-9. 4” 7-9. 4” pot. E545: $9.50 each, 6+: tall in the summer, then tip it back to pot. E574: $9.50 each, 6+: $7.50 $7.50 each encourage fruiting laterals. The fol- each lowing spring, tip the laterals back at 2’ lengths and watch the luscious fruit Early Season Mid Season form. In winter, simply cut out canes Super Flavor Later Obsidian Boysenberry that have finished fruiting, and get in the Season Loganberry Marionberry ready for your next crop. Fruit grows on canes that grew the previous ONYX TRAILING O nyx is a trailing Apache Triple Crown season. USDA Zones 6-9. Apache blackberry from the OSU breeding Wild Treasure Black Diamond Thornless and Prime Ark® Freedom program in Corvallis, Oregon. It was Thornless are patented from the Uni- selected for its superior flavor in Tayberry versity of Arkansas. the late season. Onyx is a vigorous, Late Season Cascade Trailing APACHE THORNLESS Pictured at somewhat erect, thorny, trailing Loch Ness Cascade top, this upright, thornless selection blackberry that produces moderate Chester produces a heavy load of large, yields of uniform, firm, sweet and very high-quality fruit. 4-inch pot. Prime Ark® Freedom flavorful fruit that ripens in late June. 4” pot. E505: $8.50 each, 6+: E557: $11.50 each, 6+: $8.50 $6.50 each each 13 CASCADE TRAILING (Rubus ursinus) Great Scots! Every summer from Alaska to Some of the most productive and How To Use Northern California, fruit lovers in the know pick and trip over these delicious blackberries were de- Blackberries sweet, especially tasty, native trailing veloped in the cool climate of the IN THE KITCHEN: Make cobblers, blackberries. We offer a selection Scottish Crops Research Institute pancakes, pies, mousses, sauces and of found by Mike Maki that is among in Invergowrie. They have proven course, jams, jellies and wine. the biggest and sweetest ever found, widely adaptable in the U.S. IN THE LANDSCAPE: Use as a barrier although still small. Grow them on a hedge or trellised on a fence. Grow the trellis, so they won’t be underfoot and LOCH NESS Try this new, richly tart, dwarf Babycakes™ or other freestanding so you can pick lots of fruit which is thornless Scottish blackberry for cultivars in a pot. otherwise only available in the wild its monstrously large, shiny black and fetches a very high price! We fruit. Semi-erect canes are highly Useful Facts offer female plants that need to be productive and can be grown like POLLINATION: Self-pollinating, except pollinized. Unless you have a wild raspberries, with little support. for Cascade Trailing. trailing male in the neighborhood, HARDINESS: (See varietal descriptions) Space canes 6’ apart. Expect a In very cold winter areas, a way to make also plant Tayberry or Cascade. big crop of fruit that ripens late USDA Zones 7-9. 4” pot. E520: all varieties much hardier is to lay the for a blackberry, in August and canes on the ground and cover them in $8.50 each, 6+: $6.50 each September complementing the late fall with soil, snow or a thick mulch. CASCADE Thought to be a cross earlier varieties. USDA Zones 5-9. Uncover them in the early spring. between Loganberry and wild E550R (Bareroot 2 year canes): HARVEST TIME: August through Sep- Cascade trailing blackberry (which $8.50 each tember, Chester through October. it will pollinate), this berry was a PROPAGATION: Cuttings, tip layering. very popular backyard crop 40 TAYBERRY LIFE EXPECTANCY: 6 to 25 years years ago, but it has long since This heavy- BEARING AGE: 2 years; Prime Ark 1 been unavailable. Many still ask for bearing year. it, because of an unmatched wild PLANT SPACING: Each variety differs in backyard vigor. Plant 6-8’ apart unless otherwise trailing blackberry flavor, higher winner, noted. Boysenberry 5’; Tayberry 4’. All productivity. and much larger size. a cross vines can be tied to a trellis. All except Fruit ripens in July. USDA Zones between Tayberry can also be wrapped around a 7-9. 4” pot. E515: $8.50 each, 6+: blackberry wire. $6.50 each EXPOSURE: Sun or partial shade. and YIELD: 10-30 pounds per plant. raspberry, Delicious Raspberry/ was SOIL REQUIREMENTS: Wide range of soils. Will tolerate some poor drainage. Blackberry Crosses developed PESTS AND DISEASES: Few. BOYSENBERRY A distinctly tart, in Scotland. Vigorous, arching, CULTURAL REQUIREMENTS: Prune juicy cross between blackberry thorny canes produce large, out all canes in the autumn after they flavorful berries that are very long, bear fruit. Blackberries, except Prime and red raspberry, these large, Ark bears only on last year’s growth. red-black berries mature at up to narrow and reddish black when Train on wires or fences, except the free 2” long. The harvest of delicious, ripe. Tayberry can be grown in standing cultivars. aromatic fruit continues to ripen for a sprawling clump, like a black TRAINING: Keep the canes off the up to two months. Try eating them raspberry. USDA Zones 5-9. E585R ground to make care easier. Keep the fresh with cream or baking into a (Bareroot): $8.50 each new vines and the two year old bearing spectacular pie—exceptional. Trellis vines separate so you can prune off and the trailing, vigorous canes. USDA remove them after they bear. See own- Zones 6-10. 4” pot.E510: $8.50 Caneberry Supplies er’s manual that comes with each order. each, 6+: $6.50 each; E510R (1- 2’ bareroot plant): $8.50 each BERRY WIREWe offer 14 For Your Health gauge soft galvanized wire THORNLESS to trellis your kiwis, grapes, Many varieties of blackberries have LOGANBERRY espaliers or berries. Minimum more anthocyanins than blueberries. The thornless They are also high in fiber. Wild Treasure, order 200 feet. T070: 15 Chester, Logan, Boysenberries and Logan is thought cents a foot. T070R (2,900’ to be a wild Marionberries are among those rated roll): $160 highest in nutritive values. cross between a blackberry and BERRIES, RASP & BLACK 3 1 a red raspberry. pages. Learn how to grow and Mix or match Plants are only prune them. S 040: $3.95 about half as ORGANIC CANEBERRY & productive as STRAWBERRY FERTILIZER any 18 4-inch either Marionberry or Tayberry. Help your raspberries, The large, flavorful fruit has a blackberries and strawberries unique quality that is highly prized. to thrive. Apply 1/2 pound per ten feet of row or ten square pots and Many people prefer the flavor to all others. USDA Zones 6-10. E560R feet of bed. Instructions (Bareroot 2 year canes): $8.50 included. 5 lb. Bag. T140: each $15 each; Any 4 bags of 14 fertilizer $11.50 each save $18! Lingonberry Facts Lingonberries POLLINATION: Partially self-fertile. Two varieties improve pollination. (Vaccinium vitis-idaea) We have the SIZE & PLANT SPACING: Average one best European cultivars! Scandi- foot height and spacing. navians love these fantastic edible HARDINESS: Lingonberries can with- stand arctic temperatures. In very severe evergreen ground covers that pro- climates they can be covered with peat or duce delicious cranberry-like berries sawdust in the winter. great for sauces, jellies and cooking. USDA Zones 3-8. They are attractive, easy-to-grow HARVEST TIME: Late fall. plants with bright red fruits the size of SUN OR SHADE: Semi-shade, full sun in a blueberry. cool summer areas. RED PEARL Red Pearl is productive FIRST FRUIT: 2 years. and the easiest to grow! This variety with lush foliage, a small crop of pea YIELD: 1/2 to 1 pound per plant. is selected in Holland for its tasty size fruit and bright pink blooms. 4” fruit, vigorous growth and brilliant pots.G1404: $12.50 each How To Grow green foliage. It is a great pollenizer. SOIL REQUIREMENTS: pH below 5.8. Grows to 16” tall. 4” pots.G130: Lingonberry Supplies Needs good drainage. $10.50 each, 6+: $9.00 each, 18+ SWEDISH LINGONBERRY RAKE CULTURAL REQUIREMENTS: Plant in $8.00 each very well made red plastic rake A soil well mixed with peat. Mulch with 3 to 4 inches of sawdust. Don’t over water. Don’t IDA Ida sports large flavorful berries that makes picking lingonberries, cultivate as the roots are just below the and produces two crops a year, one huckleberries, currants and other surface. in mid summer and again in late fall. small fruit easy. Rake it over the It is a vigorous growing compact branch and the berries fall into the bush that grows to only 8” tall. 4” container. It will pots.G136: $12.50 each, 6+: save you hours of in large, flat-topped clusters in June $10.00 each picking. Imported and are used in cooking and cos- BALSGARD This heavy bearing from Sweden. metics. Each is in a 1 gallon pot. commercial variety from the T300: $24.50 Swedish University of Agriculture each has large fruit which is very flavorful CHILDREN’S Cultivars for Fruit and easy to grow! Grows to 8” tall. BERRY PICKER Production 4” pots.G135: $12.50 each, 6+: RAKEJust like HASCHBERG(Sambucus nigra) We $10.00 each the Swedish found this heavy bearing Austrian REGAL NEW! A vigorous ornamental Lingonberry rake variety in Switzerland. The black upright plant that grows up to 15 but about half size. berries form in very large clusters inches tall with a two foot spread. It will enable a half on long stems. The bush is vigorous It produces both an abundant pint to pick a half pint or more. T307: and spreading, growing to about summer and a late fall crop of bright $14.50 each 10’ tall. It combines the flavor and red fruit that gets quite sweet when LEAF & STEM SHAKING TRAY P lace medicinal qualities of the wild fully ripe. Developed by the U. of lingon, blue or other berries in this European black elder with heavy Wisconsin from open pollinated sturdy plastic 13” round, 2” high production and larger fruit.E053: seed from Finland. USDA Zones red sieve with slotted bottom. Then $18.50 each, 3+ $15 each 3-8. 4” pots.G137: $12.50 each, shake. Most of the leaves and stems 6+: $10.00 each shake out the bottom. Imported KORSOR from Sweden. T305: $9.50 each (Sambucus KORALLE NEW! Most popular and nigra) Top rated productive lingonberry in Europe. It produces pea sized fruit along the length of the stem and even fruits the first year. Its growth habit is Elderberries commercial variety in Europe prized for its nutraceutical (Sambucus species) Elderberries (medicinal) upright and bushy and it is slower qualities. to spread by rhizomes than other are the easiest to grow and care for of all the fruits and probably the Very similar to selections. USDA Zones 3-8. 4” Haschberg and pots.G150: $12.50 each, 6+: most consistently productive. Allesso. Korsor will $10.00 each grow to about 8’ tall and produces SCARLET NEW! S carlet is a Edible European Elders masses of dark blue berries. E033: beautiful edible and ornamental (Sambucus nigra) Each S. Nigra $18.50 each, 3+: $15 each groundcover that grows to only 4-8 variety listed will pollinate and must SAMPO ( Sambucus nigra) This lush inches tall Scarlet produces large be pollinated by another S. nig- Danish variety is being planted quantities of medium size, tasty red ra cultivar to produce fruit. These commercially in Sweden and berries on its branch tips and is also sprawling bushes have been used Germany. It bears large crops of a great pollinizer for other cultivars. in Europe, western Asia, and North flavorful, healthful fruit among the USDA Zones 3-8. 4” pots.G138: Africa for millenia. They can grow to dark green foliage. Grows to about $12.50 each, 6+: $10.00 each 15’ or more but are easily pruned 10’ in sun or partial shade. E023: DWARF LINGONBERRY (V. vitis- and kept at about 8’ tall. They are $18.50 each, 3+: $15 each idaea minus) It grows only about 6” beautiful in all seasons. Creamy, tall but densely covers the ground usually white, scented flowers grow 15 SAMDAL ( Sambucas nigra) beautiful coppery-red turning bright and mouth puckering. But sweet This Danish cultivar produces yellow. As the season progresses, varieties are wonderful for fresh large clusters of flavorful, black leaves take on shades of limey eating, and Raintree offers out- elderberries that ripen in August green. Its dynamic presence standing Canadian and European and make luscious jam or wine. brightens a shady corner. Not a cultivars not usually available in the Each year, long shoots sprout from pollinizer. It produces red berries U.S. Gooseberries generally ripen in the ground; the following season, which should not be eaten raw. July. They grow slowly at the nurs- they bear fruit high in antioxidants. E054: $18.50 each, 3+: $15 each ery. We offer well-rooted, one-year USDA Zones 5-8. E020: $18.50 bushes. USDA Zones 3-8 unless each, 3+: $15 each Eastern Elders Bred otherwise noted. ALESSO (Sambucus nigra) This lush Danish variety is being planted for Fruit Quality JEANNE Jeanne is a sweet full commercially in Europe. It bears (Sambucus canadensis) These flavored, very large crops of flavorful, healthful similar varieties are hybrids of the productive new fruit among the dark green foliage. eastern North American Elderberry dark red dessert Grows to about 10’ in sun or partial selected for sweeter, larger, tastier gooseberry with shade. USDA Zones 5-9. E052: berries. These ornamental compact multiple disease $18.50 each, 3+: $15 each shrubs grow 6-10’ tall and need 8’ resistance. spacing. The large clusters of fruit It is the most ripen in August and make great resistant to powdery mildew of any Beautiful Edible pies, wine and jam. We offer well cultivar and is also very resistant Ornamentals rooted plants. Zones 4-9. Select to White Pine Blister Rust. It shows two varieties for pollination. PRO- less defoliation from sawflies than BLACK LACE(Sambucus nigra) HIBITED TO CA. Black Lace has beautiful dark red/ do other gooseberry cultivars. purple foliage that is finely cut like ADAMS P roduces the largest fruit. Jeanne ripens and blooms late, a Japanese maple. Enjoy the pink Sweet, purple and productive. a week or two after Invicta. The blooms and edible black fruit. Plant it E030: $11.50 each, 3+: $9.00 bush is upright and grows to about as a dramatic accent.E067: $22.50 each, 10+: $6.50 each 3’ tall. It is a cross of American each JOHNS V ery productive. Large and European gooseberries and sweet berries. E035: $11.50 each, expected to be excellent for both VARIEGATED ( Sambucus nigra) home and commercial plantings. This bush grows to 8’ tall with an 3+: $9.00 each, 10+: $6.50 each It was introduced in 2006 by the equal spread. Leaf variegation is a NOVA A vigorous grower with huge USDA Germplasm Repository in cream color against a dark green clusters of large sweet purple Corvallis, OR. E646: $17.50 each background. Enjoy black fruit in berries. E032: $11.50 each, 3+: September.E051: $18.50 each, $9.00 each, 10+: $6.50 each COLOSSAL T he egg-shaped fruit 3+: $15 each up to 1 ½ inches in diameter with RANCH NEW! The productive Ranch translucent green skin. The flesh is BLUE ELDER variety was selected from the wild sweet and mild. It ripens in mid July (Sambucus in the mid west where it is grown and is a reliable bearer. Originated caerulea) This NW commercially. It is drought tolerant in Mankato Minn. by Frank Schwab native is beautiful and a compact plant. One gallon and introduced in 1974, it is very in all seasons. In size. E036: $18.50 each vigorous and hardy. E 620: $14.50 the spring enjoy the each; 3+: $11.50 each; 10+: $10 many white flower clusters. In the fall the 15-20’ tall bush is covered with large clusters Gooseberries each New From England of small powder-blue berries that (Ribes hirtellum) Gooseberries, are prized for cooking, jelly and highly prized in Europe as an im- BLACK VELVET T his new wine. Self fertile. USDA Zones 5-9. portant part of a well-rounded gooseberry cultivar produces large E015: $15 each, 3+: $12 each, garden, have been sadly neglected crops of sweet dark red fruit with an 10+: $10 each in America, perhaps because peo- interesting hint of blueberry flavor. ple remember gooseberries as tart The hardy, disease resistant bushes Lace-leafed Beauty SUTHERLAND (Sambucus racemosa) Lovely yellow foliage and Using Elderberries are used in ointments to ease swelling. Elderberry pulp is a natural food coloring. a graceful habit set this elderberry HOW TO GROW: Shrubs prefer full sun or The fruit is an anti-oxidant and anti-car- apart. Each golden leaf is finely partial shade and soil with good organic cinogen because of its high content of incised, which content and drainage. They are prolific, polyphenols and flavonoids. makes the heavy bearing and easy to grow. HARDINESS: USDA Zones 4-9 unless plant seem like IN THE LANDSCAPE: They make great otherwise noted. a giant, to 12’, hedges or accent plants. The hollow glowing fern, stems have many uses including making For Your Health especially when flutes, popguns and fences. The berries Used for centuries in folk medicines, grown in bright are used in dyes. Birds love them. Two Elderberries — both the most tested Sam- shade or partial plants provide lots of fruit for a family. bucus nigra and the Sambucus canaden- sun. New spring IN THE KITCHEN: The fruit is higher in vi- sis varieties — are high in anthrocyanins growth is a tamin C than oranges. Do not eat raw, but and Vitamin A and C. Elderberry syrup is it is prized for pies, jellies, tea, soft drinks, used to treat colds and flu and to boost the 16 champagne and of course wine. Leaves immune system. are very easy to grow HINNOMAKI RED O f Finnish origin, Old-Time English Cultivars and tremendously it has outstanding flavor. The skin productive in even the is tangy while the flesh is very WHITESMITH Introduced in England coldest parts of the sweet. Plants are productive with about 1824, this is a vigorous, nation. E 605: $14.50 dark red medium sized fruit on an tremendously productive upright each; 3+: $11.50 upright plant. It begins fruiting in the bush. The green oval fruit ripens planting year and has good mildew mid-July and is sweet with a hint each; 10+: $10 each of grape flavor. It is delicious eaten resistance. A favorite with home INVICTA A gardeners.E639: $14.50 each, fresh or cooked. E634: $14.50 new mildew 3+: $11.50 each each, 3+: $11.50 each resistant LEVELLER A large oval, yellow selection from the Mildew-Resistant Cultivars dessert-quality berry that ripens in mid season. Developed in East Malling GLENNDALE NEW! B red by the England in 1851 and still a favorite Research USDA in 1932 for growers at the for delicious flavor and heavy Station. An Southern limit of gooseberry production. The bush has a easy to grow culture. An American x European, drooping habit and needs good soil winner for the organic garden. It it is mildew resistant and tolerates for high production. E667: $14.50 produces heavy yields early in its heat and humidity better than other each, 3+: $11.50 each life of flavorful large green fruit that cultivars. A vigorous upright bush hang in heavy clusters down the produces quantities of small tasty length of the branch. A well-shaped dark red berries. USDA Zones 4-9. bush. Excellent for pies, jam or E643: $14.50 each, 3+: $11.50 How to Use Gooseberries freezing.E650: $14.50 each; 3+: each IN THE LANDSCAPE: Use in foundation $11.50 each; 10+: $10 each JAHN’S PRARIE An easy to grow, plantings, under spreading trees, borders mildew resistant, highly productive or short barrier hedges. (Gooseberries have Top Americans bush with large red berries. Tasty thorns!) sweet/tart flavor. Selected in POORMAN T his is a highly flavored, Canada from the wild.E665: Useful Facts sweet table variety which can be $14.50 each, 3+: $11.50 each POLLINATION: Self-pollinating. eaten out of hand. The berries are CAPTIVATOR Enjoy large teardrop- SIZE & SPACING: 3-4 ft. green but turn red when ripe. One shaped fruit, that is pink and sweet HARDINESS: USDA Zones 3-8. of the best American gooseberries. when ripe. Foliage turns yellow in SUN: Full sun or semi-shade. E670: $14.50 each; 3+: $11.50 the fall. Mildew resistant and very PROPAGATION: Cuttings taken in the fall. each; 10+: $9.50each hardy. A cross of European and LIFE EXPECTANCY: 15-30 years American species that is nearly YEARS TO FIRST FRUIT: 2 years AMISH RED A vigorous growing YIELD: Up to 8 to 10 pounds per bush. large sweet red gooseberry with thornless and easy to pick and grow. Bred in Ottawa in 1935. E 610: delicious flavor. From an Amish $13.50 each, 3+: $10 each How To Grow farmer in Pennsylvania! E600: $13.50 each SOIL REQUIREMENTS: Good loam, can CANADA 0273 T his medium size red tolerate sandy or heavy soils, but must be skinned pear shaped gooseberry well drained. First Place Finnish has very good flavor. The bush is less thorny than others and mildew CULTURAL REQUIREMENTS: Plant with peat, mulch well and water during arid HINNOMAKI YELLOWOutstanding resistant. It is from Ottawa, Canada. summers. Mildew can be a problem on aromatic flavor distinguishes this E607: $13.50 each, 3+: $10 each susceptible varieties. Sulfur can defoliate variety. The medium size, sweet the plants. Baking soda mixed with spray oil PIXWELL Unlike most gooseberries, yellow-green berry has a luscious Pixwell has very few thorns, making sprayed every two weeks can work. Currant aftertaste reminiscent of apricot. The the harvest of its tart, abundant worms can defoliate bushes. Use BT or bush is low growing with a spreading pink berries less of an adventure Safer soap. Gooseberries grow best in cool habit. Fruit ripens in mid-July. It is and more of a pleasure. It is mildew summer areas. somewhat mildew resistant. E640: resistant and has purple fall leaf PRUNING: Prune annually to maintain large $14.50 each, 3+: berry size. Cut out wood more than 3 years color. The tart berries are great old; leave 6-8 canes. You can also train any $11.50 each for pies and jams! E675: $10.50 currants or gooseberries to an attractive fan LEEPARED each, 3+: $8.00 each, 10+: shape or cordon. This very heavy $6.50 each bearing Finnish variety is very mildew resistant Currant & Gooseberry Restrictions and therefore makes an easy State laws prohibit our shipping red and white Currants or Goose- to grow, carefree berries to DE, ME, NC, NH, NJ, RI, WV and MA., except by permit in attractive plant. certain towns. Black Currants may not be sent to the states men- The medium size tioned above, as well as Rhode Island. Only-rust resistant varieties berries have a may go to OH &, MI. If you live in one of these states and believe rich tart flavor. It your area may be exempt, please send us documentation from is favored for pies your state Dept. of Agriculture with your order. and jams.E660: $13.50 each, 3+: $11.50 each 17 Currants JONKHEER VAN TETS T his red currant selection from Holland is a heavy producer of large dark red, fine flavored fruit. It (Ribes species) Although not well is mildew and aphid resistant. known to American gardeners, the Considered by many to be the pleasant, sweet-tart taste of cur- best flavored red currant variety rants has been cherished for many in the world, it is not at its best in years in Europe, often used for jam, a cool maritime climate. E760: strudel and syrup. Deciduous currant $14.50 each, 3+: $11.50 each, bushes add upright structure (4-5’ 10+: $10 each tall) with fine texture to naturalistic plantings or mixed hedges, and they REDSTART New from the England blend nicely with evergreen shrubs. East Malling Station. Redstart The dense plants attract nesting produces heavy consistent yields and twice the antioxidants of blue- birds, the flowers are favored by hum- on long strings of medium size berries. The antioxidants, essential mingbirds, and the fruit draws robins bright red fruit of excellent flavor. fatty acids and potassium in black and thrushes. We offer well-rooted This sturdy upright bush extends currants have anti-inflammatory bushes. USDA Zones 3-8. the season, ripening in August. impact, reducing the effects of E756: $14.50 each, 3+: $11.50 arthritis. Its antioxidant action has each, 10+: $10 each been shown to help prevent cancer. RED CURRANTS The strong flavor of Black Currants ROSETTAJhonkeer is a parent Red currants are among the of this extremely productive new is highly prized in Europe, even most beautiful of edible orna- Dutch variety. Fruit is excellent for fresh, but most Americans prefer mentals. Attractive fruit and foliage cooking. The large fruit covers the them made into jam, syrup or dried and resistance to mildew and leaf bush, hanging in huge, glowing red as raisins. Partially self fertile plants spot make our red currant selec- clusters.E765: $14.50 each, 3+: produce best with another variety tions favorites for the edible land- $11.50 each, 10+: $10 each for cross-pollinization. Bushes will scape. Bright, shiny, red clusters grow to 4-5’ tall. We offer well root- of fruit are striking in the garden CASCADE A consistent, easy ed 1-year bushes. USDA Zones 3-8. and they enhance any dish to which to grow, proven winner in the they are added. High quality fruit is Northwest. Because of its bumper Rust-Resistant Favorites excellent for jams, jellies and sauc- crops of large sweet, beautiful red es, and it has considerable health fruit, it may need to be staked. MINAJ SMYRIOUA very cold hardy benefits, including high quantities E785: $14.50 each, 3+: $11.50 highly productive early season of vitamin C and potassium. Red each, 10+: $10 each mildew and white pine blister rust currants are self-fertile. resistant cultivar. It grows quickly ROVADA This Dutch red currant bears to 5’ tall and produces bountiful HEROS A heavy yielding cultivar loads of large, attractive dark fruit clusters of large black currants from the Netherlands that ripens that is excellent quality and ripens good dried or for cooking. E725: in mid season. E757: $14.50, 3+: 3 to 4 weeks later than Jonkheer. $16.50 each, 3+: $13.50 each $11.50 each Resistance to mildew and leaf spot make this and other red currant TITANIA A highly productive, ROLAM Enjoy large red berries on mildew and white pine blister rust long trusses. Rolam’s excellent fruit selections favorites for the edible landscape. E764: $14.50 each, 3+: resistant cultivar. It grows quickly quality is highly prized by home garden to 6’ tall and produces bountiful and commercial growers. It is very $11.50 each, 10+: $10 each clusters of large black currants. heavy yielding and mildew and leaf TATRAN A very productive late PP11439 (unauthorized propagation spot resistant. It ripens in mid-season, season red currant from the former prohibited). E735: $14.50 each, beginning in the middle of July. A cross Czechoslovakia. Fruit grows in large 3+: $11.50 each of Jhonkeer Van Tets and Rosetta from clusters and is excellent for cooking. the Netherlands. E 769: $14.50, 3+: E761: $14.50 each, 3+: $11.50 KIROVCHANKA A compact $11.50 each each, 10+: $10 each moderately productive rust resistant bush from Russia, noted RED LAKE An excellent choice for its excellent rich flavor. We got it for both commercial and home from noted horticulturist and author production, this fruit is large, juicy, Lee Reich who loves its flavor. flavorful and ripens during the mid- to E721: $14.50 each, 3+: $11.50 late season. Canes are vigorous and each resistant to powdery mildew.E762: $14.50 each, 3+: $11.50 each, RISAGER A very promising flavorful, 10+: $10 each high yielding rust, mildew and leaf spot resistant cultivar from the Netherlands. E 736: $14.50 each, BLACK CURRANTS 3+: $11.50 each Raintree offers the best selec- PRINCE CONSORT S pace these tion of black current cultivars easy-to-grow rust resistant plants for American gardeners. Black 3’ apart to create a bushy, 5’ tall currants have outstanding health hedge, and be ready to harvest benefits, including high Vitamin loads of large fruit. Consort has a C content, up to 5 times that of very strong flavor. It was developed oranges by weight. They have in Ottawa, Canada about 1950. 18 twice the potassium of bananas E730: $12.50 each, 3+: $10 each Outstanding Cultivars English Winners from More European Favorites From Eastern Europe Across the Pond SWEDISH BLACK A fruitful mildew HILL’S KIEV SELECT A seedling HILLTOP BALDWIN R ated the resistant, hardy cultivar with a selection of the Ukrainian cultivar best variety for making jelly from vigorous, spreading habit and “Cheryeshnava”. A heavily 70 varieties tested at the WSU flavorful medium size fruit. E734: productive bush with large berries experiment station in Puyallup, $14.50 each, 3+: $11.50 each of excellent flavor. It is a cross WA, Hilltop Baldwin is a legendary MOPSYA large productive black of several currant species and English favorite. It bears a heavy currant with good flavor that ripens produces the best tasting juice and crop of fruit with a sweet, black early in the season and is grown jelly. Raintree brought seeds from currant flavor and has the highest commercially in Oregon. E 726: Kiev. We sent seedlings to the late vitamin C content. E750: $16.50 $14.50 each, 3+: $11.50 each famed horticulturist and garden each, 3+: $13.50 each, 10+: INVIGO A high yielding vigorous writer Lewis Hill in Vermont who $11.50 each bush from Germany that produces selected this plant as his favorite. CHAMPION A vigorous upright, medium size, easy to pick, flavorful E717: $16.50 each, 3+: $13.50 mildew resistant, very productive berries. E728: $14.50 each, 3+: each bush with late season ripening, very $11.50 each BELARUSKAJA An exciting cultivar good quality fruit. Brought from STRATA A mildew resistant, early from Belarus recommended by England to the U.S. in 1897. E703: season variety from Germany. horticulturist Lee Reich from New $14.50 each, 3+: $11.50 each E722: $14.50 each, 3+: $11.50 York. It’s a cross of R. nigrum x GREEN’S BLACKThis productive each ridikuscha. It’s productive and easy English cultivar fruits on long to grow, with sweet flavorful fruit. MAGNUS A productive black currant clusters that ripen mid-season. It’s that grows to 5’ tall. The berries E720: $16.50 each, 3+: $13.50 balance of sweet/tart flavors rank it each are firm and easily picked.E724: at the top. E712: $14.50 each, 3+: $14.50 each, 3+: $11.50 each OTELO From Slovakia. A leading $11.50 each European cultivar that is a heavy midseason bearer with a rich flavor. BLACKDOWN (Baldwin x Broadtorp) Yellow Flowered A taste British favorite and easy to E727: $14.50 each, 3+: $11.50 pick. It is a large spreading mildew Clove Currant each resistant bush with large firm CRANDALL ( Ribes odoratum) berries.E710: $14.50 each, 3+: The most ornamental and the Grower Friendly $11.50 each sweetest in flavor of all the black currants. It has deliciously clove Scottish Varieties WELLINGTON XXX E njoy large scented yellow flowers early in hanging clusters of black currants. BEN SAREK T he Scottish Crop Upright, vigorous bushes grow 3 to Spring on a spreading 3-4’ bush. Research Institute has created this 4 feet tall. A strong producer and It makes a beautiful edible hedge. compact, frost resistant cultivar for very hardy. E719: $14.50 each, The gooseberry shaped leaves the backyard grower. The highly 3+: $11.50 each turn brilliant red and yellow in the mildew and somewhat rust resistant late summer and fall. The fruit is bush is easily maintained at 3’ tall MENDIP CROSS A British 1920 large for a currant and round. It with 3’ spacing. It is consistently hybrid, Baldwin X Boskoop. has a nice sweet flavor without the so loaded with large, flavorful Vigorous bushes bear large sweet black currant aftertaste. It makes shiny fruit that branches may need fruit prolifically for many weeks a milder jam, syrup or raisin than support and can be shaken to starting in early season. E723: other black currants. The plant is harvest the crop. Self fertile. E716: $14.50 each, 3+: $11.50 each rust resistant and easy to grow. $14.50 each, 3+: $11.50 each, WESTWICK E njoy large sweet firm E 700: $14.50 each, 3+: $11.50 10+: $10 each fruit on a vigorous, compact bush, each, 10+: $10 each BEN MORE Strong upright branches from this late ripening superior support the very large crops. English cultivar. E751: $14.50 Currants Cross Large fruit of excellent flavor, each, 3+: $11.50 each Gooseberries ripens evenly. It’s late flowering JOSTABERRY A thornless cross often avoids spring frosts. Mildew Dutch Horticulturists between a black currant and a resistant. E715: $14.50 each, 3+: $11.50 each, 10+: $10 each Fancy These gooseberry. Jostaberries have the BOSKOOP GIANTOriginating in vigorous growth habit, the high BEN LOMONDThe most popular vitamin C content and the disease commercial variety in Scotland. It Holland before 1885, the very large, sweet fruits are first to ripen. resistance of the black currant. is a very heavy producer with the The leaves are gooseberry-like and traditional strong pungent flavor. Vigorous bushes are moderate croppers, resist mildew but aren’t the fruit, until it is ripe, looks like The “Ben” series, named after the a gooseberry. As it ripens in late mountains of Scotland are among frost resistant in some areas. E705: $14.50 each, 3+ $11.50 each June, the elongated berries turn the easiest to grow and highest almost black. The flavor is sweet quality black currants in the world. BLACK REWARD F rom the like a ripe gooseberry with just a This bush is compact, upright to Netherlands and among the best pleasing hint of the stronger currant 5’ tall and easy to grow and prune. flavored, Large bushes produce flavor. Jostaberries are ornamental, Rated very high in both vitamin C heavy crops of large berries. It thornless and easy to grow. They and anthocyanins. Ripens mid-July. flowers late and is a consistent are resistant to both powdery E714: $14.50 each, 3+: $11.50 producer. E711: $14.50 each, 3+: each, 10+: $10 each $11.50 each 19 How To Use Currants Goumis mildew and white pine blister rust. Bushes should be pruned like a gooseberry. Jostaberries make a IN THE LANDSCAPE: Use as a founda- great tasting jam. E770: $14.50 tion planting, in containers, espaliers, in (Eleagnus mul- the perennial borders or in hedges. each, 3+: $11.50 each, 10+ $10 IN THE KITCHEN: Red and white each tiflora) A Goumi bush grows to currants are prized in jams, jellies and ORUS 8 A nother cross between a about 6-8’ tall streudels. Black currants, in juices, black currant and a gooseberry. and is an ideal syrups, jellies and liqueurs. Currants are Mildew and aphid resistant bushes not usually eaten fresh! edible shrub are very productive, upright for a backyard with some thorns. Fruit is round, edible land- Useful Facts medium size, dark pruple and very scape. Goumis POLLINATION: Red and white currants flavorful. Great eaten fresh, or have attractive are self-fertile, black currants partially used to make jelly or wine.E775: leaves with sil- self-fertile. $14.50 each, 3+: $11.50 each, very undersides. PLANT SPACING: 4 feet apart. 10+ $10 each Each August they SIZE AT MATURITY: 3-5 feet tall. bear thousands HARDINESS: USDA Zones 3-8 EXPOSURE: Sun or partial shade. WHITE AND PINK of pretty, red, ORIGIN: Europe. juicy, pleasingly CURRANTS tart fruits, each YEARS TO FIRST FRUIT: Two. RIPENING: Late June, early July. White and pink with a small pit. LIFE EXPECTANCY: 15 to 30 years. currants are Good for eating out of hand, they rarely avail- are more typically made into sauc- How To Grow able. Their es, pies, and jellies. Goumi’s toler- hardiness and ate a wide range of soils, fix nitrogen SOIL REQUIREMENTS: pH of 5 to 7, and begin producing fruit in a year prefers good garden loam but will toler- growth habit ate heavy or sandy soils. is like their red or two. They are self fertile but may produce more with a pollinizer. Plant CULTURAL REQUIREMENTS: Mulch cousins. They with manure or compost, apply nitrogen are very pro- in full sun, 7’ apart or 4’ for a hedge. sparingly. Requires annual pruning of ductive and USDA Zones 6-9. old canes. Fruit is born on new wood. high in Vitamin SWEET SCARLET GOUMI™ This Currants grow best in cool summer C. Bushes outstanding Ukrainian Goumi areas. grow to 5’ tall. variety was selected for sweetness PRUNING: When planting black USDA Zones and fruit production by the Kiev currants, cut each shoot back to three 3-8. Botanic Garden.D561: $28.50 buds. Each winter, prune out old shoots. PRIMUS each See the “Plant Owners Manual” that comes with your order. Prune red and WHITE This GOUMI SEEDLING A producer of white currants like gooseberries. cultivar from tasty goumis and a pollinizer for the Slovakia is Sweet Scarlet GoumiTM. One gallon grown for its pot. D562: $19.95 each weak branches. Space about 6’ apart sweeter flavor Honeyberries or 3-4’ for a hedge. Select two variet- and frost and mildew resistance. ies for pollination. USDA Zones 2-8. This compact bush produces large strings of fruit in midseason, used for cooking, wine and juice.E795: (Lonicera caeru- For Maritime and $14.50 each, 3+: $11.50 each lea edulis) This Cold Climates BLANCA WHITE B lanca is very attractive, arch- BLUE PACIFIC™ A late blooming productive and is used for ing bush grows cultivar from the east coast of winemaking, juice, and for fresh quickly to about 4’ Russia with a compact spreading eating. It has a vigorous, spreading tall. Small, white, form, that produces flavorful light growth habit and produces fruit at funnel shaped blue fruit. D730: $19.95 each midseason.E792: $14.50 each, flowers appear in February or March BLUE VELVET™ A late blooming 3+: $11.50 each cultivar that grows to 4’ tall and 6’ and develop into PINK CHAMPAGNE A cross of red delicious, tear- wide. It has unusual greyish green, and white currants. Clusters of drop-shaped, velvety leaves. The fruit is flavorful beautiful translucent pink berries light blue fruit that ripens in May and comparatively large. D 729: make delicious jellies, syrups and with high amounts of ascorbic acid $19.95 each juices. E787: $14.50 each, 3+: and bioactive flavonoides. New to BLUE MOON™A very attractive $11.50 each America, but widely grown in Rus- spreading shrub, Blue Moon has GLOIRE DE SABLONSLong clusters sia, China and Northern Japan, the soft, velvety, bright-green foliage. of pink, sweet fruit adorn this blueberry-like fruit may become a It bears abundant crops of large, compact 4’ tall bush. A productive, valuable new fruit for Northern grow- light-blue, tasty fruit. D727: $19.95 disease resistant, upright grower ers. Raintree offers late blooming each with heavy crops in July. Use like a cultivars that perform well in both cold climates and in the moder- KAMCHATKA NEW! A late blooming red currant. E788: $14.50 each, variety from eastern Russia, 3+: $11.50 each ate Pacific NW. Plants prefer sun and well drained soil. Little pruning is Kamchatka blooms late and bears good crops in the Pacific Northwest. 20 required: just remove overlapping and An attractive, semi-upright, small HIMALAYAN HONEYSUCKLE Aronia is native to shrub, it bears abundant, large, ( Leycestria formosa) The same as the eastern U.S, dark blue, sweet and tasty fruit. the Golden Lanterns listed above the best variet- D731: $19.95 each but with green instead of golden ies were bred in leaves. 1-quart pot. D605: $24.50 Europe. Plants are For Cold Climates each self-fertile and can be spaced 4-6’ BERRY BLUE™ A productive tasty variety with an abundance of light blue fruit. It blooms early and is best Highbush apart, or 3’ for a hedge. It’s not an “aronia’s con- suited to cold climates with late springs. D726: $19.95 each BLUE BELLE™Blue Belle™ bears Cranberry clusion” that this, Goumi and Sea Buckthorn are the most productive fruiting bushes available. USDA good crops of large, round deep Beautiful in All Seasons Zones 3-8. blue and tasty berries on a 5’ bush HIGH BUSH CRANBERRY VIKING B red in Scandinavia. Very with a spreading habit. Pollinize with (Viburnum trilobum) A beautiful flavorful, incredibly productive. Berry Blue. D 724: $19.95 each 10’ tall, shade D703 (1 gallon): $24.50 each, tolerant 3+: $19.50 each; D703S (1 Autumn ornamental with showy white spring blossoms. quart): $18.50 each; 3+: $16.50 each Olive The bitter red fruit is attractive to birds and can NERO B red in the Soviet Union. Almost identical to Viking. Both are loaded with flavorful fruit each PORTUGUESE SUPERHERO be processed year. D705 (1 gallon): $24.50 ( Elaeagnus umbellata) An Autumn to make pre each, 3+: $19.50 each; D705S (1 Olive from British Columbia serves, syrup or wine. The fruit is so quart): $18.50 each; 3+: $16.50 selected for it’s abundant abundant and brightly colored that each production of flavorful fruit. Autumn it looks almost like the lights on a RAINTREE SELECT W e started Olives are vigorous nitrogen fixing Christmas tree. The fall foliage turns about 25 seeds from productive bushes to 15’ tall that are loaded a brilliant red. Self-fertile. Full sun or Russian Aronia plants and all of in the spring with sweetly fragrant partial shade. A great hedge plant. them produced huge amounts of yellow/white flowers. Super Hero Space 8’, 4-5’ for a hedge. Zones fruit. We selected this one as a produces lots of tasty fruit very 3-9. We offer 3-4’ plants. D760: winner among the resulting plants high in lycopene. 1 quart pot. USDA $11.50 each; 5+ $9.50 each for its slightly more compact, bushy Zones 3-8. D566: $24.50 each UKRAINE NEW! (Viburnum opulus) habit and good flavor. D706 (1 PROHIBITED TO MA, LIMIT ONE We selected this seedling because gallon): $24.50 each, 3+: $19.50 it has a similar beautiful habit, each; D706S (1 quart): $18.50 Chocolate fall color and massive red berry production as the usual high each; 3+: $16.50 each MCKENZIE ARONIA A recent Berry bush cranberry but with better, somewhat less astringent fruit quality. USDA Zone 5-9. One quart release from North Dakota. These seedlings are each very productive with heavy clusters of easy to pick pot. D762: $24.50 each berries used to make tasty juices GOLDEN LANTERNS and jellies very high in anti-oxidants. HONEYSUCKLE (Leycestria formosa) This amazing edible ornamental Aronia This plant grows taller than many aronia bushes, sometimes reaching ten feet tall. They are used as a shrub, native to Move Over Cranberry wildbreak or wildlife habitat. 1-2’ size. D702: $9.50 each, 3+: lower altitudes in ... Here Comes Aronia $7.50 each, 10+: $6 each Tibet, is also called Chocolate berry. (Aronia melanocarpa) Beauti- Golden Lanterns® ful, very productive and easy is an outstanding selection with to grow, this shrub is bound to bright golden, heart-shaped leaves, become a staple in American reddish new growth and pendulous white and burgundy flowers that backyards, as it has in Eastern Europe, where it is widely used in Save Shipping on attract butterflies and bees. In late summer and early fall, the plant delicious juices, soft drinks, jams and wine. The handsome, disease Smaller Plants produces lots of small, round, resistant bushes have dark green, If your entire order consists of green berries that turn dark purple oval foliage and grow about 5’-6’ currants, gooseberries, bun- when ripe and have a flavor akin to tall with an equal spread. Charming dles of strawberries, mushroom bitter chocolate. In the South, the white spring flowers develop into dowels, or asparagus, we may 6’, upright shrub stays beautiful clusters of glossy, round, vio- be able to save you money on year round, but in the North, it dies let-black berries with a strong, tart shipping since they are smaller back to the ground each winter flavor that comes from high flavo- items. Call us at 1-800-391-8892 and resprouts the following spring. noid/anti-oxidant content. Fruit is for a shipping quote. Hardy to Zone 6 if mulched, it likes naturally high in vital vitamins and well-drained soil. Zones 6-10. 1 minerals, and in fall, the foliage quart pot. D604: $24.50 each changes to striking red. Although 21 Serviceberries Seaberries excellent juice or preserves. This productive bush, from Belarus, grows to 10’ with darker green foliage. D743: $26.50 each These very winter (Hippophae rham- hardy plants noides) Always RUSSIAN ORANGE FEMALEAn — also known loaded with fruit, attractive, vigorous and productive as Saskatoons seaberries are medium-sized shrub. Russian — make attrac- widely used for Orange bears abundant crops of tive ornamental healing in Asia very large, flavorful, deep orange shrubs or hedg- and Europe, berries. Russian Orange also features es and produce where they are unusually lush grayish-green foliage. delicious edible fruit. Developed in valued as a D750: $26.50 each Alberta and grown commercially in potent anti-ox- ORANGE ENERGY® FEMALE NEW! Canada, this tasty blueberry-size idant, a source O range Energy® is a German cultivar fruit is high in Vitamin C and great for for vitamins C prized for its prolific crops of flavorful eating fresh or making pies. Plants and E and a heal- large bright orange vitamin rich berries. are pretty in all seasons, with attrac- ing oil. The attractive small tree or The heavy crops turn the whole plant tive white flowers in spring and bright shrub -- also called Sea Buckthorn -- a bright orange when they are ripe in yellow foliage in fall. Train them as is likely the most widely grown, north- September. D 755: $26.50 each single-stemmed trees or let them ern hardy, fruiting plant in the world, SIROLA FEMALE N EW! This new sucker and become multi-stemmed but most Americans have never heard hybrid of Siberian and German bushes or edible hedges. Plants of it! In Europe, the sour, flavorful parents is a great variety for the home tolerate a variety of soils, but prefer fruit is sweetened and its orange- garden. Early ripening and attractive, a neutral or slightly acid pH. They passion-fruit-like flavor makes fine Sirola bears abundant crops of bright are self fertile and long-lived. USDA sauces, jellies and a base for liqueurs. reddish-orange, large and unusually Zones 3-9 unless otherwise noted. Blended with other fruits, it makes a sweet fruit. Sirola is good for fresh We offer healthy, well-rooted bushes. delicious juice. The plants, native to the Russian Far East, are incredibly eating and makes a tasty juice, THIESSEN(Amelanchier alnifolia) especially when mixed with Leikora, The largest fruiting cultivar available, productive and a great choice for backyard fruit production! Narrow Orange Energy or another more with excellent flavor and productivity. acidic variety. D 757: $28.50 each It’s a consistent producer and great silver leaves and plentiful round, yel- low-orange fruit cover the 6-10’ tall, MALE T he male does not produce commercial choice. Grows to 10 to fruit. It is an attractive ornamental. 12’ tall. D474: $12.50 each, 3+: narrow, upright female forms. Give $9.50 each plants full sun and good drainage, One male will pollinate up to eight and space them about 7’ apart or females. D746: $24.50 each NORTHLINE ( Amelanchier alnifolia) 3-5’ for a hedge. They are extremely This variety grows only 5-7’ tall and suckers profusely making a great winter hardy fruiting hedge. hardy, to -50°F, disease resistant and easy to grow. Branches are used in floral displays, and commercial crops Edible It produces loads of large, flavorful fruit at an early age. It was selected in 1960 at Beaverlodge, Alberta. are harvested by cutting off entire fruit-laden branches. Female plants need a male pollinizer, with one male Groundcovers D472: $12.50 each, 3+: $9.50 for up to 8 females. USDA Zones 3-9. SALAL ( Gaultheria each shallon) Salal was GOLDEN SWEET FEMALE™(Byantes used widely by all of SMOKEY ( Amelanchier alnifolia) The cv.) One of the sweetest cultivars, it 3/4 inch blue black fruit is sweet the Pacific NW coastal produces yellow-orange berries. The Indians as a staple in and considered the most highly 12’ tall shrub is tolerant of most soils, their diet. It was eaten flavored serviceberry. The very even maritime conditions. Fruit has a both dried in cakes productive plant can be trained as unique sweet-acid taste, sometimes and fresh from the a multi-stemmed bush or small 12’ made into the after-dinner drink, bush. Fully ripe salal tree. Plant it 10’ apart, or 4’ apart in Schnapps.D745: $28.50 each a hedge. D470: $12.50 each, 3+: berries from robust healthy bushes $9.50 each LEIKORA FEMALE Bright, tart orange are flavorful and juicy. If planted berries cover the branches. This in the sun, the beautiful, upright, APPLE SERVICEBERRY German variety grows to 10’ tall. Fruit leathery leaved bush will grow only (Amelanchier x Grandiflora) Grow ripens in September and remains about 2’ tall. In the shade it can this all season’s beauty as a single on the plant until heavy frosts. The reach 5-10’. Berries are the size of or multi stemmed 15-30’ tree. In gorgeous fruit laden branches blueberries and are blue-black in spring pink buds open to a mass of are used for juice and in floral color. Space plants 2’ apart in full large white flowers. Young purple arrangements. D742: $24.50 each sun, 4’ apart in shade. USDA Zones spring leaves turn to green as they 6-9. 4” pot. G340: $6.50 each, ASKOLA FEMALE S elected in produce an abundance of small 6+: $5.50 each edible round fruit favored by birds the former East Germany for an and people. In the autumn the exceptionally high content of Vitamin leaves turn a bright array of yellow- C and E, Askola fruit ripens in late WINTERGREEN orange and red. USDA Zones 4-8. August and makes delicious and very (Gaultheria procumbens) Winter- 2-3’ size. D455: $12.50 each, 3+: nutritious juice.D738: $26.50 each green berries ripen from late August $9.50 each TITAN™ FEMALE Named for its large, until winter and are bright red. They bright orange berries, which are tart, can be made into tea, eaten raw, or 22 flavorful and aromatic and make mixed into fruit salad. Both leaves and fruit taste berries of `Berry Cascade’ grow the followed by like win- entire length of the stem, forming orange-red ber- tergreen a charming, cascade effect. The ries. The plant lifesavers. berries ripen starting in late August is self-fertile, They are a until late winter and the fall and drought resis- native of winter foliage is a beautiful orange tant, and likes the east- and red, brighter than regular 1 a half to full ern United quart Pot. G 375: $11.50 each day of sun and States well-drained and hardy to USDA Zones Goji Berries soil. It prefers warm summer days and cool 3-9. This (Lycium barbarum) Also known as nights, and pre- plant is a Wolfberry, these sweet and nutri- fers neutral or creeper and will spread outward 12 tious berries are eaten fresh, juiced somewhat alkaline soil. Our plants inches or more. Plant 12 inches apart, or dried like raisins. The berries are are grown from cuttings from supe- in partial or full shade. Wintergreen a popular medicinal herb. Among rior cultivars. USDA Zones 5-9. grows about 6 inches tall and makes the highest in protein and anti-ox- a great edible red and evergreen PHOENIX TEARS A superior idants, they have more carotene hardy variety selected for its fruit ground-cover. than carrots and contain all the es- sential amino acids and many min- production and nutritive value. CHERRY BERRY™ NEW!This new Enjoy its flavorful red berries. 4” pot cultivar is distinguished by its erals. Grow this attractive Chinese native on a trellis to more than 10’ H2024: $16.50 each, 6+: $13.50 abundant crops of larger, nickel each size, showy red tasty berries. 1 tall or trim it as a bush and keep at quart Pot. G 370: $11.50 each 4-6’ tall. Light purple, bell-shaped CRIMSON STAR T his productive flowers bloom in May and continue Northern Chinese cultivar has large, BERRY CASCADE™ NEW! U nlike throughout the summer. The third tasty bright red berries. 1-gallon most Gaultheria cultivars, the year and thereafter, flowers are pot. H203: $26.50 each Apples (Malus pumila) Raintree Nursery specializes in offering superior, dis- ease-resistant apples for the backyard grower. We select varieties from around the world for their exceptional flavor and ease of growing, each with unique qualities to recommend it. Gardeners can have apples off their trees RED BELLE DE BOSKOOP T his from August through November, and they can enjoy the harvest until March heirloom keeper apple originated or April, since many apple varieties keep for long periods without refrigera- in Boskoop, Holland, in 1856, and tion. is still prized in Europe where it is a popular commercial variety. Ever since early American settlers took their favorite varieties of apples to Trees produce heavy crops of very their new homesteads, apples have been important in family meals. The large apples that are superior for harvest from apple trees provides fresh and hard cider, classic American cooking and baking into pies, with a apple pies, stores of sauces, butters and other delicacies. rich combination of sweet and tart We indicate, with this apple carrying a shield symbol, those vari- flavors. The apples, russetted over eties that are disease resistant and easiest to grow organically. a red base, ripen in late October Even if varieties are not completely scab resistant, many are still accept- and store well all winter with flavors able for the organic grower who doesn’t demand picture perfect fruit for improving in storage. Trees have cider or other uses. Also, even though some great selections might require some resistance to scab. Boskoop more care, the result is worth the effort. We offer sturdy, well-rooted, is rated among the highest in 3-5’ grafted trees on the best dwarfing root stocks. Responding to phytonutrients. A161D (EMLA requests, we also offer mini-dwarfs (2-3’ trees) and full size apple trees. dwarf 26): $26.50 each; A161T USDA Zones 4-9 unless noted. (EMLA 27): $28.50 each; A161F (Antanovka): $26.50 each Our Russets Have Incredible Flavor ASHMEAD’S KERNEL The incredible sweet-tart flavor of Russetting develops naturally on the skin of some apple va- this superb heirloom apple has rieties. Many of the russets possess incredible combinations made it a connoisseur’s favorite. of flavors that make them among the finest flavored apples in Discovered in Gloucester about the world. Try these classic apple trees in your yard. 1750, scab resistant trees are easy HUDSON’S GOLDEN GEMDiscovered as a fence row to grow and are grown commercially seedling in Tangent, OR, about 1931, this tasty, russetted in England today. The medium size apple was originally marketed as a pear because of its fruit with brown russetting keeps brownish hue and elongated shape. The delicious flesh is crisp and sweet; extremely well. A090D (EMLA 26) the flavor is nutty and refreshing. It is productive, bears annually and $26.50 each; A090T (On EMLA resists scab and mildew quite well. The large fruit ripens in late October 27 mini-dwarf) $26.50 each; and will hang on the tree well into winter. It’s a good keeper. A400D A090F (Antanovka): $28.50 each (EMLA 26 rootstock): $26.50 each; A400T (EMLA 27 mini-dwarf): $28.50 each 23 Resistant Cultivars Presented with [PRI]de For years, researchers at the Purdue, Rutgers and Illinois fruit breeding program (PRI) have been developing delicious tasting dis- ease resistant apples. Notice that they put the letters “pri” in many of their patented selections. Try these wonderful new disease-re- sistant selections in your yard. They have been proven to thrive in produces heavy crops of crisp, backyards throughout the nation. EGREMONT RUSSET NEW! T he juicy, delicious apples in September deep green disease resistant after a long, mid-season bloom. Best Early Ripeners foliage makes an enchanting sight A compact spur habit adds to its in English gardens speckled with winning nature. A385D (ELMA WILLIAM’S thousands of round golden brown 26 dwarf rootstock): $26.50 PRIDE orbs. The delicious fruit ripens in each; A385T (EMLA 27 mini- Highly rated for early October with a delicious nutty dwarf rootstock): $28.50 each; its sweet, rich, flavor. Eat it with a chunk of cheddar A385TB (Mini Belgian Fence): spicy flavor, cheese. A250D (EMLA dwarf 26): $39.95 each the large, red $26.50 each fruit ripens in WYNOOCHE EARLY A flavorful large early August ROXBURY RUSSET A fine cider or red and yellow apple that ripens and is the best dessert apple with great flavor. in mid August and is highly scab of the early Roxbury is surmised to be the first resistant. It has proven to thrive in apples. Trees are very productive American variety, originating near maritime and even coastal areas. with strong, well-angled branches. Boston in the early 17th century. Despite ripening early it keeps for An early season bloomer with Enjoy the beautiful large golden months. A sweet and tart mixture unusually long lasting blossoms, the brown, orange blushed fruit each of flavors makes it good for fresh tree is immune to scab and resistant October. A628D (EMLA 26 eating, pies, or sauce. The tree is to cedar rust and fireblight. A700D dwarf): $26.50 each spreading and a vigorous grower. (EMLA 26 dwarf): $26.50 each; BROWN RUSSET T his heritage It blooms in early season. It was a A700F (Antanovka): $28.50 variety is scab and mildew numbered selection from New York each; A700T (EMLA 27 mini resistant and a great choice for the that was named in Southwest WA dwarf): $26.50 each organic grower. The fruit, which state. A745D: $26.50 each PRISTINE® ripens in October, is a pleasing This PRI brown color and has an excellent, Rezista® Apples selection sweet flavor. Enjoy it fresh, made Enjoy these outstanding resistant produces large into a wonderful cider, or kept in a crops of beautiful box until spring. A110D: $28.50 cultivars from Eastern Europe. yellow apples each GOLD STARTMDr. Jaroslav that are crisp Tupy of the Botany Institute and tasty. Fruit Disease Resistant in Stricovice, Czech Republic ripens in August. developed this outstanding scab, Mildly tart, they are excellent for Yellow Cultivars mildew and fireblight resistant eating fresh, for baking and for CHEHALIS An excellent choice for cultivar. Large, juicy, yellow apples cooking into applesauce. Trees are organic growers who like a very have a smooth finish, fine texture highly resistant to scab and cedar large, sweet yellow apple. This and spicy flavor. Trees bloom mid- apple rust and partly resistant to old favorite was discovered north season; fruit ripens late October; powdery mildew and fireblight. of Chehalis, WA, in 1937. Fruit and keeps very well in storage. On A570D (EMLA 26 dwarf): $26.50 resembles Golden Delicious in EMLA 26 dwarf. A265D: $26.50 each; A570F (Antanovka): looks and flavor, but it is larger and each $26.50 each; A570T (EMLA 27 crisper. Reliable, highly productive mini dwarf): $28.50 each; A570E BELLATM T his crisp large, (3-tiered espalier): $69.95 each; trees are very resistant to scab elongated bright red apple has and partly resistant to mildew. Fruit A570DB (Belgian Fence): $39.95 a pleasing combination of sweet each; A570TB (Mini Belgian): ripens late in September. A 200D and tart flavors. It ripens in late (EMLA 26 dwarf): $26.50 each; $39.95 each September and is resistant to scab, A200T (EMLA 27 mini-dwarf): mildew, fireblight, cedar apple rust, $28.50 each and red mite. It was developed In Mid-Season Form GREENSLEEVES O rganic growers by the German Dresden-Pillnitz DAYTON The large, beautiful, in England rave about this large, program that has combined disease brilliant red fruit is crisp and beautiful, yellow apple. Bred at resistance with the flavor of Cox’s juicy with a great sweet-tart flavor. East Malling for its scab and mildew Orange and other highly flavored Very productive trees have an resistance, the cross between apples. It has a medium sized upright form and strong branch Golden Delicious and James Grieve growth habit and blooms early to angles, and they are immune to mid season. (PPAF) On EMLA 26 scab and resistant to both mildew 24 rootstock. A605D: $26.50 each and cedar rust. Fruit on this superior PRI selection ripens in QUEEN COX late September. A 240D (EMLA 26 (SELF-FERTILE) dwarf): $26.50 each; A240TB This patented (Mini Belgian): $39.95 each; self fertile A240F (Antanovka): $26.50 clone has the each; A240T (EMLA 27 mini- flavor, mellow dwarf): $28.50 each aftertaste and aroma of the Disease Resistant Keeper famed Cox’s Orange Pippin. Queen Cox sets bumper crops of delicious ENTERPRISE Glossy red apples fruit each year, without a pollinizer, Raintree Owner Sam Benowitz gets bonked with an excellent sprightly flavor even when fruit set is poor on other on the head by a Flower of Kent apple at ripen in late October and keep well, apples, including other Cox type Woolthorpe in England. He discovered it with flavor improving in storage. The apples. The fruit of Queen Cox is hurt! productive, vigorous, spreading larger and the tree more disease tree is immune to scab and resistant resistant than Cox’s Orange Pippin. to fire blight, cedar apple rust and The tree is 15% less vigorous than mildew. Proven in much of the other Cox varieties. Fruit ripens in nation. A 300D (EMLA 26 dwarf): early September. The only reliably $26.50 each; A300T (EMLA 27 self-fertile apple. A 581D (EMLA 26 mini-dwarf): $28.50 each dwarf): $26.50; A581T (EMLA 27 mini dwarf $28.50 each; A581F Cox’s Corner (Antanovka): $28.50 each Some of the world’s finest tasting ELLISON’S apples have the English legend ORANGEA Cox’s Orange Pippin as a parent. favorite of English organic growers CHERRY COX A medium-size, since 1904, this Cox’s round, deep-red apple that is Orange x Calville consistently productive and has Blanc cross, bred excellent Cox’s Orange-like flavor. in Lincolnshire, England, combines It is a sport of Cox’s Orange Pippen an outstanding aromatic flavor with from Denmark. It is easy to grow heavy cropping and resistance to and somewhat disease resistant. scab. The complex flavor is at once JOHNNY Cherry Cox ripens in early October sweet and tart with a hint of anise, APPLESEED In the and has a compact spreading and the flesh is crisp and juicy. A 1830’s, thousands growth habit. It blooms in mid wonderful choice for the organic of apple trees were season. It is a reliable favorite orchard, but these apples do not planted in Ohio by here at Raintree. A 185D (EMLA keep well. Ripens mid-September. one John Chapman, 26 dwarf): $26.50 each; A185T USDA Zones 4-9. EMLA 26 dwarf. who earned the (EMLA 27 mini dwarf): $28.50 A252D: $26.50 each nickname Johnny each Appleseed for his RUBINETTE KARMIJN DE Rubinette is loved work. Nearly two centuries later, SONNAVILLEThis for its delicious it is extremely rare to find a tree intensely flavored, sweet/tart flavor. documented to be a graft from red russetted apple Loads of incredibly one of Johnny’s trees, but Raintree from Holland claims delicious, small- acquired one. It was tracked down both high sugar and medium, attractive by Scott Scogerboe, who found high acid content, orange colored apples ripen an old newspaper article that making it a fresh- in early October. It is Golden told of an Ohio homestead where picked favorite. A triploid cross Delicious X Cox’s Orange Pippin Johnny Appleseed had planted a between Cox’s Orange Pippen and from Switzerland and a favorite tree. Early in the 20th century, a Jonathan, it inherited great qualities of European growers. EMLA 26 student who visited the homestead from both parents, but good looks rootstock. A625D: $26.50 each took a cutting, grafted a new tree is not one of them. You will only be and planted it in his family’s yard. able to benefit from the impressive The child who planted the grafted flavor and aroma by growing your Historic Apple Trees tree, now elderly, retired from the own. Some people prefer the flavor FLOWER OF KENTAs the story same school where Scott found the a month or so after harvest, when goes, Sir Isaac Newton’s laws of ancient tree.This tree is productive the complexity has mellowed. When gravity were inspired by an apple with medium to large red apples apples ripen in mid-October, store that fell from the Flower of Kent over yellow background. The flesh them in a box in anticipation of even tree at Woolsthorpe Manor in is sweet and the texture is a little finer flavors all winter. This vigorous Lincolnshire, England. The original mealy. However, it is surprisingly tree, with some resistance to scab, tree, now long gone, lives on from good for a seedling and was thrives in the Pacific Northwest. grafts taken in the 1800’s. The tree probably kept all these years for its A420D (On EMLA 26 dwarf): produces green, oval, mealy, sub flavor and ease of growing. A 465SA $26.50 each; A420T (EMLA 27 acid apples used for cooking. They (MM106 semi dwarf rootstock): mini dwarf rootstock): $28.50 flower and ripen late. On EMLA 7 $28.50 each each; A420S (EMLA 7): $28.50 semi-dwarf rootstock. A249S: each $26.50 each 25 FORT VANCOUVER Located at Old ARKANSAS BLACK N amed for Apple Tree Park in Vancouver, WA, its purple-red fruit, this popular this living tree, planted between heritage apple turns almost black 1826 and 1830, is believed to when fully ripe. It is a favorite in the be the oldest apple tree in the Midwest and upper South. It is an Pacific Northwest. The small green excellent keeping apple with firm, apples ripen in September and crisp flesh and a tart, aromatic are used for pie or cider. The old flavor that mellows in storage. apple tree was planted from seeds Apples ripen late in the season on brought from England. Plant a bit trees that are somewhat resistant of history in your yard, too. The to cedar-apple rust and fireblight. community celebrates the Old A088S (MM106 semi-dwarf Apple Tree Festival each year on rootstock): $26.50 each the first Saturday in October to FAMEUSE C alled the snow apple commemorate this historic tree. for its bright white flesh that is A470S (EMLA 7 semi-dwarf): sometimes streaked red, this small $26.50 each orange-red apple has been an BARDSEY This amazing unique apple comes from the windswept American favorite for more than Bardsey Island off the coast of More Flavor-Packed 250 years. Tender, juicy apples that ripen in September have a great Wales and is available for the first Heritage Apples sweet/tart flavor that is prized for time to American gardeners. The fresh eating, cooking and making fruit is pink striped over a yellow For hundreds of years, Americans base and is picked in Wales in have enjoyed these great old culti- an aromatic bitter/sweet cider. late September and stores until vars! MM106 semi dwarf. A658S: November. The tree flowers TOMPKINS KING Known as King, $26.50 each early in the season. The fruit also the large yellow-green apples with appears to be scab free. It grows red stripes are excellent for eating Gravenstein Strains and produces well here at Raintree fresh, for cooking and for cider The old-fashioned Gravenstein, Nursery and should do well in making. They also keep well. This known for its wonderful, tangy flavor, other maritime climates. Bardsey highly prized apple is a tip bearer. is the ideal sauce, pie and cider ap- Island has long been associated (Tip bearer pruning note: Wait ple. Allow the vigorous tree some ex- with religious activity. Pre-Roman to prune until two inches of new tra room. Fruit ripens in early Septem- Celts visited the Island to pray and growth has begun in spring. Then ber, but is biennial, bearing a heavy often to die on this most western prune back to 6-8” of last years crop every other year. There are many isle. During early Christian times growth!) A480D (EMLA 26 dwarf): old time “strains”. Each tastes the Bardsey was a place of pilgrimage. $26.50 each same but looks different. Some have Three trips to Bardsey Island were NORTHERN SPY A mong the best skin that is solid red, some are mainly said to equal a pilgrimage to Rome. keepers, Northern Spy has thin skin green and others striped. Anybody buried on Bardsey was and very crisp, delicious flesh with said to be guaranteed eternal SHEETS GRAVENSTEIN T he salvation. Raintree has worked with a sweet/tart flavor that is prized for striped “Sheets” strain. A381T permacultural landscaper Bruce cooking and eating fresh. Although (EMLA 27 mini dwarf): $26.50 Weiskotten to introduce this apple very hardy, trees bloom late in each; A381D (M26 dwarf): to American gardeners. A royalty on spring and fruit ripens in November, $26.50 each each apple sold will be returned to making full ripening in cooler parts of the Pacific Northwest a WORTHEN GRAVENSTEINWe offer the apple’s developers on Bardsey the red “Worthen Strain.” A 380D Island.A105D (EMLA 26 dwarf): challenge. The outstanding fruit convinces many people throughout (EMLA 26 dwarf) $26.50 each $28.50 each; A105T (EMLA 27 mini-dwarf): $28.50 each: A105F the U.S. to grow it, even though it FRED GRAVENSTEIN NEW! T his (Antanovka) $28.50 each is biennial and takes a few years to strain of Gravenstein, has the come into production. Rated very wonderful complex flavor and all NEWTOWN PIPPIN Newtown Pippin high in phytonutrients.A277D the other traits of the Gravenstein was the workhorse of Washington, (EMLA 26 dwarf): $26.50 each apple. We selected it in a trial Jefferson and other colonial of more than a dozen strains of American’s orchards. Also known WOLF RIVER T his beautiful, Gravenstein at the WSU Mt. Vernon as Albemarle Pippin and Yellow trials for its large size, productivity Newtown, it is a large yellow green red apple from Wisconsin, with and beautiful red and yellow color. deliciously sweet/tart aromatic A383D (EMLA 26 dwarf): $26.50 apple with white dots on the skin. a mild pleasant flavor, gets each A large crop of fruit ripens in mid October but keeps for many months bigger than and tastes best after a month or any others more of storage. It blooms mid we offer. Just season with Rubinette and Spartan. one is enough It originated in Newtown on Long to make Island New York in 1759. A475D almost a whole pie. Wear a hard (EMLA 26 semi dwarf rootstock): hat while picking or it may make $28.50 each; A475DB (Belgian a big impression on you! Trees fence): $39.95 each are resistant to scab and mildew and very winter hardy. MM106 26 rootstock.A720S: $26.50 each The McIntosh Clan SPARTAN A beautiful dark red World’s Best medium size McIntosh type dessert Northeastern growers have long quality apple. Spartan is scab and Cooking Apples loved the unique sweet/tart flavors mildew resistant and is rated among of the MacIntosh apple. Now most BRAMLEY The English are particular the highest in antioxidents. Trees about their cooking apples, and this of the nation can enjoy that flavor. bear early and regularly Fruit ripens We offer a number of delicious dis- large, round, green-yellow apple in mid-October and is excellent with red stripes is the most widely ease resistant off-spring of MacIn- for keeping. A660D (EMLA 26 tosh. dwarf): $26.50 each used. Apples are firm and juicy and they NY 75414-1This beautiful dark red cook to apple has an excellent combination perfection. of sweet and tart flavors and is When resistant to apple scab, mildew and fireblight. Bred at the New ripe, they York Fruit Testing program, it has are good been extremely productive and of for fresh superior flavor at fruit tasting trials eating, too. at Mt. Vernon, Washington. It ripens Spreading in early October. A 555D (EMLA 26 trees bear heavily and regularly dwarf): $26.50 each and resist scab and mildew. Enjoy SHAYThe scab immune and mildew ripe fruit in early October Bramley resistant apple provides a heavy is rated among the highest in BELMACTM A new, productive, crop each year at Raintree in late phytonutrients. MM106 semi-dwarf all-purpose Canadian cultivar September on a sturdy, well- stock. A 140S: $26.50 each that combines flavor and keeping branched tree. The red, elongated ability with cold and disease KING EDWARD VIIThis large, fruit is crisp, sweet and great for yellow-green apple, named in resistance. The sweet, medium fresh eating. Developed by the to large, deep red apples ripen in late Dr. Ralph Shay at Oregon 1902, has been popular in English late September or early October State University from a planting at gardens as an outstanding fresh and keep three months or more. Purdue.A650D (EMLA 26 dwarf): eating and cooking apple. The scab A delicious, sweet/tart MacIntosh $26.50 each resistant tree flowers very late and flavor suggests parent Spartan. misses early frosts. Fruit ripens Belmac resists scab, mildew, and in early October and cooks to a cedar apple rust, thrives in eastern Surprise your Friends with firm, flavorful, translucent puree. Canada, and has proven a winner Red-Fleshed Apples in western Washington. It was bred EMLA 26 dwarf rootstock. A 485D: by Dr. Shahrokh Khanizadeh in Apples with red flesh are very high in $26.50 each Quebec and introduced in 1996. phytonutrients. Offered under agreement with Ag. MOTT PINK This Canada, Quebec. Includes $1.20 royalty per tree. (Ask us for a quote. crisp, juicy variety Bramley We can custom grow commercial makes a delicious pink applesauce Apple Pie quantities!) A100D (EMLA 26 from loads of Recipe rootstock): $26.50 each; medium-size, A100T (EMLA 27 mini dwarf yellow fruit with pink This is the rootstock): $26.50 each; A100F flesh. Fruit ripens best we’ve (Antanovka): $26.50 each tasted! En- on the productive tree in early to LIBERTY Dark, polished red skin mid-September. EMLA 26 dwarf joy Raintree and intense, sprightly flavor make rootstock. A553D: $26.50 each horticulturist Theresa Knutsen’s this medium size, elongated recipe: The Filling: 6 cups Bram- apple a long-standing favorite. ALMATA F or beautiful apple sauce ley apples, peeled and sliced. ½ Trees that were bred in New York and jelly, few compare with this cup sugar, 1 tbsp corn starch, 1 for high scab, cedar apple rust, flavorful, large red apple with bright tsp cinnamon, 2/3 tsp allspice. fireblight and mildew resistance pink flesh. Red leaves and bright Mix dry ingredients, blend with thrive in the Pacific NW and pink spring blossoms make it a apples, let stand 10 minutes and throughout most of the nation. great edible ornamental. It is very then put in pie crust. Dot with 1 Among the highest cultivars in winter hardy, with fruit ripening in tbsp butter or margarine. Top with antioxidants. Every year, a large October. On EMLA 7 semi dwarf lattice pie crust. Bake at 450F crop ripens on this spreading tree rootstock. A085S (MM106 semi- for 10 minutes, then 350F for 45 in early October. A520D (EMLA dwarf): $26.50 each minutes. The Crust: 2 cups flour, 26 dwarf rootstock): $26.50 ½ tsp salt, 3/4 cup shortening, 5 HANSEN’S RED FLESHA beautiful tbsp water: Sift flour and salt. Cut each; A520T (EMLA 27 mini tree with copper colored leaves and dwarf rootstock): $28.50 each; shortening into flour until thor- red flowers. The elongated, deep red, oughly blended, gently cut in wa- A520F (Antanovka): $28.50 flavorful, September apples are 2” each; A520SA (EMLA 7 semi ter until dough clumps together. long. The pink flesh makes a clear, Makes one 8- to 10-inch pie with dwarf): $26.50 each; A520TB delicious red jelly. A great landscape (mini Belgian fence): $39.95 top and bottom crust. tree, Hansen’s is beautiful in all each; A520DB (EMLA 26 dwarf seasons.A600S (MM106 semi- Belgian Fence): $39.95 each dwarf): $26.50 each 27 Enjoy the Best Japan spring pollinating weather. The scab and mildew resistant apple from Top Rated in Most Has to Offer Japan is an excellent variety for the of the Nation The Japanese, in general, love their organic grower. It ripens in early MELROSE T his flavorful red apple apples large, sweet and juicy! September. A 020S (MM106 semi is top rated for reliability & keeping. dwarf): $26.50 each; A020T Properly stored in the garage, it SANSA Extra early, ripening in late (EMLA 27): $28.50 each August, this juicy, crisp, sweet fruit can keep until May. A heavy crop from Japan has the best qualities of tart apples, great for cooking or of both parents, Akane and Gala. A A Wonder from eating fresh, ripens in late October. pretty red blush covers the yellow, Down Under Melrose is the official Ohio state medium-large, conical fruit. Sansa apple. A540D (EMLA 26): $26.50 has resistance to both fireblight PINK LADY®This beautiful new each; A540T (EMLA 27 mini and scab and also keeps well for apple from Western Australia has dwarf): $26.50 each an early apple. EMLA 26 dwarf. a pink blush on its yellow skin. The medium-size, conical fruit has JONAGOLDFirm, crisp, and highly A635D: $26.50 each flavored, this sweet, large, red and fine-grained flesh that is at once BENI tangy and sweet, crisp and crunchy. yellow apple scores on top in taste SHOGUN FUJI Apples are great for eating out of tests. A generous load of apples ripen Many fruit hand and are prized for fruit salads, early to mid-October and keep well. connoisseurs since they do not brown easily after Many orchards in the Northwest are love the crisp, being cut. Pink Lady (G. Delicious x grow Jonagold commercially. A460D juicy, very Lady Williams) ripens in late October (EMLA 26): $26.50 each; A460DB sweet flavor of and needs a hot summer climate to (Belgian fence): $39.95 each the Japanese ripen. A580D (EMLA 26 dwarf): apple Fuji, EMPIRE(Macintosh x Red Delicious) $26.50 each If you like McIntosh, you will love the however the regular tart, crisp, aromatic and tasty Empire. Fuji requires Minnesota Marvels The apple ripens in September with a long ripening season, making Very Versatile dark red skin and cream-colored flesh. It is excellent for fresh eating it hard to grow in the Pacific ZESTAR This patented, superior Northwest and other areas with and salads and good for sauce, winter hardy, early season apple baking, pies and freezing. Kids love relatively cool summers. After thrives in the Northern half of the testing many types of Fuji apples in Empire’s sweet-tart taste and super nation! Zestar ripens in late August crunchy texture. Planted widely in the Pacific Northwest, researchers and has a delicious crunchy flavor. recommend Beni Shogun, which New York since 1966, it is the most It will keep nicely for a month and a successful apple introduction from has excellent flavor and ripens half. The tree is a reliable producer almost a month earlier than the Cornell. Empire has low susceptibility of large red apples. USDA Zones to fireblight, and it has outstanding standard Fuji. This selection blooms 3-8. A 740D (EMLA 26 dwarf): in mid-season and will thrive in $26.50 each fruit quality, firmness and storage. much of USDA Zones 5-9. Patent A257S (EMLA 7): $26.50 each; 7997. A120D (EMLA 26 dwarf): HONEYCRISP A257DB (M26 Belgian Fence): $26.50 each (Macoun x $49.95 each Honeygold) SHIZUKA From Pick this Apples for the South Japan comes superior red this Golden apple with a 3x1 LOW CHILL COMBO APPLE Delicious x crunchy crisp I n Southern California, Arizona, Indo cross, texture and Hawaii, Florida and other warm leaving smiles juicy sweet- winter areas where winters in its wake. The tart flavors in provide little chill, (100 to 200 beautiful, very September hours is sufficient) this large, firm, yellow with pink blushed or let it combination grafted fruit is very sweet with low acidity, develop its apple on M111 rootstock and will ripen about mid October. It full aromatic will produce sweet, is also an excellent keeper. A655D flavor by leaving it on the tree crisp apples. You will (EMLA 26 dwarf rootstock): until mid-October. From the U of receive a tree with 3 of $26.50 each Minnesota, it is among the most the following 4 cultivars: Anna AKANE winter hardy of apple trees, showing Gordon, Fuji, Anna Pronounced little damage at -40°F. It resists and Dorset Golden. Anna is a red “ah-kah-nay,” scab and has shown no problems blushed apple from Israel, good this firm, with fireblight. Enjoy it great fresh fresh or cooked, early in the season. crisp and fully or in pies, crisps and apple sauce. Dorsett Golden, from the Bahamas flavored red Honeycrisp is among the most ripens in mid season. It is much like eating apple nutrient-rich of supermarket- Golden Delicious, firm and flavorful. produces available varieties. USDA Zones Gordon is a flavorful red apple good good crops 3-8. A 410D (EMLA 26 dwarf for cooking or fresh eating that every year, rootstock): $26.50 each; A410T ripens later in the season. This very no matter (EMLA 27 mini-dwarf): $28.50 productive tree will grow to about how bad the each; A410F (Antonovka): 15-20’, but can be kept shorter with $26.50 each; A410TB (Mini pruning. Self-fertile. Blooms early 28 Belgian): $39.95 each season. A803LC: $48.50 each Urban Apples® Urban Apples® are NEW columnar trees that produce their fruit on spurs along the main stem. Each combines disease resistance, flavor and ease of growing in small spaces. Each has a narrow upright habit, ideally suited to grow in a container on a patio or as a small tree in the ground. Like other apples you need two cultivars for pollination and each blooms mid season and is a good pollinizer for the others and for other mid season blooming Combo Apples apples. They are each highly scab and mildew resistant selections from Dr. Jaroslav Tupy of the Czech Republic. USDA Zones 4-9. Trees grow about 8’ Enjoy apples for months on one tall on MM106 rootstock. amazing self-fertile semi-dwarf tree. Pick apples from August BLUSHING DELIGHT™ Blushing Delight ™ has sweet flavor and a pretty red through October. On MM106 root- blush over a green background. It ripens mid-September. A 750S: $32.50 stock, it will grow to 15’ tall. each 4x1 Combo A8504S: $46.50 TANGY GREEN™ T angy Green™ has a crisp texture, lime green color and a each sweet/tart flavor. It ripens mid-September. A 755S: $32.50 each Four or five of the following: Spar- TASTY RED™ T asty Red™ is a bright red, firm sweet juicy apple that ripens tan, Honeycrisp, Chehalis, Akane, in mid-September. A760S: $32.50 each Liberty. GOLDEN TREAT™ N EW! Golden Treat™ is a beautiful golden apple with a Sorry! Because of difficulty track- sweet delicious flavor. It ripens in mid-September. A 765S: $32.50 each ing the possible combinations, we cannot tell you ahead which variety is missing on the combos. They are la- beled from bottom to top, and you will know when the labeled tree arrives. Columnar Trees Look mom, no branch- es! Perfect for patios, decks or other small areas, these trees Blushing Delight™ Tangy Green™ Tasty Red™ grow in a columnar form to 7-9’ tall. They are loaded with fruit which all forms along the main trunk Spreading the branch- or on short, es is important when spur-like growing a “Combo” fruit branches. tree. Trees can be planted in a whiskey barrel or planted two feet apart in the ground. Each will cross pollinate with mid-season polliniz- ers. On EMLA 7 rootstock. Patents pending. Hints on Growing Your Combo Tree NORTH POLETMThis crisp, juicy, red McIntosh-type apple ripens in late To keep the varieties in balance grow your “combo” tree September. A 275: $29.50 each as an “open center” taking out secondary branches that GOLDEN SENTINELTM A large grow into the middle. If one variety starts overgrowing the flavorful yellow fruit that ripens in others it can be slowed down by spreading the branch or early October. A272: $29.50 each tying it down. SCARLET SENTINELTM F or excellent Through proper pruning your varieties will stay balanced. production and disease resistance The tree owners manual that comes with each order tells on a narrow tree, try Scarlet you how! Sentinel. Large, greenish yellow apples blushed with red follow a On the label, the varieties are identified from the bottom rich display of white spring flowers. of the tree up. A273: $29.50 each 29 Espalier Choices Espaliers Pear Espaliers “Espalier” refers to special practic- B8403E — 3x1 3-tier Euro — Res- es for training trees onto trellises. cue, Highland, Orcas — $75 each There are many ways to make your B903E — 3x1 3-tier Asian — Yongi, trees into works of art, and the trees Chojuro, Shinseiki — $75 each we offer have already been trained along the same plane in a 3-tier, B180E — 3-tier — Orcas — $75 T-shape, horizontal cordon. each As you continue the training, you B1802E — 2-tier — Orcas — $55 can shape trees into any of the each designs seen in the drawings be- low. They are beautiful when grown B200E — 3-tier — Rescue — $75 against a wall, a building or on Note: Shipped espalier branch- each existing fence or wires. Trees should es may each be cut back to fit in be spaced an average of 8-10’ boxes. Come to the nursery and apart. Branches are at about 1-1/2’, get full-length branches. Be- Apple Espaliers 2-1/2’ and 3-1/2’. cause of the expense of shipping A8403E — 3x1 3-tier — Ashmead’s Trees are shipped in special protec- espaliers, our at-nursery prices Kernel, Liberty, William’s Pride — $75 tive boxes.Apples are on EMLA 26 are $15 per tree less plus you save shipping. Because of their each rootstock. The 3-TIERED espalier combos have a different variety on size, we can not ship espaliers to A570E — 3-tier Pristine — $75 each tier. AK, HI, or PR. each Three Traditional Espalier Patterns Your espalier may not look as good as the one to the left, but you’ll be in a lot less trouble than Napoleon’s gardener if you mess up! Belgian Fences Grow a beautiful diamond shaped fruiting wall. We offer apple trees on EMLA 26 and mini-dwarf 27 rootstock that are already shaped in a Y. Each tree has two branches. Each branch comes off at an angle only about eight inches above the roots. To make a Belgian fence, allow the branches to continue to grow at about 45 degree angles until they reach the desired height. If you plant the trees about 2 feet apart they will grow up into a beautiful diamond shape. Instructions are included with the trees. Here is an easy way to get started: Build a fence with wires starting at about 18 inches high and going up one foot apart until you get to between six and eight feet tall. Then get bamboo or other stakes and tie them diagonally to the wires. On M26 Dwarf Root- M27 Mini-Dwarf stock Rootstock The stakes will make a diamond pattern and show you where to tie your branches as you build your Belgian Fence. A257DB: Empire A240TB: Dayton Where the stakes cross at the bottom will show you where A460DB: Jonagold A385TB: Greensleeves to plant each tree. A475DB: Newtown A410TB: Honeycrisp We offer the following large 1-year-old cultivars as Belgian Pippin A520TB: Liberty fence starts. Also find them listed with the apple cultivars. A520DB: Liberty A570TB: Pristine Price each: $39.95 A570DB: Pristine 30 Apple Accessories APPLE MAGGOT CONTROL BAGS Protect your Apples and Pears from Apple Maggot infestations. While thinning to one per cluster, usually in May or early June, slip the opening of the nylon bag, with your two index fingers, just MINI-DWARFS enough to completely cover the new, ideally nickel size fruitlet. The bag will fill with the We offer ‘mini-dwarf’ apple trees grown on special growing fruit and protect it. This product has been used EMLA 27 rootstock. They are easily maintained at only succesfully here at Raintree and by many fruit hobbyists. four to six feet tall. These highly productive, compact They are quick and easy to use! Includes Instructions! trees are perfect to grow in a small backyard. You can These new heavier weave bags provide extra codling space them as close as 4’ apart. Or place the tree in moth protection. (Money from the sale of each box goes a fifteen gallon pot on the patio. You can train them to to support the fruit garden at the WSU Mt. Vernon station.) branch low (at 1’-2’) to maximize fruit production. Re- Contains 144 bags. T 167: $12.50 each move fruit for a year or two because once the tree starts bearing heavily, it stops growing. They begin bearing in FRUIT PICKING BAG The Deluxe Smith Bag the second year and each tree can produce a half box holds a bushel of fruit. The handsome bag is of fruit a season. The tree is not a gimmick. It is used 30” long and is made of Rip-Stop polyester extensively in Europe in commercial apple orchards and material which has a water resistant coating the per acre yields exceed American yields. Caring for on the inside. It is Ultra Violet and mildew the mini-dwarfs is a great project for kids. We offer 2’-4’ resistant, lightweight, durable, and easy to grafted mini-dwarf trees. See each variety for price. clean. The bottom conveniently folds up and releases to gently drop the picked fruit into a PERFECT FOR A SMALL YARD box. This leaves both hands free to pick. It will Ashmead’s Evereste Karmijn last a lifetime. The bag has a steel hoop and is completely Akane Greensleeves Liberty leather bound to protect all the areas of heaviest wear, Belmac Enterprise Melrose and the shoulder straps are a heavy 1-3/4 inch webbing. Boskoop Hudson’s Pristine T025: $45 each Chehalis Gravenstein Queen Cox Cherry Cox Honeycrisp William’s Pride Apple Pest Control CODLING MOTH TRAPS C ontains two sticky traps with lures which draw codling moths to their doom. Hang these Guide to Apples by Flavor 6-inch-long, non-toxic tents in your apples trees when It is difficult to describe “flavor” in a catalog de- they begin to bloom. Use two traps per mature tree. T161: scription. We try here to rate many of the apples we $11.95 each offer by the level of their acidity or tartness. APPLE MAGGOT TRAPS Each kit is designed to protect Note: Apples called “tart” or “tangy” can have one mature fruit tree. Kit includes three red spheres and as much sugar content as sweet apples. They have hangers, three pheromone lures, instructions and a large added acids which compliment their flavor. tube of glue. Set traps out in mid-April. Non-toxic. T 163: Sweet mostly (low in acids and moderate to high in sugars): Sansa, Beni Shogun Fuji, Chehalis, $19.95 each kit Greensleeves, Centennial. APPLE MAGGOT LURES The three lures, offered in a kit Sweet/tart balanced (moderate in acid, moder- above, are each in a tiny plastic container. You can twist ate to high sugars): Akane, Honeycrisp, Jonagold, tie them to red spheres like the ones we sell to further trap Melrose, Shizuka, Pristine, Dayton, William’s Pride, apple maggot males. T164: $7.99 for three lures Ashmeads, Hudson’s. Among the sweet/tart apples are also those in the Cox’s family. These include Ellison’s Orange, Rubinette and the McIntosh clan Apple Books and DVDs including Liberty, Spartan, Shay and Belmac. THE HOLISTIC ORCHARD BOOKS145: $39.95 Sweet with extra tartness (moderate to high in acid & moderate to high in sugars): Karmijn, Bram- THE HOLISTIC ORCHARD DVDS145D: $49.95 ley, Red Boskoop, Gravenstein. THE APPLE GROWER by Michael Phillips, 242 pages. Subtitled “A guide for the Organic Orchardist,” Phillips speaks to the larger backyard grower and commercial Apple Varieties Scab CAR Fireblight Mildew orchardist with years of knowledge and a reverence Dayton VR MR R M for nature. From planning the orchard and choosing Enterprise VR R R M cultivars and rootstocks to siting, planting, soils, mulches, Liberty VR VR R R pollination, pest control, harvesting and marketing, this Pristine VR R M R book is full of valuable information. S005: $39.95 William’s Pride VR R R M CONTROL OF APPLE ANTHRACNOSE DVDfeaturing plant Belmac VR R R R pathologist Ralph Byther. This instructive video shows Akane VR UK R R how to control cankers by cutting, torching, pruning and Centennial R R R R VR = Very Resistant; M = Moderate Resistance; UK = fungicides. Proceeds to the Western Washington Fruit unknown. CAR is Cedar Apple Rust: Other CAR-re- Research Foundation. S 522: $14.50 each sistant apples include Rebella, Arkansas Black. Fireblight resistant are Akane, Centennial, Rebella, Empire. 31 To Grow Apples You Need Proper Pollination • For pollination you need to have two different apple variet- EARLY SEASON MID SEASON MID-LATE ies! Apples with the exception of the Queen Cox self fertile Gravenstein Enterprise SEASON don’t pollinize themselves. Apples also don’t pollinize other Zestar Jonagold Honeycrisp fruits! Brown Russet Almata Shay • Please note that there are some cultivars that are new to us William’s Pride Golden Sentinel Pink Lady and we don’t know their relative bloom time. To be safe choose a mid season pollinizer for those varieties. Pink Pearl Belmac Foxwhelp • All the apples listed in red are triploids. These will not pol- Wynooche North Pole Melrose linate other varieties or themselves. However they are Blushing Delight Harrison pollinized by other apple varieties. So Gravenstein which is Sweet Sixteen Frequin Rouge a triploid won’t pollinize any other variety. However it can be EARLY-MID Tasty Red Queen Cox pollinized by another non-triploid variety that blooms near SEASON Golden Treat Goldstar the same time. Granniwinkle Bella Wolf River • How to read the lists! We have listed the apple varieties we Pink Cloud Spartan Ellison’s Orange offer from the earliest bloomer which is Gravenstein, to the NY 75414-1 Empire Dabinet latest bloomer which is Bramley. Chehalis Red Boskoop King Edward VII • The EARLY SEASON bloomers and the LATE SEASON bloom- Mott Pink Shizuka Michelin ers won’t cross pollinate because their bloom time is too far Pristine Greensleeves Kingston Black apart and the early varieties will be done blooming before Scarlet Sentinel Fameuse Arkansas Black the late ones start. Egremont Russet Beni Shogun • It is best to pick a pollinizer in the same half of the total list. Bardsey The closer the two varieties are in bloom time, the more Dayton Dolgo Ashmead’s their bloom will overlap and the more likely you will get LATE SEASON pollination and therefore fruit set. Holstein Hudson’s Liberty Northern Spy • What is important is to choose a pollinizer that is not too far in Newtown Pippin Silken Flower of Kent bloom time from your variety. For instance Liberty and Day- Evereste Centennial King ton are close enough to count on for pollination whereas Rubinette Sansa Bramley Liberty and Melrose are far enough away to often work but Karmijn not always. Zestar and Bramley would rarely if ever overlap Akane Hansen’s Red Flesh in bloom. While the bloom order stays generally similiar Puget Spice Campfield Not a pollinizer in different parts of the nation and in different years, the Hewes Roxbury Russett actual bloom dates change year to year depending on the Cherry Cox Johnny Appleseed Self fertile weather. Fort Vancouver APPLE RIPENING ORDER AUGUST Silken North Pole Puget Spice EARLY-MID Fort Vancouver Cherry Cox Melrose Dolgo Crab Ellison’s Or- Wolf River Scarlet Sen- OCTOBER NY 75414-1 Roxbury Centennial ange Beni Shogun tinel Bramley Egremont MID-LATE Newtown Williams Pride Gravenstein Pink Pearl Pink Lady Hansen’s Red Rubinette OCTOBER Pippin Zestar Queen Cox Bardsey Shay Flesh Spartan Kingston Enterprise Wynooche Mott Pink Bella J. Appleseed Belmac Jonagold Goldstar Boskoop Pristine Tasty Red Fameuse G. Sentinel Karmijn Foxwelp Hudson’s Sansa MID-LATE Blushing De- Hewes Honeycrisp Sweet Sixteen Flower of Kent B & G Russett SEPTEMBER light Greens- Frequin Rouge King Edward Ashmead’s Arkansas B N. Spy EARLY SEPT. Chehalis leeves Liberty Shizuka Evereste Campfield Akane Dayton Empire King Almata Holstein About Rootstock & Tree Spacing greater spacing. Our rootstocks are winter hardy to USDA Zone 4 and tolerate a wide variety of soils. They induce heavy early fruit pro- Most of our apple trees are grafted on the dwarfing EMLA 26 root- duction and make a well anchored tree. Chart includes varieties for stock. (Check the rootstock available after each varietal description.) It is a superior choice for backyard growers and produces a tree that will grow to 8’-14’ tall. As you can see from the chart below, some varieties on the same rootstock grow bigger than others and need Melrose Gold Star Belmac Rubinette King Bella Chehalis Jonagold APPLE TREE APPROXIMATE Pristine Wms Pride Liberty Karmijn Boskoop N. Spy Ark. Black Ashmead’s HEIGHT & SPACING CHART Greensleeves Evereste F. of Kent Wolf River Pink Lady Gravenstein Harrison Beni ShogunHoney Crisp E. Russett Ellison’s Shizuka Enterprise Roxbury Dayton Dolgo Crab Mott Pink Hudson’s Silken Foxwhelp Queen Cox Puget Spice Red Flesh Pink Pearl Zestar Centennial Sansa Kingston Akane Black Bramley Fameuse Resi Red Flesh EMLA 27 4 feet 5 feet 6 feet 8 feet Bud 9, 6 feet 7 feet 9 feet 11 feet EMLA 26 8 feet 10 feet 12 feet 14 feet EMLA 7 11 feet 14 feet 16 feet 18 feet MM 106 Antanovka Full Size 18 feet 24 feet 27 feet 32 feet 32 Crabapples it produces an abundance of red flower buds that open to a showy white. The tree is highly scab resistant. Its mid-season bloom The crabapple is a wonderful makes it an excellent pollinizer. A multi-purpose tree. Lovely in the natural dwarf, it grows to only 8’ tall landscape, most of our varieties on semi dwarf and 15’ on standard provide tasty tart apples that are rootstock. USDA Zones 3-9. MM106 prized for making jelly. Dolgo and semi dwarf. A180S: $26.50 each Evereste will enhance cider with their bittersharp and Hews with bittersweet HEWES qualities. Commercial orchardists VIRGINIA G eorge often use crabapple trees for polliniz- Washington’s ers because of their compact size and Thomas PRAIRIE FIRE A scab resistant and profuse blossoming. Research- Jefferson’s upright tree to 20’ tall with reddish ers have found that white flowered favorite cider bronze leaves and pink flowers and varieties are most attractive to bees. apple. Also called small bright red fruit, loved by birds. Dolgo is used as a great early season Virginia Crab, it is Beautiful in all seasons and a vivid pollinizer. Evereste is an excellent a small, flattened, accent in your landscape. On full mid season pollinizer. We offer 3-5’ bittersweet, dull size Antonovka rootstock. M906: crabapple trees, unless noted. What red apple ripe in $26.50 each makes an apple a crab is not its per- September that makes a clear dry sonality but its smaller size. cinnamon flavored cider. It has a long Beautiful in All bloom period and is a good pollinizer. Seasons & Edible The Best Edible Crabs A186S (MM106 semi-dwarf): $32.50 each EVERESTE™ E njoy this fantastic WSU PUGET new edible ornamental throughout SPICE™ This MALUS FUSCA SEEDLING T his the year. Each spring, this highly cross between crabapple is native from coastal disease resistant tree from France Prima and southern Alaska to northern is covered from base to summit with Alkmene is California. It is most found on fragrant, beautiful long lasting white scab immune, moist soils where it grows as a tall flowers. Every summer the tree is has a beautiful shrub. It can be used as a rootstock a spectacle in red, covered with upright shape for apples on very wet sites. The thousands of round tart 1” diameter and is covered disease resistant tree produces fruit. Use the fruit to make jelly, with fragrant white flowers. In the white flowers and small green/ pickled apples, cider or gorgeous fall it is loaded with tart small fruit yellow tinged red fruit very high in branch wreaths. The tree grows to great for making jelly, pickled fruit phytonutrients. 2-3’ size. M909: $5 10’ tall with branches arched out or blending in cider. It is a great mid each; 10+: $4.50 each from the weight of the fruit. The season pollinizer. A725S (MM106 fruit hangs until mid winter, so birds semi-dwarf): $26.50 each Gorgeous Ornamentals can eat what you don’t. Of dozens of varieties in the disease resistant DOLGO O ne of the best all purpose PINK CLOUD Having Pink Cloud crab apple trials, Evereste was the crab apples. Its large 1-1/2 inch tart is like having a tree covered with most resistant, easiest to care for crimson fruit make a rich, ruby red roses. Discovered by Ed Lewis of and most beautiful. A280D (EMLA jelly. The leaves are green and scab Bellevue WA, Pink Cloud’s buds are 26 dwarf): $26.50 each; A280T and mildew resistant. The profuse very large, rounded, magenta pink, (mini-dwarf): $28.50 each flowers are white. The name means on long stems. Fragrant, profuse ‘long’ in Russian, and refers to the fully double flowers open to light shape of the fruit. The fruit is so bright pink, like miniature roses. Pink in color and abundant that the tree Cloud has a vase like shape and looks like a decorated Christmas tree bronze-green leaves and is loaded when viewed from a distance. Dolgo with one inch red crab apples that adds a bittersharp flavor to ciders. persist into winter. They can be The fruit ripens in early September. used to make a tart jelly, if you get The tree will grow to about 15’ tall. them before the birds. EMLA 26. USDA Zones 3-9. A260D (M26 A532D: $26.50 each dwarf): $26.50 each CENTENNIAL Be prepared for heavy crops of 1-1/2 inch oval fruit with a sweet flavor. Use the crisp, juicy white fleshed fruit for canning, making jelly or just popping in your mouth. The fruit is a bright orange-red. It ripens in mid-August. Compact and great as a child’s tree, 33 Cider Apples MEDAILLIE D’OR A classic European cider apple. It is a bittersweet apple, very high in both sugars and tannin. It The cider apple and perry pear vari- makes a sweet cider with a high eties we offer are prized for making alcohol content and a delicious, hard, alcoholic cider. These variet- fruity flavor. It is somewhat scab ies, when blended with both sweet resistant. The fruit is oblate in and tart varieties, also brighten the shape and yellow with russeting. It flavor of sweet cider or apple juice. blooms very late in the season and A quality hard cider is often made ripes in late October. Named for using about 60% sweet, 20% tart the Gold Medal it won in France and 20% bitter apples. Many of the in 1873. A435S (MM106 semi- apples we offer can be the sweet dwarf): $32.50 each component of a quality cider. We can custom graft cider apples in MICHELIN NEW! A favorite commercial quantities upon re- “bittersweet” French cider apple, quest. from the 1880s. Mix it with other varieties to make a great hard or fresh cider. The sturdy upright tree European Cider Apples KINGSTON will grow to 15 feet. Fruit is small to medium sized, green with a bit of Correll Cider Presses BLACK T he russeting and blush. It is a reliable, • Can be picked up or shipped directly flavor of heavy cropper that ripens in mid- from Correll including UPS Kingston October. Needs a pollenizer. A550S • Several sizes and models Black is (MM106 semi-dwarf): $32.50 such a fine, • Handmade since 1973, no assembly each complex line combination DABINETT NEW! An annual, heavy • The best, pure and simple of sweet, bearer of medium to large size, round red apples. Harvest this Write or call for price list, info: sharp and Cider Press LLC; Correll Cider Presses bitter qualities that it makes a traditional “bittersweet” cider wonderful hard cider even without variety in late October. Makes a PO Box 400; Elmira OR 97437 blending with other varieties. beautiful 15-20’ spreading tree. Shop address: 25865 Hwy 126 #A109; Classified a “bittersharp” apple, A243S (MM106 semi-dwarf Veneta OR 97487 the English consider it to be the rootstock): $32.50 each Phone: (541) 935 3500 standard cultivar for making a high Website: correllciderpresses.com quality, single variety cider. A very Old American Cultivars large harvest of medium-size, red CAMPFIELD A medium size cider apples ripens mid-October. Don’t eat it; cider it! Trees will grow 15’ apple, greenish yellow with a red Cider-Making Books tall. MM106 semi dwarf.A430SA: blush. The flesh is white, firm, CIDER BOOK $32.50 each sweet and rich. Makes a great y Proulx b cider mixed with the variety & Nichols, FREQUIN ROUGE A bittersweet Harrison. The tree is vigorous and 188 pages. cider apple from Normandy. The productive. Origin: New Jersey It covers all tree is precocious and productive 1817. On MM106 semi-dwarf. aspects of and moderately vigorous. Fruit A165S: $32.50 each making cider. matures in mid season. It is favored Ciders are for making a high quality cider GRANNIWINKLE An old American sharp cider apple high in sugar and as diverse despite being scab and fire blight as wines and susceptible. MM106 semi dwarf. acids and low in tannin. Named for this book A325S: $32.50 the grower who first cultivated it explains how each in New Jersey in the early 1800’s to make many it is green/yellow with red stripes. of the different types. These include FOXWHELP It is a vigorous upright tree and Although the ‘English farmhouse ciders’, ‘French a prolific cropper that ripens in sparkling ciders’ and ‘American original Foxwhelp September. It’s often mixed with is described as a style ciders’. The instructions and Harrison. Prized for fresh eating or charts are clear and easy to use. small yellow apple cider. MM106 semi dwarf. A379S: with red stripes, For inspiration, there are interviews $32.50 each with master cider makers the world ours from the Mt. Vernon, WA, Station HARRISON O riginated in Essex over. A good book or a neighbor is a larger red apple. Classified as a County New Jersey before the with a full cellar are key to learning “bittersharp” it makes a full bodied, American revolution and highly the hobby. S340: $14.95 each aromatic, prized cider. It stores well prized. The apple is yellow and HARD CIDER IN THE PACIFIC NW b y for holiday cider making parties! It elongated with rich yellow flesh. It Moulton, King, Miles & Zimmerman, blooms mid season and ripens in mid produces a superior sweet cider. 48 pages. WSU. For commercial or October. Tree habit is upright. MM106 Fruits are often picked when they home growers. Learn about best rootstock. A 320S: $28.50 each fall in November. Trees are strong varieities, blends and all growing & and vigorous. MM106 semi dwarf. processing techniques. Most info is 34 A387S: $32.50 each useful nationwide. S343: $11 each Perry Pears HENDRE USDA Zones 5-9 unless otherwise HUFFCAPPIt noted. We offer sturdy, well-root- has a balance ed, 4-5’ pear trees. of tannin and RESCUE This pear is a show We offer these traditional pear cider acidity that making cultivars. Most are from stopper. Everyone who sees and makes it an ideal tastes this huge beautiful fruit Gloucestershire England. They pear from which insists on buying a tree. The fruit make delicious “perry” which is to make a single-varietal “perry” is yellow with a bright red-orange the word for pear cider, or you pear cider. Tree habit is extremely blush and the flesh is sweet, smooth can mix them with apples or other upright. It ripens in October. B115: and juicy. The scab-resistant tree is fruits to make a variety of delicious $28.50 each upright and vigorous and each year brews. Grafted on OHxF 87 semi- YELLOW HUFFCAPP Yellow Huffcap loaded with fruit. The fruit matures dwarf rootstock. They are mid- to is a traditional old English “Perry” in September and keeps until late-season bloomers and good pear used to make an excellent pear December. A small core makes it pollinizers. cider. It ripens in mid season and is easy to can. B200: $26.50 each BARNET A small, mid-season high in acids and low in tannins. The ORCASTM H orticulturist russetted scab-resistant pear with fruit is small and yellow/green and Joe Long discovered low acids and tannins. Trees have ripens in mid to late September. The this tree growing on an upright habit with compact fruit should be shaken from the tree his property on Orcas growth. Mix with others in ‘perry’. just before it is ripe or it could rot on Island, Washington Biennial bearing; precocious and the tree. Trees are vigorous with a and it has become a late flowering. B 037: $28.50 each spreading habit and very productive regional favorite. The but biennial and slow to come into fruit is large, flavorful THEILERSBIRNE A great cider bearing. Fruit is high in Vitamin C. and loaded each year making pear very high in tannic B116: $28.50 each with yellow fruit with a acid. The small fruit is green and the carmine blush. The tree has a vigor- flesh is brown with a sweet musty flavor. It originated in Switzerland in European ous, spreading habit. The pears are great for canning, drying or eating Pears 1848 and is a European hard cider fresh. The fruit matures in early favorite. B265: $32.50 each September. B 180: $26.50 each BUTTAn October ripening pear with moderate acids (Pyrus communis) We chose this Organic Growers Go and tannins that produces a fruity, slightly astringent interesting collection of pears Onward for their wonderful fruit quality ONWARD O rganic vintage of good quality. and because they are among the Fruit is small, yellow, English gardeners easiest for backyard garden- love Onward for its slightly russetted with ers to grow. We use the superior excellent keeping quality ease of growing winter hardy, semi-dwarf Old Home and reliability of prior to milling. A vigorous tree with x Farmingdale OHxF87 rootstock production even in years with narrow-angled crotches. Biennial unless otherwise noted. Comice, untimely spring frosts. The medium bearing and a heavy producer. B 065: Ubileen, and Conference are on size fruit is yellow when ripe in $28.50 each OHxF333 semi-dwarf rootstock. early September and sometimes russetted. It’s a heavy, precocious cropper with a rich sweet juicy flavor. It blooms mid season with Comice, How To Use Apples How To Grow but it will not pollinize or be pollinized by Comice. B17A5: $26.50 each IN THE LANDSCAPE: Apple trees come SOIL REQUIREMENTS: A well drained in all sizes, depending on the variety and the rootstock they are grafted upon. On soil in an area with good air drainage. Likes a slightly acidic soil. Heritage Pears: dwarf rootstock, they are wonderful grown on a trellis or in one of a number of fan, CULTURAL REQUIREMENTS: The mini- Flavors for the Ages cordon or espalier patterns. Crabapple dwarf fruit trees should be staked. Bal- WHITE DOYENNE This trees provide an attractive shape and anced fertilizer, compost or manure can very old French cultivar color. Trees on very dwarfing EMLA 27, or be used in the spring for the first years. is highly prized for its the columnar trees, produce fruit in a pot PRUNING: See “Tree Owners Manual” melt-in-your-mouth on the patio! online. texture and superb flavor, both fresh and Useful Facts For Your Health cooked. The taste has WHEN TO HARVEST: Consult catalog evoked poetic descriptions: “like ripening order. Sample fruit; cut in half to Many of the apples we offer have tested a buttery chardonnay, sweet yet check if seeds are brown. among the highest in polyphenols. An tart, with musky undertones and HARDINESS: USDA Zones 4-9, or as unpeeled apple can give you 50% more a strong perfume.” The favorite noted. phyto nutrients than one that is peeled. pear of famous chef Alice Waters, SUN OR SHADE: Full sun. Among our old time varieties Belle de it blooms early and ripens in late LIFE EXPECTANCY: 60-140 years. September. It is susceptible to Boskoop, Northen Spy, Bramley Seedling scab and not at its best in maritime YEARS TO FIRST FRUIT: 2-3 yrs. FOR THE BEGINNER: Choose disease and the Golden Russet and the newer Lib- climates. B130: $28.50 each resistant varieties. erty and Spartan have topped the charts YIELD: Dwarfs 30-60 pounds a season! for phytonutrients. 35 DUCHESS D’ANGOULEME Dating to blush. It ripens in late September. It ARGANCHE A mong 1808, this russetted French heritage is winter hardy and has performed the most flavorful pear is prized for large fruit and rich, well in much of the nation. It is early ripening pears juicy flavor. The upright, vigorous, also known as Fondante de Bois at the national hardy tree blooms with Conference (sweetmeat of the woods). B107: Pear repository in and ripens in early October. B100A: $26.50 each Corvallis OR. This $26.50 each round yellow pear ATLANTIC QUEEN A Brown Pear from Yugoslavia his old time pear T ripens in mid July. BOSC A firm B030: $26.50 each cultivar earns its royal fleshed flavorful appellation for the huge, pear with BELLA DI GUIGNO W hile others wait up to 1-1/2 lb. each, a beautiful until August for a ripe pear, you can yellow-green fruit it brownish enjoy this rich, buttery Italian delight produces in abundance. russetted skin in late June or July. Red blushed Enjoy the melting, and a crunchy texture. Some prefer three inch long fruit cover this sturdy, juicy, aromatic flesh it to the smooth texture of Comice. easy to care for tree. B045A: even when grown under adverse Very sweet and juicy. Outstanding in $26.50 each conditions. Shows resistance to the Pacific Northwest. Tastes best RED CLAPPS fireblight. Ripens in September. after storing a month or two. B060: FAVORITE A lso B035A: $28.50 each $26.50 each called “Red ABBE FETEL N amed for the French Kalle”. This Abbot who developed the cultivar Combination large pear in 1866, it is today the leading pear from Michigan variety in Italy. Italians and tourists European Pears is beautiful rave about its wonderful flavor. It COMBO with amazing ripens mid season and is large and EUROPEAN reddish purple fruit hanging like elongated with yellow skin and a red PEAR Multiple jewels from the tree. The fruit is blush. The flesh is white, melting, pear cultivars sweet and flavorful. It thrives in juicy, sugary and aromatic and it on one beautiful the Pacific Northwest and in much is fabulous eaten with a low salt tree. You will have of the nation. It ripens in early cheese. It can be fireblight and scab the greatest pear varieties ripening September. B 205: $26.50 each susceptible. B025: $28.50 each for months! Trees can be easily BARTLETT The maintained at 12’ tall. Self pollinizing. Fireblight Resistant Pears most popular pear On OHxF87 rootstock. B4004 4x1 Combo: Highland, Harrow Delight, BLAKE’S PRIDE in the U.S. and also A reliable harvest in Europe where it Rescue, Orcas and Ubileen: $46.50 each; B4004A 4x1 of aromatic, juicy is called Williams. fruit that melts Fruit ripens in Combo: Bosc, Bartlett, Moonglow and Highland: $46.50 each in your mouth early September. and excellent The large pears resistance to turn yellow with a Start Pear Season fireblight give this pink blush as they ripen. A favorite for eating fresh and Two Months Early recent selection plenty to be proud of. The fruit canning. B038: $26.50 each UBILEEN A large, is yellow-to-golden skinned with COMICE A large yellow pear with sweet, aromatic, some light russetting, The pears sweet juicy melting flesh. It provides pear from Bulgaria. are ready to harvest in September. the flavor standard by which to The skin is yellow B042A: $26.50 each measure all others. Harvest early with a pretty red blush. The WARREN A dapted throughout October. Tastes best after storing the nation and among the best a month and then ripening at room flavorful flesh is fine textured backyard choices. The fruit is juicy temperature. B 080: $26.50 each and sweet with buttery texture and buttery. It is SUMMER BLOOD BIRNE NEW! A red harvested in early and very good keeping abilities. flesh or “blood” pear that is scab August and top rated among Warren is resistant to fireblight, resistant and produces fruit with a thousands of pears from around and quite cold hardy (to -20°F). pleasing cinnamon like flavor. It is the world at the Germplasm It was discovered in Hattiesburg, an ancient cultivar thought to have Repository. B260: $26.50 each MS, by noted horticulturist T. O. originated in Germany. A favorite in Warren. The fruits are medium to the National Pear collection. B128: DOYENNE DE large and have a teardrop shape $26.50 each JUILLET B e among and green skin. B240A: $26.50 the few Americans each FLEMISH BEAUTY NEW! F lemish privileged to enjoy Beauty originated in Belgium in the this rarely seen, HARROW DELIGHT A heavy setting, early 19th century. It is rated a top sweet, early highly medium size pear with very good garden pear for its productivity and productive summer flavor and smooth texture. It is from its rich, buttery, juicy, aromatic, pear from Belgium. Ontario, Canada, and resistant to complex flavor. It is medium to large Small, round fruit, fireblight and scab. Fruit ripens in in size with yellow skin and a red about 2” in diameter, boasts a rich, early September. A proven winner at juicy, buttery flavor and ripens in the WSU Mt. Vernon station. B110: mid-July. B132: $26.50 each $26.50 each 36 AYER’S This old HIGHLAND variety is favored Highland in the South thrives as the “sugar” throughout pear because the nation. the pulp tastes This large like candy. The attractive tree is fire blight dessert pear resistant and the is yellow with medium size fruit some russetting. The flesh is is yellow with very smooth in texture and rich STUTTGARTER GEISHIRTLE a red blush. It blooms early and in flavor. Trees are very hardy, R ecommended by a Raintree ripens in September. It has a high of moderate vigor and very customer who loved it in her chill requirement and has proven productive. The fruit matures hometown in Germany. This sweet to do well in many areas including in early October and develops two-inch diameter russeted pear the Pacific Northwest. Zones 5-8. its best quality if stored about a will hang on the tree, ready to eat B075: $26.50 each month. Ripen the fruit on your during August. It’s a very heavy SPALDING If you counter through Christmas. It was annual bearer of delicious lunch like the crunchy, developed at the Geneva station in size fruit. The name means “little juicy, sweetness of New York.B120: $26.50 each goat herder.” B 232A: $26.50 an Asian pear and SUIJPronounced “sigh,” this is a each the mellow complex pear you pick while it’s rock hard in flavor of a European October or November and store it HONEY pear, you’ll love in a root cellar to eat fresh in March. SWEET Y ou Spalding. A healthy, Suij is one of the best keeper pears. will love the vigorous tree It makes a delicious and beautiful rich, firm and produces loads of pink pear sauce. This type of pear sweet flesh of medium size, round, was popular for hundreds of years Honey Sweet. light green fruit in early September. in Europe where people used it as a A smooth, Originally from the South, it thrives staple food through the winter but buttery pear, in the Pacific Northwest. This has gone out of fashion in the last similar to the European pear is partially self fertile 70 years. It is a cross of Comice and well-known Seckel pear but larger, and fireblight resistant. B230: the winter keeper St. Remi. We got it ripens to a golden russet late $26.50 each it from the Bullock family who got it in the season. Trees will set fruit GEM G em has proven itself in from Ed Suij. B231: $28.50 each without a pollinizer, but fruit will be extensive testing around the nation JOHANTORP bigger if pollinated. Honey Sweet and is newly released by the USDA A very late is resistant to fireblight and to leaf and bred by Dr. Richard Bell. It is ripening and spotting diseases. It’s great for highly fire blight resistant and is cold hardy home gardens and local markets. very productive at an early age. The pear widely B125: $28.50 each large, beautifully red blushed fruit grown in is juicy and sweet with a delicious Sweden Delicious Mt. Ash mild pear flavor. It ripens mid to for winter late season and is a good keeper. storage. & Pear Hybrid It can be eaten from the tree while Johantorp will SHIPOVA it is crisp and sweet or stored and hang on the (Pyrus x allowed to soften. Limit one. B119: tree late into the winter. They can Sorbus) A $28.50 each be picked in very late fall and stored rare and or in areas with mild winters, eaten unique Outstanding Keeper Pears directly off the tree at Christmas Pear and time. USDA Zones 4-8.B126: Mountain Pick these pears while they are rock $28.50 each hard in late October and November Ash cross from Yugoslav ia. It and store them cool but unfrozen. will grow to be a 15-20’ tree and Place them on your counter at room Small Pears with Big Flavor produces a crop of apricot size temperature when it says in the de- SECKEL (sometimes much larger) yellow, scriptions below and they will soften This famous round very delicious “pears”. and be ready to eat or cook with. small, but The leaves are silver grey and CONFERENCE Named for the very sweet, resemble a pear leaf in shape. British national pear conference heavy setting The hardy and scab resistant tree, in 1885, Europeans still gather variety is on OHxF pear rootstock, blooms to praise it. This leading French known as the in mid-April and ripens fruit in commercial variety is very juicy, sugar pear. August. Trees are slow to come sweet and buttery. It is the most It has yellow into production. They are partially productive pear, hanging from the russetted self-fertile but choose a Mt. Ash or branch in huge banana like clusters. skin and very late blooming European Pear Attractive, large yellow fruit matures extraordinary for pollination. USDA Zones 3-9. in October with Highland. It keeps flavor. It ripens in late September D170: $26.50 each through January. B090: $26.50 and is fire-blight resistant. B220: each $26.50 each 37 Using European Pears range of soils. PRUNING: See Tree Owners Manual that European Pear Ripening Order IN THE KITCHEN: Great for fresh eat- comes with each order. JULY White Doyenne ing. Dried, they taste like candy. Use for POLLINATION: Each variety needs a Bella de Guigno Onward canning, jams or preserves. As desserts, pollinizer unless otherwise noted. Because Doyenne Bartlett they can be poached and served with pear blossoms are relatively unattractive de Juillet flavorful sauces. Great sliced with chees- to bees, plant pears next to each other and Araganche OCTOBER es. In France it is the king of fruits, prized keep weeds down at blossom time. Euro- Angouleme pean pears start blooming in late March. AUGUST Yellow Huffcap by chefs. Oriental pears start blooming before Eu- Ubileen Hendre Huffcap IN THE LANDSCAPE: The shape of a ropeans; but late blooming Asians overlap Morettini Warren pear tree is strongly vertical. They can be with and will cross pollinate early blooming Stuttgarter Honeysweet trained as espaliers. Europeans. Gem SEPTEMBER Comice Useful Facts CULTURAL REQUIREMENTS: Pear branches grow upright and need spread- Red Clapps Russett Comice HARDINESS: On our OHxF rootstocks, ing. Most Pears should be picked before H. Delight Conference USDA Zones 4-9. they are fully ripe and ripened off the tree. Spalding Highland SUN OR SHADE: Full sun. Using the maturity dates offered with each Bartlett Abbe Fetel PLANT SPACING: 15’ on OHxF. variety as an estimate, cup your hand Rescue Bosc HARVEST TIME: July-October. under the pear and lift up. If the pear stem Orcas Butt ORIGIN: Caucasus mountains. breaks, the pear is ready to pick. The Ayers Barnet LIFE EXPECTANCY: 60 to 150 years. earlier pears only need a few days on the Blake’s Pride Suij YEARS TO FIRST FRUIT: 3 counter to ripen. The later pears need to Gem Johanthorp YIELD: 50 to 100 pounds per tree. be stored in a dark cool place for a month Flemish Beauty Vermont Beauty SOIL REQUIREMENTS: A well drained, or more then put on the counter to fully Seckel Pound slightly acidic loam soil but tolerates a wide ripen. Atlantic Queen European Pear Pollination and Bloom Order Choose two pear varieties in the EARLY MID-SEASON LATE same or adjacent columns for Spaulding Flemish Beauty Ayers pollination. While most pears polli- nate each other a few don’t. Among Bella de Giugno Summer Blood Birne Blake’s Pride them are Bartlett with Seckel and B. Precoce Morettini Warren Red Clapp’s Flemish Beauty with Comice or Bosc. Pound pear doesn’t pollinize Conference PSF Abbe Fetel Highland other pears. Shipova blooms very Doyenne de Juilett Pound Onward late and is only pollinized by Bosc or a Mountain Ash tree. White Doyenne Honeysweet PSF Harrow Delight Those in bold with PSF are partially Bartlett Atlantic Queen Seckel self-fertile. Ubileen Hendre Huffcapp Orcas Gem Yellow Huffcapp Comice Stuttgarter Johantorp Bosc Duchess d Angouleme Rescue Shipova Asian Pear Pollination Asian Pear and Bloom Order EARLY LATE Approximate Select two varieties for pollination. The first Seuri Mishirasu Ripening Order four varieties bloom particularly early and Tsu Li Ichiban likely will be best pollinized by one of the Shinsui Notice: We do other first four on the list. Varieties from Korean Giant Hamese Hamese not know the Yoinashi to the end of the list will usually Ichiban bloom times or Yoinashi Yongi Shinseiki ripening times pollinize each other. Hosui Kikisui Kikisui of some of the Kosui new cultivars Shinseiki Chojuro Chojuro we are offer- Shinsui Kosui Ooharabeni ing. If you don’t Hosui find a variety Yoinashi on the charts it • Fireblight Resistant: Spaulding, • Somewhat Resistant: Comice, Mishirasu is wise to have Morretini, Blake’s Pride, Potomac, Dabney, Seckel, Atlantic Queen, Atago several other Ayers, Spaulding, Warren, Tsu Li, Conference, Harrow Delight, Honey- Seuri pears to insure Seuri, Gem sweet, Chojuro, Kikisui, Kosui. Korean Giant coverage of Tsu Li its pollination requirements. 38 Asian Pears SHINSUI ATAGO U nlike Among the some Asian sweetest of pears that like (Pyrus serotina) Asian pears are the Asian it hot, Atago very sweet and so juicy that the pears and the develops juice will run down your chin when first to ripen. sweet, juicy you crunch into one. Here is an The upright flavor even exotic fruit that thrives in our vigorous tree in cooler maritime climate and throughout is a heavy summer most of the nation. Each variety producer of weather. A substantial crop of high has a different mixture of subtle medium sized orange russetted quality, delicious fruit ripens in late flavors and its effect on the palate fruit. One of the best at Raintree. September. Atago has been a star is unique and quite special. Unlike B663: $26.50 each in the Mt. Vernon trials. B 510A: most European pears, the fruit $26.50 each ripens on the tree. Our trees are Chinese Pears on OHxF97 semi-dwarf rootstock KOSUI This russeted selection unless otherwise noted. Hamese, TSU LI is one of the best tasting. It is Shinseiki, Kosui, and Mishirasu are T he fruit a reliable bearer of medium to on OHxF87 semi-dwarf rootstock. is very large delicious fruit. However, in USDA Zones 5-9. We offer well large and the wettest climates like Western rooted 4-5’ trees. elongated Washington, it and Hosui are like a susceptible to Pseudomonas. A European great choice in much of the nation. Cultivars With Yellow Fruit pear. The B535: $26.50 each flavor is KOREAN GIANT sweet and ( Dan Bae or aromatic, Olympic) The among vigorous winter the best hardy tree tasting of the Asian pears. The produces at a tree is upright and vigorous. Tsu Li young age and thrives in the Willamette Valley of bears a heavy Oregon and in other areas with long crop of large, hot summers, but may not ripen round olive consistently in areas with short green fruit that or cool summers. It is fireblight can weigh up to a pound each. The resistant. 300 chill hours. B740A: fruit can be kept in unrefrigerated HAMESE T his very sweet, crisp pear $26.50 each storage until March. This highly is the first to ripen each summer in touted pear blooms early season mid-August. Productive trees give SEURI The delicious and ripens in mid-October. It is crisp large crops of medium sized, yellow and juicy with high sugar content. skinned fruits of superior flavor. round large fruit has a It does well in most of the nation B545: $26.50 each but can ripen too late in maritime beautiful SHINSEIKI S hinseiki has yellow bright summer climates. B540 (OHxF87): skin with sweet white flesh. The orange color. $26.50 each; B540A (OHxF97): fine quality and medium to large The very $26.50 each; B450B (OHxF333): size fruit is similar to, though we attractive tree $26.50 each think better than Nijiseiki, (the originates MISHIRASU variety commonly found in grocery in China. It is very vigorous and Enjoy big crops stores). It is a heavy, regular bearer. productive. The aromatic fruit of huge brown Fruit ripens in late August.B720: ripens in early October. It is skinned oval $26.50 each fireblight resistant. B650B: $26.50 shaped fruit KIKISUI E ven each with beautiful when trees orange dots. are young, Cultivars With Russeted This unique fruit is very crisp and Kikisui Fruit reliably crunchy, with bears an YOINASHI excellent flavor. ample This round It ripens in late harvest of brown September. B 570: $26.50 each large, crisp, skinned fruit CHOJURO W e love the rich delicious is crisp and distinctive aromatic flavor of this fruit at juicy with an prolific traditional Japanese favorite. Raintree outstanding Sometimes called “Old World”, the starting butterscotch fruit is of good size and has brown in early flavor. It sets russetted skin. Fruit ripens in mid September. The round, yellow pears a heavy crop of medium to large September and keeps until March. are sweet and juicy, and the trees size crisp sweet fruit on a vigorous, B520: $26.50 each resist fireblight. B530: $26.50 pseudomonas resistant tree. B780: each $28.50 each 39 Quinces COMBO ASIAN HAVRAN A traditional PEARAmong Turkish variety from our most popular Izmir research station. trees are these It has very large, pear combinations with both yellow and Fruiting Quinces shaped fruit. The brown russeted Asian pears. The (Cydonia oblonga) At the turn of white flesh is sweeter hardy trees are self-pollinating and the 20th century almost every ru- than American ral family had a fruiting quince tree. cultivars. Fruit ripens produce delicious fruit all season. late September. It is on OHXF97 rootstock. It can The varieties we offer have delightful pineapple like flavors. They are prized Introduced to the U.S. by Dr. Elwood easily be maintained at 12 feet tall. Fisher.D087: $28.50 each for cooking, jelly making, and adding B9004 4x1 Combo- Yoinashi/ to apple cider. Quince trees are self PORTUGAL Yongi/Hamese/Chojuro/ fertile, have big white blossoms in late A large pear Shinseiki: $44.50 each; B9004A spring and very large bright yellow shaped old 4x1 Combo- Shinseiki, Yoinashi, fruit that ripens in October and hangs European Hamese, Mishirasu $44.50 each like lanterns in the autumn. USDA variety that Zones 5-9 unless otherwise not- is largest in Asian x European Pear ed. Fruiting quinces are self-fertile. the middle and tapers Grafted on BA29C Provence root- OOHARABENI NEW!An interesting stock. We offer 4-5’ grafted trees. at both ends. cross of Red Bartlett and an Asian It stews well pear made by the Japanese National American Gardener’s and becomes a deep crimson Fruit Institute. We found it at the when cooked. Mix one Portugal USDA Germplasm repository in Best Quince Collection with a dozen apples and you can Corvallis Oregon. The tree has a make a pink sauce with a delicious compact habit and has red leaves in pineapple like quince flavor. D070: spring turning green in the summer. $28.50 each The fruit is medium size, round and CLARIBEL A n open pollinated seed red when ripe in late August or early from the Russian quince cultivar September. The fruit combines the Maslenka Rannaya received by flavor and textures of it European and the USDA germplasm Repository from the Vavilov Research Institute Asian parents. B573: $26.50 each in Volgograd, Russia in 1990. This variety is superior, with larger fruit, greater production, good resistance Using Asian Pears to fungal diseases, and resistance to cracking following autumn rains. IN THE KITCHEN: Fresh eating, salads, AROMATNAYANorth American 074: $32.50 each Self fertile. D superior for drying or pickling. gardeners can now enjoy a quince IN THE LANDSCAPE: It is an excellent with a pineapple-like flavor that KARP’S SWEET ornamental, espalier or shade tree. The is sweet enough to eat fresh. The Finally available tree is covered with early white blossoms medium size “aromatic” fruit is to American and the glossy attractive leaves are tinged among the best of thousands of gardeners, with purple in the spring, late summer and this Quince is autumn. varieties from the Black Sea region uniquely sweet, of Russia and Turkey. The disease juicy and non- Useful Facts resistant tree produces round, yellow fruit, which ripens in October astringent, HARDINESS: On our OHxF rootstocks, especially and needs to be stored on the when grown Zones 5-9. EXPOSURE: Full sun. window until it starts to soften. Like in warm climates. Obtained via TREE SIZE & SPACING: 15 feet other quinces, the uncooked texture fruit connoisseur and writer David HARVEST TIME: August-October. Pick is dense, but it’s nice when thinly Karp, it comes to us through Edgar ripe from the tree. sliced and it is excellent for cooking. Valdivia whose family grew it at ORIGIN: China, Korea and Japan. D085: $28.50 lower elevations in Peru. We tasted LIFE: 50+ years. each uncooked fruit Valdivia had grown YEARS TO FIRST FRUIT: 2-3 SEKER GEVREK in California, and it was sweeter YIELD: 40-60 pounds and less woody than other quinces. sweet quince A SOIL REQUIREMENTS: Loam is pre- Grown in the Pacific NW, though, it ferred. Trees can tolerate wet soils. from Turkey which in Turkish was less sweet and soft. It is unique PRUNING: Train like a European pear or and worth trying in your climate. an apple, with modifications. See “Tree means sweet and Owners Manual” that comes with order. crispy. The large USDA Zones 6-10.D084: $28.50 Thinning the fruit to one for every 6 inches bright yellow fruit each is essential to avoid having huge numbers matures in early SMYRNA This reliably productive, of golf ball-sized fruit. October and keeps self-fertile tree was brought from PESTS: In the NW where the disease until February. The flesh is lemon Turkey over a century ago. Its “Pseudomonas” is a problem, prune only colored and sweeter than most large, yellow, pear-shaped fruit is from May-September to avoid infections. quinces. A great new quince for great for cooking, with a delicious the American fruit grower from the mild flavor that is favored for USDA germplasm repository in desserts, preserves and jellies. 40 Corvallis, Ore. D081: $28.50 each D080: $26.50 each VAN DEMAN ery large, V oblong fruit with bright yellow skin. Its spicy flavor is great for cooking and jelly. A heavy bearing Burbank selection which does well in cool summers. D090: $26.50 each PINEAPPLE Heavy crops of large, tart fruit are used in baking KRYMSKAYA NEW!A sweet fruiting and jellies. Enjoy the profuse, quince from the former Soviet ornamental bloom. It is cold hardy, Union. Krymskaya is productive TOYO NISHIKI Grow this beautiful yet has a low chilling requirement and ripen early to mid season and Japanese quince both for the lovely of 300 hours. A Luther Burbank is resistant to leaf spot. The fruit is early spring flowers of white, pink and selection. D086: $26.50 each sweeter than many quince cultivars. red (often all on the same branch) ORANGE NEW! D083: $26.50 each and for the deliciously fragrant njoy large, E fruits that ripen in late summer. The round fruit with Unusual Chinese Quince flowering branches make great cut bright yellow flowers and the large sometimes skin and orange PSEUDOCYDONIA SINENSIS Pretty apple-sized fruits may be used for tinted tender exfoliating bark on this 20’ tall jelly or just enjoyed for their aroma. and flavorful vase shaped tree reveals brown, green and orange patches. This Easy to grow in sun or partial shade, flesh that turns it can reach 7’ in height and width. red when its quince tree has single pink spring flowers followed by large oval tasty D050: $19.95 each cooked. Orange is an old time aromatic yellow fruit. In the fall enjoy VICTORY fruiting quince tree cultivar. D082: rich red-orange foliage. It is hardy Victory $26.50 each to USDA Zone 5. From the USDA produces Repository in Corvallis OR.D092: large LIMON A lemon- $28.50 each shaped cultivar aromatic with lemon yellow fragrance prized Flowering Quinces fruit each in the markets of (Chaenomeles speciosa) Flowering fall that is Turkey. Also from quinces are a group of very winter used to the germplasm hardy, disease resistant, deciduous make jelly repository in shrubs covered with an abundance or syrup. It Corvallis. The of beautiful flowers early each is a great medium size tart fruit ripens early spring. The varieties we offer each edible for a quince, in late September and follow up with a crop of nutritious ornamental, with scarlet flowers keeps until December. Resistant to fruit with a pineapple and citrus fla- in March. It often blooms again Quince Leaf Spot. D057: $28.50 vor that can be used to make jellies in summer. Grows to 8 ft. as a each or syrups. This is a great group of vigorous bush. One gallon size. EKMEK A great choice for culinary edible ornamentals. For fruit, plant D065: $19.95 each uses, medium-size Ekmek is the two varieties. They make great CONTORTED G orgeous pink flowers most popular quince in Western hedge plants spaced about 4’ apart. cover this unusually contorted Turkey and new to American USDA Zones 5-9. shrub in the very early spring. Cut gardeners. It has regularly SUPER FUSION(C. x superba) produced large crops of juicy, branches can be brought indoors An arching 4’ tall shrub with in January to bloom. The twisted yellow, pear-shaped fruit with bowl shaped scarlet red, flowers creamy, yellow flesh at Raintree. form is striking in the winter. D091: It ripens in September. D088: appearing in April to May. The $22.50 each $28.50 each roundish yellow fruit is especially prolific and especially rich in vitamin CAMEO I t is grown for its lovely soft C. One quart pot.D047: $22.50 apricot and pink colored double each flowers that cover the bush in early spring. It produces an abundance of small quinces prized for jelly when pollinized by another flowering quince. It is thornless and compact, reaching a height and spread of about 4 feet. One gallon size. D040: $19.95 each 41 Extend Your Season Cherries EARLY BURLATWhy wait for the cherry season to start? Why not Fresh cherries are so expensive eat large, sweet, dark red flavorful to buy. Yet, with our new, ear- cherries from the tree a week or two ly-bearing dwarf Gisela® 3 and before everyone else? Early Burlat is Gisela® 5 rootstocks, they are very productive and bears every year. easy to grow and pick! Many peo- It is resistant to bacterial canker and ple have told us, “Full size, sweet to cracking. The tree is moderately cherry trees that grow to 40 feet tall vigorous and spreading. It is fast are for the birds.” We agree! Now becoming a backyard favorite. Needs it is no longer necessary to risk life a pollinizer.C721G3 (Gisela® 3): or limb to pick a bowl of cherries. $29.50 each; C721G (Gisela® 5): We offer dwarf cherry trees of many $29.50 each varieties that thrive in our maritime HUDSON This very firm, sweet dark climate and in most of the nation. red, crack and rot resistant cherry All our cherries, unless noted, are on lengthens the cherry harvest for the very dwarfing Gisela® rootstock two weeks or more. Introduced in and the price includes the expensive 1935 by the NY Experiment Station, rootstock royalty. We offer sturdy 4’ to we have reintroduced it for its 5’ Gisela® 5 and 3’ to 4’ of the more outstanding flavor, productivity dwarfing Gisela® 3 grafted trees that and late season. On Gisela® 3 will dig in and grow for you. They are rootstock. Needs a pollinizer. often unbranched “whips” that will C765G3: $29.95 each branch well upon planting! Sweet cherries are USDA Zones 5-9, and tart cherries are USDA Zones 4-9 An Old Favorite Early Burlat unless noted. Sweet cherries need BING T he delicious large, firm black a pollinizer unless otherwise noted. cherry Eastern Washington made famous. It grows in dry climates The dark red to nearly black fruit but the fruit may crack west of the has a wonderful spicy flavor, firm Sweet Light Red and Cascades. It’s crispness and flavor texture and medium-to-large size. Yellow Cherries are unmatched. It is one of the Needs 800 chill hours. (Zaiger). most nutritious, rich in anthocynins. Patent #7320. USDA Zones 4-8. NUGENT B irds eat cherries when C710G3 (Gisela® 3): $29.95 each; they start to turn red and even C725: $29.95 each C710G (Gisela® 5): $29.95 each the “so called yellow cherries” like Rainier have at least a blush Unique Low Chill Cherries Hardy Wonders of red. However this variety is KRISTIN T he world’s hardiest sweet all yellow. It ripens in mid to Are Headed South cherry, Kristin has survived winters late season, is productive and from windswept Norway to Montana. has an excellent flavor. This all Now growers in Southern lower chill areas can successfully grow cher- These big, dark red cherries are yellow cherry from New York crack and bacterial canker resistant is producing well in Western ries. These delicious sweet cher- ries are newly introduced by Floyd and proven in much of the nation. Washington. Plant it and the birds Zaiger and require only 400 hours of Ripens mid-July.C780G3 (Gisela® will cry fowl! Needs a pollinizer. chilling. USDA Zones 7-10. On Colt 3): $29.95 each; C780G (Gisela® (Recently known as NY 518.) semi-dwarf rootstock. 5): $29.95 each C 755G3 (Gisela® 3): $32.50 each; C755G (Gisela® 5): ROYAL LEE R oyal Lee is a very HARTLANDTM A large, heavy $32.50 each productive, medium-large red bearing, attractive, dark red cherry. cherry; heart shaped, very firm with Rated among the most flavorful, it EMPEROR FRANCIS The most excellent flavor. It ripens 11-14 days is also resistant to cracking and rot. reliable and productive cherry in our ahead of Bing. Pollinized by Minnie It ripens and blooms in mid season. region. A regular bearer of medium Royal. C 826: $29.95 each It’s from the NY Experiment Station. size, light colored sweet cherries of A proven winner also at the WSU Mt. excellent flavor. It is loaded with fruit MINNIE ROYAL Minnie Royal is a productive medium-sized red Vernon station. Hartland™ is rated each year. C740G (Gisela® 5): highest in antioxidents of the sweet $29.95 each cherry; firm with good flavor, mainly used as a pollinizer for Royal Lee. cherries in a recent survey. Patent RAINIER Prized for its outstanding, It ripens 11-14 days ahead of Bing. #11034. C762G3 (Gisela® 3): zesty flavor, Rainier is a highly C825: $29.95 each $29.95 each; C762G (Gisela® 5): productive yellow sweet cherry $29.95 each with a red blush. The fruit is firm and large and the tree is vigorous. Self-Fertile Dwarf It does well in drier climates but CRAIG’S CRIMSON Our most often cracks in Western WA. dwarfed cherry tree is perfect for C 850G3 (Gisela® 3): $32.50 the small garden. This naturally each; C850G (Gisela® 5): semi-dwarf cultivar is self-fertile $29.95 each and grown on the New Root 1 Zaiger dwarf cherry rootstock, so 42 it can be maintained easily at 6-8’. Self-Fertile Sweet Cherries TEHRANIVEE A new mahogany colored self-fertile sweet cherry DANUBETM A new selection from Hungary, where delicious cherries All the self-fertile varieties are also with black-red juice. Tehranivee have been grown for centuries. It good pollinizers for the other sweet has excellent flavor as well as is also called Erdi Botermo. The cherries! size, sweetness and firmness. dark red fruit has a flavor that is a LAPINSA self-fertile variety of It ripens at the end of July in cross of the sweet and tart cherry. sweet cherry with large dark red Western Washington so it avoids It is delicious eaten fresh or used fruit of excellent flavor. Lapins cracking. Bred by famed Canadian in baked goods. It is productive trees are bacterial canker and researcher Gus Tehrani, it was and ripens in early July. C720G3 crack resistant. This tree is a very released in 1996, from the Vineland (Gisela® 3): $29.95 each; C720G consistent and heavy bearer. It Ontario Station and is a cross of (Gisela® 5): $29.95 each has wide adaptability through the Van and Stella. This beauty will be a winner for American home MONTMORENCY T he classic pie nation. Lapins needs only 500 cherry tree. The beautiful upright chill hours! C821G3 (Gisela® 3): orchardists. C895G3 (Gisela® 3): $29.95 each tree thrives in our area. It produces $29.95 each; C821G (Gisela® 5): an abundance of bright red cherries. $29.95 each VANDALAY A delicious, large black C830G (Gisela® 5): $29.95 each STELLA Ideal for a backyard cherry that resists cracking and bacterial canker. It is an excellent ENGLISH MORELLO M orello cherries grower without space for two have a deep crimson flesh and rich sweet cherry trees, this self-fertile pollinizer for other varieties. Raintree offers Vandalay to American wine red juice. English Morello is selection is from Canada. Juicy, an old variety, grown for centuries, heart-shaped, black cherries boast gardeners after it has proven to be among the most flavorful and reliable with tart aromatic flesh. The juice firm texture and excellent quality. is abundant and unparalleled The productive tree has moderate in the midwest, northeast, and at the WSU Mt. Vernon WA research station. for cooking and pie making. The resistance to bacterial canker. large heart shaped dark red fruit is Needs 800 chill hours. USDA Zones It ripens with Bing and blooms with Sweetheart. From the Vineland freestone and ripens in August, at 4-8.C871G3 (Gisela® 3): $29.95 the end of the cherry season. The each; G871G (Gisela® 5): $29.95 Research Station in Ontario, Canada. Plant patent applied for. Self-fertile. tree habit is small, easily maintained each at 8’ or less. C835G3 (Gisela® 3): C890G3 (Gisela® 3): $32.50 WHITE GOLDTM(PPAF each; C890G (Gisela® 5): $29.95 $29.95 each; C835G (Gisela® 5): Cultivar New Fane) each $29.95 each An outstanding new ALMADEN DUKE The delicious red and yellow, mid- season cherry with Tart Cherries combination of sweet and tart flavors makes this new cherry good size, great flavor All of our tart cherry trees are self unique. Thought to be a seedling of and consistent heavy fertile. The trees are easily main- a Mazzard cherry, it is easy to grow cropping. White Gold is somewhat tained at 8-10’ in height. They have and very productive. It was provided resistant to cherry leaf spot and proven anti-inflammatory proper- to Raintree by Andy Mariani and bacterial canker. An Emperor Francis ties. discovered in the Almaden Valley x Stella, recently released from SUREFIRETM A surefire, easy picking near San Jose CA. The tree can NY experiment station. Self-fertile. choice for the backyard grower be maintained at 10’ tall. C715G NY13688. C845G3 (Gisela® 3): and U-pick marketer. Because it is (Gisela® 5): $29.95 each $32.50 each; C845G (Gisela® 5): very late flowering, Surefire evades $32.50 each KANSAS SWEET NEW!Its delicious and tolerates frosts and annually sweet/tart flavor comes from it BLACK GOLDTM (PPAF Cultivar produces large, crack resistant being a Duke cherry which is a cross Ridgewood) We love the flavor and crops. Both skin and flesh are fire productivity of this large, firm, deep engine red. Its high sugar content between a sweet cherry and a tart red (almost black) disease resistant makes it excellent for eating fresh. cherry. The beautiful, lush, columnar sweet cherry. It is late blooming It ripens a week after Montmorency. tree grows to 8-10’ with thick, dark, and self-fertile so it sets a big crop So highly regarded, it is the first oval leaves, making it a wonderful where others fail. From New York sour cherry introduced by the choice for an ornamental focal point Fruit Testing.C840G (Gisela® 5): N.Y. Geneva Station in 107 years. in the edible landscape. Self-fertile. $32.50 each; C840G3 (Gisela® C880G3 (Gisela® 3): $29.95 Perhaps if it was named Kansas Tart 3): $29.95 each each; C880 (Gisela® 5): $29.95 its name might be misinterpreted. each C810G (Gisela® 5): $29.95 each SWEETHEARTA large bright red self-fertile cherry with excellent Super Hardy Tart Cherry flavor. It shows a EVAN’S This Morello-type, tart cherry low incidence of with crimson flesh and rich red juice cracking. The tree is was found near Edmonton, Alberta, upright and vigorous. which explains its exceptional cold It is so heavy bearing tolerance. Naturally dwarf, rounded and precocious trees grow to 10’ and annually that when grown optimally, it produce heavy flower and fruit crops. benefits from thinning. From British An exceptional choice for commercial Columbia, it performs well in much & home orchard use, especially in of the U.S. and has done well at the north. USDA Zones 3-8. C886G the WSU Mt. Vernon WA station. (Gisela® 5): $29.95 each It ripens late, a week after Lapins. C883G (Gisela® 5): $29.95 each 43 How To Use Cherries IN THE LANDSCAPE: Sweet cher- The Gisela® Dwarf Rootstock: ry trees make attractive yard trees with their rich green, large, serrated leaves and lovely fragrant white spring Incredibly Productive blossoms. Pie cherry trees have darker We offer virus-free cherry trees but also disease resistant, leaves and make good smaller yard trees. on the dwarfing Gisela® 3 and 5 making a tree that can be main- rootstocks. tained at 10-12’ tall. Useful Facts Developed over 30 years, at the For the first time in years, we are HARDINESS: Our Gisela®3 dwarf University of Giessen in Ger- also offering the Gisela® 3 root- rootstock is hardy to at least -25° F. Sweet cherries are USDA Zones 5-9; many, these rootstocks have stock which is the most dwarfing tart cherries are USDA Zones 4-9 proven their value throughout of the Gisela® rootstocks, making unless noted. the U.S. in the NC 140 rootstock a tree that grows to only 8-10 feet SUN OR SHADE: Full sun. trials. tall. It tends to make a broad tree ORIGIN: Eastern Europe. excellent for a small area. Its small LIFE EXPECTANCY: 35 years. The large royalties we have to size and early heavy bearing are YEARS TO FRUIT: 2-3 pay on the rootstocks account MATURE TREE YIELD: 25-50 pounds. great attributes but because of HEIGHT & SPACING: 12 feet. for the higher price. However, this, the tree needs good grow- the years you gain in early pro- ing conditions to thrive. It is very How To Grow duction and easy picking make precocious prompting the tree to SOILS: Avoid heavy clay and wet soils it well worth it. Patents make it il- bear heavily at an early age. for sweet cherries. legal for gardeners to propagate PRUNING: See Tree Owners Manual Giessen rootstocks without an It may require fruit thinning to that comes with each order. expensive license. However, we maintain fruit size and avoid PESTS: Birds like cherries and eat overbearing and having the tree many just before we humans do. Yellow offer for sale the VSL 2 (Krymsk fruited varieties don’t attract birds! 5TM) dwarfing cherry rootstock. stop growing. Regular irrigation is Selecting varieties on dwarf rootstocks needed. It is not recommended See the rootstock page for more and using netting and scare tape will for the heaviest bearing cultivars help you get the fruit. information. like Sweetheart. It is recommend- POLLINATION: Some sweet cher- Gisela® 5 induces early and ries need another sweet cherry as a ed that dormant pruning on all pollinizer. Some don’t pollinate each heavy fruit production, is very dwarf cherry trees be done in late other. Tart cherries are self-fertile but winter hardy and thrives on a winter before bloom time which won’t pollinate sweet cherries. See the wide variety of soils. This root- reduces the chance of bacterial pollination chart. stock is not only very dwarfing canker infestations. For Your Health Tart cherry juice can reduce inflamma- tion and is used to treat gout. Eat your cherries soon after harvest because the antioxidants begin being depleted soon after picking. Among the sweet cherries, Hartland tested highest in antioxidants. We have large specimen bearing fruit trees that are way to big too ship at our garden center in Morton, Washington. Call 1-800-391-8892 or visit raintreenursery.com for availability. 44 Combo Cherries Peaches & WHITE LADY T his low acid/high sugar white fleshed peach has a DWARF CHERRY COMBINATION flavor that will melt in your mouth. Nectarines These unique The medium large, red skinned trees are fruits are freestone and have very grafted on firm flesh. White Lady is widely dwarfing adapted throughout the nation Gisela® 5 rootstock. This amazing (Prunus persica) Nothing beats the wherever peaches will thrive. 800 tree can be maintained at 10 feet flavor of a fresh peach or nectarine chill hours. C553: $28.50 each tall. Enjoy loads of delicious cherries ripened in your own backyard. Our on this self fertile tree. You get 3 disease resistant varieties make it HW 272 or 4 of the following 5: Glacier, easy for you to succeed. Now you onsistently C Montmorency, Emperor Francis, can grow great peaches and nec- high marks Lapins and Early Burlat. C9004: tarines in the Northwest as well as in from fruit 4x1 Combo: $54.95 each; most of the nation. We offer self fertile researchers C9003: 3x1 Combo: $49.95 each varieties, unless noted, which are of at the WSU excellent quality. Many are resistant Mt. Vernon to leaf curl. A nectarine is a peach station have Cherry Accessories without fuzz. We offer sturdy well root- prompted us BIRD SCARE TAPEThis tough 7/16” ed 4’-5’ tall trees. On Lovell rootstock to get permission from Canada to wide shining metallic tape is red on unless noted. USDA Zones 5-9 unless offer this numbered selection. HW one side and silver on the other and otherwise noted. 272 is a very flavorful, reliable and its shimmering scares heavy bearing peach from Harrow BABY Station, Ontario. It has successfully the birds. 290’ roll. CRAWFORD T080: $5.95 each withstood lower temperatures at the This heritage Harrow station than other peaches. CHERRY STONER/ peach SUCTION BASE T he It is consistently productive in cultivar has Western Washington. Ripe in early Victorio Cherry Stoner an intensely August, it is free stone and has handles up to 30 rich, flavor. yellow flesh and is attractively pounds of cherries The medium colored with a 70% blush on a bright per hour. Feeds and size freestone yellow background. . It has a low separates pits from peaches incidence of split pits and shows fruits with little loss of juices. Also are yellow has a one year warranty. T383: field resistance to brown rot, canker with golden- and bacterial leaf spot. Patented by $27.95 each orange flesh and a slight blush. Fruit Ag. Canada. C516: $26.50 each BIRD NETTING B irds love to eat the connoisseurs rate it at the top for fruit from blueberry bushes, cherry flavor eaten fresh, preserved, dried trees and grape vines. Get your or canned. C504 (Lovell): $26.50 Curl Resistant Peaches share by putting netting over your each Enjoy delicious peaches from your plants. 14’ x 25’ piece of netting, CONTENDER This hardy, late own tree. Peach leaf curl has always enough to cover two dwarf cherry blooming peach escapes spring been a major problem for backyard trees or lots of bushes. Black frosts and sets fruit in much of peach growers. Raintree is the netting with 2” mesh. T430: $14.50 the nation: it thrives in the East, in leader in introducing good tast- each Colorado and in the Northwest. ing, resistant varieties. On Lovell COMMERCIAL BIRD NETTING BY It has a high chilling requirement rootstock unless noted. THE FOOT W e have long rolls of (1050 chill hours), and isn’t good AVALON PRIDETM (Patented Cultivar bird netting. Use it over grapes or for the Deep South. The beautiful, Croft) Discovered as a chance build a structure over blueberries large fruit is bright red over yellow, seedling in 1981 in Issaquah, WA. or dwarf cherry trees. Secure with is firm, sweet and delicious. Since it by Margaret Proud and named in clothespins at the bottom. (Cut to resists browning and is freestone, it honor of her father Donald Croft. The order at 5’ intervals, 25’ minimum is great for fresh eating, freezing or highly flavored, yellow fleshed, semi- length per piece. canning. Introduced from the North freestone fruit is good for canning, Carolina Experiment station in 1988. pies or eaten fresh. Fruit ripens in mid HEAVY DUTYThis is 17 feet wide. It ripens in August. USDA Zones This green netting is top rated July. C525A: $26.50 each 4-9. C 505A: $28.50 each commercially and is rated for 10 BETTYA sweet years if taken in for the winter. HARKEN flavorful leaf curl T433: $1.35 per foot This is and split pit resistant the best peach. It ripens late flavored in the season, at the Cherry Ripening Order peach in end of August. It has a Early Burlat Kristen Nugent our climate. deeper color than the Royal Lee Angela Sweetheart From variety Frost and is as Minnie White Gold Lambert Canada, or more productive. It was a seedling Royal Rainier Almaden hardy and found near Ferndale in Western Stella Bing Hudson widely adapted, it is very sweet Washington and is the newest curl E. Francis Sam Montmo- and bears a regular crop of large resistant peach successfully tested at Lapins Vandalay rency freestone peaches. For canning, the WSU Mt. Vernon Station. C503: Hartland Tehranivee K. Sweet pick fruit before it is table ripe. $26.50 each Black Gold Craig’s Surefire Ripens early August. C510D: Danube Crimson Morello $26.50 each 45 FROSTTM BLACK BOY NEW! A rare hardy highest T he longest heritage peach cultivar that is leaf quality. Well tested, curl curl resistant and has a wonderful thinned, resistant rich flavor. Dark reddish purple skin tree-ripened tree, Frost and flesh have resulted in its name. specimens is still It ripens in late season and is self may surpass unsurpassed. fertile. It is known mainly now in 4 inches in In mid- New Zealand and it is related to the diameter. August, it Peche de Vigne, the black peach of France. It fragrant juicy flesh is Ripens early produces August. C578: reliable crops highly prized eaten fresh and for preserves. USDA Zones 5-9. C501: $26.50 each of semi-freestone, yellow-fleshed peaches that have a rich, sweet $36.50 each LIMIT ONE KIT flavor. Wonderful for both canning DONNELL and fresh eating. C500A (St Julian Special New Cultivars PEACHTM I t A): $26.50 each Selected for Flavor is named SALISH SUMMERTM P reviously after the These peaches and nectarines late Kit known as Q1-8, this semi-freestone, are a recent creation of the Cali- white-fleshed peach has a Donnell, fornia Rare Fruit Growers’ Hybrid- former wonderful sweet flavor that is great izer Group, a group dedicated to for fresh eating. Showy blossoms reviving the classic fruit flavors of chairperson in spring predict ripe fruit in early the past. $1 from each sale goes for the August. Selected by Dr. Robert to the group, which is dedicated Santa Norton for its flavor and reliability. to developing superior stone fruit Clara Valley, CA, chapter of the C530: $26.50 each varieties for home gardeners. CRFG. Although new, this peach MARY SPECKLED EGG NECTARINETM has many old-fashioned peach JANETM S peckled Egg is a top quality, characteristics: A yellow freestone R eliable, huge, yellow nectarine developed with little red coloration, delectable colorful by CRFG’s Hybridizer Group. It’s flavor and juicy texture. It’s also very and named after it’s speckled blush productive and the fruits are often delicious, and oblong shape. The texture of great size. It is an ideal peach this tree is meaty and juicy with a sweet, for eating fresh, canning, pies and produces classic nectarine flavor of the preserves. C507: $28.50 each showy pink flowers and sets Using Peaches & Nectarines fruit even in frosty IN THE LANDSCAPE: Trees are fast growing and have attractive leaves and fragrant springs. In mid-August, a crop of pink blossoms. Genetic dwarfs are perfect in a pot on a patio. flavorful, red skinned, yellow-fleshed peaches are ready for fresh eating, Useful Facts drying, canning or freezing. A chance HARDINESS: USDA Zones 5-9 seedling selected by Louie Strahl SUN OR SHADE: Full sun. in Steilacoom, WA. C 552: $26.50 HEIGHT & SPACING: Genetic dwarfs 5’ . Other peaches 12-15’ on Lovell and St. Julian A each rootstock. On Citation and Krymsk 1 rootstocks they may be somewhat smaller. INDIAN FREE POLLINATION: Self-fertile unless noted! Prized it for LIFE EXPECTANCY: 15-20 years. its rich color, YEARS TO FIRST FRUIT: 2-3 flavor and YIELD OF MATURE TREE: 30-50 pounds size. Naturally resistant to peach leaf How To Grow curl, the tree SOIL REQUIREMENTS: Adaptable to many soils as long as they are well drained. produces heavy CULTURAL REQUIREMENTS: Unlike apples, standard peach trees require heavy prun- crops of large, aromatic freestone ing to produce well. Prune off old wood, always renewing branches, because peaches peaches that have red skin and bear on new wood only. Prune to an open center vase shape or in a fan shape on a trellis white flesh marbled with crimson fence or wall. stripes. When fully ripe in mid to late LEAF CURL CONTROL: Please note that the leaf curl resistant peaches will get some season, the sweet, distinctive flavor leaf curl for the first few years. To control leaf curl, spray lime sulfur when the buds first is excellent both eaten fresh and crack open in late December or early January and then three weeks later. Or if spraying in preserves and chutneys. Plant by the calendar, spray once in late December and twice more at two week intervals. another peach or nectarine as a pollinizer. C524 (Lovell): $28.50 each; C624A (Citation): $28.50 For Your Health each White fleshed peaches are higher in phytonutrients than yellow fleshed varieties. The skin is the most nutritious part. The variety Indian Free with its red-streaked flesh is 46 particularly high in anthocyanins and antioxidants. ELDORADO PEACH A richly SATURN PEACHTM Saturn is a flavored genetic dwarf with a “Peento” peach and is shaped like pretty red blushed skin. It is early a doughnut without the hole. They ripening, freestone and self- have large, showy double pink fruitful and makes a beautiful flowers. The very sweet, medium- fruiting bush. Needs 500 chill size fruit has melting white flesh. hours. USDA Zones 6-9 C540: Patent #5123. C547A (Lovell): $26.50each $26.50 each; C547 (St Julian A): EMPRESS PEACH Enjoy the $26.50 each delicious juicy sweet flavor. This SWEET BAGEL PEACHTM Look! productive dwarf tree is the It’s a bagel. No, it’s a doughnut. hardiest of the genetic dwarf What? It’s a peach? The look of peaches to Zones 5-9. The fruit is new Sweet Bagel may surprise you MARIA’S GOLD NECTARINE TM a beautiful glowing pink color and at first, but when you bite into the The pure golden skin and flesh the flesh is yellow. It needs 850 juicy, yellow fruit, you’ll recognize of this juicy, richly flavored Chill Hours. C 518: $26.50each the superb peach flavor. The nectarine has a delicious balance 2x1 NECTARINE - PEACH COMBO productive trees like hot summers. of sweetness and acidity typical Enjoy two great varieties on a Fruit is large compared to other of the exotic fabled “Golden small tree. The Nectar Babe flat peaches.C545: $26.50 each Peaches of Samarkand.” Named nectarine has large sweet yellow after Russian horticulturist Dr. Maria Plekhanova, it is a hybrid freestone fruit and the Pix Zee Nectarines Selected peach has sweet flavorful orange- for Flavor derived from seeds brought back red clingstone fruit with yellow from Uzbekistan by Andy Mariani. flesh. USDA Zones 6-9. C5802: These aren’t genetic dwarfs. The C573: $28.50 each $36.50 each trees will grow to 10-12 feet in RASPBERRY RED height and width. Nectarines are NECTAZEE NECTARINE Enjoy NECTARINETM peaches without the fuzz. Developed by the the flavorful yellow fleshed, red skinned fruits on this beautiful, HARDIRED NECTARINE T op rated California Rare Fruit Growers’ Hybridizer freestone dwarf tree. C585: for west of the Cascades, this Group. A rare $26.50 each Harrow Ontario selection will excel nectarine with rich red throughout Zones 5-9. It bears large flesh reminiscent of the old “Indian Chinese Flat Peaches quantities of red sweet tasty, yellow Red” peaches. It is the result of fleshed fruit in early August. The crossing red-fleshed peaches with & Nectarines tree is attractive and spreading in white nectarines and re-crossing Flat Peaches and Nectarines are habit, tolerant of bacterial spot and the subsequent seedlings. Small new to American gardeners. They brown rot and covered each spring to medium sized fruit has dark grow like other peach trees. The with large showy pink flowers. burgundy skin with flesh streaked in fruit is flat and very sweet. They C565A (St Julian A): $26.50 each red and a juicy, melting texture. The need a hot summer climate and flavor is unique: rich and complex, 500 chill hours to thrive. On Lovell Gorgeous & Tasty Too very sweet but with a pleasant rootstock unless otherwise noted. tartness similar to raspberry. C576: Self fertile. ATOMIC RED FLOWERING $28.50 each NECTARINE Perhaps inadvisably SAUZEE named for its beautiful, deep-red KING Genetic Dwarfs WHITE double flowers that shine like a beacon. Talk about a stunning Genetic dwarf NECTARINE edible ornamental, it also provides peaches and New from a good mid-season crop of medium nectarines grow Zaiger to large white fleshed flavorful 4-5’ tall and are Hybrids nectarines. USDA Zones 6-9. Needs great in a pot on — the first the patio, deck 500 chill hours. (Not recommended donut-style in wet or in the ground. nectarine! Each is grafted maritime This climates.) about 18” high outstanding to make a beau- C508: tiful dwarf bush early $26.50 like the one pic- season each tured. All ripen variety in June in central California to early has white August in the Pacific Northwest. All flesh that genetic dwarfs are very susceptible, is sweet and juicy. The compact but avoid leaf curl when they are tree sets fruit at a young age and grown in a special, easy to accom- produces heavily. Thinning is plish way. Cover the tree so it stays required for large fruit size. The fruit dry from mid Dec. to Feb. and it has red skin over a blush of yellow. won’t get leaf curl. Each is on Lovell On Citation rootstock. C563: rootstock. Each is self-fertile. $26.50 each 47 Versatile Favorites Apricots is marbled red and yellow. While it has fruited well in cold climates, TOMCOT These luscious huge we have not successfully fruited orange orbs are the first apricots to it here at Raintree in our maritime (Prunus armeniaca) We offer a col- ripen each season. The firm orange climate. USDA Zones 4-8. On Lovell lection of unusual Apricots and Apri- flesh is delicious eaten fresh or rootstock. C380: $32.50 each cot crosses from around the world! dried. Select another apricot as a Apricots come from cold climates pollinizer. Developed by WSU fruit where they must bloom very quickly breeder Tom Toyama from a cross “Sweet Pit” Apricots after their chilling requirements are made in 1970. It will do well in much They are called “sweet pits” because met. In more moderate climates of the nation but not west of the you can eat the kernel like you would they bloom very early and must be Cascades. C385D: $26.50 each an almond, as well as enjoying the planted in areas where they aren’t WESTLEY This self fertile apricot flavorful fruit. subject to early spring frosts! We from Northern California is excellent HUNZA F rom the land of the Hunza offer sturdy well rooted 4-5’ trees. eaten fresh and particularly prized in northern Pakistan, where people On Lovell rootstock unless other- dried. The medium to large fruit routinely live to well over the age of wise noted. has orange flesh and good flavor. one hundred. The kernel of this small, It blooms and ripens in the late sweet fruit is the primary source of These Produce in the season. It has looked good in trials at the WSU Mt. Vernon station oil for the Hunza, and many claims are made concerning its healthful Pacific Northwest in Western Washington. C477: properties. Kernels must be roasted Where Others Fail $26.50 each or otherwise cooked before eating. Puget Gold and Harglow both bloom The Hunza leave the fruit on the tree later and tolerate more frost while Cold Climate Black Apricot to dry before harvesting, but we can’t recommend this method for still setting fruit. They are more TLOR-TSIRAN BLACK APRICOT those in wetter climates! The flesh of likely to fruit in a maritime climate ( Prunus dasycarpa) As far as we the fruit, when cooked, has a deep where numerous other varieties know, only Raintree is offering Black toffee flavor. Self fertile. It is not likely have failed. They also appear to Apricots to American gardeners. to produce well in cool maritime be somewhat less susceptible to This is a selection of an unusual, summers. USDA Zones 5-9. On disease. If you live in a maritime naturally occurring hybrid of apricot Citation rootstock. C475: $28.50 climate and are not in a late frost (P. armeniaca) and myrobalan each pocket, try them. plum (P. cerasifera) from central Asia. We tasted it in Russia at the CHINESE SWEET PIT Also known PUGET GOLDTM as the Chinese Golden, Mormon This prolific Krymsk Station near the Caucasus mountain range and enjoyed the or Large Early Montgamet Apricot. bearing tree It is late blooming, making it produces large flavor. The skin of the tasty oval fruit is fuzzy like an apricot but is an excellent choice for higher elongated fruit elevations or late frost areas. The of very good a dark purple. The trees showy white blossoms appear slightly tree is medium size, precocious flavor. The tree and a heavy bearer. Its golden blooms in early later than other apricots. The flesh orange medium size fruit is sweet, March and the firm and juicy. It ripens over a long fruit ripens in period of time. It is winter hardy and early August. A self fertile. USDA Zones 4-9. On natural semi- Marianna 2624 rootstock. C476: dwarf, the tree $28.50 each can easily be maintained at 15’ height Miniature Size, Big Flavor and spacing. PIXIE COT MINIATURE APRICOT A It’s self-fertile. new and exciting breakthrough for C460C (St. the backyard grower. This new Zaiger Julian A): introduction has a delicious flavor. It $26.50 each HARGLOW A late blooming, How To Use Apricots How To Grow early ripening, IN THE KITCHEN: Eat fresh, stew or can. SOIL: Well drained soil. Prefers a neutral self-fertile apricot that has proven They are wonderful dried, in jams, nectars pH itself in our maritime Pacific and as leather. POLLINATION: Self fertile unless noted. Northwest and in most of the IN THE LANDSCAPE: Apricots have the CULTURAL REQUIREMENTS: Prune to nation. It is an introduction from the most beautiful foliage of the fruit trees. an open center shape. Fruit spurs bear Harrow Research Station in Ontario, Leaves are first a bronze color, turning to several years. Water trees in the summer. Canada and shows some resistance green as they mature. to brown rot and other diseases. For Your Health The firm, sweet, flavorful fruit is Useful Facts Apricots have 3 to 8 times the phytonu- medium to large and a deep orange HARDINESS: Zones 5-9 unless noted. trients of peaches or nectarines. Fully color with a red blush. C470C (St. SUN OR SHADE: Sun. ripened fruit from your tree is far more Julian A): $26.50 each HEIGHT & SPACING: 15 feet. nutritious than the fruit picked semi ripe YEARS TO FIRST FRUIT: 2-3 from a store. 48 YIELD: 30-120 pounds per tree. is a miniature, easily maintained at ened for the first time this year at is ripe, the yellow/green skin turns only eight feet tall. The abundant Raintree and produced a delicious a dappled maroon and yellow. fruit is medium size with a bright crop of beautiful fruit. A frequent taste test winner for orange skin. It has yet to be tested SWEET TREAT its distinct Plum-Apricot flavor. around the nation but is expected PLUERRYThis Dandy is a good pollinator for to be very cold hardy and should new dark red other pluot varieties and among do well where apricots thrive. On fruit with yellow the most widely adaptable to Citation rootstock, the tree needs a flesh is a complex colder climates. Thin the fruit so well drained soil. Patent pending. 600 interspecific it doesn’t overset and become chill hours. USDA Zones 6-9. C480: hybrid, biennial. On Citation rootstock. $26.50 each predominantly of Needs 500 chill hours. USDA Zones 6-9. C 376: $26.50 each plum and cherry Persian Delight with a hint of peach and apricot FLAVOR thrown in for good measure. It GRENADE SHAA-KAR-PAREH Shaa-kar-pareh looks a lot like a small round plum Enjoy is a delightful, white-fleshed apricot explosive, from Iran. It is an ancient hybrid but the taste is like a tasty plum infused with cherry flavor. It’s new sweet-as- between a myrobalan plum and an honey flavor. apricot. Medium to large fruit with and unique and will be very popular. It blooms with late mid season This green light yellow skin flushed with rose. fruit with a The white flesh is exceptionally Asian plums and needs a pollinizer. Flavor King Pluot, Burgundy and red blush, hangs on the tree and sweet with plum-like flavor. It ripens can be eaten for four to six weeks early in the season and is self fertile. Santa Rosa plums have proven good pollenizers and gardeners will as it keeps getting sweeter. It USDA Zones 6-9. On Marianna 2624 extends the stone fruit season rootstock. C383: $28.50 each need to experiment to find the best pollinizers in their region. (See Asian and can be harvested in October. Plum Plum Pollination Chart.). USDA The fruit will still have a distinctive Zones 6-9. Needs 450 chill hours. crunch. Good reports have come On Myro 29C rootstock. C356: in from USDA Zones 5 and 6 areas Crosses $29.95 each CANDY HEART PLUERRY™ Candy Heart’s skin is dark speckled red that have good late-summer heat. Those who can grow Flavor Grenade successfully are in for We offer many new fabulous plum a late-season treat. Pollinized by and the delicious and uniquely Japanese plums or pluots. On crosses. Plum is crossed with cherry, flavored flesh is amber/red. It Myro 29C. Chill hours 600. USDA peach, nectarine and apricot. Pluots ripens after most cherries and Zones 5-9. C 377: $26.50 each and Apriums are incredibly sweet Japanese plums and is pollinized crosses of plum and apricot with a by the Sweet Treat Pluerry™ or a FLAVOR SUPREME wonderful variety of complex flavors later blooming Japanese Plum. lavor Supreme is F and colors. Pluots are mostly plum On Myro 29C rootstock. C 359: the sweetest and while Apriums are predominately apri- $29.95 each most flavorful of cot. Both will thrive where Apricots do all the pluots and well. NADIA™ CHERRY PLUM This that’s saying a lot. new rare cherry and plum cross The rich, sweet red All the cultivars listed thrive in the from Australia has a delicious flesh is covered California central valley where they combination of cherry and plum by maroon and green mottled were bred but are still being tested flavor. Larger than a cherry and skin. It needs a Japanese plum in other climates! These patented smaller than a plum, it is a cross or other pluot for pollination and Floyd Zaiger introductions all need of the Black Amber Asian Plum requires 700 chill hours. On Myro hot summers to bring out their and the Supreme Cherry, an 29C rootstock. USDA Zones 7-10. sugars and incredible flavors. We’ve Australian dark cherry cultivar. C 455: $26.50 each chosen several cultivars that have The skin is dark red as is the flesh. proven the most cold hardy! Howev- The fruit is firm, sweet and juicy. er they don’t do well in high humid- Further evaluation will be needed Apriums Rest ity. They are easily maintained at as to its hardiness and range of on Cots 10-15’ tall. We offer 3-5’ trees. adaptability though judging by its FLAVOR DELIGHT parents it could be hardy in USDA APRIUMThe flesh The First True Cherry Zones 5-9. The tree grows to is yellow and firm about 15 feet tall and is grafted on x Plum Crosses St. Julian A rootstock. PP19842. like an apricot but it has a combination Famed fruit breeder Floyd Zaiger C 358: $29.95 each of apricot and plum has crossed a cherry with a Jap- flavor. The fruit is anese plum to create a wonderful new fruit he calls a Pluerry™. Until Most Widely two inches long and incredibly sweet. It needs hot very recently Cherry Plums were just Adapted Pluots summers to bring out its full flavor. a name for small plums. Now we DAPPLE DANDY This large It ripens in mid-July on a vigorous have true crosses that incorporate freestone fruit upright tree that can be maintained cherry flavor into what looks like a is also called at about ten feet tall. On Marianna plum. “Dinosaur Egg” . 2624. Self-fertile. Patented. USDA A pluot, another pluerry or a mid When the incredibly Zones 6-9.C360: $26.50 each season blooming Asian plum would sweet and delicious be a good pollinizer. Pluerries rip- red and white flesh 49 LEAH COT APRIUM A new Zaiger Apricot cross with attractive orange Patent 8393. A Floyd Combination Crosses Zaiger selection. 600 skin and flesh and a rich apricot chill hours. It does 4 x 1 COMBO PLUOT These are flavor. Enjoy heavy crops of very large well in hot summers the most popular and proven Pluot flavorful fruit early in the season. and is a good one varieties. They vary in fruit skin color, Self Fertile. It needs 500 chill hours. to try in maritime from yellow to red, making this a Like other apricots it blooms early in beautiful combination. The fruit is of climates. USDA excellent quality, incredibly sweet, the season and is not suited for late Zones 7-9. On Lovell frost areas including the maritime plum-like, with an apricot aftertaste. rootstock. C 351: $28.50 each It ripens in July and August. The Northwest. USDA Zones 7-10. C363: four varieties are Dapple Dandy, $26.50 each Plum x Peach x Nectarine Flavor Queen, Flavor King and Flavor Supreme. The dwarf tree on Citation Rare Peach Plum Crosses SPICE ZEE NECTAPLUM This is a rootstock is self-fertile and will pollinize new and unique introduction that early ripening Japanese plums. USDA Zaiger’s Peaches and Nectarines truly tastes like a delicious cross Zones 6-9. C3604: $54.95 each crossed with Plums don’t require as of a plum, peach and nectarine. much summer heat as Plum, Apricot The first Nectaplum™ from Zaiger 4 x 1 ZEE SWEET PLUOT COMBO A crosses. They ripen early in the sea- Hybrids. Spice Zee is a great choice combo with great colors and flavors. son and they do better in maritime for the home gardener. It is slightly These are Zaiger introductions. areas though like most peaches acidic and loaded with sugar, giving Geo Pride has red skin and is very they are not resistant to leaf curl. productive and flavorful. Emerald it a spicy sweet flavor. Along with Drop is golden and sweet as honey. TRI LITE PEACHPLUM A rare cross great flavor, Spice Zee is a beautiful Splash is golden and tops in flavor of Peach and Japanese Plum. The ornamental tree with a tremendous and Flavor Grenade is green with delicious white flesh has a classic spring bloom followed by dark red red flesh. 500 to 600 chill hours. peach flavor with a wonderful plum leaves in the spring that mature to Patented. Pluots need hot summers aftertaste that is truly unique. It is a a rich green-red in late summer. to bring out the sweet flavors. As yet clingstone, very productive, early This variety is self-fruitful and very untested in colder climates. Self- season ripener with great flavor productive. USDA Zones 6-10. Patent fertile. USDA Zones 6-9. On dwarf canned or eaten fresh. Self-fertile. pending. On Lovell rootstock. C357: Citation rootstock. C3654: $54.95 Enjoy the showy pink spring flowers. $28.50 each each Plums ing to fifteen different species and are native to areas throughout the world. No fruits we can think of come in such a variety of colors, shapes, sizes and flavors. Our plums are on semi dwarfing Marianna 2624, St. Julian (Prunus species) Raintree offers a wonderful col- A or Lovell rootstocks unless otherwise noted. They are lection of the most flavorful plums from around easily maintained at an average of from 10-13’ tall and the world. Plums provide an abundance of delicious need that spacing. USDA Zones 5-9 unless otherwise fruit with relatively little care. Plums are unique among noted. Each needs a pollinizer unless noted! We offer the fruits in that they are a very diverse group belong- sturdy, well rooted 4-5’ trees. European REINE newly introduced by Cornell, has CLAUDE a very high sugar content. Several DOREE pickings, beginning in late August, Plums This is the original Gage plum, are needed for a complete harvest. Formerly known as NY 101. Includes $1 royalty. On Marianna 2624. European plums come in many the famous C054: $28.50 each types, colors and flavors. Reine GOLDEN Claude TRANSPARENT Doree from France. Connoisseurs Gage Plums prize the small, yellow/green plums GAGE W e think this is the best Gage plums came from Italy to that ripen in August or September late season France in about 1520 where they for their incredible sweet juicy flavor. gage plum. The were named “Reine Claude”. From Andy Mariani’s orchard. Plant well formed tree Brought to England in 1720 by Sir another Gage plum for pollination. produces yellow William Gage, he soon lost the On St Julian A. fruit with red labels. These delicious fruits, ideal USDA Zones 6-9. dots and a rich, aromatic, sweet for dessert or jams, have thereaf- C015A: $26.50 yellow flesh. The fruit ripens in late ter been named after him. Rain- each September. On St Julian A. Self- tree recommends you purchase a fertile. C050: $26.50 each permanent label for each fruit tree, ROSY GAGE thereby assuring no plums will be Y ou will love PURPLE GAGE We love its sweet, named for you. Other Gages, Coe’s the dense, rich dense, rich flavor and beautiful Golden, Stanley and Prune d’ Ente flavor. This purple color and large crops in late are great Gage pollinizers. rosy skinned, August. A freestone with a small pit, yellow fleshed, the tree is upright and productive. 50 productive plum A great dessert plum. Partially self fertile. Also called Reine Claude Violette. On St Julian A. C211A: Try Our Selection $28.50 each of Prune Plums! CAMBRIDGE What makes a plum a prune is that GAGE E njoy it can be dried. Our prune plums these uniquely- are also great for fresh eating and flavored, KIRKE’S BLUE I ntroduced by cooking! satisfying, rich Joseph Kirke of London in 1830, IMPERIAL EPINEUSE Gage plums. this large, round, dark blue plum is T his wonderfully Sweet, dense still the finest flavored of all. Each flavorful sweet flesh is green August, trees at the Wisley Royal French prune plum and firm, and Horticultural gardens produce has been used at the skin is incomparable freestone fruit with the English National greenish yellow with a red blush. yellow, drippingly juicy flesh and a Fruit Trials as a This partially self fertile, compact fantastic flavor. A challenge to grow standard to judge prune flavor. The tree blooms with Rosy Gage and successfully, it needs a pollinizer. fruit is medium to large, red to purple bears a heavy crop that ripens in C160A (Marianna 2624): $28.50 with a meaty yellow flesh. The tree late August. On Marianna 2624. each; C160: (St. Julian A): is an attractive upright grower. The C 055: $28.50 each $28.50 each very sweet, freestone fruit ripens in BAVAY GAGE Reputed in England OPAL NEW! late August. This selection is new to to be the best late Gage plum, this pal ripens O Raintree. In the past we had offered a self-fertile selection claims rich in late July, similar variety and have obtained the flavor, sweet, juicy, deep yellow flesh one of the true Imperial Epineuse thanks to Todd and yellow-green skin dotted with first European Kennedy. Needs a pollinizer. On St white. It ripens in late September and plums to Julian A. C141: $28.50 each hangs on the tree for several weeks. ripen. Enjoy PRUNE D’ENTE A favorite since 1843, it is large for heavy crops 707 This self fertile a Gage and produces a reliable of small to medium size reddish French prune plum crop. The compact tree suits small purple roundish plums with a is most highly gardens. On dwarf Citation rootstock. delicious gage like flavor. Opal is prized in its home C010: $26.50 each self fertile and blooms with Seneca country for large, and Victoria. Opal is very popular in very sweet fruit with England. On St Julian A rootstock. English Favorites C214: $24.95 each violet-red skin and yellow flesh. In the tradition of the renowned Try our plums from England. They “Agen” prunes, this clone has a each have fantastic flavor and are Victoria Would Like high sugar and low water content, the finest connoisseur fruit in the making it superior for drying. Newly realm. to Introduce Her available to American gardeners, EARLY LAXTON T his beautiful pink- Swedish Cousin! the fruit is delicious eaten fresh or orange oblong freestone plum with VICTORIA I n late dried, stewed or made into jams. delicious yellow meaty flesh is the August of each In France, it blooms in mid season season’s first European plum to year, trees in and matures in early September. ripen. Each year the tree overflows English gardens This cultivar is from Andy Mariani’s with fruit. In 1916 it received the overflow with orchard. On Marianna 2624. C111: British Award of Merit. The fruit is these incredibly $28.50 each high in Vitamin C and is rated tops productive, ITALIAN PRUNE (Sehome strain) The for cooking. The tree is upright, colorful large Italian prune is famous for reliability care-free and needs a pollinizer. On oval pink plums. and heavy setting. It’s a large purple St Julian A.C100A: $28.50 each The flesh is a golden yellow and freestone plum with yellow-green COE’S GOLDEN sweet. It is self fertile, freestone flesh. It is great for drying and DROP A and prized for canning and jam. A canning. Self-fertile. Fruit ripens in legendary seedling found in Sussex in 1840, late August. On St Julian A. C120: oblong, golden it is England’s most widely planted $24.95 each plum introduced plum. Now Americans can enjoy SCHOOLHOUSETM in 1800 at Bury it too. On Marianna 2624. C290: A large oval, bright St. Edmunds, $28.50 each yellow plum with England. The JUBILEUM E njoy excellent flavor. It medium to loads of flavorful appears to be a large fruits have large pink/ prune type plum. straw-yellow purple plums Its bright yellow skin and golden on this sturdy color makes it unique. It ripens in flesh. The plums self fertile tree. mid September and is extremely are incredibly sweet and juicy and Jubileum was productive and reliable. It is named have a pocket of intense apricot-like bred in Sweden. for the schoolhouse where it was flavor. The freestone fruit ripens in It is similiar to Victoria but ripens a found in Pt. Townsend, WA. It was October on vigorous, healthy trees, week earlier in August and has larger brought to us by James Fritz. On St extending the plum season. It needs fruit. Great for eating or processing. Julian A. C115A: $26.50 each a pollinizer. On St Julian A. C 060: On Marianna 2624.C053: $26.50 $28.50 each each 51 STANLEYA flavorful, very large weeks, so it extends purple prune plum. Excellent for the season. The eating fresh, drying or jam. A heavy self-fertile tree bearer, self fertile and freestone. On produces loads St Julian A. C250: $26.50 each of small, yellow- orange fruit. Both MOUNT ROYALEvery August, a fruit and leaves are sometimes huge crop of delicious plums ripen streaked with white, a naturally in abundant clusters on this hardy, occurring trait specific to this European plum tree. The medium- cultivar. A wonderful fruit, finally size, round, blue plums with Five Incredible Mirabelles available to American gardeners yellow flesh are excellent for fresh C202A: $28.50 each eating, canning, drying or freezing. Mirabelles are a type of plum, not a The self-fertile tree, developed variety. Our customers have shown MIRABELLE DE METZThese soft, in Quebec prior to 1903, is the great interest in these flavorful small sweet, exquisitely flavored plums are hardiest and most widely adapted jewels. Plant two different varieties small-stoned and yellow dotted with of the tested European plums and for best pollinization. All the Mira- red. This very old, French cultivar is a heavy annual producer. USDA belles are on St Julian A rootstock. ripens in late summer and produces Zones 4-8. On St Julian A.C181A: USDA Zones 5-9. heavily. C208A: $32.50 each $26.50 each MIRABELLE DE NANCY T his RUTH GERSTETTER Prized for variety is a hit in farmers’ markets Two Delicious Europeans cooking, drying and fresh eating, throughout France, eaten fresh Via Orcas Island or made into Brandy. As good this high quality, medium-size, today as it was in 1790. It ripens in BLAU DE BELGIQUE N oted as blue plum has yellow/green flesh. August. Nancy and Metz are cities a culinary favorite, this medium Bred in Germany about 1920, it is in Northeastern France. The fruit size roundish purple plum with partially self fertile, blooms with is more oval in shape and the tree sweet, firm golden flesh is nearly Early Laxton and Bavay Gage and a more upright grower than the freestone. It is heavily productive bears early season. On St Julian Geneva cultivar. C207: $32.50 and ripens in mid season. It needs A. C125: $26.50 each each a pollinizer and bloom between ERSINGER A ‘German Prune’ GENEVA Bavay, Coe’s and Victoria. A favorite plum with delicious flavor. It MIRABELLETM of the Bullock brothers in western crops heavily and ripens early in This small Washington. Also called Belgian the season. The skin is blue and yellow plum Purple is developed in Belgium the shape is oblong to pointed. with yellow about 1850. C023A (St Julian A): Ersinger has fruited at Raintree flesh and red $26.50 each; C023 (Marianna and has proven to be a superior dots on the skin 2624): $26.50 each variety with outstanding flavor. is interesting MONSIEUR HATIF M onsieur Hatif On St Julian A. C 048A: $26.50 to look at de Montmorency is an excellent each and delicious. It is incredibly culinary European plum. It is a productive and full of flavor. Great roundish medium size freestone SANCTUS HUBERTUS A n early for tarts, compotes, canning or ripening purple dessert plum purple plum with golden yellow making jams. Eat this freestone flesh that ripens in August. It is from Belgium. Its medium-size plum in late August. Formerly fruit ripens in August. It needs also known as Early Orleans. It is known as Mirabelle 858, it is a an old variety brought from France a pollinizer and it blooms with selection from Cornell in Geneva Victoria. On St Julian A. C212: to England and on to the U.S. N.Y. The tree habit is spreading. Reportedly self fertile.C175 (St $26.50 Includes $1 royalty. C205A: each Julian A): $26.50 each; C175A $28.50 each (Marianna 2624): $26.50 each SENECA REINE DE This very MIRABELLE T rue You Won’t Mind Getting large plum to its name which is sweet, translates as “Queen Caught in This Jam delicious of the Mirabelles,” BLUES JAM TM and this regal yellow This amazing freestone. plum exceeds others in size and tree produces It has claims yellow skin and superb so many fruits, beautiful red flavor. It ripens later than other they look from skin and yellow flesh. It is a regular Mirabelles and is prized in Europe a distance like bearer on an upright vigorous as a culinary plum, for fresh eating thick dark blue tree. Enjoy the fruit fresh, dried and for luscious preserves. It may ropes covering or canned. It needs a pollinizer be a Mirabelle x Gage plum cross. the branches. and ripens in early September. C200A: $28.50 each These small “Damson” type plums An introduction from the N.Y. PARFUMEE DE SEPTEMBRE have a sweet/tart dense flesh and Experiment Station, it has proven rue to its name this sweet T make great preserves. The tree one of the best European plums in Mirabelle plum from France is is partially self fertile, upright, the WSU Mount Vernon tests. On St highly flavored and aromatic. It disease resistant and easy to Julian A. C220: $26.50 each ripens two weeks later than other grow, setting huge crops in late Mirabelles, holds well on the September. From Cornell. On St 52 tree and can be picked for three Julian A.C215A: $26.50 each JAM’S SESSIONTM GROS AMELIORAT NEW! This How To Use Plums small round plum has a delicious A blues jam and very sweet flavor. It was bred IN THE KITCHEN: Plums can be session. Cornell in Romania and is very popular eaten fresh, canned or made into has released this leathers or used for jams and jellies. there. The fruit is an inch in beautiful, heavily The varieties which are best suited diameter, and red/purple over a for drying are referred to as prunes. productive small yellow ground color with yellow freestone plum for the making of Prunes can be stewed or made into flesh that clings to the pit. It ripens pastry filling. a rich flavored Damson plum jam in September and it needs a IN THE LANDSCAPE: European or sauce. Its parentage is open pollinizer. On St Julian A rootstock. plum trees tend to be 10-15 feet tall pollinated x Late Muscatel. Its skin is C213A: $26.50 each and upright with attractive deep green bright blue and flesh yellow. The tree foliage. Japanese plums tend to be looks beautiful in mid September, loaded with thousands of ripe blue Exciting New Plums more spreading. They have a lighter colored foliage. All are adorned with fruit. Also called NY 111. On St Julian From Russia beautiful white to slightly pink flowers A. C182A: $26.50 each A great find for Northern gar- in the spring. Japanese plums are deners. These Russian plums amongst the first to flower and mark Eastern European Gems succeed in cold climates where the beginning of spring. POZEGACA A unique introduction to others fail. They consistently American gardeners! Also known as produce large crops with little or Useful Facts Hauszwetsche. In Eastern Europe, no care. These cultivars were bred SUN: Full sun. Pozegaca is famous for many by Gennady Eremin. A $1 per tree HARVEST: July-October. processing purposes including royalty is included to support his HEIGHT, SPACING & ROOTSTOCK: preserves and brandy. An old, high further research! Our plum trees are mostly on semi quality type of plum, it has many KUBAN COMET dwarf rootstocks. While ulimate size clones, which have been developed will vary with pruning, cultivar, climate T his unique, dwarf over centuries. Our’s comes from and soil type, Marianna 2624, St. Ju- plum tree from lian A and Lovell can be usually main- the Cornell Geneva Station. The Krymsk, Russia, fruit is small to medium sized with tained at 10-12’ height and spacing. is very productive Citation and Krymsk 1 at 8 to 10’ and blue skin and a waxy bloom. The and easy to grow. Krymsk 86 and Myro 29C at about 15’. flesh is firm, greenish or amber The self-fertile tree Marianna 2624 is the most tolerant of with high sugar and a good acid bears 2-inch long, very wet soils. balance. The pit separates easily. teardrop-shaped, fruits that turn HARDINESS: USDA Zones 5-9 un- It is self fruitful with an upright tree purple/red when fully ripe in late- less otherwise noted. form. The prolific small fruit forms July. The bright yellow, clingstone ORIGIN: Europe, Japan and North in thick blue ropes and hangs well flesh is very sweet and the tart America. on the tree for several weeks after skin resists cracking. Spreading maturity. On St Julian A C185A: trees reach 10’ tall and thrive in How To Grow $24.95 each cold climates and in the Pacific SOIL REQUIREMENTS: The Euro- MOLDAVIAN Northwest. USDA Zones 4-9. On pean plums grow well on heavy soils. This flavorful Marianna 2624. C062: $26.50 Japanese plums prefer lighter loamy dessert each soils. Like the other fruits, they prefer plum was KUBAN a slightly acidic soil. Our plum root- recommended DELIGHT W hen stocks are tolerant of a wide variety of by Cornell this plum soils. researchers. ripens in early CULTURAL REQUIREMENTS: The These August, it wins European types can be grown as a freestone taste tests central leader tree and don’t require small to for its juicy much thinning or pruning when ma- medium size roundish red to combination of ture. Fruit is born on spurs and also on purple plums with yellow flesh are tart skin and sweet flesh. The small, new wood. Japanese plums are best great for jellies and tarts. The tree round fruits have reddish-purple grown with open centers and are very is productive, has a compact size skin and yellow-orange flesh. A bushy, requiring thinning of branches. and a spreading growth habit. It very productive, disease resistant POLLINATION: Some plums are reli- blooms late and needs a pollinizer. selection. On Marianna 2624. USDA ably self fertile. However many plums It ripens with Italian. On St Julian Zones 4-9.C064: $26.50 each need a pollenizer. Also plums are a A. C105A: $26.50 each diverse group and some varieties’ pollen is not fully compatible with all GRAS ROMANESC The distinctive blue skin and sweet, rich, yellow Iran All the Way Home others. flesh of the revered German PERSIAN GREEN PLUMThis self plum selection, Herrenhausen fertile round green plum grows in For Your Health Mirabelle, have been popular the mountains of Iran. It is often Plums are rich in vitamins and miner- since the late 19th century. Trees picked before it is fully ripe and als. Dark red and blue skinned plums are vigorous and very productive. eaten fresh or cooked by itself or are high in antioxidants. Mirabelles Ripe fruit arrive in early with sour cherries. The sour plums, are high in beta carotene and Vitamin September. Pollination: another often spiced with salt are made into A. european except Damsons (Jam “goje sabz” which is popular in Iran. Session, Blues Jam) On St Julian C110 (Myro 29C): $28.50 each; A. C209A: $26.50 each C110B (Citation): $28.50 each 53 Japanese reddish purple plums. They ripen EMERALD BEAUT A delicious and over ten days and don’t keep but, unusual late season plum. Ripe oh are they good for fresh eating, fruit holds on the tree longer than Plums cooking and preserves. The tree is an early, regular bearer and self- fertile. It’s a Japanese plum hybrid. any other stone fruit — two months or more. It continues to sweeten, becoming exceptionally sweet, but Japanese plums are a great choice On St Julian A. C 180: $26.50 each it remains crisp and crunchy! The for the beginner. They are easy to SHIRO A large, round Beaut has green skin, which gets grow and so precocious that they yellow plum with yellower as it fully ripens and yellow/ often fruit in the nursery row. Of all the an excellent, sweet orange freestone flesh. It needs fruits we offer, the Japanese Plums flavor and sunshine 6-700 chill hours. Beauty Plum or a are the most productive and easiest yellow translucent pluot are good pollinizers. Zaiger®. to successfully grow! They are great flesh. The tree is Pat. 9162. On Citation rootstock. for fresh eating, cooking and pre- incredibly prolific. It C047: $26.50 each serves. Picking Methley and perhaps ripens mid-August SPRITE NEW!Sprite plum produces other Japanese plums slightly before and is partially self-fertile. The fruit tons of delicious fruit each year they are ripe and letting them ripen is ridiculously juicy. Wear a bib! at Raintree. The plums are round, on the counter has shown to be a C240 (St Julian A): $26.50 each; sweet medium size, freestone, way protect fruit that might otherwise C240A (Marianna 2624): $26.50 with a purple black skin and tasty be damaged by the spotted winged each yellow flesh. Eat them off the tree in drosophila fruit fly. USDA Zones 5-9 August for almost a month. Sprite unless otherwise noted. EARLY GOLDEN A medium sized thrives in most of the nation from LUISA A n round yellow plum USDA Zones 4-9. It will pollinize impressive new with a red blush with our other Japanese Plums. Asian plum from and golden flesh. It Patented. A Myrobalan and New Zealand. ripens a heavy crop Japanese plum cross. It will grow to The fruit is large of delicious fruit with 8-10’ tall. On Citation rootstock. 400 and yellow with an apricot like flavor 270: $26.50 each Chill hours. C a red blush as in July, two weeks before Shiro. It is it ripens and the flesh is yellow. It is the best Asian plum for making jams Flavor Packed Red Leaf a heavy cropper ripening in August. and liquors. It is a vigorous tree and It is partially self fertile. The tree is a consistent and heavy bearer at Plums vigorous and spreading. On Myro Raintree. It needs a pollinizer. USDA HOLLYWOOD 29C rootstock. C173: $28.50 each Zones 5-10. C045D (St. Julian A): This versatile BEAUTY $26.50 each plum tree is Beauty is OBILNAJA T his worldly Russian- beautiful in all the richest bred plum, a hardy cross between seasons. It’s flavored Japanese and Myrobalan plums, loaded with Japanese comes from Yalta on the Black showy pink plum. It has Sea. The partially self-fertile tree blossoms a wonderful produces a heavy crop of medium- early each blend of size, firm, red plums with excellent spring. The leaves of this 12 foot tall flavors that flavor, yellow/pink flesh and very ornamental are purple and disease melt in your mouth. The tree is fast small pits. Fruit ripens early season, resistant. In August it produces an growing and extremely productive. about August 5. For best fruit set, abundance of large round dark red It starts fruiting in the nursery rows. choose another Japanese plum as a plums with deep red flesh. They The bright red, medium size fruit pollinizer. C210 (Marianna 2624): are delicious when eaten fresh and has amber streaked red flesh. The $26.50 each make a beautiful jelly. On St Julian fruit is reminiscent of Santa Rosa, A. Self-fertile. C130B: $26.50 and it is self-fruitful. Fruit ripens GOLDEN NECTAR each early August, but like all Japanese amous for its F complex melon COCHECO A red leafed plum that plums, it does not keep. C020 (St is both beautiful and productive. Julian A): $26.50 each; C020A and honey-like flavor with hint-of- It is an upright, vigorous tree with (Marianna 2624): $26.50 each attractive, flavorful round pinkish gardenia aroma, METHLEY this large, yellow, orange fruit with yellow flesh. Methley is oblong dessert Developed by Elwyn Meader of New the most plum deserves Hampshire, it is disease resistant, reliable a place in the very winter hardy and easy to and garden. The firm amber flesh, grow. Ripens in late July. It needs a easiest which separates easily from a small Japanese plum as a pollinizer. On St to grow freestone pit, is superb either dried Julian A. C057A: $26.50 each fruit tree or fresh. A seedling of Mariposa, SLO RED NEW! A red leafed we offer. the productive, self-fertile tree seedling of the leading ornamental Every needs only 500 hours of chilling. It plum Thundercloud. SLO Red was year in July, before any other tree ripens in August in California but discovered by Doug Bullock in San fruit is ripe, our tree is loaded with needs more summer heat to ripen Luis Obispo California. Unlike its hundreds of sweet, medium size, than regularly occurs in the Pacific parent, it annually produces a good Northwest. On Citation rootstock. crop of tasty red fruit. On St Julian 54 C052: $26.50 each A. C245: $26.50 each A Great Edible Ornamental Roadside Plums YELLOW ROADSIDE C324: $17.50 each WEEPING SANTA ROSA Use as a These small round focal point 3/4 to 1 inch diam- in your eter plums are tasty Combo Plums edible eaten fresh and COMBO EUROPEAN PLUMNow landscape. make excellent jelly. available on St Julian A rootstock. It has a Heavy loads of fruit beautiful Varieties are Rosy Gage, E.Laxton, form on wide bushy Italian, Stanley and Seneca. weeping 10 foot tall trees habit and C3204: 4x1 Combo $46.50 each grows to 8’ tall. Enjoy attractive in early summer. Trees are covered COMBO ASIAN PLUM Now available white blossoms in early spring. The on St Julian A rootstock. Varieties fruit is identical in flavor and size with beautiful white blossoms every are Beauty, Hollywood, Satsuma, but not as productive as the regular Santa Rosa. Patented by Zaiger. spring. We find Shiro and Methley.C3454: 4x1 On Myro 29C. Self-fertile. C300: them growing along roadsides near Combo $46.50 each $28.50 each our nursery and think the seeds (Sorry! Because there are so many were dropped by birds and natural- possible combinations, we can- A Hardy Japanese ized. Fruit comes in several colors. not choose which varieties will be Select two seedlings to be sure of missing from any of our 3x1 or 2x1 American Hybrid pollination. One quart pot. USDA combo trees!) SUPERIOR Proving Zones 6-9. its name since RED BLUSH ROADSIDE C320: 1933, this very $17.50 each hardy Asian- American hybrid REDDISH PURPLE ROADSIDE from Minnesota C322: $17.50 each remains a favorite. The very large Bloom Order: fruit has dark red skin and delicious meaty yellow flesh. It blooms with plum European Plums and is pollinized by late blooming Japanese plums like Shiro, Emerald Beaut or a wild American plum. pollination Kuban Comet SF Kuban Delight Early Laxton The tree bears a heavy crop of To fruit plum trees you need proper Prune d’Ente PSF pointed, clingstone fruit at an early pollination. Generally Asian plums Italian SF age. Plums ripen in August, and bloom enough before European Purple Gage PSF keep well on the tree. USDA Zones plums that their bloom times don’t Victoria SF 4-9. On St Julian A. C275: $26.50 overlap. Some plums are self fer- Opal SF each tile or partially self fertile but most Gros Ameliorat require another variety for pollina- Mt. Royal SF Schoolhouse Grow a Hedge of tion. Choose a pollinating variety Bavay Gage psf Cherry-Like Plums from the same half of the same list though the closer in the list the Rosy Gage Plant a group of these seedlings to better. Those in bold face with SF Reine Claude Doree make a great edible hedge. They or PSF after their names are self Blues Jam SF thrive in the north where many other fertile or partially self fertile but Ersinger cherries and plums fail. You need Jam Session SF also pollinize other varieties. two for pollination. USDA Zones 3-8 Gras Romanesc unless otherwise noted. Bloom Order: Early Sanctus Hubertus Coes Golden Drop NANKING CHERRY PLUM(Prunus Bloomers Including Asians Jubileum PSF tomentosa) Harvest flavorful, tart Early Golden cherry-like plums in early summer, Moldavian Hollywood SF Kirk’s Blue from beautiful dwarf trees. They Beauty SF will grow into wide, bushy 10-12’ tall Golden Transparent Gage Cocheco Seneca trees or can be planted 4-5’ apart to Emerald Beaut make an edible hedge. The 1/2” fruit Stanley PSF Methley SF Mirabelle de Nancy can be eaten fresh or used in pies or Pluots jelly. This plum and cherry relative is Geneva Mirabelle Pluerrys Mirabelle de Metz native to central Asia and is a popular Obilnaja PSF fruiting plant in Russia. It is tolerant Reine de Mirabelle Luisa SF of drought and needs a well drained Parfume de Septembre soil. It doesn’t do well in the Pacific Golden Nectar SF Cambridge Gage PSF NW or other areas where brown rot Weeping Santa Rosa SF Imperial Epineuse is a problem. 2-3’ seedling bushes. Shiro Pozegaca SF D520: $7.50 each; 5+: $5.50 Superior each; 10+: $4.50 each Sprite 55 Approximate Plum Ripening Order Medlars Prunus Persian Green Methley (Mespilus ger- manica) Although Mume Beauty E. Golden little known in the U.S., med- lars have been Flowering K. Comet K. Delight Shiro grown in Europe for thousands of years. They are attractive small, Apricots W.Santa Rosa self-fertile trees that grow to 10’ (Prunus Obilnaja with healthy foliage, white flowers armeniaca and unusual 1 inch diameter round mume) E. Laxton fruits that are collected in the fall, Luisa after the first frosts. When picked, These are the Ersinger the fruits are much too hard to eat legendary R. Gerstetter immediately. If allowed to ripen for Japanese Sprite/Delight a few weeks in a cool lighted place flowering Hollywood they undergo a process called ‘blet- Apricot trees ting’ and become soft, spicy and with unusu- Superior very rich. Enjoy the cinnamon-apple ally beautiful Cocheco sauce flavor scooped out with a bright “green” Opal spoon or made into a delicious jam. branches Cambridge Gage On OHxF 97 rootstock. 3-5’ trees. and loads Mr. Hatif Zone 5-9. of delicate Geneva Mirabelle MACROCARPA A mong the largest of pink almond Jubileum the Medlars, with fruit to two inches scented St. Catherine in diameter. The fruit is flavorful. flowers.They The tree habit is compact. D006: flower very early in the spring and Sanctus Hubertus $26.50 each Mt. Royal can be frosted and lose the crop but MONSTRUEUSE DE EVREINOFF not their beauty. The cut flowers are Rosy Gage he name refers to the large 2 1/2” T unequaled in early spring. In Japan R. Claude Doree yellow/brown, fruit with pinkish and other parts of Asia, the ripe fruit Golden Nectar brown flesh. The taste is described is made into apricot brandy or jam. Emerald Beaut as “pleasant, well balanced Green fruit is used to scent tea, can- Franklin between sweet and almost syrupy died, boiled, made into a vinegar, Victoria with the edge of acidity that delights connoisseurs.” Developed near preserved in sugar or often pickled Prune d Ente 707 Montauban France by M. Evreinoff. in salt to make “Umeboshi.” Each Schoolhouse D007: $28.50 each is partially self-fertile but select M de Nancy two varieties for better pollination. SULTAN A large fruited and heavy These gorgeous trees grow to 15’ or M. de Metz bearing medlar brought to the National Jam Session more. They often bloom too early in Clonal Germplasm Repository in maritime climates and doesn’t set a Purple Gage Corvallis Oregon from the Netherlands. crop. Trees are on their on roots un- Kirke’s Blue D011: $26.50 each less otherwise noted. USDA Zones Moldavian BREDA GIANT A native to Holland, 5-9. Gumi this small, self fertile tree will grow to about 10 feet and display white KANKO BAI A superior ornamental Italian variety, this beauty is prized for its flowers which produce a unique Gras Romanesc 1 inch fruit. When collected in the gorgeous, fuchsia-red blooms, red Seneca fall, they are then left to blett in a tinted foliage, and orange red fruit. Longjohn cool lighted place until soft and The small (to 15’), self-fertile tree Victory ripe. Enjoy the rich, apple cinnamon blooms in late winter and produces Reine de Mir. flavor scooped out with a spoon or tart, apricot-like fruit. C446: Gros Ameleriot make into a delicious jam. D002: $26.50 each $26.50 each G. Trans. Gage BUNGO A cross of regular apricot Pozegaca ROYAL R oyal is an old variety. It and “mume”. Enjoy single pink very Stanley is similar to Macrocarpa and is a late season flowers and the largest reliable producer of flavorful fruit. Parfume d’ Sept. Pick fruit in fall following frost. of “mume” fruit up to 2” in diameter. Blues Jam D005: $26.50 each On Myro 29C rootstock. C445: Bavay Gage $26.50 each PUCIA SUPER MOL This large-fruited Coe’s Golden medlar is from the Piedmont area MOKEL T he variety Mokel has of Italy where it is preferred above persistent, spectacular early pink all others. Brought to the U.S. by Hill blooms followed by 1” fruit. C450: 56 Craddock. D 008: $26.50 each $26.50 each where the fruit will land on a patio or this tree, which was discovered by sidewalk. They are self fertile unless A. J. Bullard, boasts this historic noted. USDA Zones vary by variety. distinction and thrives better than We offer 3-5’ trees unless noted. most in the South. It bears 1-½ inch long, sweet, black fruit that Productive Favorites ripens for about two months in early summer. USDA Zones 7-10. D426: ILLINOIS $28.50 each EVERBEARING (Morus alba x rubra) GERALDI DWARF (Morus alba) A A natural cross unique dwarf mulberry bush or tree between white and growing to only 6’ tall tree. Enjoy the red mulberry trees, medium size, tasty purple berries in Fragrant this vigorous, grafted tree is extremely the summer. The compact tree has attractive large leaves. USDA Zones Spring Tree hardy (to -30°F) and very productive. It can start bearing its sweet, deliciously 5-8. D415: $28.50 SHANGRILA ( Morus alba) From Florida, it thrives in the South and FRAGRANT SPRING TREE (Toona or distinctive fruit the first year after can be grown in other areas with Cedrela sinensis) This remarkable planting. Berries ripen continuously moderate winters. This small tree, tree from China can grow to 30’ throughout July, August, and up to 20 feet, is productive and or more with attractive compound September and look like big, has tasty large black fruit and very leaves. However, keep it cut back elongated blackberries when ripe. large, heart-shaped leaves. USDA and harvest the new leaves. They The black, almost seedless fruit is Zones 6-9. D432: $28.50 each taste like leeks. Great in salads, very sweet and considered the best stir fry etc. One gallon pot.D178: $38.50 each LIMIT ONE by many. The tree will grow to 35’ Trees With White Fruit tall, but is easily pruned and kept Because their fruit Mulberries much smaller. USDA Zone 4-9. D420: $28.50 each is white, the fruit does not stain, PAKISTAN ( Morus therefore the tree Berries on a tree? Yes! The fabu- alba) The huge 3” long can be planted lous, abundant fruit of the Mul- berries of this selection near the house or berry (Morus) looks like plump from Islamabad are patio. White mul- blackberries and are wonder- not only sweet with a complex balance of berries look interesting against their ful eaten fresh, in fruit salads pretty green leaves. or made into a pie. Great as an flavors, but they are ornamental, the self-fertile trees good in the red stage SWEET LAVENDER ( Morus Alba) grow quickly and bear fruit while still as well as the purple/ This cultivar produces quantities of small and young. All three species black ripe stage. A productive, sweet and flavorful white fruit which are attractive trees that can become spreading tree with large, heart- won’t stain and will look attractive large or be pruned to stay much shaped leaves, it excels in areas on the tree. Fruit is enjoyed fresh smaller. Since all but the white mul- with long, hot summers. USDA or dried. USDA Zones 5-9. D433: berries stain, avoid planting a tree Zones 6-10. D424: $32.50 each $28.50 each OSCAR (Morus Alba) Considered WHITE FRUITING S elected for among the the most flavorful, this its pure white fruit and sweet selection when fully ripe produces Using Mulberries loads of medium size black fruit. flavor. The tree is of medium size, spreading and productive. It is YIELD: 20 lbs. or more The fruit can also be eaten at the excellent eaten fresh or dried. USDA LIFE EXPECTANCY: Rubra and red stage and has a “raspberry” Zones 4-9. D435: $32.50 each Alba up to 75 years, Nigra up to flavor. It is a fast growing, easy to care for tree. USDA Zones 6-9. SARAHANPUR ( Morus macroura) 300 years. D430: $28.50 each This mulberry species comes from SIZE AND SPACING: Trees Northern India and Nepal. The fruit grow to 20 or more. Varies by WELLINGTON ( M. alba x rubra) Considered the best mulberry is yellowish white and 2-3 inches variety and species. long with a sweet melon like flavor grown at the New York State Fruit PRUNING: Maintain pyramid Testing center in Geneva. The tree and aroma. The fruit ripens in the shape. Not much pruning need- is a heavy cropper. The sweet black early summer. Trees grow 20-30’ tall. ed. cylindrical fruit ripens over several Hardy USDA Zones 8-10. Possibly HARVEST: During summer de- weeks. Hardy to USDA Zones 5-9. Zone 7. D434: $34.50 each LIMIT pends on variety. D425: $28.50 each ONE POLLINATION: Self Fertile SILK HOPE (Morus alba x rubra) BEAUTIFUL DAY ( Morus alba) The Since mulberry leaves are the sweet white fruit will not stain like HARDINESS: Varies by variety. sole food source of the silkworm, the darker mulberries! Eat it fresh, Most Alba and Rubra Zones 5-8; some American trees date to the or dry it for snacking later. The tree Nigra Zones 8-10 early 1800’s, when North Carolina grows to about 30’. USDA Zones CULTURAL REQUIREMENTS: was part of a thriving silk industry. 6-9. D400: $28.50 each Generally easy to grow with few Although the industry was soon pests. eclipsed by foreign competition, 57 Morus Nigra Rootstocks orchard. USDA Zones 4-9. $3.50 each; 5+: $3.00 each; 10+; 10+; NOIR DE SPAIN NEW!(Morus $2.75 each; 25+: $2.35 each nigra) The black mulberry tree is among the most beautiful. It grows EMLA 7 - R100 Produces a semi to 30 feet and has a symmetrical A Word About Rootstocks dwarf tree maintained from 11-16 feet spreading habit and very large tall. Trees can begin bearing in 3-4 heart shaped leaves. Each late We make virus free rootstock avail- years. It is hardy to -35° F. and does summer and early fall, it produces able to the backyard grower who well on wet soils. Suckers need to be loads of delicious fruit that is black wishes to start his or her own trees. removed each year. USDA Zones 4-9. when it is ripe. The tree is hardy in The choice of rootstock has much $3.50 each; 5+: $3.00 each; 10+; USDA Zones 8-10. Black Mulberry to do with tree performance. The $2.75 each; 25+: $2.35 each trees thrive in California, western rootstock is the major factor in de- termining the size of the tree, its cold GENEVA 30 - R010 G ood resistance Oregon and Western Washington to crown rot and fire blight, this and throughout the south, wherever hardiness and tolerance of wet or dry conditions. It helps determine how rootstock produces trees about 11- temperatures don’t fall below 10 16’ tall. It is similar to EMLA 7, but has degrees F. D422: $32.50 each soon the tree will bear and some of the diseases to which it will be resis- better anchorage, higher production KOKUSA KOREAN V igorous and fast tant. Raintree offers fruit trees grown and fewer burr knots. Stake for the growing, this mulberry variety from on superior dwarfing rootstocks. The first few years. USDA Zones 4-9. Korea produces seedless two-inch following rootstock information will Survival improves after grafting if you sweet black mulberries soon after also help you understand more about don’t cut rootstock’s new lower side planting. Possibly a sub species successfully caring for your Rain- limbs until new growth is established. of Morus Nigra. USDA Zones 7-9. tree fruit trees. Remember that with $3.50 each; 5+: $3.00 each; 10+; D421: $32.50 each any rootstock, the ultimate height $2.75 each; 25+: $2.35 each of the tree depends not only on the MM 106 - R105 S emi-dwarf rootstock Unique Choices for rootstock but on the variety grafted, the type of soil and the methods of slightly bigger than M7 that does well on a variety of soils. USDA Zones 4-9. a Small Garden pruning and care. You may graft on $3.50 each; 5+: $3.00 each; 10+; CONTORTED ( Morus Alba Unryu) to patented rootstocks but may not $2.75 each; 25+: $2.35 each The contorted Mulberry is an reproduce the rootstock itself. Our MM 111 - R110 Produces a semi- incredibly beautiful landscape focal rootstocks are 1/4” caliber unless standard heavy bearing, precocious, point. This Japanese tree features noted. well anchored tree about 20 feet tall. a gnarled trunk and branches. It This rootstock has fiberous roots and has small tasty purple fruit and Rootstocks Are does well in a wide variety of soils. It attractive yellow fall foliage. A great is hardy to -35° F. Or, graft an 8” piece edible landscaping plant, it can be Sent in February of Bud 9 to it and make a well rooted, maintained at 8’ tall. USDA Zones Despite our best efforts to have them dwarf interstem. $3.50 each; 5+: 5-9. D410: $28.50 each ready earlier, it is always February, $3.00 each; 10+; $2.75 each; WEEPING FRUITING This is an sometimes early March, before we 25+: $2.35 each amazing ornamental tree that can can send you the rootstocks. They may therefore be sent separately ANTONOVKA - R055 A Russian grow in a wide arc that sweeps suckerless rootstock that produces to the ground. Stake it up to the from the rest of your order. a full-size, 25’ to 35’ tree. Hardy desired height and then let it weep. The tree is loaded with tasty small Apple Rootstock to -50°F. Wide soil adaptability. Produces large yellow, flavorful fruit, which can only be seen from EMLA 27 - R020 C an be maintained at apples if allowed to fruit. $3.50 inside the canopy, The fruit turn only four to six feet in height. It is well each; 5+: $3.00 each; 10+; 10+; reddish black when ripe. Pull back suited for growing in a container or a $2.75 each; 25+: $2.35 each a lower branch and there is room small yard. Trees grafted on EMLA 27 inside for a secret hiding place for bear early and heavily. It needs staking. MALUS FUSCA - M909 N ative NW children. USDA Zones 5-9.D440: It is hardy to -25° F. This rootstock is crab for very wet sites. Natural semi- $28.50 each patented and it may not be reproduced dwarf. 2-3 foot graftable. $ 5 each; without permission of the patent holder. 10+; $4.50 each USDA Zones 4-9 $3.50 each; 5+: $3.00 each; 10+; $2.75 each; 25+: Plum, Apricot, Almond $2.35 each & Peach Rootstock BUDAGOVSKY 9 - R280 A very dwarfing apple rootstock similiar to Grafting works well with plums, EMLA 9 but more hardy. Trees can almonds and apricots. Peaches and be maintained at 6 to 10’ in height. peach rootstock, won’t usually take Requires staking. USDA Zones 3-9. with winter grafting and need to be $3.50 each; 5+: $3.00 each; 10+; budded in summer. USDA Zones 4-9. $2.75 each; 25+: $2.35 each MARIANNA 2624 - R401 T his plum EMLA 26 - R060 I t will produce a rootstock will produce a semi dwarf dwarf tree that can be maintained tree maintained from 10 to 15 feet from 8-14 feet tall. Does well in most tall. It does very well on wet soils soils. It is hardy to -40° F. Produces and tolerates a variety of soils. It is fruit in 2-3 years. Can be grown free compatible as an understock for plums standing but needs staking on windy and some almonds and apricots. sites. It doesn’t sucker much in the $3.50 each; 5+: $3.00 each; 10+; 58 $2.75 each; 25+: $2.35 each KRYMSK 1TM - R116 T his plum each; 25+: $2.35 each VICTORINOX rootstock is also known as VVA 1. QUINCE BA 29c - R227 M akes a 10-15’ BUDDING/ Plums and apricots grown on this semi -dwarf tree. Compatible with GRAFTING KNIFE dwarfing rootstock have proven Cydonia Quince and some European E xcellent quality precocious. An excellent choice for pears. It is tolerant of wet soils. USDA Swiss folding knife home orchardists, the rootstock Zones 6-9. $3.50 each; 5+: $3.00 with a stainless produces a tree about half the size of each; 10+; $2.75 each; 25+: $2.35 steel blade. This high quality, standard and it has shown excellent each economical right-handed knife will results when grown in heavy soils. make your propagating much easier. (PPAF) Includes $1 per rootstock T750: $23.50 each royalty. $5 each; 5+: $4 each; 10+: Cherry Rootstock $3.75 each; 25+ $3.35 each KRYMSK 5TM - R117 ( PPAF) A hybrid ST. JULIAN A - R260A hardy semi dwarf of P. fruticosa x lannesiana. Larger rootstock used for plums, peaches in size than Gisela® 5, trees can be and apricots. Can be propagated from maintained at 15’. Non suckering, hardwood cuttings or layer beds.$3.50 precocious and compatible with each; 5+: $3.00 each; 10+; $2.75 all cherries. Developed by Russian each; 25+: $2.35 each breeder Gennady Eremin at the Krymsk Vavilov Institute. Royalties go to support his program. This rootstock is Pear & Quince Rootstock patented and may not be reproduced OHxF stock is compatible with all without permission of the patent holder. European pear varieties, it can also Also called VSL 2. USDA Zones 4-9. be used as a dwarfing understock Includes $1 per rootstock royalty. $5 for Asian pears or medlar but not for each; 5+: $4 each; 10+: $3.75 each; SCIONON GRAFTING SHEARS NEW! quince. It induces early production 25+ $3.35 each The beautifully designed hand held and is winter hardy at least to -20°F. stainless steel jawed commercial It does well on a variety of soils. quality Scionon Grafting Shears, model More Grafting Supplies SGH216, works on graft wood from OHxF 333 PEAR - R225 This Old Home See page 89 for descriptions. 3/16 to -5/8” diameter. It safely and x Farmingdale cross, Brooks selection, Grafting bands T240 10/$1.50 easily does field or bench grafting; whip (abbreviated OHxF) grows 75% of Budding bands T090 20/$1.50 and tongue, cleft and wedge grafts and standard produces a tree that can be Chip budding tape T150 $3.50 also cuts chip and T buds. The tool is maintained at 15 feet tall. $ 3.50 each; Parafilm T153 $5.00 supplied with full operating instructions. 5+: $3.00 each; 10+; $2.75 each; Permanent labels T485 10/$2.50 This new tool from New Zealand is 25+: $2.35 each Box of perm labels T485B 100/$17.50 perfect for the serious grafter. The OHxF 97 PEAR - R119 Produces a Tree coat sealer T184 $9.95 optional holster attaches to a belt and full-size pear tree. It is precocious, Grafting leaflet S050 $2.95 also has pockets for a sharpening winter hardy, resistant to fireblight and TINA GRAFTING KNIFE P rofessional stone and/or spare blade storage. pear decline. $3.50 each; 5+: $3.00 right handed walnut handle grafting T250: $229 each each; 10+; $2.75 each; 25+: $2.35 knives from Germany. They hold the each best edge. We have used one knife SCIONON GRAFTING SHEARS at Raintree for 25 years! T 755: HOLSTER NEW!The optional holster OHxF 87 PEAR - R118 Grows 75% of standard. Induces early, heavy bearing. $49.50 each for the Scionon Grafting Shears Works well for Asian and European attaches to a belt and also has pears and is very winter hardy. $3.50 pockets for a sharpening stone and/ each; 5+: $3.00 each; 10+; $2.75 or spare blade storage. It’s perfect for field grafting. T 255: $49.00 each OMEGA Starting Your Own (Stooling or mound layering for apples, plums and cherries) GRAFTING TOOLA high 1. Plant the rootstock in your 2.Cut it off at ground quality plier- garden one foot apart. Let it level the following like tool from grow through the season. spring. Italy. Tested by 3. During the next (and area amateur each following) spring fruit growing and early summer it will send up shoots. Every groups. You can achieve over a couple of weeks, hill up 90% grafting success rate. Safely sawdust or dirt around and easily operated by one strong the new shoots, always hand, it makes either a key hole leaving the terminal bud exposed to continue type notch or a V cut on both the its growth. Sawdust is 5. Use the rootstocks rootstock and the scion wood, preferred. for bench grafting, making it possible to successfully 4. The following winter, or if they are slightly graft without using a knife. It only use your hands to pull too small, plant them works well if you select wood that the sawdust away. for summer budding. Cut off the now rooted Those which are is approximately 1/4” in diameter shoots at the base of smaller can be plant- and approximately matched in size. the mother plant. ed in a bed and grown T245: $75 another year. 59 Rootstock Propagation Tips on Grafting Rootstocks Plums, cherries and pears are often done by hard- How to collect scionwood: Cut vigorous, pencil-size wood cuttings in the fall or early winter. Stoolbeds are (1/4” diameter) wood when the tree is dormant (Dec- often used for apples. For cuttings, use pencil size Feb.). Select only last year’s new healthy growth. It’s new wood and cut about 10 inches long. Using bottom at the end of branches and has flat vegetative buds heat will increase success but plums often root if just not plump fruit buds. stuck in the field. Lovell peach is grown from seeds. Storing the scionwood: You need pieces only 4-6” long for grafting. However, you can store pieces a foot Planting Your Grafted Rootstock long or more. Label each variety. A piece of masking Graft at the rootstock height where the size of scion tape and magic marker works well. Dip the scionwood and rootstock most closely match. It is often best to in a solution of one tablespoon Clorox to one gallon plant the grafted rootstock in a garden or easy to care of water and dry off. Place the scionwood in a plastic for area, spaced about 18 inches apart for one or two bag. Wet a paper towel and wring it out. Put it in the years before planting the tree into your orchard. Use bag with the scionwood and seal. Keep refrigerated your fingers or pruners to keep any buds from grow- until you graft. ing below the graft union. Choose only one vigorous Grafting: The booklet (S050: $2.95) shows you how. branch to tie up to start your new trunk and prune off Determine how high to graft on rootstock by matching any other branches that start to grow. the size of rootstock and scionwood. Use a grafting band. (T240: Bundle of 10 $1.50) Custom Grafting by Appointment Only Also consider purchasing a grafting knife or an Omega How to Rescue Heirloom Varieties: You may want grafting tool, which can make grafts easier for begin- to save an old variety by collecting scionwood from ners or people uncomfortable with a sharp knife. See that tree and grafting the wood on to a new rootstock. page 89. Or we can do the grafting for you if you bring the dor- After care: Keep the roots moist. “Callus” the graft mant scionwood to the nursery. Call us first for details by keeping it at room temperature for about ten days and an appointment. before planting it in a nursery or garden area where We charge $5 per graft plus the cost of the rootstock. it’s easy to care for. After one or two years, plant it in (Less for quantities of 10 or more of a variety! Ask our your orchard. For more complete grafting instructions, horticulturist for a price quote.) We can do grafting for buy our grafting leaflet. (S050: $2.95 each) you or teach you to do it at our annual Raintree class- We offer grafting classes! See page 94 for more es. See page 94. info. Figs freeze to the ground and come back size than to produce a crop the same year! most other The fruit is medium size, with purple varieties. It skin and a sweet, rich flavor. D320: produces well (Ficus carica) If you are among the $23.50 each in hot summer many people who associate a fig areas. When tree with only a hot dry climate, you EXCEL Enjoy the sweet, rich flavor of this. medium size, yellow fruit grown in a are in for a delicious surprise. Fig pot, in a cool trees thrive in the Pacific North- with amber pulp. Excel is resistant to splitting even under adverse summer west and much of the nation. climate, it can be brought inside to Most of the varieties we offer have conditions. It is a superb, all purpose fig. Introduced in 1975. finish ripening. D345: $23.50 each been selected for cold hardiness and early ripening. A warm location It’s considered very hardy. D311: LATTARULA T his high quality fig with a southern exposure is import- $23.50 each is among the most popular and ant for ripening fruit in a maritime VIOLETTE DE BORDEAUX A lso known widely adapted varieties. The ripe climate. Mature plants are all hardy as Bordeaux and as Negronne. fruit, with amber colored flesh and to about 10° F. Fig plants can be The very productive tree produces yellow-green skin, is so tasty for grown in colder climates if they are two crops of purple black figs with fresh eating, canning, and drying pruned as a bush and covered in strawberry colored flesh. Very good that it has earned the nickname winter or grown in a pot and brought in quality with a rich flavor.D360: “Italian Honey Fig.” D 330: $23.50 inside in winter. We offer vigorous, $23.50 each each well rooted 1-gallon plants. PETER’S HONEY NEW!Brought from Sicily, this fig is one of the Figs for Hotter Summers Widely Adaptable best. The skin is a beautiful shiny PANACHEE HARDY CHICAGO yellow green when ripe, and the TIGER STRIPE F rom a garden flesh is superb for fresh eating, This light yellow, near Chicago drying and canning. D340: $23.50 small to medium, comes this each pear-shaped hardy excellent PETITE NEGRI A dwarf tree or bush fruit is adorned fig which, once that thrives in a pot and produces with unique dark established, can large crops of sweet purple/black green stripes. fruit with red flesh. It has two crops The flesh has strawberry color and 60 a year and sets more fruit for its good, sweet flavor. It needs a long, warm growing season and ripens DESERT NORDLAND late. D359: $23.50 each KING T op Nordland Bergfeige FLANDERS The richly-flavored rated is originally from amber flesh of Flanders is among in the Switzerland and the most flavorful of all figs, and Pacific considered among the beautiful fruit with violet stripes NW for its the hardiest figs. It and white flecks resists splitting. reliability is able to survive to The highly productive tree requires and 10 degrees F and a hot summer or a greenhouse for delicious possibly lower. It the fruit to ripen and develop its flavor, this is a brownish fig outstanding flavor. D312: $23.50 fig tree produces large, very sweet and very sweet and tasty. It was each and tasty fruit with dark green recommended to us as a good skin and pink flesh. Each year, the choice for cooler maritime climates BLACK MISSION and it has proven to thrive at the The most popular overwintering “breba” crop will WSU Mt. Vernon station in Western fig, heavy-bearing ripen in August. It is a San Pedro Washington. D353: $23.50 each and long-lived, type fig, which physiologically Mission produces cannot ripen a fall crop. Grow it for large, teardrop its unrivaled overwintering crop. How to Use Figs shaped fruit with D310: $23.50 each; 3+: $21.50 purple-black skin and richly flavorful, each IN THE KITCHEN: Fresh figs are a strawberry-red flesh. Trees grow well wonderful treat. They are delicious dried in California, on the coast or inland, OLYMPIAN or eaten fresh or cooked into sauces and and they set both an overwintering Along with jam. “breba” crop in early summer and a Desert King IN THE LANDSCAPE: With its large dark later crop in fall. Hardy to 15°F.D305: the best bet for green leaves and spreading habit, the cool summer fig tree has a tropical appearance. Trees $23.50 each can slowly grow very large but can easily TEXAS BLUE areas. This be kept small with pruning. It is beautiful GIANTA huge fig newly available planted on the patio or near walkways. with attractive fig was found in Grow as a potted plant on a porch, deck purple skin and a Olympia, Washington, and regularly or other sunny area and bring inside delicious melting ripens a delicious breba crop in during severe winter weather. amber flesh. A August and often a fall crop in cool winner in the summer areas where others fail. Useful Facts south, it thrives in Texas and other Brought to us by Denny McGaughy, HARDINESS: Mature trees can stand hot desert areas. Grow it inside this red/purple skinned, red fleshed 10° F. Lower temperatures cause in the North. Zones 7-11. D365: fig has been long awaited.D343: freezing to the ground, but new growth $23.50 each $29.50 each LIMIT ONE resprouts from the roots. Zones 7-11. Chilling needed is only 100 hours. BROWN Best Choices for Cool TURKEY This SUN: Trees tolerate shade; maximum sun is required for fruit. Summer Climates hardy tree bears SPACING: 15-20’. With pruning they can heavily and be placed closer. For at least 100 years, fig lovers in the Pacific Northwest have been can produce POLLINATION: Varieties we offer do not two crops of need pollination. trying out figs to see which ones LIFETIME: 100+ years. PROPAGA- produce consistently in our cool large delicious fruit each year. TION: By rooted cuttings. maritime summer climate. It turns HARVEST TIME: The first (over winter- out that the figs we can count on, The figs have ing “breba”) crop ripens in summer, the produce a reliable over wintering mahogany colored skin and light second crop ripens in fall. In cool sum- “breba” crop that ripens in August, amber flesh that is very sweet. mer areas only the breba crop may ripen. since we cannot count on the main Highly reliable in much of the Pacific Fruit is ripe and ready for harvest when it crop that ripens in the fall to mature. NW.D355: $19.95 each; 3+: droops on the stem from its own weight. The Amend family founded the Wil- $18.50 each YEARS TO FRUIT: 3-4 PESTS: None of lamette Fig Gardens in about 1916 importance. PASTILLIERE and introduced many of the varieties we now offer. In recent years Denny A beautiful How To Grow McGaughy has collected winners bright purple SOIL REQUIREMENTS: Figs are adapt- from people’s yards throughout our fig with flavorful able to varied soils. A well-drained fertile region and introduced more variet- strawberry loam, close to neutral pH is best. ies now in the Raintree catalog. He colored flesh. It CULTURAL REQUIREMENTS: Plant has also worked with U.C. Davis to often ripens an on the south side of a building or wall do DNA testing to correctly identi- October crop in and protect from cold winds. Figs do not fy fig varieties because often the the Pacific Northwest where most need much fertilizer. While water require- same fig has been called by many others fail. It is a good companion ments are low, regular irrigation during names. to varieties like Desert King which dry spring and summer spells will result ripen only a summer crop. It is in consistent growth and good crops. Prune to a vase shape allowing air and thought to be a Japanese variety For more figs, visit called Hirta that was introduced into light to penetrate the center of the tree. Europe in the 19th century. D342: raintreenursery.com $23.50 each 61 Unique Asian- Persimmons astringent which means it develops its rich sweet flavor and cinnamon color when pollinized. Saijo and American (Diospyros species) Both Asian Chocolate are the best pollinizers. Cross D216: $39.95 each and American persimmons are very NIKITA’S GIFT beautiful trees that produce deli- HACHIYA This is the variety most lmost as hardy A cious, sweet orange fruit. All the often found in stores. The 4” long as the American trees we offer are grafted and will acorn persimmon and almost as large have superior quality fruit on an ear- shaped as the Asian, Nikita’s large crops ly bearing tree. We can ship only Izu, fruit is deep of 2-1/2”, flattish, red-orange fruit Coffee Cake, Chocolate, Hachiya orange are certainly gifts. When fully ripe and Jiro to CA. We offer 3-5’ trees. when ripe and soft, this hybrid persimmon is Our Asians are on D. Lotus root- and very sweet and flavorful. Fall foliage is a stock and unless otherwise noted sweet and gorgeous orange color. From Nikita are hardy to about 10°F. Chocolate, flavorful. Botanic Garden in Yalta. It is self- Hachiya, Jiro, Izu, Coffee Cake It is great fertile. On D. virginiana rootstock. and Saijo thrive in and can be dried. It is astringent until ripened D224: $39.95 each sent to CA. off the tree and eaten when soft. D218: $39.95 each American Persimmons Best Asians For PRAIRIE STAR™An early-ripening Warm Summers Earliest Ripening Asians American persimmon that sets IZUA large crops of very sweet fruit. It’s JIRO Jiro is very early 228: $39.95 each self-fertile. D round and flat ripening, with an orange GARRETSON One of the best fine quality American Persimmon varieties, skin and sweet Asian mild flesh. It is a Garretson bears heavy crops of persimmon. sweet, high quality fruit. Garretson non-astringent This is type, great ripens early and is very hardy a non- and easy to grow. Needs a male eaten while firm. Also known in the astringent U.S. as Fuyu. D215: $39.95 each persimmon pollenizer (D230). On D. selection. It virginiana rootstock.D219: $39.95 CHOCOLATE C hoice of sets medium sized fruit on a dwarf each connoisseurs. The medium size tree. Hardy to 0°F. D250: $39.95 red, conical, astringent type fruit each develops sweet, spicy brown flesh when ripe if pollinized. It is SAIJO Northerners Can Grow astringent until ripened off the tree. Saijo is the only Asian American Persimmons It’s the best pollinizer for the Coffee persimmon Cake variety. D217: $39.95 each Meader grafted American we can ripen Persimmon trees grow much COFFEE CAKE (Nishimura Wase) in our cool larger than Asian varieties and A richly flavored variety that ripens summers the fruit is smaller. However a month before Jiro. It ripens in at Raintree the Americans usually ripen climates with summers too cool in western earlier and the trees are much to consistently ripen Jiro or Fuyu. Washington. more winter hardy. The fruit is The fruit is large and roundish. The This self astringent until fully ripe. Zones tree is vigorous and easy to grow. fertile cultivar is hardy to -10 5-9. All Americans are on D. virginiana rootstock. We cannot It is called Coffee Cake for its rich degrees F. It produces consistently ship American persimmons to flavor and brown flesh color when sweet acorn shaped fruit on a small California. ripe. It is a pollination variant non tree. D260: $39.95 each Using Persimmons Willamette Valley and other areas with warm- er summers. Americans ripen in October. YEARS TO FIRST FRUIT: 2-3 years for grafted trees. IN THE LANDSCAPE: A beautiful orna- PICKING & STORAGE: Pick astringent va- SOIL REQUIREMENTS: Persimmons are mental, the large glossy leaves turn bright rieties after they color up and allow the fruit adapted to a wide variety of soil types. They red each autumn. After the leaves fall, the to soften and become “mushy’ inside before are tolerant of wet soils and also do well on orange fruit hangs like many lanterns on the you can enjoy the sweet flavor. The American light sandy soils. Once established, they can tree. cultivars are all astringent. Non-astringent withstand some drought. SUN OR SHADE: Persimmons can tolerate selections are delicious even when eaten CULTURAL REQUIREMENTS: They have some shade but Asian varieties, in particular, while the fruit is ripe but firm. Non astringent require a sunny location to ripen the fruit. firm “apple type persimmons” are the most almost no pest or disease problems. The PLANT HEIGHT & SPACING: 15’ for Asians, popular in Japan. They do need thinning to tree can be kept small with judicious prun- 35’ for Americans though they are easily increase fruit size. ing. Use a modified central leader. Pruning maintained at 15’. POLLINATION: Asian persimmons produce should be confined to light thinning and HARVEST TIME: Oct.-Nov. Fuyu and Hachi- seedless fruit without pollination. Americans, heading back excessively vigorous growth. ya, because of longer ripening time, often except Meader, usually need a male for Persimmons flower and bear fruit on the don’t ripen in Western WA. but thrive in the pollination. current season’s growth. 62 Jujubes IVAN’S BEAUTYTM ( Sorbus aucuparia x Aronia) Sweet-tart, small, wine-red fruit, prized for making wine, jelly and sauces, cover this small beautiful 12-15’-tall (Zizyphus jujuba) Jujubes are pretty yard tree. D710: $26.50 each trees with glossy green leaves that turn yellow in the autumn. Called IVANS BELLETM (Sorbus aucuparia “Chinese Date”, the fruit is very x Craetagus) An attractive tree sweet, reddish brown when ripe, from the Ukraine. The 15’ tree has 1-1/2” long with a single seed. large, glossy compound leaves and These grafted trees will grow to produces loads of tart, ½”, wine red 20’ or more but can be maintained fruit that is prized for making wine, much smaller. They are very pro- jelly or sauces. D711: $26.50 each ductive and early bearing. The fruit MEADER T he only available Edible American that is reliably self-fertile. needs hot summers to ripen well. In From fruit breeder Elwyn Meader cooler summers pick it half brown of New Hampshire. These grafted and half green and bring it inside to trees are upright growing, very cold hardy, and among the first to ripen, even in areas with cool summers. Hawthorn finish ripening. The myth of Zizyphus is that they are all tender sub-tropi- cals, but jujubes are hardy in USDA D255: $39.95 each RED SUN CHINESE Zones 6-10. These partially self HAW(Crataegus fertile cultivars produce better with MALE AMERICAN T he male is a another cultivar for pollination. We beautiful tree but doesn’t produce pinnatifida) An attractive species ship 3-5’ trees. fruit. It will pollinate all American females including Meader. On D. of small 12’ LANG L ang has virginiana rootstock.D230: $36.50 tall trees from large, pear- each northern China shaped, flavorful with 1” diameter fruit which must fruit which turn be fully colored red when ripe. This fruit is tasty for best eating. when eaten fresh, dried, or used to Let the summer Note on Delayed make syrups, preserves or candies. ripening fruit dry Leafing Persimmons USDA Zones 4-9. Self-fertile. D163: on the tree. The $26.50 each tree is upright and almost spineless. Don’t worry! Because per- Needs a pollinizer. D 204: $39.95 simmons, unlike most plants, BIG GOLDEN STAR NEW!Unlike the common hawthorn, this tree has no each break dormancy based on heat units, not chilling hours, thorns. It is a striking small tree with LIEnjoy large, round many newly planted persim- very large, lobed leaves. It has good early season fruit, mon trees don’t come out of autumn color and lots of edible up to 3 oz. in mid- dormancy the first season, fruits 1 1/2 inch in diameter used August. Li may be in a cool spring and summer for cooking and making jelly. USDA picked at the yellow- cli-mate like the Pacific NW, Zones 4-9. D168: $26.50 each green stage. It is until summer or even fall. A LIMIT ONE best eaten fresh. bare root tree could be simply TEXAS SUPERBERRY (Crataegus Partially self-fruitful. planted in the ground or could aestivalis) Mayhaws are a group D202: $39.95 be potted to provide more of hawthorns, native to the U.S. each heat for the roots and then that produce small tasty crab SHERWOOD Enjoy the excellent unpot-ted and planted just apple like fruit that is famous tasting, firm large shiny reddish- after it started to leaf. Plant- for making a delicious jelly. The brown date-like fruit that has a ing instruc-tions are included attractive tree grows to 15’ and sweet apple-like flavor. When with each tree. has pretty white self fertile flowers. candied and dried, it resembles It blooms very early, making a date. Sherwood is good in hot fruit set only occasional in areas desert areas. It is an attractive with late spring frosts. Warren upright grower with shiny leaves Mt. Ash Superberry was found in Texas by famed horticulturist T. O. Warren. and far fewer thorns than other selections. Not recommended for Hybrids It produces heavy crops of red areas where climate cools before berries used in pie, jelly or juice. fruit ripens. D207: $42.50 each D164: $26.50 each SHANXI LI NEW!Enjoy the very These are beautiful, unusual upright RED AZEROLE NEW!This small, large two inch plus fruit, excellent hardy trees with large glossy com- ornamental hawthorn can be grown eaten fresh or dried. Shanxi Li has pound leaves. Bred for beauty and for its small red fruit reddish brown date like fruit. It does by famed Russian that tastes like a tart apple. It grows well in hot, dry summer areas. It plant breeder Ivan quickl y into a 15’ tree or large ripens in mid season, in the late Michurin. Each is shrub with beautiful, glossy, dark summer or early fall and is self self-fertile. USDA green foliage. In spring, it is loaded fertile. USDA Zones 6-10. D209: Zones 3-8. 3-5’ with dense clusters of large white $42.50 each flowers. Self-fertile. USDA Zone 5-9. trees. D162: $26.50 each 63 Pomegranates Pomegranates (Punica granatum) We offer a wide and Your Health selection of pomegranates, each Pomegranates are rated among the with its own complex and unique fla- most healthful of fruits. Studies show vor. The pomegranate can be grown pomegranate juice has much more as a small tree or in a bush form. polyphenol antioxidants than any other drink, including red wine and Their bright foliage and beautiful blueberry juice. It is rich in flavonoids orange flowers make them a beauti- which researchers find protects ful landscape plant. Pomegranates against heart disease. require only 150 chilling hours & need well-drained soil. Tea Pomegranates ripen well in the South and in California. They grow well in the Pacific Northwest but WONDERFUL The variety usually found in markets. (Camellia sinensis) Plant an au- don’t get the intense summer heat Hot summers are thentic tea plant in your yard! These they need to ripen. needed to fully ripen pretty evergreen Camellia bushes the large, tart fruit. grow about 4’ tall (taller in mild Growing them as a multi-stemmed bush in a pot and bringing them in in D490: $22.50 each regions) and can make an attractive evergreen hedge.They have pretty the fall can extend their productive KASHMIR BLEND N amed for its fragrant autumn flowers. The leaves range. delicious blend of complex flavors. are elliptical, 2-4” long and contain EVERSWEET Since it is the first Kashmir Blend produces a tart, the stimulant caffeine. Leaves will pomegranate to ripen (a month or rich flavor beloved by pomegranate produce green or black tea. Re- more before Wonderful), Eversweet aficionados. The exquisite balance search suggests that green tea has bears in shorter season areas. Its between acid and sugar results in special beneficial health properties. large, dark red, virtually seedless fruit is great juice. D478: $24.50 each These plants also grow well indoors sweet, even when immature, an added SWEETSweeter fruit than in a pot. Plants prefer sun or partial ripening advantage over other cultivars. Wonderful, with better quality shade. Delicious, sweet-tangy fruit has clear, in cool-summer climates. It is a A Chinese way to make green tea is non-staining juice. D485: $24.50 compact plant, suitable to espalier to “pick only the new growing tips each and container growing. Harvest in (the top three leaves on a branch). PINK SATIN This attractive late summer. Unsplit ripe fruit stores Spread and dry in the shade for six pomegranate has unique, edible seeds in a cool, dry place for two months hours. Then on low heat in an open and a sweetly refreshing flavor. Soft, or more. D480: $24.50 each pot, heat the leaves for a couple of edible sweet seeded cultivars are PARFIANKA T his naturally dwarf hours, frequently stirring. You can sought after by cultures familiar with pomegranate sets profuse amounts use your hand to stir. Then put the pomegranates. The soft seeds make of fruit even when young. The leaves in a cup and pour boiling it seem almost seedless. Its original medium size, yellow fruit has a bright water over the leaves. You can drink name is Pink Ice. D479: $24.50 each red blush, soft seeds and a sweet-tart it with the leaves still in the cup.” RED SILK This taste that is rated among the best For black tea, ferment the leaves. dwarf UC Davis in taste tests. Parfianka makes an Plants are hardy in the Pacific North- introduction excellent juice. D486: $26.50 each west. USDA Zones 7-10. In 1-quart grows to about POMEGRANATE ROADS By Gregory pots. 6’, making it Levin 183 pages. Floreant Press, RUSSIAN TEA G rown from seed perfect for a Subtitled “A Soviet Botanists’s gathered in Tea plantations in Sochi, large patio pot! Exile from Eden.” A beguiling Russia along the Black Sea. This is It produces an blend of memoir and pomegranate the northern most area where tea abundant crop of large fruit with red horticulture. Dr. Levin tells of is grown commercially. Flowers are juice and a delicious grenadine flavor his life’s work in a remote Soviet white and fragrant. L503: $22.50 that has a pleasing balance of acid research station in the mountains each and sweetness. D491: $24.50 each near Iran. S329: $18 each TEA BREEZE A beautiful white- About Pomegranates EXPOSURE: Full Sun. POLLINATION: Self fertile. flowered IN THE LANDSCAPE: Enjoy the spring HARDINESS: Zones 8-10.They are ornamental display of showy orange-red flowers on hardy to about 10° F. Even if frozen to the variety that these glossy leafed arching shrubs. ground, plants will re-sprout from the is also used to make delicious tea. IN THE KITCHEN: Try several varieties to roots like a fig. If grown in a pot, they can L501: $22.50 each experience the range of delicious pome- be brought in to ripen. granate flavors. Use them in a wide variety SIZE & SPACING: Prune them as a 8-10’ BLUSHING MAIDEN S imiliar to Tea of delicious Middle Eastern recipes. tall shrub or allow them to become a Breeze except the flowers are a beautiful 15-20’ tree or espalier. pretty pink color. L502: $22.50 Useful Facts RIPENING: Late Fall. each YIELD: 15 plus pounds per plant. SOIL: Most need well drained soils. 64 Paw Paws crops of oval, sweet and flavorful grafted varieties but a great value fruit. One of the earliest ripening and just as likely to grow well. varieties in our region. D374: Choose two for pollination or one $27.50 each and a grafted variety. 1 gallon pot. (Asimina D370: $18.50 each triloba) Outstanding Cultivars The paw paw is the largest From Kentucky Edible edible fruit native to Ameri- SHENANDOAH TM T his patented new variety is one of the largest and most flavorful Pawpaws, each weighing up to a pound. The fruit Dogwoods ca. Well Our dogwoods are small ornamental known in ripens in mid season and is sweet and flavorful with creamy-yellow, trees with beautiful spring flowers much of the eastern United States, and attractive summer foliage and the tree has long, tropical looking custard-like flesh. D394: $27.50 each fall color. Dogwoods are planted for leaves and produces dark green, their ornamental beauty, but in Rus- oblong fruit (3” to 6” long) with a SUSQUEHANNATM The largest of all sia and elsewhere they are prized pulp that tastes like vanilla custard. the Peterson Paw Paw selections. for heavy production of delicious You can just take out your spoon Susquehanna fruit is very sweet fruit. Cannot ship to Florida. We and eat the delicious treat. While the and richly flavorful with very few offer 3-5’ trees. paw paw tree grows well in much seeds. Individual fruits can weigh of the nation, it needs a long hot a pound! It ripens in mid season. summer to ripen its fruit and only D395: $27.50 each Cornus Mas Has the earliest ripening cultivars stand Flavorful Fruit a chance of maturing in the cooler parts of the Pacific Northwest. The Flavorful Favorites Cornus Mas, also called “Cornelian pulp has big seeds that are easy to Cherry” is a fantastic small orna- PROLIFIC A vigorous tree and a mental tree that bears flavorful fruit. spoon out and discard or plant to heavy cropper with very good grow additional trees. Paw paws are Trees are beautiful in all seasons. flavored fruit. It comes into They are covered with yellow flow- slow growing and small upon arrival. production sooner than other ers in the spring before the leaves varieties. D378: $27.50 each appear. This is followed by flavorful Earliest Ripening REBECCA’S GOLD Vigorous, summer fruit and red and yellow fall This one is most likely to ripen in productive tree with sweet foliage. Cornus Mas thrives in soil areas with cool summers like the aromatic fruit. Ripens mid to late with high organic content. Trees like Pacific Northwest. season. D375: $27.50 each partial shade in hot summer areas NC 1 NEW! NC-1 is an early SUNFLOWER A well known hardy and full sun where summers are ripening variety from Canada. It northern selection with large, cooler. USDA Zones 4-9. 3-5 foot bears great crops of large and flavorful fruit and few seeds. trees unless noted. flavorful fruit. D 373: $27.50 Ripens slightly later than other RAINTREE SELECT The most each varieties. Reportedly self-fertile. flavorful and productive of many PENNSYLVANIA GOLDEN Very D385: $27.50 each seedlings grown from productive sweet and flavorful, medium to large FORD AMEND S elected in the trees from Russia. This tree ripens fruit. Reportedly the earliest of all Pacific Northwest and grown since elongated red fruit late in the our varieties to ripen. A great variety 1950. Flavorful, green-yellow fruit season. D567: $28.50 eachLIMIT to try in cooler regions.D391: with orange flesh, ripens in late ONE $27.50 each September. D 372: $27.50 each MITCHELL NEW! A highly regarded PAW PAW SEEDLINGS Not as variety, Mitchell bears good consistently productive as the Using Paw Paws IN THE LANDSCAPE: Enjoy its bright yellow fall foliage. SUN OR SHADE: Though they need sun to ripen, paw paws are a natural hardwood forest understory plant that likes high humidity. HEIGHT & SPACING: Trees slowly grow to 25’ or more but can be maintained at 10-15 feet height and spacing. HARVESTING: In fall when fruit color turns from green to yellow. HARDINESS: Zones 5-9 YEARS TO FRUITING: Outside their native habitat, Paw Paws often grow very slowly and can take many years to start producing. Visit the nursery POLLINATION: Each variety has inconspicuous brown flowers in May and is insect, or more reliably, hand pollinated from the male flowers of one variety to the female flowers of another variety. for too-large-to- TRANSPLANTING: The tree has a tap root and grows very slowly at first. That is why we offer them in pots. Transplant with as much soil as possible, trying not to disturb the roots. ship plants! 65 KAZENLAKThis cultivar from DWARF Bulgaria produces an abundance of RED(Musa 1-1/2” long, deep red fruit prized for ‘Dwarf its jumbo size and excellent flavor. Red’) D581: $34.50 each LIMIT ONE Growing only 6’ to RED STAR A very heavy producer of 8’ tall, this pungent, delicious, glossy dark red, beautiful, oval fruit 1 1/4 inches long. Makes red skinned great preserves. An outstanding banana edible ornamental. The tree grows can bring to 10’-15’ and has gorgeous yellow the tropics spring flowers. Needs another to your Cornus Mas variety as a pollinizer. home while the snow falls out- D575: $26.50 each doors. It needs high light levels YELLOW and temperatures 65°F or higher to FRUITED do well, but will reward the grower Bananas This beautiful who provides these conditions with edible delicious fruit that is almost black when ripe. USDA Zones 9-10. J335: ornamental $24.50 each produces Often edible bananas can’t take tem- beautiful peratures below freezing but can be yellow grown indoors. Our ornamental culti- Banana Book flowers each vars are surprisingly hardy and can be BANANAS YOU CAN GROWby spring and grown in much of the nation. Offered Stokes & Waddick, 128 pages. is loaded in 1 gallon pots.Prohibited to HI. For Northern and Southern home with unique gardeners. Includes 66 cultivars. yellow fruit Sections are on cultivation, 1 inch long Hardy Ornamentals propagation, best cultivars for each each fall. BASJOO HARDY T his Japanese site and growing in greenhouses Use another Cornus Mas variety as native is hardy to zero when and containers. Well written with a pollinizer for fruit. D578: $26.50 mulched. It will grow to 15’ tall many color illustrations. S 009: each (less than 10’ in a large pot) and $19.95 each grace your northern yard with giant VARIEGATED A beautiful and unusual edible ornamental. This multi stemmed tree has beautiful tropical looking banana stems and leaves. Though its fruit is not palatable the flowers are showy. It Subtropicals green and white variegated leaves. needs sun, lots of summer water LOQUAT SEEDLING (Erioboytra It is easily maintained at ten feet and lots of nitrogen for rapid japonica) This tropical looking tall and like the other Cornus Mas growth. After the first fall frost, tree produces leathery evergreen has beautiful yellow flowers in the prune the stems to a foot high. In foliage and fruit that is very sweet, spring and edible red berries each May, new growth is spectacular. aromatic and looks like a small summer. D580: $28.50 each J320: $24.50 each round apricot. The tree is self-fertile RED TIGER ( Musa sikkimensis) A and hardy to 12° F. It blooms in late Kousas Loaded With Fruit! beautiful cold tolerant ornamental winter and only sets fruit in areas banana from the Himalayas. It with above freezing winters and hot (Cornus Kousa) These beautiful summers. It grows well but rarely ornamentals grow to 12-15’ tall with grows to 15’ tall with huge purple striped leaves and long lasting fruits in the Pacific Northwest. It can attractive, disease resistant, ovate grow to 20’ tall or be kept small in leaves that turn scarlet in fall. Enjoy yellow flowers. Though it’s almost as cold tolerant as Basjoo it needs a pot. One Gallon Pot. USDA Zones large showy white flowers in June. 8-10. J340: $22.50 each Pick round bright edible red fruit in warm weather to break dormancy. October. Space 12’ apart or 4’ apart All the hardy bananas benefit from to make a stun- a thick winter mulch in colder ning 6-8’ hedge. climates. USDA Zones 6-10. One Best in good gallon pot. J337: $24.50 each garden soil with afternoon shade. Delicious Indoor Favorites USDA Zones 5-8. DOUBLE T his sport of the Dwarf 2-3’ size. Cavendish banana is also known as BIG APPLE ‘Mahoi’. It will grow to about 7’ tall in KOUSATM a large pot. Happy indoors with high Selected for its light levels and temperatures 65°F cascades of large or higher, it usually produces two red, tasty fruit. large heads of sweet little bananas, Self fertile. D 585: sometimes three, beginning the $26.50 each second year. Try it outdoors in USDA Zones 9-10 and inside 66 elsewhere.J336: $24.50 each LEMON GUAVA NEW!(Pisidium under bark. We offer seedlings. Plant tubers and the much smaller edible littorale) Grown it as a potted indoor two to assure pollination and more to propagation tubers which grow just shrub with tasty 1-2 inch round prune into an excellent hedge. Grow under the soil surface. Zones 5-9. yellow fruit. It grows outdoors in in sun to part shade in a well-drained, 4-inch pot. L558: $16.50 each USDA Zone 10 and is hardy to acidic site with lots of organic matter. 23 degrees F. where is makes a USDA Zones 8-11. Quart pot. D177: MASHUA (Tropaeolum tuberosum) sturdy 10-15 foot shrub or small $19.95 each Among Andean tubers, Mashua, tree. Young plants produce lots a relative of of yellow fruit. Blend the whole fruits with strawberries or other fruits to make a delicious puree. Lost Crops the garden nasturtium Its great in smoothies, popsicles or even salads. It’s native to Brazil. Self fertile. One quart pot. J315: of the Incas is one of the highest yielding, $16.50 each “Lost Crops of the Incas” is the title easiest of a book published in 1989 and to grow, Edibles is free online. Of the over 30 food crops discussed in the book, we picked three tuber crops that are and most resistant to cold, to USDA Zone 7 or maybe from Chile nutritious, easy to cultivate, can be grown in much of the country and offer a new taste experience. colder. It also repels many insects, nematodes, and other pathogens, thus making it a valuable plant Chile has similiar climates to the OCA ( Oxalis to intercrop with other species. west coast of the U.S. tuberosa) The tubers about the size of small Another potatoes have shapes ranging from tasty tuber conical to carrot like. Mashua is from the high yielding, even under conditions Andes. One of almost no management. You will of the lost receive 2 tubers.L553: $16.50 for crops of 2 tubers the Inca’s, Oca is the Edible second most popular tuber in Peru after potatoes. The small, bright pink tubers are similar in flavor to a CHILEAN GUAVA (Myrtus ugni molinae) The attractive Chilean Guava bears red, one inch oval tangy potato. The attractive clover- like foliage is also edible. The tubers mature late in the season and are Cactus fruit with a tart flavor and aroma usually harvested after the first reminiscent of strawberries. PRICKLY light frost. In northern areas where PEAR The self-fertile bush loves warm frost comes before November, climates and can grow to 15-feet, (Opuntia protection is needed to get good cycloides) but will stay smaller, 6-to-8-feet, sized tubers. L559: 5 tubers for in cooler climates. Trim the bush $15 This cactus to a size you like and consider is great for YACON(Smallanthus sonchifolius) growing in planting several to make an unusual Yacon is a perennial plant grown hedge. Chilean Guavas, favored a pot or in in the mid-elevation Andes for its the ground. long ago by Queen Victoria, can crisp, sweet-tasting tuberous root, even thrive outdoors in southwest It is hardy England. Plant in well-drained soil delicious eaten fresh. The texture and easy to in a sunny location or grow as a and flavor is a cross between a grow. Use greenhouse plant.The leaves are a fresh apple, about 6” of tea substitute. USDA Zones 8-10. 1 watermelon pea gravel quart pot.J370: $24.50 each and celery. and little or no soil for drainage. It In Northern grows 5-7’ tall, tallest in mild winter LUMA APICULATA This beautiful areas, plant areas and has beautiful yellow evergreen shrub or small tree from after the flowers and long sweet purple 3” Chile and Argentina can grow to last frost fruit. The fruit is used to make jelly. 15’ or more. Each fall, loads of and harvest Surprisingly, it thrives in the Pacific small, round, blue-black fruit with after the NW. Zones 6-10. 1 gallon pot. translucent flesh cover the plant. The first few D180: $24.50 each aromatic, sweet fruit can be eaten frosts have fresh or made into a blueberry like LARGE FRUITED OPUNTIA ( Opuntia caused the engelmanii) Like the cycloides topping for cheesecake. Its dark tops to die green leaves resemble huckleberry cactus, but with red/purple, flavorful back. While fruit that is twice as large. Enjoy the and its small, creamy white, starry usable- flowers appear in mid-summer and pretty yellow flowers. It grows to 4’ sized tubers tall and has blond colored spines. continue into fall. Mature plants develop USDA Zones 7-10. 1 gallon. D185: develop smooth, cinnamon color fairly early, they taste much sweeter $24.50 each bark, much like that of madrone that after some frost. Yacon has two peels back to reveal white to pink types of tubers, the edible storage 67 Roots, Flax SAFFRON CROCUS (Crocus Shoots And sativus) From this beautiful, NEW ZEALAND FLAX (Phormium tenax) Leaves fall- blooming crocus New Zealand Flax (aka Harekeki) grows as a clump with elongated grey green leaves to about WASABI ( Wasabia comes true 8’ tall. This evergreen plant is very japonica) Chances Saffron, tolerant of salt spray seaside locations are you’ve never had a highly prized and highly priced and quite happy in wet (swamp) real wasabi but rather spice that has been used for conditions yet it grows in most soils a combination of flavoring since ancient times. The with little watering and likes full sun. mustard, horseradish, spice is found on showy, thread-like First harvest after 3 years. Not edible and food coloring. stigmas in each delicate lilac bloom. ... but VERY useful and attractive. It is Native to Japan, it is Easy to grow in the Pacific NW and valued for its long strong fibers, that grown for its unique, enlarged stem other areas with similar climates, were used it for rope for their sailing or rhizome. Wasabi prefers shade and Saffron Crocus prefers good fleet. The Maori used it for clothing, cool temperatures, so is well suited to spring rains, mostly dry summers weaving, baskets, packs and rope of all the Pacific NW. The highest grade of and temperatures that stay above sorts. USDA Zones 7-10 though it may wasabi is grown in moving water but it minus 10° F. Plants grow from need winter mulch in Zones 7 and 8 does just fine in soil and in containers. corms, which can be dug, divided and may die back in the winter. 1 quart Wasabi grows best in summer shade and replanted to encourage more size.M056: $18.50 each on soils high in organic matter, well plants. 2¼” pot. USDA Zones 6-9. watered with good drainage. When planting wasabi, the crown should remain above the soil surface. M007: $11.50 each Thai Asparagus Temperatures below 27° F. will kill Fresh picked As- the top growth and perhaps the Cooking paragus has four whole plant so winter protection is Favorites times the natural advisable. Its ideal range is between sugar as spears 40 and 70 degrees. Slugs love it, LEMON GRASS stored just one so slug control may be necessary. (Cymbopogon day which gives Instructions are included with each citratus) An it a better flavor plant! 4” pot.L557: $16.50 each; easily grown without boosting 6+: $13.50 each perennial your blood sugar. herb, essential Jersey Knight is among the most HORSERADISH to Thai and (Amoracia rusticana) nutritious varieties however the Southeast purple asparagus has three times Plant this vigorous Asian cuisine. root 3 inches deep in the antioxidants. When aspara- It is also used to add lemon flavor gus is harvested at six inches tall a rich soil with full sun, to herbal teas or chopped finely in spaced two feet from it is much sweeter than the taller sauces and deserts. It will grow to spears. Cooking Asparagus adds to other plants. Harvest 2-3’ tall and spreads by numerous roots after a frost, shoots sprouting from the base of its antioxidant value. beginning the second year. It grows the clump. It loves heat and summer SWEET PURPLE For the asparagus 2-3’ tall and can be aggressive. Use sun and can tolerate drought connoisseur. The purple spears by grating the roots. USDA Zones but can be killed by freezing have a 20% higher sugar content 5-9. Large root. L540: $7.50 each; temperatures. Since it does well in a and are often eaten raw. Very 3+: $6 each pot, Northerners can grow it outside tender when cooked, the sweetness CRIMSON CHERRY spring through fall and just cut the gives the spears a mild, nutty flavor. RHUBARB R hubarb top growth back and bring the pot Heavy grade. R530 (10 crowns): is easy to grow in in for the winter. 4” pot. L5804: $14.50; R535 (25 crowns): most soils. Eat the $11.50 each $28.50 stalks, not the leaves, SICHUAN PEPPER Use the highly JERSEY KNIGHT A new very because leaves can fragrant seeds and leaves in your flavorful “all male” variety. Since it be toxic. Cherry is an spicy Chinese cooking. This shrub doesn’t produce flowers or seeds, extremely heavy and grows to 10’ tall and is hardy to all the energy goes into making reliable producer. This -10°F. While production is said to delicious, tender spears. It is much is the reddest variety, benefit from having a male and more productive than traditional tending to be red all the a female plant, almost all plants varieties. Expect loads of new way through. Stalks are up to two produce both fruit and seeds. One tender spears each spring. We feet long and are tender with no gallon size. USDA Zones 6-9. L565: offer heavy grade crowns. R520 stringiness and a full rich flavor. We $24.50 each LIMIT ONE (10 crowns): $14.50; R525 (25 offer jumbo sized crowns. USDA crowns): $28.50 Zones 5-9. Plant 4’ apart.L508: KIEFFER LIME (THAI) Distinctively $10 each; 3+: $8.50 each shaped leaves are used in Thai GROW THE BEST ASPARAGUS cooking. See description page 87. torey Books, 12 pages. S205: S 68 J210Q: $54.95 each $3.95 each EMERALD Lavender: So Beautiful GroundcoverS CARPET (Rubus pentalobus) & So Useful And Herbs This beautiful evergreen groundcover FRED BOUTIN ( Lavandula x intermedia) Cover the ground with a beautiful Raspberry from Beautiful in all carpet of foliage, thereby reducing Taiwan has seasons, this erosion and providing a mat that clover shaped fragrant cultivar inhibits weeds. Good ground cov- leathery green grows to 3’ tall. ers spread easily and quickly and foliage turning coppery in autumn. This multi-use cultivar is used for will grow underneath other edible It grows only a few inches tall and flower wands, oil and also for baking plants. They need weeding and or occasionally has yellow berries in in cookies. A great edible landscape mulching and watering to get estab- July. Sun or shade. USDA Zones plant. USDA Zones 7-10. 4” pot. lished. Lingonberries, strawberries, 6-10. 4” pot. G300: $6.50 each; L515: $8.50 each; 6+: $7 each Maine blueberries, wintergreen, 6+: $5 each salal, and many other berries make great edible groundcovers. Look for them throughout the catalog. WOOLLY THYME(Thymus praecox Languinousus) Fragrant and beautiful, this wonderful evergreen Mushrooms ground cover has small, soft, grey- Grow Mushrooms Groundcovers green leaves and tiny red flowers. in Your Garden KINNICKINNICK (Arctostaphylos Throughout the year, the mat of uvaursi) This native evergreen foliage looks like Ireland seen from KING STROPHARIA GARDEN ground cover thrives in most an airplane. Great in a rock garden, GIANT SPAWN ( Stropharia rugosa- soils, even in sand. It needs little between stepping stones and on annulata) Also know as the “Garden care. Prostrate trailing branches slopes, it thrives in our trials at Giant”. As the name implies this thickly covered with small dark Raintree. Provide good drainage mushroom can get large, but these green leaves yield white or pink and full sun for best results. USDA beautiful wine red mushrooms blossoms in late spring. Bright Zones 5-9. 4” pot. L520: $6.50 are far tastier when picked at the red berries follow, lasting well into each; 6+: $5 each button stage. It is a very easy winter. Native Americans valued the mushroom for the home cultivator berries as food and the leaves in and can be readily grown in your smoking mixtures, though now the Fragrant Culinary Herbs berry, vegetable, and flower beds. fruit is most often eaten by birds. ARP ROSEMARY H ardy and easy to Just mix fresh hardwood chips or It is a beautiful way to cover a lot grow, this beautiful plant grows to sawdust with our King Stropharia of ground in a hurry. It is great for 2-3’ tall. It has grey-green foliage Spawn, mulch around your garden sunny slopes and cascading down and pale blue flowers with a strong with the spawned chips and walls. USDA Zones 5-10. 4” pot. Rosemary and lemon fragrance. keep moist. In 6 to 12 months the G665: $6.50 each; 6+: $5 each USDA Zones 7-10. 4-inch pot.L575: mushrooms will begin to appear $6.50 each; 6+: $5 each and in many parts of the country will continue fruiting from spring MIOGA HARDY GINGER ( Zingher through fall. Once introduced to mioga) A hardy ginger that grows your garden, this species will often to 4 feet tall. The new shoots are become truly perennial, appearing blanched and eaten and the young year after year. King Stropharia is leaves are edible. The white flower very heat and cold tolerant and can buds which emerge in late summer be grown in most of the country. If are used for tempurah or sliced and hardwood chips or sawdust are not added as a garnish for salads or available, un-composted straw will sushi. This plant is unlike the ginger also work. In Germany they grow that you eat the large rhizomes. them on straw bales. One 4-lbs. Hardy to USDA Zones 7-10. Prefers bag of spawn should inoculate partial shade and well drained soil a wheelbarrow full of chips. with plenty of humus. 1 liter pot. Instructions are provided with each L705: $19.95 each spawn order. P275D: $32.50 each Using Asparagus IN THE KITCHEN: Eat fresh, frozen or canned. IN THE LANDSCAPE: Fern like foliage makes a perennial border. Grow in full sun. A patch can last 15 years. Harvest after three years. USDA Zones 2-9. SOIL REQUIREMENTS: pH 6.5 to 7.5 Deep organic soil, good drainage. CULTURAL REQUIREMENTS: At planting, add rotted manure and compost. Dig trenches 8 to 10 inches deep and plant the crowns 12 to 18 inches apart. Some new methods call for shallower planting. Spread out the roots. Cover with 3-4 inches of soil. As the shoots emerge, continue to fill with soil. Water, if weather is dry. Do not cut spears until the third season after planting. Then be sure to stop harvesting after June so fern growth can take place. This builds up the food reserves for the following year’s crop. Cut foliage when it yellows in the fall. 69 PORTABELLO ALMOND SPAWN OYSTER DOWELS(Pleurotus CHICKEN OF THE WOODS (Agaricus subrufesens) is favored ostreatus) Among the easiest DOWELS (Laetiporus sulphureus) as a culinary and as a medicinal mushrooms to grow. Chefs are raving Easy to recognize, the mushroom. It grows best when about its strong delicious flavor when combination of bright orange and mixed in with your compost or breaded or fried. While relatively rare sulfur yellow make it a real show a bagged compost and manure in nature, it is easy to grow on a wide stopper. As tasty as it is colorful, product and then used as a mulch variety of hardwoods and is suited for it could make a great landscape around your plants. It also grows home culture. The mushrooms are well on pasteurized straw. (A way white to pale gray or brown, flattened addition. It grows on hardwood to pasteurize your own straw is to or funnel-shaped and borne in large logs and stumps through the soak it completely underwater in shelf-like clusters. P252C: Package United States. P 304C: 100 cold water for a week.) It is a warm of 100 dowel plugs: $18 each; 3+ plugs: $18; 3+ packages of season mushroom. Keep the bag of packages of 100: $15 each 100: $15 each spawn refrigerated until late spring MAITAKE DOWELS (Grifola when you can plant it out and it will fruit during the summer and fall. frondosa) Maitake, also know as Grow “Hen of the Woods”, can be reliably It also grows well in a tote and will grown in its native range in Eastern Oyster Kits produce more quickly than in the garden. 4lb bag of spawn. P280D: North America. It is prized by in Your mushroom hunters for its delicious $32.50 each flavor, beauty and large size (the Kitchen record is over 100 lbs). Maitake Grow Oyster Mushroom Dowel Plugs contains healthful and medicinal mushrooms on SHIITAKE compounds. It is best grown on a 4-pound block DOWELS fresh cut stumps or logs that are in your kitchen. (Lentinus partially buried after inoculation. Oak and elm are recommended These easy-to-grow kits can give edodes) Shiitake two or three flushes of mush- mushrooms are but other hardwoods can be tried. P265C: Package of 100 dowel rooms. Here’s a great tip for the delicious with a Oyster kit to keep it growing for a rich flavor and plugs: $18 each; 3+ packages of firm texture. They 100: $15 each long time: Once they have fruit- are also very nutritious, containing LION’S MANE DOWELS(Hericium ed, pack the remaining spawn lots of B vitamins and other erinaceus) A tasty, large, showy into a block with used coffee substances that appear to lower mushroom. Found in late summer grounds. cholesterol and boost the immune and fall on hardwood stumps OYSTER SPAWN KIT ( Pleurotus system. While they are an expensive throughout much of the U.S. Oak, ostreatus) Oysters are the delicacy, relatively new to the walnut and beech are favorites but Western world, people in China and it grows on many hardwoods. A easiest to grow, and you can Japan have been enjoying Shiitakes medicinal, said to improve cognitive keep them going for many for millenia. P302C: Package of abilities. P305C: Pkg. of 100 months using the instructions 100 dowel plugs: $18 each; 3+ dowel plugs: $18 each; 3+ pkgs included with your order. packages of 100: $15 each of 100: $15 each P 252K: $26.50 each How to Grow Mushrooms on Logs or Stumps For those of you with patience essential, stumps and odd sized oak, but may start sooner. Or use and access to fresh cut logs pieces can also work. Using a dowels in stumps. Full directions from conifer or hardwood trees 5/16 drill bit, drill holes about are provided! or stumps such as alder, oak, 1.5” deep and space them 5 or 6” Get rid of your stumps the slow birch or cottonwood, you can apart. A 4’ log will need about 30 way, turn them into mushrooms. grow lots of mushrooms at home. or more dowels. More will result Fresh cut stumps inoculated with Mushrooms grown from dowels in faster colonization and perhaps dowel spawn will supply tasty are very winter hardy and can be quicker production. Hammer a mushrooms for many years. Just grown throughout most of the plug in each hole and seal with inoculate the top near the bark nation. paraffin or a compound like Doc and also the sides and let nature Using our “dowel plug spawn” Farwell’s Tree Heal. The logs are take its course. A one foot diame- you can inoculate logs or stumps then stacked in a shady location ter, one foot tall stump would use with mushroom cultures. It is where moisture can be main- 150 or more dowels. Grow more important that the logs are freshly tained. Mushrooms should begin than one variety on large stumps. cut, and the bark in good condi- to appear in from 6 months to 2 Use Hardwood stumps like alder tion. It is best to cut the logs in years and will continue to appear or oak that don’t regrow. (It is late winter or early spring before on the logs for several years. critical that you correctly identify the buds break and leaves ap- Softer woods like alder or cotton- the mushrooms you eat. Carefully pear. A 4-6” diameter and 4 foot wood will produce fewer mush- follow the instructions included in length is convenient, but not rooms than denser woods like your order.) 70 Ornamental Edible Vines Vines EASTERN PRINCE MAGNOLIA VINE NEW!(Schizandra chinensis) This lovely fruiting vine comes to us A Fragrant Hummingbird from the mountains of China and the Russian far east. It does well in Favorite moist shady places where few fruit GOLD FLAME HONEYSUCKLE plants thrive but it will also grow in ( Lonicera x heckrotti ‘Gold Flame’) full sun. It produces large clusters The buds on of round red fruit. The leaves have this shrubby, a lemon scent. The fruit is acidic non-edible and very aromatic. They are dried twining vine and used in medicinal teas. Or, begin as pink, sweetened, the fruits are used to opening to a make a juice or preserves that is heavily fragrant said to be stimulating and energy creamy restoring. Grow on a trellis, arbor or yellow. Enjoy similar structure. The fragrant white Hops the blooms flowers are self-fertile and fruits and the should begin to appear in about hummingbirds from spring through three years. One gallon pot. USDA summer. It grows in sun or partial Zones 4-8. H345: $24.50 each shade. 1 gallon pot. USDA Zones (Humulus lupulus) These fast grow- 6-9. H212: $22.50 each DR. YAO CINNAMON VINE ing herbaceous vines quickly cover ( Dioscorea batatas) Cinnamon wires or a trellis to make an attrac- scented flowers and heart shaped tive screen, decorate an arch, or Exquisitely Fragrant leaves provide shade against a sunny wall. Hardy Jasmine adorn this They can grow over 20’ in a season, vigorous dying back to the ground each year deciduous in most climates. The bitter flavor vine. In the of the highly aromatic cone-like mountains flowers is used to flavor beer. Young of shoots may be used in salads or as northern an asparagus substitute. Zones 5-9. China it 4 inch pots. Can’t be shipped to produces OR or ID. very large, GOLDEN ( Humulus lupulus aureus) highly This variety features beautiful yellow prized, foliage and is a stunning ornamental. white H1004: $14.50 each fleshed CASCADE The aroma of Cascade is tubers fragrant and powerful. It is used to with a give flavor and aroma to American JASMINE STEPHANENSE(Jasmine nutty light lagers. Cascade is a “Fuggle” beesianum x officinale) In mid- potato flavor. While the top dies hybrid developed at Oregon Sate summer this beautiful evergreen back each November, the tubers University. H1034: $14.50 each vine is covered with clusters of soft can be left in the ground for several TETTNANG Originating in the pink, fragrant flowers that waft the years to keep growing. 1 gallon pot. scent of a tropical paradise. Yet Tettnang district of Germany, this H205: $19.95 each variety of hops has an exceptionally this cousin of the tropics is hardy to 0° F. and will thrive on a fence mild aroma that seems to enhance or trellis. It will climb to 15-20’. In Medicinal Vine grain flavors. Excellent for finishing colder locations it is deciduous and HO SHOU WU ( Polygonum off lagers or loggers. Matures mid- benefits from winter mulch. Jasmine multiflorum) or Fleeceflower Vine. season. H1024: $14.50 each are not edible. 1 quart pot. H270: A fast growing medicinal vine from $18.50 each China with pretty green heart Book on Growing Hops ROSE JASMINE(Jasminum shaped leaves, red stems and THE HOP GROWER’S HANDBOOK polyanthum) Famous for exquisite white to pink fall blooming flowers. NEW! b y Ten Eyek and Gehring. fragrance, this vine produces large It thrives in full and fertile, well 279 pages. Subtitled The Essential clusters of rose-colored buds drained soil. In about four years the Guide for Sustainable, Small Scale that open to richly fragrant, white medicinal roots can be harvested Production for Home and Market. flowers over many weeks, spring to for many uses including pain or If you want to grow hops and make mid-autumn. It is hardy to between fatigue. It is also used to restore beer, read this book. S048: $34.95 10°-15° F., but also thrives indoors. 1 color to grey hair. USDA Zones 7-10. quart pot.H272: $18.50 each H347: $18.50 each 71 Passifloras fragrant and large. The fruit has SILVER BELLS A vigorous vine with a purple skin and delicious pulp both light pink and reddish-purple when ripe. The fruit should never flowers. It has the largest leaves be picked, it must fall from the vine of the five leafed akebia varieties. Passiflora vines have large, round, naturally. If it is allowed to wrinkle H340: $18.50 each incredibly showy flowers. Butter- a bit after collecting, it becomes flies love them. The vigorous vines PURPLE ROSEThis variety sweet ambrosia. The plant is very produces an abundance of fragrant are easy to grow in well drained productive in warm areas. This soil, either in the ground or in a five vibrant red-purple flowers each outstanding Patrick Pons-Worley May. H325: $18.50 each gallon pot and will grace your house hybrid is vigorous and blooms from or greenhouse. Use a stake and late spring until fall. In USDA Zones PURPLE BOUQUETNEW! Dark twine to tie the vines indoors. Vines 10-11, this plant is excellent for a purple fragrant flowers grace this are self fertile. Passifloras cannot be sunny location and makes a good, more compact vine. H320: $18.50 shipped to Hawaii. rapidly growing screen for a fence each or outbuilding. 1 gallon pot.H706: We Offer the Hardiest of the Passifloras $26.50 each BLACK KNIGHT (Passiflora edulis) Seedless MAYPOP (Passiflora incarnata) Enjoy fragrant, dark purple-black fruit the size of a large egg with excellent flavor. The vine is vigorous Grapes An attractive, and compact with fragrant white (Vitis vinifera; Vitis labrusca) A hardy, perennial and purple flowers. The foliage is grapevine can be both a highly pro- vine native to glossy. H712: $26.50 each ductive source of fruit and a focal point of considerable beauty. Think Akebia the Eastern U.S. Maypop carefully about where to plant one freezes to the ground in the winter to provide shade, cover a wall or and re-sprouts, flowers and bears accentuate an arch. We offer a se- a two inch long fruit the next (Akebia quinata) A beautiful, fast lection of high quality seedless, and season. Hand pollinate for best fruit growing vine that thrives with little seeded wine and dessert grapes, production. Enjoy the showy, sweet care, and most of which will ripen even in scented lilac and white colored you’ll love areas with cool summers. The rip- passion flowers. Maypop can be the weird ening dates listed are for the cooler grown where temperatures don’t fall looking parts of Western Washington, but below -20° F. In a very cold region, fruit. It is a most ripen sooner and thrive where mulching will help protect the root beautiful summers are warmer. All Raintree system. It needs a well drained soil. evergreen grapes are for USDA Zones 5-9 USDA Zones 5-9. 4” pot. H7154: in the unless otherwise noted. We offer $13.50 each Pacific well-rooted plants. ALL GRAPES Northwest and warmer areas and ARE PROHIBITED TO ID. BLUE CROWN PASSION deciduous in colder climates. The FLOWER abundant May flowers are very fra- Blue Seedless Grapes (Passiflora grant. The vine occasionally produces bizarre looking five inch (occasion- CONCORD “SEEDLESS” F rom the caerulea) A NY Fruit Testing Cooperative, this hardy perennial ally much larger) long pink, or blue skinned fruit. Inside is a tasty roll of seedless variety has the hardiness, vine to USDA vigor, disease resistance and flavor Zones 7-11. white seedy pulp that makes a tropi- cal tasting clear jelly or flavorful drink. of the classic Concord grape. Prized Temperatures below 20° F will kill for making juice, jams and wine, it the top of the plant, but mulched To get pollination and fruit, plant two of the varieties we offer. Native to ripens a week before Concord, but around the base, it will regrow in requires too much summer heat the spring and flower and fruit each Northern Japan, the durable vines are prized for basket making and admired to ripen well in Western WA. It is a year. The amazingly ornamental great choice in most of the nation. flowers have white petals and white for the intricate silhouetted patterns the foliage casts on walls. The soft H535: $13.50 each; 3+: $11.50 and purple crowns. The orange each; 10+: $9.50 each colored oval fruit is used to flavor young shoots are used in salads or beverages. 1 gallon pot. H701: for salt pickling. Given something to GLENORA A unique, spicy, $19.95 each; 3+: $16.50 each climb on, the twining vine can grow blueberry-like flavor and unusual 20 feet a year. It may be pruned se- foliage distinguish this blue verely each year if you wish to control seedless grape. Developed by Beautiful Edible its rapid growth. Or it can run along NY Fruit Testing, vines are very Houseplants for the North the ground, rooting where branch- vigorous, winter hardy and mildew es touch and become an attractive resistant, and they display intense FREDERICK ( Passiflora edulis) ground cover. If neglected, it can fall colors. Fruit ripens early in the ‘Frederick’ is the premier fruit naturalize and become a weed. USDA season, but not early enough for the producing passiflora. If you don’t Zones 4-10. Plants are in a quart size cooler parts of western WA. H 560: live in Zones 10-11, grow it in a pot. $13.50 each; 3+: $11.50 each sunny window or greenhouse. It thrives and produces, often the SHIROBANA™An abundance of JUPITERJupiter produces large, first year, in a pot. The flowers are fragrant white flowers in May adorn seedless, dark blue table grapes this beautiful vine.H335: $18.50 with a sweet, floral Muscat-like 72 each flavor. From the U. of Arkansas, the grapes ripen Canadice. H620: $13.50 each; 3+ VANESSA A early and well in $11.50 each red, seedless cool maritime ST. THERESA NEW! A very hardy grape, Vanessa summers. Vines seedless purple grape for Northern bears attractive, are moderately growers from Elmer Swenson’s compact clusters vigorous and Wisconsin breeding program. This of medium size, highly productive. purple slip skin grape is loaded with well-filled fruit with Like Venus, large clusters of sweet flavorful fruit a mild, fruity flavor. grapes sometimes in early September. The vigorous Among the hardiest of seedless have soft vestigial seeds.H567: vine tolerates alkaline soils. This grapes, the selection from Ontario, $16.50 each; 3+: $14.50 each wonderful, versatile vine was Canada ripens in early October PROHIBITED TO NY, OR & CA named in honor of Saint Theresa and boasts a crisp texture. H630: of Lisieux, France, the Carmelite $13.50 each; 3+: $11.50 each MARS A nother Nun who showed her love of God CANADICECompact clusters of extra-terrestrial by planting flowers. One quart pot. selection from the small, pink, seedless grapes ripen in H608: $18.50 each LIMIT ONE. early October even in cool maritime U. of Arkansas, this PROHIBITED TO NY, OR & CA blue seedless grape summers. Vines are more winter has an excellent hardy than most seedless varieties Concord-like flavor Red Seedless Grapes and very productive. The fruit has a that makes it great HUNGARIAN This delicious, spicy flavor suggestive of for fresh eating. flavorful, red, Concord. H 530: $13.50 each; 3+: Vigorous vines bear consistently seedless cultivar $11.50 each and heavily, and they resist disease. from horticulturist Bill EINSET T his bright red, seedless Fruit ripens in mid-September. Schultz of Olympia, grape from the NY Fruit Testing H582: $14.50 each; 3+: $12.50 WA, ripens in cool Cooperative ripens early, a week each PROHIBITED TO NY OR & CA maritime summers. before Canadice. The medium One gallon pot. size fruit has fine flavor with a hint VENUS A n “out of H566 $16.50 each this world” flavor, of strawberries, and it stores well. PROHIBITED TO Vines resist botrytis. USDA Zones very large size, NY, OR & CA good production 550: $13.50 each; 3+: 4-9. H and early SATURN From the University $11.50 each ripening make of Arkansas, these large, red, this attractive seedless grapes are widely Green & Golden adaptable. They ripen in early blue grape a real October. Fruit is sweet and Seedless Grapes winner. From the flavorful and the vines are very U. of Arkansas breeding program, HIMROD productive. Zones 6-9. H607: Himrod has fruit ripens early and well in a cool $14.50 each; 3+: $12.50 each maritime summer, with or before excellent PROHIBITED TO NY, OR & CA flavor for eating fresh. It makes How To Use Grapes cover a very large area. HARVEST TIME: September-October. great raisins. The green IN THE KITCHEN: Fresh eating, jam, LIFE EXPECTANCY: Eighty years or to golden juice, wine, raisins. Vinifera type wine more. berries grape leaves (like Pinot Noir and Cab- BEARING AGE: Two or three years after ernet) are used as an edible wrapper in ripen in planting. several Greek dishes. YIELD: Depends on how much room it mid-September. The vines are IN THE LANDSCAPE: Vines make a very has; 30 pounds to much more. extremely productive with large fast growing summer screen. An arbor clusters of small fruit. It is among with grapes planted at six foot intervals How To Grow the earliest and the most reliable seedless grape. Zones 4-9.H565: on either side will create lovely summer shade space. (We offer trellising mate- SOIL REQUIREMENTS: Grapes are $13.50 each; 3+: $11.50 each; rials on pages 87.) Vines planted on the widely adaptable. They prefer deep, 10+: $9 each south side of a house will generally ripen well drained, slightly acid soils. Once a week earlier and will cool a building in established, the plants are tolerant of INTERLAKEN NEW! I nterlaken summertime. Grapevines can be used droughty sites, with their long, deep has an excellent flavor for eating to arch a walkway, form a leafy wall, or striking roots. Too rich of a soil promotes fresh. It makes great raisins and shade a deck. Each variety has its own vegetative growth at the expense of fruit is excellent in fruit salad. The distinct, bold textured leaf pattern. production. green to golden berries ripen CULTURAL REQUIREMENTS: When late in September. The vines are Useful Facts planting, prune the plant back to two buds. Place a 5 ft. stake next to the extremely productive of large POLLINATION: Self-pollinating young vine for support for the first year. clusters of fruit. The fruit size HARDINESS: Zones 5-9. unless other- Select one cane to grow up the stake and is small. It and Himrod are the wise noted. remove other shoots. By the second year earliest ripening and most reliable SUN OR SHADE: Full sun is generally a permanent trellis should be erected. seedless grape for our region. required to mature fruit. Our “Owner’s Manual” and grape grow- Hardy to -15 F. H570: $13.50 PLANT SPACING: 6-8’intervals, de- ing books will explain how to build a trellis each; 3+: $11.50 each pending upon varietal vigor, site fertility, and how to prune. Net fruit to protect pruning regimen. Left to grow, a vine can from birds! 73 Seeded Muscat Grapes Seeded SWEET SEDUCTION R ipens with Interlaken producing large quantities of golden yellow MUSCAT OF NORWAY L arge clusters Grapes seedless, sweet muscat flavored of big, red grapes with small seeds grapes. Our friend Bill Schultz ripen very early and are wonderful selected and named this vigorous, eaten fresh or made into a fruity attractive vine. H 600Q: $16.50 white or red wine. Plants perform well in Pacific Northwest, since they each; 3+: $12 each PROHIBITED TO NY, WA & CA Seeded Dessert Grapes require very little summer heat to Dessert grapes are seeded grapes ripen. Grafted on 3309 rootstock. LAKEMONT L akemont ripens a that are usually eaten fresh. Most H594: $14.50 each; 3+: $12.50 couple of weeks after its sister will make an excellent grape juice each PROHIBITED TO NY, OR & CA Interlaken but has larger fruit or jelly and some can be made into and a delicious flavor. The green seedless grapes are crisp, juicy and very sweet. H575: $11.50 wine. CONCORD P rized for making juice, jams and wine. Concord has the Wine Grapes each; 3+: $9.50 each We offer a great selection of seeded hardiness, vigor, disease resistance MARQUIS Marquis is a new, large, and classic flavor that has made it grapes used for making wine. Note very productive, mid season white the nation’s most popular dessert as you read the descriptions that seedless grape from Cornell that is grape. It requires too much summer some are also great for making a ideally suited for home gardeners heat to ripen well in maritime areas delicious juice and some are also and u-pick operations. Juicy, round but is a great choice in the east and very good eaten fresh. The wine grapes with excellent flavor ripen mid west. USDA Zones 4-9. H532: grapes not noted as being graft- in large clusters, and the vines are $9.95 each; 3+: $8.50 each ed, are grown from cuttings. Our very hardy. Plant Patent 11012. It grafted wine grapes are grafted on 3309 rootstocks, which impart early has excellent flavor. exquisitely rich and fruity and gets richer and Concord Flavor and ripening, winter hardiness and phyl- juicier if left to ripen an extra 5 to Early Ripening loxera resistance. 10 days. It ripens in mid September LYNDEN BLUE Most well known wine grapes re- in Geneva, NY. USDA Zones 4-9. A great choice quire alot of summer heat to ripen. H635: $16.50 each; 3+: $12 each for cool summer While we offer some of those, we PROHIBITED TO NY, WA & CA areas. This all offer many high quality new wine NEPTUNE compact vine grapes that produce a top quality Enjoy produces large wine and consistently ripen even in large clusters of big cooler summer areas including the sweet dark blue Pacific Northwest! clusters seeded grapes of yellow seedless that are excellent eaten fresh or for juice. Developed Red Wine Grapes grapes in British Columbia, it ripens in early That Ripen Even in with a delicious October. H 576: $14.50 each; 3+: Cooler Summers! $12.50 each PROHIBITED TO NY, OR sweet & CA SIEGERREBE A very fruity early ripening pink flavor. wine grape that is Neptune Backyard Favorites in also great for eating thrives Most of the Nation fresh. A recent cross in most BUFFALO B uffalo, a productive, from Germany, it has of the Concord-type grape, is a great a Muscat bouquet nation including the Pacific NW. choice for making juice and for and low acid at It has a moderate growth habit, eating fresh from the vine. Large maturity. It makes a good quality resists cracking and shows clusters of reddish black grapes white wine, even in cool summers. some resistance to rot, mildew with wonderful flavor are ready at Zones 7-9. Grafted on 3309 and anthracnose. From the U. of least a week before Concord. This rootstock. H599: $14.50 each; Arkansas. H591: $14.50 each; 3+: vigorous American hybrid is easy to 3+: $12.50 each; 10+: $11 each $12.50 each PROHIBITED TO NY, grow in much of the nation. H 505: PROHIBITED TO NY, OR & CA OR & CA $9.95 each; 3+: $8.50 each AGRIA This very early, THOMPSON SEEDLESSThe most NIAGARAThe best known and most blue grape from widely planted seedless grape, widely planted white table grape Hungary has bright red Thompson Seedless makes in America, first sold commercially juice that makes both excellent raisins as well as being a in 1882. A vigorous grower, it an excellent wine and a favorite for fresh eating. It needs produces many clusters of large delicious boysenberry- long, hot summers to develop full very sweet berries that are great like juice. It thrives in flavor, and will not ripen well in cool eaten fresh or for juice or jelly. It the Pacific NW and summer areas. The pale green fruit has a “foxy” flavor that is excellent other areas with cool summers and dries to familiar brown raisins in the in juice, but does not make for a develops beautiful red-to-purple sun.H611: $9.95 each; 3+: $8.50 great wine. Winter hardy it does well fall foliage. Grafted on 3309 early each in most of the nation but ripens too bearing rootstock. H503: $14.50 late in the Pacific Northwest. H592: each; 3+: $12.50 each; 10+: $11 74 $9.95 each each PROHIBITED TO NY, OR & CA REGENT A peaches, that makes a fabulous SWEET LACE VINE (Chasselas perfect choice white wine. On 3309 rootstock. ciotat cv.) From France, this rare for the organic H506: $14.50 each; 3+: $12.50 and unique variety displays bright, grower. (Sylvaner each PROHIBITED TO NY, OR & CA bronze-red shoot tips, followed by x Muller-Thurgau) ORTEGA(Muller- unusual and attractive finely cut x Chambourcin) Thurgau x fern-leaf foliage. Grown originally Bred for the Siegerrebe) Grown as a table grape and for wine German organic on Vancouver production, it bears good crops wine industry, Island for many of sweet white grapes with small Regent has years, this very seeds. Hardy to 10°F. One quart pot. proven to be very disease resistant productive variety H650: $14.50 eachPROHIBITED and easy to grow. The full-bodied fruit makes a light, TO NY, OR & CA has an intense flavor that makes a high pleasant, fruity quality red wine for the organic grower. white wine with high sugar levels On 3309 rootstock, it ripens even and low acidity. Fruit ripens early Grape Accessories in cooler summer climates, a week and, grafted on 3309 rootstock, it COMMERCIAL BIRD NETTING BY or more ahead of Pinot Noir. H 604: is a great choice for sites that lack THE FOOT W e have long rolls of $14.50 each; 3+: $12.50 each; 10+: summer heat. H593: $14.50 each; bird netting. Use it over grapes or $11 each PROHIBITED TO NY, OR & CA 3+: $12.50 each PROHIBITED TO NY, build a structure over blueberries OR & CA or dwarf cherry trees. Secure with Early Ripening Pinot Noirs PINOT GRIS Clone clothespins at the bottom. Cut to PINOT NOIR 152. This earlier order at 5’ intervals, 25’ minimum 71 (Clone ripening clone of length per piece. 777) One Pinot Gris makes HEAVY DUTY of the most a white wine with This is 17 feet promising red delicious complex wide. This wine grapes fruit flavors of peach and melon. green netting for cool is top rated climates, this Also known as clone from Pinot Grigio, it is commercially Pinot Noir a cousin to Pinot Noir. It produces and is rated trials at the WSU Mt. Vernon, WA, clusters of grapes that vary in for 10 years if ripens before the Wadenswill and color from copper yellow to pinkish taken in for the winter.T433: $1.35 Dijon clones and ripens even earlier grey depending on where they are per foot grafted on the 3309 rootstock. grown. A favorite in Oregon it is BERRY WIRE W e offer 14 gauge H602: $14.50 each; 3+: $12.50 also grown in the east. Not grafted. soft galvanized wire to trellis your each; 10+: $11 eachPROHIBITED USDA Zones 6-9. H610: $14.50 kiwis, grapes, espaliers or berries. TO NY, OR & CA each; 3+: $12.50 each; 10+: $10 Minimum order 200 feet. T070: each 15 cents a foot, Min. 200 feet. PINOT PRECOCE Our earliest ripening sport of Pinot Noir, this MADELEINE ANGEVINE T his golden T070R: 2900-foot roll: $160 selection ripens up to 3 weeks yellow grape each earlier than standard Pinot Noir consistently grapes, which allows winemakers ripens in throughout Western WA and other the Pacific Grape Growing Guides cool summer areas to produce a Northwest. GREAT GRAPES by Anne Proulx, 32 high quality Pinot Noir. Vines are The vine pages. Learn how to plant, trellis, grafted on 3309 rootstock, which is a heavy care for and harvest grapes in your also promotes early ripening. producing backyard. A Garden Way booklet. H603: $16.50 each; 3+: $4.50 vinifera type. S180: $3.95 each each; 10+: $13 eachPROHIBITED It makes an excellent white Riesling TO NY, OR & CA type wine. It ripens early October. NATURAL WINEMAKING AT HOME Grafted on 3309 rootstock. H 580: by Anine Grumbles, 147 pages. For $14.50 each; 3+: $12.50 each; years the author has advised home White Winers That Ripen 10+: $10 each winemakers about making wines Even in Cooler Summers without sulfites. She has recipes MULLER THURGAU A heavily productive early ripening, spicy, Ornamental for wines from many fruits and she outlines all the ingredients and Grapes green grape that makes a Riesling equipment a home winemaker will type wine with a fine balance of need. S149: $19.95 each acidity, flavor and aroma. A great THE GRAPE GROWER by Lon choice for the Pacific Northwest. CRIMSON GLORY VINE(Vitis Rombough, 304 pages. “A Guide H585: $13.50 each; 3+: $11.50 cognetiae) This beautiful to Organic Viticulture,” Everything each ornamental grape is loaded with you need to know; planting, training, BURMUNK One of the earliest purple fruit that only birds seem to propagating, pest control, folklore grapes, this winter hardy, yellow enjoy. It sports magnificent autumn and choosing the best varieties grape from Armenia will ripen at colors in large heart shaped leaves. for each climate, from a long time almost all sites. It has a distinctive A great arbor or trellis plant. One expert! S185: $35 each aroma and a very fruity flavor, quart pot. H642: $14.50 each somewhat like freshly sliced PROHIBITED TO NY, OR & CA 75 Kiwis verify that here since it is planted near fuzzy males, so we recommend a male pollinizer.H370: $19.95 each (Actinidia species) These are a FUZZY MALEIt blooms over a long family of fast growing vines that period and is a good pollinizer produce edible fruit and are beau- for fuzzy and arguta females, but tiful ornamental plants. Each type not for kolomiktas. One male can of kiwi we list has different orna- pollinize up to eight females.H380: mental foliage. The fruit of each $19.95 each ANANASNAJA FEMALE “ Anna” is type is different in size and ap- easy to grow, and loaded with fruit. pearance, but all have the bright Arguta Hardy Kiwis Developed in Russia by renowned green flesh and the wonderful kiwi plant breeder I.V. Michurin. The flavor. All are hardy in the Pacific (Actinidia arguta) These fast growing name means pineapple-like in NW. If you live in a colder climate beautiful vines produce clusters of Russian, for its fabulously fruity you can still grow the Kolomikta oblong kiwis the size of large grapes. flavor. The easiest to grow and most and the Arguta Kiwis. We offer 1 Lacking the rough kiwi skin, these productive of all hardy kiwis. H420: gallon sturdy vines. fruits can be eaten whole, like bunch- $19.95 each; 3+: $17.50 each es of kiwi flavored seedless grapes. CHANG BAI ARGUTA FEMALE T his Originally brought to this country as Fuzzy Kiwis an ornamental, the green fruit is sim- seedling of cultivar ‘Qui.’ Qui was (Actinidia selected near the border of North ilar to the fuzzy kiwi in flavor though Korea from the wild near Chang Bai deliciosa) sweeter and easier to eat. USDA This is the Mountain Research Institute of the Zones 5-9. The vines are very vigor- Chinese Academy of Agriculture. type of kiwi ous and productive and need a strong We offer Chang Bai because it that you find support. Select a fuzzy or arguta male is very productive and flavorful. in the super- for pollination. and the green fruit has a unique market. It almost heart shape. Its from a cold has a fuzzy MALE ARGUTA T he pollinizer for all brown skin. the female Arguta kiwis. One male mountainous region and should be Inside, the will pollinate up to eight females. as winter hardy as other hardy kiwis. flesh is a The male doesn’t produce fruit. It H426: $19.95 each lime green. will also pollinate the Saanichton, JUMBO FEMALE A selection The taste is Hayward or other fuzzy female that produces lots of very large, wonderful, kiwis, but not kolomitkas. H440: elongated, very sweet fruit. H430: a tropical $19.95 each $19.95 each combina- tion of flavors. Native to China, but first commercially grown in New Zealand. USDA Zones 7-9. We offer How To Use Kiwis LIFE EXPECTANCY: 50 years or more. YEARS TO FIRST FRUIT: 2-5 hardy and early ripening varieties. IN THE KITCHEN: Kiwis have ten times PESTS: No significant problems. Cats Select a fuzzy or arguta male for the Vitamin C of lemons. A tasty addition find the foliage addictive, like catnip. pollination. to salads and desserts. Use for ice cream, YIELD: Mature fuzzy & arguta female SAANICHTON FEMALE S imilar pie, jam and wine. vines produce 25 pounds or more. to the fuzzy kiwi you usually buy IN THE LANDSCAPE: Kiwis are beautiful in the store. However it is more vines. Their vigorous spring growth is a How To Grow spectacular sight. Excellent for a privacy winter hardy (to about 5° F.) and it is screen, they will rapidly cover a fence SOIL: Need well successfully grown from California and with support will cover a wall or steep drained soil. to as far north as Vancouver, slope. Kolomiktas have pretty tri colored CULTURAL RE- Canada. It ripens a couple of foliage. QUIREMENTS: weeks before the variety Hayward. Kiwis (except It’s a large sweet fruit and heavily productive. It is easy to peel. H375: Useful Facts Kolomitkas) are vigorous vines. $19.95 each; 3+: $17.50 each POLLINATION: All need a male and They cannot Male Flower female to set fruit. One male can pollinize support their HAYWARD FEMALE The California up to 8 females. The fuzzy kiwi male is own weight and standard you often find in stores. the best pollinator and can pollinate the will spread up to 30 They are large and juicy. Best with fuzzy or arguta female. The arguta male feet. They require 800 or more hours of winter chill. can pollinate the arguta or fuzzy female strong support such Female Flower H376: $19.95 each because bloom times partially overlap. as a trellis, arbor, or Kolomiktas bloom later. fence. Wrapping the trunk from ground EXBURY FEMALEThis fuzzy kiwi from SUN OR SHADE: Most kiwis need a sun- level, up about four feet, or planting it on England regularly produces huge ny location with wind protection. Arctic the shaded side of its support, will protect quantities of delicious fuzzy kiwis Beauty likes some shade. the trunk from splitting after spring or fall even in our climate where other fuzzy SPACING: 15 to 20 ft. for Fuzzy and Argu- cold snaps. kiwis fail. The sweet fruit is smaller ta. 8 ft. for Kolomikta. PRUNING: When planted, the vines than store bought kiwis and ripens HARVEST & STORAGE: Kolomiktas ripen should be pruned back to 4 or 5 buds. late in the season staying on the plant in August. Most kiwis ripen in October From these a main stem should be select- and edible after frosts. In England it is and are picked after the first frost. Picked ed and staked to grow to the top of the reportedly self fertile but we cannot while still hard, they can be stored for arbor or trellis, usually about 7’ high. The months in a refrigerator or cool dry area “Tree Owner’s Manual” that comes with 76 and put on the counter to soften. each order has more pruning info. KEN’S RED the length of an Arguta but has a height. Dark blue berries are small FEMALE narrower oblong shape. H480: and will be eaten by the birds. (A. arguta x $19.95 each USDA Zones 7-9. Prohibitions are melanandra) the same as black currants. This A hardy kiwi MALE KOLOMIKTA T he male arctic beauty vine is noted for its ornamental red flowering currant is producing an upright grower with long clusters massive ornamental pink, white and green variegated leaves, though the of beautiful red flowers.E753: crops of $13.50 each; 3+: $11.50 each cherry female also has some variegation. sized fruits It takes a few years before the with red flesh which is sweet and colors begin so don’t visit the Lilacs delicious. A very popular, uniquely optometrist yet. It rates among the (Syringa species) Lilac bushes are colored cultivar. H425: $19.95 best backyard ornamentals from Vladivostok to Kalamazoo. The male a classic in American gardens, and each the heart of spring bouquets. The doesn’t produce fruit but pollinizes DUMBARTON OAKS FEMALE What up to eight productive female pioneers carried starts of this sturdy makes this sweet, heavy producer Kolomiktas, but not arguta or fuzzy. shrub across the continent, and it unique is that it ripens in September H500: $19.95 each heralds spring from Washington a full month before Ananasnaja. The D.C. to Washington State. Use it fruit is medium sized and somewhat ribbed, like a little green pumpkin. H422: $19.95 each; 3+: $17.50 Pretty as an accent, foundation shrub, or plant it 3’ apart as a hedge. It does best in full sun, and is relatively pest each CORDIFOLIA FEMALE NEW!Our Cordifolia is female variety of arguta Shrubs and disease free. It can develop mil- dew in damp climates, and should be pruned to encourage good air hardy kiwi that is prized for its These shrubs are among the most circulation. The lavishly fragrant especially sweet fruit. The fruit is beautiful, winter hardy and easiest blooms may take several years to similar to other argutas but sweeter. to successfully grow. Each comes reach their full potential on newly The fruit is roundish and the plant is to you as a multi-stemmed shrub planted shrubs. USDA Zones 3-9. very productive. It needs an Arguta ready to dig in and quickly provide We offer sturdy 12-18” shrubs. male as a pollinizer. One Gallon Pot. your yard with beauty. We offer well CHARLES H423: $19.95 each rooted shrubs, either bare root or in JOLY (Syringa 1 gallon pots. vulgaris) This ISSAI SELF FERTILE NEW! Issai is a kiwi for people who don’t have old fashioned, the space for the other vigorous Incredibly Fragrant & classic lilac hardy kiwis. Spacing is about 8’. Hardy Too is favored by Issai produces fruit without a male, those who though its production is a lot more MINNESOTA appreciate with a male. It has excellent flavor. SNOWFLAKE deep, rich It can be maintained in a pot or MOCK ORANGE colors. Its small space. It’s down side is that it (Philadelphus fully double, can’t tolerate wet soil and is harder virginalis) long lasting, to successfully establish than the This is an old burgundy other hardy kiwis. H373: $19.95 fashioned shrub flowers open each that is still very from purple/ popular because it is easy to grow maroon buds in spring, about mid- and brings the outrageously sweet season. Fantastically fragrant and Kolomikta Kiwis scent of orange blossoms to moderately sized at under 10’ tall, (Actinidia kolo- deprived Northern gardeners. Enjoy it grows best in areas with cold mikta) Also called a profusion of double white flowers winters. M048: $19.50 each Arctic Beauty, they in May and June. USDA Zones 4-8. are native to Rus- Prune this graceful 6-8’ foot shrub SENSATION sia. USDA Zones after flowering. 12-18” shrub. M 080: (Syringa vulgaris) 3-9. Select a male $19.50 each; 3+: $16.50 each Fragrant and and a female for beautiful, ‘Sensation’ is an pollination and fruit set. The vines Flowering Currant aptly named lilac. are much less vig- PULSBOROUGH Its beautiful, wine orous than the Ar- SCARLET ( Ribes red flowers are guta making them sanguineum) These edged in white and a good choice for beautiful bushes and wonderfully fragrant. ‘Sensation’ can confined spaces. the hummingbirds reach 12-to-15-feet tall and almost They grow best in partial shade. they attract are one as wide. Grow in full sun, and expect way many gardeners outstanding flower power if you SEPTEMBER SUN FEMALE G rowers measure the start of live in a region with cold winters. in moderate or very cold climates spring. The drooping Once established, it is quite drought can enjoy fruit with the same flower clusters lend tolerant. Remove twiggy growth delectable kiwi flavor. This attractive an elegant beauty to kolomitka vine produces delicious and spent flower heads after bloom. fruit you can pop from the vine the early springtime, M042: $19.50 each into your mouth. The fruit is about growing on a bush that reaches 8’ in 77 MADAME LEMOINE T his lilac Dogwood SNOWQUEEN (Hydrangea quercifolia ‘Snow Queen’) This has been a favorite WOLF EYES(Cornus kousa) This exceptional hydrangea, with its since it came out incredibly beautiful, small dogwood distinctive oak-leaf foliage, will grow in the 1890s. Its tree has exquisite leaves. They 4-6’ tall and wide, maybe more. developer, Victor are variegated, green bordered by Large, cone-shaped panicles of Lemoine, named white, with an unusual texture that white blooms cover ‘Snow Queen’ it for someone adds a sensation of movement. during summer and dry to a dear to his heart. The creamy buds Star-shaped, white spring flowers pleasing pink. ‘Snow Queen’ foliage open to pure white double flowers are followed by orange-red fruit that puts on a dynamic autumn display with the sweetest fragrance in the will attract birds; in fall, the foliage and reddish bark continues the spring. An old-fashioned, romantic takes on pink and red shades. Place show during winter. M077: $19.50 addition to the garden. Grows to the 12-15’ tall specimen tree in full each about 12’ tall and 10’ wide. Best sun to partial shade in a loamy, well- drained soil. M183: $19.95 each TELLER’S BLUE NEW!(Hydrangea in areas with pronounced winters. macrophylla ‘Blaumeise’) Also Give it full sun for best bloom. known as Teller’s Blue. The 6-8” M046: $19.50 each This Bush Lights lacecap flowers are of the deepest MISS KIM(Syringa patula Miss Up the Winter blue in acidic soils, and pinkish in Kim) This 4 foot dwarf lilac extends RED OSIER DOGWOOD(Cornus more alkaline ones. Sturdy stems the season of fragrance for weeks, stolonifera) An make it a good choice for drying. blooming in June, after most lilacs ideal hedge It will grow to 4-6’ tall and wide, are done. Its compact growth plant, the “red and appreciates a good garden becomes covered with pinkish osier” grows soil with partial shade. However, it blue buds, which open to lavender. from 6-10’ tall. will tolerate full sun in cool summer Zones 4-9. M040: $19.50 each It’s a suckering, areas. One gallon pot. M061: spreading $19.50 each Tree Peonies shrub. Plant 3-4’ apart to make a GENERALE VICOMTESSE DE Since tree peonies can live for over thick hedge. It has white flowers and VIBRAYE NEW!(Hydrangea blue berries favored by the birds. macrophylla) Since this hydrangea 200 years, you can consider them a The foliage turns bright red in the gardening legacy! These are called produces flowers on side shoots autumn. The branches are a striking as well as terminal buds, the entire “tree” peonies because they pro- red in winter after the foliage drops. duce long lived woody rather than rounded shrub is covered with Zones 3-9. It is not fussy but likes large, round mophead flowers that herbaceous growth. They prefer damp locations best. 2’-3’ plant. rich, moist, well drained soils in vary from light blue in acid soils to M120: $7.50 each; 5+: $5 each pink in alkaline ones. ‘Generale’ partial or dappled sun. The flowers PROHIBITED TO FL are more plentiful in full sun, but last has been a standard for hydrangea longer with some shade. All our tree lovers for about 100 years. Flowers peonies are gallon size plants. Hydrangeas are beautiful fresh and dried. Plant Hydrangea bushes will be a focal in partial shade in rich soil. One DELAVAYI gallon pot. M076: $19.50 each (Paeonia point in your garden with their spec- delavayi) tacular flowers! Flowers of each This upright, variety are quite different and can be panicle, mophead or lacecap in How To Use Roses open tree IN THE LANDSCAPE: Use as a low peony, shape. (See photos) Flower colors vary from a bright pink to blue, or maintenance barrier hedge due to the grows to thorny branches, or as an everbloom- about 7’ white, depending on soil pH and va- riety. 1 gallon size unless otherwise ing, easy care groundcover. A mass tall and 4’ planting is of stunning beauty from wide. It has noted. spring through fall, showing off hips, deep red PEE GEE flowers and deep green foliage. 3” flowers and prefers cooler ( Hydrangea POLLINATION: None needed, but summers. USDA Zones 6-9. M084: paniculata better fruit may be produced from more $24.50 each Grandiflora”) than one variety or seedling. Enjoy large HARDINESS: See descriptions. Toler- TIBETAN NEW!(Paeonia lutea ant of wind, salt and drought. ludlowii) A rare and beautiful tree panicles of white flowers fading to SUN: Full sun or light shade and good peony which will grow to 8’, with air circulation. yellow flowers in the spring. Multiple pink beginning in mid-summer HARVEST TIME: Repeat flowering. woody stems arise from the base and persisting Harvest hips in September and Octo- of this shrub which shines in the tall into fall. Let ber. border or at the woodland’s edge. this robust, SOIL REQUIREMENTS: Good drain- Sun or part shade. One gallon size. disease resistant classic grow as age is essential. M083: $24.50 each a shrub or train it as a small tree SPACING: The same as the ultimate height of the plant. Hedge space at 2/3 SUFFRUTICOSA (Paeonia (as shown). It grows to 15’ or half ultimate height. Climbers can be tucked suffruticosa) It grows only to about that size with pruning. Prune in in with other plants. 4-5’ tall, producing an abundance early spring. Spaced 4 feet apart, it CULTURAL REQUIREMENTS: Rugo- of beautiful white, turning to light makes a gorgeous hedge, blooming sas need little or no fertilizing. They are pink flowers. M082: $24.50 each throughout summer and fall. USDA drought tolerant once established and Zones 4-9. M071M (2’-3’): $19.95 need little or no pruning. They are easy 78 each to grow. Shearing helps hedges. Roses ROSA RUGOSA ALBA T his Beautiful Yard You don’t have to live in England special seedling Trees to enjoy the beauty of the English rose cottage garden! Plant some of not only THUNDERCLOUD PLUM (Prunus Raintree’s landscape roses and you produces cerasifera) Because this tree is will be speaking with an accent and an disease resistant and thrives with gardening in woolens in no time. All abundance little care, it are hardy with attractive carefree of large, very fragrant single white is among the foliage. It’s easy to make a dense flowers from summer through most popular hedge or a gorgeous bed or border. autumn, it is loaded with large yard and street They are so easy to care for, they tasty red hips. The foliage is deep trees. For a can be pruned with hedge shears or green and disease resistant making spectacular loppers. We offer well rooted bush- these bushes, month after month, effect plant es. In one quart pots. a collage of white, red and green. an entire row Grow as a thick spreading 6’ tall about 15’ Beautiful Flowers hedge. L640: $7.50 each; 5+: $5 apart. Enjoy each; 10+: $4 each the red foliage and Edible Hips from spring ROSA RUGOSA RUBRA These seedlings have the same growth through fall. Herald the beginning habit as the “Alba” except with red of spring with the profusion of pale flowers. L646: $6.50 each; 5+: $5 pink fragrant flowers that cover each; 10+: $3.50 each the trees for weeks. Thundercloud prefers full sun. It will grow to 20- Edible 25’ tall and wide. It also produces a few, very tasty purple plums. USDA Zones 5-9. We offer large 4-5’ trees. SCABROSA Big hips are back in Flowers M908: $26.50 each; 5+: $22.50 each. style! This English rugosa makes an excellent 5’ tall, spreading hedge STELLA D’ Instant Shade Tree ORO DAYLILY or an outstanding specimen plant. Enjoy an EMPRESS TREE(Paulownia The large 5” purple/pink flowers tomentosa) It is a with bold anthers, keep blooming abundance of large very fast growing for months. The carefree shrub is dense shade tree loaded in the fall with large flavorful, beautiful golden edible for the Pacific fleshy hips that look like cherry Northwest and tomatoes. L680: $16.50 each flowers for months other areas with BLANC each spring mild winters. It DOUBLE DE and again is hardy in USDA COUBERT throughout Zones 7-10. The This old time the summer. wood is extremely rugosa hybrid The flowers valuable and has has pure are followed many uses. In white, semi- by edible colder parts of double blooms pods resem its range, for the first with an intense bling green few years, the new fragrance. beans. Both are excellent additions growth dies back each The leathery, wrinkled, dark green to salads. The plant grows to 18- winter but tremendous foliage is disease resistant. Large 24” tall in sun or partial shade. To summer growth more orange-red hips follow blooms. 5’ make a bed, plant clumps about two than compensates. x 4’. Plant 3’ apart to make a great feet apart. The plants are drought In Japan, the wood is hedge. USDA Zones 2-8 L637: tolerant. USDA Zones 4-11. They traditionally used to make dowry $16.50 each thrive throughout the nation. 4” pot. chests and other furniture. Each L700: $5.50 each; 6+: $4.50 spring, the tree is covered with A Hedge of Red, each clusters of trumpet shaped two inch long fragrant flowers that are White and Green PRAIRIE BELLA DAYLILY T his lilac blue; a display of spectacular These rugosas are beautiful edi- deep pink daylily blooms in late beauty. They provide good bee ble landscaping roses at a price spring, and repeats throughout forage in the spring. Young trees you can afford. Display them at the summer. It reaches about grow best if given a lot of water in their best, in a mass planting. They 20” in height, and is an excellent summer. Even young trees have two bloom constantly, summer through companion to Stella D’Oro. 4” pot. foot diameter heart shaped leaves. fall, delighting you with masses of L701: $5.50 each; 6+: $4.50 M581 (large crowns): $11.50 color every time you walk by. Make each each; 3+: $9.50 each a glorious hedge or garden bed. SAFFRON CROCUS See page 68. USDA Zones 2-9. 2.5” pot. M007: $11.50 each 79 Broadleafed Maples Willows Evergreens Plant a Maple, Leave a Legacy JAPANESE PUSSY WILLOW ( Salix chaenomeloides) Colorful silver, STRAWBERRY TREE(Arbutus purple to pink buds open to large LEGACY silvery 2 1/2” catkins. The new unedo) SUGAR A broad leaf growth is red maturing to a MAPLE™(Acer deep blue green. It makes a large leafed saccharum) evergreen rounded shrub to 15’ tall. USDA This grafted Zones 6-9. M359 (1 qt. pot): relative tree was bred of the for its very fast $16.50 each madrone. growth and FRENCH PUSSY WILLOW ( Salix It grows its gorgeous caprea) Before leafing out in spring, slowly to red, yellow this variety produces an abundance 15’ or 6-8’ if grown as a bush. Its and orange fall of plump, woolly, pinkish gray trunk becomes twisted and gnarled foliage. It forms a symmetrical oval catkins about 1” long that are prized with age. (As do we all!) It is named crown and grows to 50 feet. It can in early spring bouquets. It can for the round, mealy yet edible be tapped for sugar. Plant patent be kept shrub size by cutting it to strawberry colored fruit that ripen #4979. USDA Zones 4-9. 4’-5’ tree. ground every few years and letting it in the fall and winter. Self fertile. 1 M320: $26.50 each; 3+: $22.50 re-sprout. USDA Zones 4-9. M360 gallon pot. USDA Zones 7-11. D600: each (1 qt. pot): $16.50 each $24.50 each RED SUNSET MAPLE (Acer rubrum CORKSCREW WILLOW ( Salix ‘Franksred’) Among the most matsudana ‘Tortuosa’) Beloved by BAY LAUREL popular ( Umbellaria florists and flower arrangers the yard trees. Corkscrew Willow is also a great californica) Enjoy Cooks flavor landscape choice for soggy spots brilliant with full sun. It can grow rapidly to pots of soup orange and with the 30 tall’ x 15’ wide. Roots can be red foliage invasive. Don’t put willows near a pungent bay that starts septic system! USDA Zones 4-9. leaves from very early in M335 (1 qt. pot): $16.50 each this beautiful, the fall and broad-leafed western native disease resistant dark glossy green foliage in the summer. It grows quickly Eucalyptus evergreen to 30 x 40’ and likes full sun. It is Silver Dollar Tree Makes that is also drought tolerant once established. known as USDA Zones 4-9. 4-5’ tree. M331: Big Change in Your Yard Oregon Myrtle. Fortunately for $26.50 each; 3+: $22.50 each CIDER GUM ( E. gunnii) Honey gardeners, Oregon Myrtle grows very slowly in gardens, only 20-to- Famous for 25-feet tall and wide, substantially the pungent less than the 75-feet it may reach in its native range. It adapts well to pruning, so it can be maintained Locust fragrance of its blue, silver-dollar as a striking, aromatic 6-8’ shrub. FRISIA GOLD LOCUST ( Robinia leaves that are It grows well in a pot. It likes deep pseudoacacia ‘Frisia’) The bright often dried moist soils, but can withstand yellow foliage for flower drought when established. Zones throughout arrangements, 7-11. 1 gallon pot. M520: $24.50 the growing this plant also each season goes by the makes this name Cider SWEET BAY ( Laurus nobilis) Also tree stand Gum for its called Grecian or true Bay. When out like a sweet sap. For you make a pot of soup, why not shimmering a continuous reach out your window and pick beacon. The harvest of the round, waxy leaves, a bay leaf from this beautiful fast growing prune back the bush every winter to broadleafed evergreen. The tree oval shaped stimulate new growth. Or let it grow can grow 10 to 20 feet tall but is tree grows quickly into an upright tree of 30’ easily kept smaller. It is also well to 40’ tall and is widely adapted to or more with leaves that become suited for container growing. It likes heat or cold. It is a Black Locust lance-shaped and green. From the full sun and is hardy to 10°F. 1 gallon with pretty compound leaves, white mountains of Tasmania, it is hardy pot. M523: $24.50 each flowers and thorns on the smaller to about 10 F. and tolerates drought. wood. 4-5’ tree. USDA Zones 4-9. One gallon tree. M 550: $19.50 80 K630: $32.50 each each Black Walnut’s Best Friend How to Use Walnuts Walnuts BLACK LOCUST ( Robinia pseudoacacia) This very fast growing IN THE KITCHEN: Walnuts are a highly concentrated protein source. They (Juglans spe- tree has many uses. It is a nitrogen fixer add nutrition to baked goods, salads cies) These and a good choice to plant with Black or breads. Ground in a blender or stately trees Walnut or Chestnut in a woodlot. In a chopped, they are great in casseroles have large com- woodlot or as a windbreak, plant the or in a meatless nutloaf. trees 10’ apart. Left to grow, the trees IN THE LANDSCAPE: Walnuts are a pound leaves great yard, shade or street tree. They and a hand- will get very tall. Trees can begin to be should be sited at least 20’ from build- some branching thinned and harvested for firewood ings to protect foundations. pattern that makes them attractive, and rot resistant posts in 8 to 12 years. even in wintertime. Walnuts prefer Flowers are excellent bee forage. The Useful Facts slightly acid to neutral deep soils thorny trees will send up root suckers with good drainage. Walnuts require which also grow into trees, even after a POLLINATION: English, Carpathian full sun to crop effectively. USDA mature tree is cut. This way they replant and Manregian walnuts are self fertile regulation prohibits shipping Jug- themselves. 1-1/2’ to 3’ seedlings. but benefit from a second variety for USDA Zones 4-8. K 620: $3.75 each; pollination. Plant two or more black lans species to TX, KS, AZ, MO, OK, walnut seedlings. NE, MI, IN & CA. Our grafted wal- 10+: $2.50 each HARDINESS: USDA Zones 5-9 unless nuts are 3-5’ tall unless otherwise otherwise noted. noted. Black Walnuts SUN OR SHADE: Full sun for effective BLACK WALNUT SEEDLINGS V ery cropping. Grafted fast growing trees. An excellent SPACING: 40’ permanent spacing. In- terplanting will work for up to 20 years. Walnuts choice for a dual purpose nut HARVEST TIME: Walnuts drop in Sep- production and timber planting. tember and October. AMBASSADOR A K240 (1-2’ seedlings): $4.75; winter hardy self- BEARING AGE: Grafted trees 2 to 3 10+: $3.75 each years, seedlings in 6 years or more. fertile Carpathian hybrid from Idaho GRAFTED THOMAS BLACK I f you YIELD: A mature tree can produce 100 that sets heavy want to harvest a great crop of pounds of nuts or much more. crops of delicious flavorful black walnuts there’s no 1 1/4” nuts in thin shells. A patented doubting Thomas is the tree for you. How To Grow variety, it needs about 600 chill Thomas starts bearing at an early SOIL REQUIREMENTS: For produc- hours. PP4132; USDA Zones 4-8. age, while seedling black walnuts tion and long life, walnuts should be K190: $36.50 each can take many years to come into located in deep soils slightly acid to production. The nut meats are large neutral, with good drainage. FRANQUETTEFranquette is among for a black walnut and crack into CULTURAL REQUIREMENTS: After the last of the Persian (English) halves or quarters. The tree grows the first growing season, apply a walnuts to leaf out and therefore rapidly to 50 feet or more and needs nitrogenous fertilizer mulch in early less susceptible to spring frost a rich moist but well drained soil. spring. Walnuts like a steady supply of damage.. This older west coast Plant it with a seedling black walnut moisture in the growing season. commercial variety produces for pollination. USDA Zones 5-9. good crops of delicious walnuts in K246: $38.50 each October with medium to large thin, well sealed nuts. Self-fertile. Not reliably hardy below 10 F. K220: Walnut Accessory Plant A Black Walnut, $36.50 each KENKEL NUTCRACKER Leave A Legacy rack black walnuts and C other hard shelled nuts with (Juglans nigra) Black walnut is a rapid Seedlings this heavy duty tool. T360: grower in fertile sites, and produces Butternuts are walnut relatives. They an excellent wood. Since it has been $49.50 each largely logged out in the wild, there is make beautiful, large trees and are considerable interest in black walnut as good producers. Coniferous Nut Trees a high value timber crop. It produces a thick shelled rich flavored nut that BUTTERNUT SEEDLING (Juglans MONKEY PUZZLE(Araucaria retains flavor very well in cooking, and cinerea) The butternut is the araucana) The branching pattern of has nearly twice the protein of English hardiest tree in the walnut family. It this Chilean evergreen seedling tree is Walnuts. It makes a much larger tree is also known as the white walnut, unique. The branches are symetrical than other walnuts, spreading high and for its lighter, attractive wood used and horizontal, each turning up at its wide in great majesty. Timber plantings for paneling and furniture. It is a are close spaced at 10 to 18 ft. inter- end. The Monkey Puzzle also produces vals, thinned for veneer in 20 years medium to large tree with a lofty, 8” diameter oblong cones with up to followed by timber harvest at 40’ spac- spreading form, not quite as large 300 nuts per cone. The nuts are small ing, 20-30 years later. Black walnuts or demanding of water as black and triangular shaped. They can be like lots of water when they are in active walnuts. Nuts come enclosed in a eaten raw or roasted and have a rich growth. They are more tolerant of wetter rough, thick shell that terminates sweet flavor. Trees grow slowly to 25- ground than are English, but won’t grow in a sharp point. Butternuts have a in year-round swampy sites. Eating fo- 45’ tall. We offer unsexed seedlings liage is reportedly toxic to horses. Plant rich buttery taste preferred by some and only the females produce nuts two or more black walnut seedlings for people over the other walnuts. Plant while the males are pollinizers. The pollination. Many plants don’t grow well two for pollination. 1-2’ seedling small 1-gallon-size trees we offer have under walnut trees. USDA Zones 4-9. tree. USDA Zones 4-9.K260: been growing for several years. USDA $11.50 each; 3+: $8.50 each; Zones 6-9. K440: $26.50 each 10+: $6.50 each PROHIBITED TO AZ 81 Chestnuts cultivar is COLOSSAL C olossal has very large, moderately easy to peel, sweet nuts and is productive very productive at a young age. and an upright It’s the leading commercial variety Chestnuts are majestic trees that grower with in areas that don’t get chestnut live hundreds of years and can pro- large nuts that blight and have warm spring and duce hundreds of pounds of nuts fall free from hot summer weather. It is not the each year. Trees with European and the burr in mid to late season, The best choice in the Pacific Northwest American parentage may not be re- nuts store well. It is a European x and areas with wet springs and sistant to chestnut blight and should Japanese hybrid and is resistant to not be planted east of the Rocky cooler weather. It is pollen sterile root rot and chestnut blight and it so it won’t pollinize other cultivars. Mountains. Only the Chinese Chest- can therefore be planted in the east nuts are reliably resistant east of the The tree has a spreading habit. It is and the west. Cold Hardy: -15°F. cold hardy: -20°F. 3-5’ size. K300: Rockies. Seedlings will be variable 2-3’ size.K305: $34.50 each in nut production. Our new grafted $32.50 each selections are incredibly productive PRECOCE MIGOULE NEW! A NEVADA A good producer of and among the world’s best variet- consistant producer of high quality tasty nuts and pollenizer for the ies. USDA Zones 5-9 unless noted. very good tasting large chestnuts Colossal Chestnut. Needs acidic Prohibited to AZ. even in a cool growing season. First in the harvest searson to soil and at least 400-500 chill drop nuts free of the burr. The nuts hours. Not resistant to chestnut Grafted Chestnuts are easy to peel. The tree has an blight so it is only suitable for the We offer a wonderful collection of upright growth form. Originally western U.S. 3-5’ size. K313: the most productive grafted chest- from France, it is. one of the best $32.50 each nut trees. Most are crosses of Euro- storing chestnuts. It is an excellent pean and Japanese cultivars. pollinator, blooming early to mid Seedling Chestnuts BASALTA #3 A consistent producer season and cold hardy to -20°F. It’s chestnut blight susceptibility AMERICAN CHESTNUT SEEDLINGS of large, particularly flavorful ( Castanea dentata) While most chestnuts. All Chestnuts need good is unknown so it is recommended to be grown west of the Rockies. chestnut trees found in the drainage, however Bisalta #3 is Northwest are of European origin, more tolerant of late wet springs A proven winner in the Pacific Northwest. Precoce Migoule is there are some American chestnuts than others. It is well suited for the and these represent the largest Pacific Northwest and even when also grown in Michigan. It sheds copious, early specimens left of this species in the a cold growing season occurs this nation. The American chestnut was tree still produces nuts. Nuts fall pollen that is free of the burr in mid season and synchronized virtually obliterated back East in its are easy to peel. The tree has a with ‘Colossal native range by the chestnut blight. spreading growth form. Originally and its nuts These seedlings were grown from from Italy, it is one of the best mature at pure stands in Washington known storing chestnuts. It’s a good least two to be blight free. The nuts are small, pollinator and is cold hardy to -15°F weeks early ripening, light brown and It is a somewhat chestnut blight earlier than very sweet. They have a fine flavor susceptible European X Japanese ‘Colossal’ and peel quite easily. These make cultivar and therefore best suited to making it a candidate for northern majestic timber trees, the largest be grown west of the Rockies where areas where early frosts damage of all chestnuts. They are not blight blight isn’t usually a problem. 2-3’ nuts before they can be harvested. resistant. USDA Zones 3-8. We offer size. K301: $34.50 each 2-3’ size. K307: $34.50 each 2-3’ seedlings. K350: $15 each; MARIGOULE NEW! Marigoule is MARSOL NEW! M arsol nuts are 3+: $12.50 each blight tolerant and resistant to root large and have very good flavor. CHINESE CHESTNUT SEEDLINGS rot and successfully grown in both Marsol is a very good pollinator. ( C. mollissima) We have selected Michigan and New York as well as Trees grow very upright. Nuts fall seedlings from highly productive the Pacific Northwest. It produces free of the burr mid season. Marsol trees. They are resistant to an abundance of easy to peel is blight tolerant extending the Chestnut blight and can be planted good size nuts that are as sweet as range where it can be successfully in the east in areas with blight. candy. Although it eventually gets to grown. It is from France. It is Spreading trees grow to 35’ tall and be a large upright tree it is relatively resistant to root rot and cold produce sweet nuts. K342 (1-1/2’ slow growing and easier to manage resistant to -30F. 2-3’ size. K306: to 3’ trees): $6.50 each, 5+: $5 with pruning. It is a European X $34.50 each each; K343 (4-5’ trees): $22.50 Japanese hybrid from France and REGIS MONTIS NEW! Regis Montis each an excellent pollinizer for other is a new chestnut cultivar with an varieties. Nut fall is mid season and abundance of deliciously sweet fall in the burr. Nut size is medium medium size chestnuts that peel Chestnut Cookbook to large. Fruiting can take 4 -5 easily. They fall free from the burr. It CHESTNUT COOKBOOKby Annie years. 2-3’ size. USDA Zones 4-9. is very fast growing and because its Bhagwandin, 128 pages. The author K304: $34.50 each habit is very upright it doesn’t need has been growing, harvesting and MARAVAL Maraval is a great as much space as other cultivars.. preparing chestnuts for 25 years. pollinator, producing massive A European x Japanese chestnut The book includes recipes from amounts of pollen. This French developed and proven in the Pacific around the world and interesting Northwest. 2-3’ size. K308: $34.50 folklore. The book has been revised 82 each and reprinted. S027: $12.95 each Gingko Almonds (Ginkgo biloba) The only surviving member (Prunus amygdalus) Almonds are of an ancient order of conifer-like trees that beautiful ornamentals with their covered the earth during the Jurassic period, attractive foliage and early spring 150 million years ago. Ginkgo grows slowly to pink fragrant flowers. They are of the Prunus genus and resemble a more than 50 feet tall. Its leaf is shaped like a peach tree. Except, you discard the duck’s foot, and is unlike any other leaf in the fruit, crack open the pit and eat the world. Ginkgo trees are either male or female. nut inside. The spreading trees can The females won’t fruit without pollination be maintained at 12’ to 20’ tall de- from a male. The ripening fruit has no aroma, pending on the variety. We offer 3-5’ but if left to rot it has an unpleasant rancid grafted trees. smell. Planting any single tree will mean you HALLS have no pollination and therefore, no nuts. HARDY A The edible nuts are green with a white shell beautiful and are the size of a small almond. And we almost forgot to tell you that ornamental ginkgo is used to stimulate memory. Ginkgo grows in a wide variety of soils that is also and is a pollution tolerant tree. In the fall, the leaves of both the male and edible. This hardy, self- female turn a glorious golden yellow. USDA Zones 4-9. Grafted trees are fertile tree one gallon size. Seedlings 18-24”. produces SALEM LADY FEMALEA heavy producing grafted female ginkgo. K451: $26.50 a profusion each of delicate, fragrant MAYFIELD MALE A grafted male pollinizer for the female. Plant a male and a early spring pink blossoms. This female if you want to harvest the nuts. K452: $26.50 each is followed by attractive, disease resistant, peach-like foliage. Halls SELF FERTILE GINKGO This grafted tree has both male and female flowers, is is thought to be a peach-almond self fertile and sets nuts without cross pollination. K454: $26.50 each cross. The tree grows rapidly to 20 feet and is self-fertile. The thick SEEDLINGS These are unsexed, but can still be a lot of fun to plant and will be shelled, strong flavored almonds very attractive yard trees. K450: $8.50 each are good for cooking and eating. It blooms comparatively late for an almond and does very well in the maritime Northwest. It’s beauty, ease How to Use Chestnuts to insure pollination. Different chestnut species will readily cross with one another. of care, spreading habit and reliable production make it a great tree for IN THE KITCHEN: Chestnuts contain If you lack room you can plant two in the your yard. USDA Zones 6-9. On Lovell approximately 5% oil and 7% protein, same hole and have a multi-trunk tree. along with a rich supply of carbohydrates, rootstock. K 160: $26.50 each HARDINESS: USDA Zones 5-9. giving them a food value roughly equiva SUN OR SHADE: Full sun for nut produc- RELIABLE™ lent to potatoes. In some parts of the tion. Each season world chestnuts are dried and ground into PLANT SPACING: 40 ft. or more for maxi- this beautiful a flour for use in baking. They are among mum long term nut tree produces the sweetest of nuts and roasted chest- production. Interplanting at 20 foot a large crop nuts are a wonderful snack. Chestnuts spacing will greatly increase nut produc- of tasty complement vegetables, and are prized in tion over the first 20 years. Interplants will almonds. It turkey stuffing. eventually need to be removed. is self-fertile IN THE LANDSCAPE: A beautiful spread- ing tree for the landscape. Chinese chest HARVEST TIME: October-November. and the nuts compare in size to a very large apple LIFE EXPECTANCY: A tree on the slopes most reliable tree, whereas European and American of Mt. Etna in Sicily had a branch spread variety chestnuts eventually get quite massive. over 200 feet wide and was in excess of tested at the Chestnuts are a great dual purpose 2500 years old. Mt. Vernon food and timber tree. Chestnut wood is BEARING AGE: Grafted trees will bear in station. extremely durable and rot resistant and 2-3 years, seedlings in 5-7. Reliable is a seedling hybrid of peach possesses this quality as a young tree, YIELD: A mature tree can produce 100 and almond. The nuts are harder unlike cedar. Chestnut resprouts quite pounds or much more. shelled and stronger in flavor than vigorously after cutting, suiting it quite well a true almond, but its beautiful pink to coppice management for rot resistant How To Grow fragrant blossoms, disease-resistant pole production. Coppicing means to cut SOIL REQUIREMENTS: Chestnuts will foliage, spreading habit and reliable down an established tree thus allowing the grow in most soils, but they don’t like production make it a home garden suckers to regrow. The sucker sprouts will wet feet. Chestnut trees will tolerate acid winner. Easily maintained at about 15’ regrow again and again allowing for a con- soils, and are fairly drought resistant once tall. It does very well in the maritime tinuous harvest of both nuts and wood. established. Northwest. USDA Zones 5-9. On PESTS AND DISEASES: Borers can be Lovell rootstock. K165A: $26.50 Useful Facts a problem for grafted trees. The North each POLLINATION: Two varieties, two west has escaped chestnut blight due to seedlings or one of each must be planted climate and isolation. 83 Filberts ORACLE™ NEW!(Foros cv.) Very and other Northern regions. late blooming and early ripening, Though partially self fertile, plant Oracle™ bears good crops of large, near Nikita’s Pride™ to improve high quality soft shell almonds. production. K162: $26.50 each Oracle™ is a hardy, late blooming (Corylus NIKITA’S PRIDE™ NEW! (Foros species) Almond variety that blooms with peaches, often avoiding damage cv.) This hardy, very late blooming Filberts from late frosts. This new cultivar variety bears good crops of are easy from the Ukraine will be good for large, high-quality, softshell nuts. to grow testing in the Pacific Northwest Needs Oracle™ Almond (K162) for and very pollination. K161: $26.50 each pro- ALL IN ONE ductive! Filberts self- A How To Use Filberts fertile, soft can be IN THE KITCHEN: Bake with squash, grown in USDA Zones 5-9. They are shelled, by far the most important nut crop casseroles, in vegetable pie; mince sweet and add to cookies or candies. grown commercially in the Pacific almond. Northwest. This small tree prefers a Crushed filberts make a great pie crust without any other ingredients. All in One cool, wet climate. Filberts flower in Filberts store for over a year. is hardy in mid-winter. The abundant male cat- IN THE LANDSCAPE: Its tendency to the Pacific kins make a showy display. Humid, sucker profusely makes it an excellent Northwest windy weather is ideal for distrib candidate for a fast growing hedge or and in uting pollen to the tiny red female screen plant. warmer flowers. By the end of August, nuts climates. are ripe. They drop in September. Useful Facts It is late blooming for an almond. PROHIBITED TO AZ. POLLINATION: Filberts are wind polli- It is a genetic semi dwarf and nated in winter. Varieties have specific will only grow to 12 to 15 feet tall. New Blight Immune pollination requirements. See varietal USDA Zones 7-9. Developed by descriptions. Floyd Zaiger. On Marianna 2624 Cultivars HARDINESS: Zones 5-9 unless rootstock. K150: $26.50 each We are happy to finally make these otherwise noted. European Filbert filbert blight resistant and blight flowers winterkill at -15° F. TITAN This unique almond tree immune cultivars available to home SUN: Prefers full sun in the maritime boasts extreme winter hardiness, so gardeners. Each is newly released for maximum nut production. Prefers it can grow and fruit successfully far by Oregon State University after partial shade in very sunny, hot cli- North of where other commercial mates. two decades of breeding for blight varieties have frozen out. It is a true immunity. It is now possible to grow PLANT SPACING: Single trees 15-20 feet; hedge plantings 4 to 5 ft. almond with a thin, well-sealed shell filberts again in places that suffer BEARING AGE: 2 to 3 years and a sweet kernel. Unfortunately, from Eastern Filbert blight, includ- YIELD: 20 pounds or more per tree. in our region and other areas ing western Washington and Ore- with wet springs, it may fall victim gon. Filberts are also called Hazels How To Grow to brown rot and other fungal or Hazelnut trees. We offer 1½-3’ SOIL REQUIREMENTS: Prefers problems, even with spring and 2-year-old well-rooted trees in quart slightly acid soil around 6.5 pH; does fall copper sprays. Titan blooms pots unless otherwise noted. best in fertile soil with good drainage, very late for an almond and can DORRIS T his new highly blight but is widely adaptable. be pollinized by any late blooming resistant cultivar from OSU is CULTURAL REQUIREMENTS: Plant almond or by any peach. On Lovell perfect for the home gardener. It in late winter or early spring. Late rootstock. K170: $26.50 each produces heavy crops of delicious spring plantings grow less initially and filberts on a dwarf tree that is require more watering. The ripeness of a filbert can be determined by pushing on the nut in the husk. If it turns in the husk then nut and husk Beech only half the size of other filbert varieties. Santiam and Yamhill are good pollinizers.K016: $24.50 have separated, and though it may be PURPLE BEECH(Fagus sylvatica each still a little green, it’s as ripe as it will purpurea) Among the most stately YORK A new mid season highly get and can be picked before birds or specimen trees in the world, the blight resistant pollinizer. It also squirrels get it. Purple Beech graces many an produces a good quantity of tasty PESTS AND DISEASES: European English estate. It will grow to 70’ tall round medium size nuts. It will Filberts are susceptible to Eastern with a dense, oval crown, light bark pollinize Dorris, and Yamhill and Filbert Blight, a fungal bark disease and beautiful purple leaves. It is also would help with early pollen for spreading in commercial filbert growing areas. Our plants come an excellent wildlife tree, producing Jefferson when combined with from inspected stock grown far from small, triangular nuts that are prized Theta. Named after York from the infested areas. Control by spraying by animals, including humans. Nut Lewis and Clark expedition.K068: copper and dormant oil together at production varies from year to year, $24.50 each bud break, in late March, mid April but good years produce heavy YAMHILL Another recent OSU and early May. Or select new blight crops of nuts that can be eaten raw release. This high quality, small immune cultivars! and have a rich sweet flavor. Grow tree produces an ample crop of two for pollination in full or partial very tasty, early ripening nuts. It sun. 2-3’ size. M590: $19.50 will pollinate Santiam, Dorris and 84 each; 3+: $15 each Jefferson. K067: $24.50 each JEFFERSON T his winning new bamboos are of the which are of excellent quality. variety joins the ranks of Eastern genus Phyllostachys 300: $24.50 each; 3+: $22.50 N Filbert Blight immune filberts from (abbreviated with each Oregon State University. A smaller, the letter P). We also P. AUREOSULCATA Among the compact tree, it is expected to offer hardy “clump- most hardy and beautiful of the replace Barcelona as the leading ing” bamboo! We large bamboos, this variety boasts commercial variety since it yields offer 1 gallon plants a yellow stripe on each young, bigger crops of large tasty nuts with good roots and green culm and about 20% of them that fill their shells and produce viable tops that are develop a distinctive zigzag at the so few blanks. A late bloomer, it is guaranteed to grow. base. This vigorous selection grows best pollinated by Theta, Yamhill We also have beau- very fast and becomes an almost and York.K043: $24.50 each tiful large unshippable clumps of impenetrable hedge of 20-25’ tall, THETA T his blight-immune late some varieties for sale at the nurs- 1 ½” culms. Very hardy, to -20°F, pollinator will increase yields for ery. Bring a covered pickup or van it survives untended in Southern Jefferson, which has a long bloom to take these home. PROHIBITED Michigan. The new shoots are tasty period. It is especially effective TO HAWAII. too. N020: $26.50 each when used with other Jefferson P. DULCIS C ommonly called pollinizers such as Yamhill. Theta Timber Bamboo Sweetshoot Bamboo, this fast also pollinizes Contorted Red Dragon. It also produces tasty (30’ tall & more) growing, beautiful bamboo is renowned for its tasty shoots early nuts. K066: $24.50 each P. N. HENON in the season. It is among the most BEAKED HAZELNUT ( Corylus ( P. Nigra beautiful with masses of large cornuta california) The western Henon) It drooping leaves, thick culms and a beaked hazel is native from is a special white ring at each node. Very fast California up through British feeling growing and thick for their height, Columbia. This multi stemmed nut being in a the 30’ tall culms get up to 3 inches tree grows in sun or partial shade tall graceful in diameter. Hardy to -10°F. N120: to about 10-15 feet tall. It has stand of $26.50 each long yellow catkins in the winter Henon. The long sturdy P. NIGRA(Black bamboo) New stems and produces small edible nuts are green, turning black the second favored by birds and squirrels. culms are free of growing season. The black culms USDA Zones 5-9. K069: $18.50 contrasted with the green foliage each branches about half make this among the most favored way up to the olive green swaying and beautiful landscape plants in An Amazing Ornamental! canopy. It grows to 40’ or more the world. The thin walled canes are CONTORTED RED DRAGON and 3” or more in diameter. Its late very hard and used for cabinetry in ( Corylus avellana cv. ‘Red spring shoot growth helps make it Asia. They make beautiful fences and Dragon’) Dramatic and completely cold hardy to -10°F. It thrives and gates. The two inch diameter canes resistant to Eastern Filbert is beautiful at Raintree. N100: will grow to 25’ tall and are hardy to Blight, this new, highly prized and $28.50 each 0°F. N340: $28.50 each previously unavailable, contorted P. VIVAX A timber bamboo very hazelnut brings color and form to similar to P. Bambusoides. The new Medium Bamboo your yard. It has twisted stems, shoots are very flavorful. It can grow (Under 20’ Tall) richly colored, dark-burgundy- 50’ tall and 4” diameter. New shoots purple leaves as well as burgundy PSEUDOSASA JAPONICA C alled grow up to one foot a day. Hardy arrow bamboo. Widely cultivated in catkins, husks and nuts. Trees to 5°F. USDA Zones 7-11. N640: have moderate vigor and a the US, this tough, versatile bamboo $28.50 each produces a dense hedge of slender spreading habit, which allows the contorted growth to be visible in tan culms growing close together summer. Stake and train the trunk Large Bamboo with large, dark green leaves that give to the height you desire, then allow (Up to 30’ Tall) it a tropical appearance. It prefers moist conditions and tolerates salt it to contort outwards. Contorted Red Dragon will pollinize Theta. They make beautiful accent plants spray, making it an excellent choice Zones 5-9. K 031G (1 gallon): or several will make a beautiful, for coastal gardens. It grows to 8’-16’ $32.50 each thick evergreen impenetrable feet tall and makes a beautiful barrier screen. Space plants about 6-8’ or performs well in a container. Bamboo apart for a hedge. P. NUDA Hardy to -20°F. Understandably our most popular N560: $24.50 each SHIROSHIMA NEW! ( Hibanobambusa tranquillans ‘Shiroshima’) This A grove of bamboo provides a won- large bamboo, this variety is the midsized bamboo is suited to derful habitat in your yard. Bamboo, easiest to grow and the best choice containers or the garden. It is an when you know how to grow it, is for making a thick screen that looks aggressive runner, growing to 16’ in very manageable. Bamboos are ev- good year round. It is among the the ground, with beautiful yellow and ergreen woody stemmed perennial hardiest species of the genus, white variegation on the leaves. It grasses. Of great economic value; surviving -20°F. with less winter does best in morning sun or filtered they serve more uses for more peo- foliage dieback than any other shade. Limit one. One gallon pot. ple than any other group of plants variety. Mature 2” diameter culms N050: $28.50 each in the world. We offer the hardy grow to 20-35’ tall, but harvest types of bamboo. The larger hardy some of the edible young shoots, 85 P. BISETTII This exceptionally cold hardy bamboo is one of the green. Darker green, dense foliage Easiest to Grow Indoors! fills in and creates an ideal hedge that smallest of its genus and can grow grows 15’ tall. N233: $26.50 each CALAMONDIN It is to about 20’. Spreading vigorously the easiest citrus once established, its low thick dark CHUSQUEA CULEOThis unique to care for and the green culms and low branches and clumping bamboo comes from the easiest to grow in leaves make for an excellent screen. mountains of Chile and Argentina. a container. While Bissetii is a great farmstead building Unlike most other bamboos, most citrus go bamboo. After a few years when Chusquea culeo has solid culms. dormant below your bamboo stand is more mature, Each culm grows to about 1” in 50° F, the Calamondin will thrive at harvest 3 to 6 year old canes which diameter and 15-20’ tall. Fine, narrow, lower temperatures and is therefore will have strong thick walls but be very 4” long leaves and abundant side easier to grow successfully outside bendable and only about an inch in branches give clumps of this bamboo the South. Still, in the Northwest diameter, ideal for tying together and a fluffy, airy feel. Hardy to 0°F, it and colder regions, bring the pot bending into many things including thrives in either full sun or partial in for the winter. The Calamondin greenhouse arches and other shade. N680: $26.50 each has broad oval green leaves, is structures. Newly emerged shoots almost thornless and has a shapely can be used in stir fry or your choice of cuisine! 1 gallon pot. To -20°F. N150: $26.50 each Citrus upright habit. Throughout most of the year it produces an abundance of round bright orange 1-1/2” fruit. The fruit is easy to peel and has few We are offering large 2-3-year-old, seeds. The orange colored pulp is Clumping Bamboo well-branched potted citrus trees. juicy and sour. It can be used as a (10-15’ Tall) They CAN BE SHIPPED TO CALI- flavoring or as a juice like a lemon or FORNIA and all other states except a lime. When sweetened with sugar Big, beautiful and no barrier needed! Florida, Texas, Arizona and Puerto it makes a delicious marmalade. Enjoy the benefits of bamboo without Rico and the Virgin Islands. We have Hardy to 10° to 15° F, 2-year potted worrying about underground rhi- chosen a great selection of variet- tree. J120Q: $54.95 each zomes popping up where you don’t ies for growing indoors. The best want them. Clumping bamboo will stay where you put it and slowly, grad- way to grow citrus in the North is to keep the pot outside in the summer These Plants Will Fit on ually get bigger as the clump ages. These bamboos are hardy to -20°F, and bring it in when the tempera- Your Table! and the strong canes are about ½” in ture goes below 50° F. Please place NAGAMI KUMQUAT diameter. Citrus as a separate order since it bite-sized orange A will be sent apart from other items! colored fruit with thick, Citrus is shipped via Priority Mail so sweet skin and a tangy Hardy Clumpers please include your mailing ad- flesh. The whole fruit, FARGESIA NITIDA T he most upright dress. Regardless of your location, skin and all, is edible growing of the Fargesia selections, use the East of the Rockies, (Non and delicious. The fruit ripens in the this clumping bamboo makes a Zone Skipping) chart on page 95! winter and holds well on the tree. beautiful 12’ hedge where there isn’t They are hardy outdoors in USDA The dark evergreen leaves and the a lot of space or a lot of sun. Hardy Zones 9-11 unless noted. many bright fruit make it a beautiful to -20°F, the dense foliage looks ornamental. A natural dwarf, it grows best when shaded from hot, midday to only 2-3’ tall and makes a beautiful summer sun. The strong canes make Lemons potted tree small enough to fit on excellent garden stakes. N220: IMPROVED your dining table. It is hardy to 18°F. $26.50 each MEYER 2- year potted tree.J160Q: $54.95 FARGESIA MURIALEMany small, LEMON Our each narrow leaves cover the slim, upright best selling INDIO MANDARINQUAT A kumquat- shoots of this hardy, non-running citrus. Enjoy mandarin hybrid. The fruit is bigger bamboo. Individual clumps gradually medium size than a kumquat, and differs from develop a cascading, fountain-like juicy lemons a mandarin in that you can eat the shape and produce a beautiful 12’ almost year whole thing. The sweet peel, eaten tall hedge. Hardy to -20°F, it grows round. Since lemons are acidic with the tart flesh, gives a unique at high elevations in China where it they don’t need much heat to bring combination of flavors. Slice the is a staple food for the Panda. Like the fruit to full ripeness. Enjoy the bell-shaped fruit or eat them from other Fargesias, it prefers part shade fragrant waxy white blossoms the tree. 2-year potted tree. J165Q: or dappled, not hot, sunlight. N360: throughout the year. It is an early $54.95 each $26.50 each and regular bearer, hardy for a short FUKUSHU FARGESIA DRACOCEPHALAThe time to 18°F. 2-year potted tree. KUMQUAT L ike best clumping bamboo for sunny J180Q: $54.95 each other kumquats, locations, this variety, also called the Fukushu is Hardy Dragon bamboo, takes both VARIEGATED PINK LEMON This a naturally small heat and cold (to-10°F) without leaves wonderful ornamental rewards tree, well-suited curling as they do on other Fargesias. growers with both beauty and fruit. for growing as Culms, about ½” in diameter, grow in Mature foliage is creamy white and an ornamental. a range of colors, some almost black green, and the new foliage glows Tree growth is characterized by its and others in shades of red, yellow or pink. Abundant lemons with excellent spreading form, and leaves that are flavor grow year round. 2-year potted typically larger and broader than 86 tree. J195Q: $54.95 each those of other kumquats. Fukushu fruits ripen to orange and are fully edible, with thinner rinds and fewer Oranges/Mandarins Delicious Berry Flavor seeds than Meiwa or Nagami types. TROVITA ORANGE A delicious fresh MORO BLOOD 2- year potted tree. J163Q: $54.95 eating and juice orange. It ripens ORANGE The blood each in the spring. It is very productive, oranges are called the very sweet and nearly seedless. ‘connoisseur’s citrus’. It produces outdoors in the San They are sweet and Limes Francisco Bay area as well as in highly flavored with a BEARSS LIME hotter summer areas. 2-year potted hint of strawberry and raspberry B earss bears a tree. J240Q: $54.95 each aftertaste. The name ‘blood’ heavy crop of an CLEMENTINE derives from its red blotches on almost seedless MANDARIN ( Algerian) the skin and its reddish flesh and fruit the size of - From North Africa. juice coloring. Because of its a small lemon. Ripens about a coloration, the fruit does not fit into Lemons and limes U.S. mass marketing schemes. The month after Satsuma. blood orange is popular along the need comparatively less heat to Clementine is a most ripen than most citrus. The skin is Mediterranean. The fruit is medium popular variety with a classic sweet/ size and very productive. It ripens in pale yellow and the flesh a yellow- tart mandarin flavor. 2-year potted green with a delicious lime flavor. It late winter and early spring. Hardy tree. J117Q: $54.95 each to about 27°F. 2-year potted tree. is hardy to 28°F. 2- year potted tree. J200Q: $54.95 each OWARI SATSUMA MANDARIN T he J100Q: $54.95 each easy to grow tree has a spreading KIEFFER LIME (THAI) D istinctively habit and fragrant flowers. The shaped leaves are used in Thai fruit is flavorful, seedless and easy Grapefruit cooking. Fragrant leaves, thinly to peel. It is the hardiest of all the ORO BLANCO sliced provide flavoring for curries, mandarins to 20° F. The fragrant GRAPEFRUIT This soups, and main dishes. The flesh oranges ripen in the winter. 2-year beautiful, dwarf tree is not eaten but the bumpy rind is potted tree. J115Q: $54.95 each produces large, juicy, used as zest. USDA Zones 10-11. 2- seedless grapefruit with wonderfully year potted tree. J210Q: $54.95 CARA CARA PINK sweet flesh. A grapefruit-pummelo each NAVEL ORANGE cross, it bears huge, fragrant This early-ripening flowers and elegant fruits with orange is a sport Australian Finger Lime of the Washington nearly white, bitter-free flesh. Fruit ripens in late winter, even in areas AUSTRALIAN Navel orange and is of low summer heat. Zones 10-11. FINGER LIME easy to grow, but its 2-year potted tree. J150Q: $54.95 (Microcitrus flesh is a bright pink/medium red. each australasica) The sweet flavor will please your The most palate, just as the unusual color will unusual of surprise you and your friends. Try Bizarre Yet Useful citrus, the finger pink orange juice. 2-year potted BUDDHA’S HAND lime is long and tree. J265Q: $54.95 each CITRON T his bizarre, narrow with PAGE MANDARIN A juicy, sweet tender fruit looks like a rough skin. cross between Minneola tangelo cross between a giant Chefs the world over are finding and Clementine mandarin. The lemon and a squid or creative uses for Australian Finger round fruit has deep orange rind, like long, thin, gnarled Limes, which add unique texture which is thin but can be peeled. It is human fingers. It has virtually no and a special “zing” to dishes. The pulp and is only eaten candied fruit is sometimes referred to as a good choice to complete a citrus collection. It is more productive with as a dessert or used in Chinese “citrus caviar” because the small medicine. We ship 2-3 year old round interior vesicles pop in your nearby pollinator trees: mandarins or the Valencia orange. 2 year Buddha’s Hand citron trees that are mouth with tart lime flavor. More well formed. No tolerance for frost. cold tolerant than other limes and potted tree. J118Q $54.95 each Zones 10-11.J170Q: $54.95 each great in containers, the flavor is KISHU SEEDLESS MANDARIN T his distinctly lime with a wonderful early ripening mandarin, popular in lingering after taste. Add to drinks Japan, produces very sweet, seedless, Citrus Accessories or salads or include in your favorite easy to peel fruit that is becoming a ALL NATURAL CITRUS MIX Citrus recipe. 2-year potted tree.J215Q: gardener’s favorite. 2-year potted tree. Mix 6-3-3 Fertilizer. Designed $54.95 each J119Q $54.95 each to nourish citrus trees in home orchards and containers, our Citrus Mix is formulated from all How To Grow Citrus garden grade potting mix. Avoid dense mixes with peat or lighten with wood shav- natural ingredients with primary SOIL REQUIREMENTS: Grows best in a ings. Water it deeply but only when the soil and secondary plant nutrients plus pot with a sandy, well drained potting mix. is getting dry rather than giving too many selected micronutrients that promote Trees don’t do well in clay or heavy soils. frequent surface waterings. The tree will lush new growth and bountiful fruit. It Fertilization is important and should in- need root pruning and repotting every two can be used to feed other fruit trees, clude trace minerals found in the Organic years or so. Plants benefit indoors from vines and ornamentals. For people Citrus Food listed above. higher humidity so mist the tree occasion- with only a couple potted citrus plants CULTURAL REQUIREMENTS: Citrus will ally. Place a pan of rocks under the pot. this 1 lb box will last several years. arrive bareroot. Be prepared to plant them Pour water in the pan. This provides extra T148: $12 each in a 10-12” container with a light weight humidity for your plant. 87 Avocados FRUIT PICKING BAG nut assure Have your hands exact ad free to pick a bushel justment of fruit and gently of both the In a few plac- open the bottom and cutting and es, and under dump it in a box like a anvil blades. A rubber cushion and the proper professional. T025: shock absorber provide smooth conditions, in $50 each working and soft closing. All major USDA Zones parts are replaceable and the blade 9-11, Avo- THE ROO APRON The Roo is perfect is easily sharpened. They make cados can a smooth cut every time and are be grown for harvesting your fruits and easy on the trees and shrubs and outdoors. Anyone else will need to on you. FELCO 8, righthanded, grow them indoors in a pot. Except vegetables or for other hands T190: $54; FELCO 9, left-handed in the climates where they thrive, T200: $54 it’s not easy to fruit avocados. Go to free collecting. raintreenursery.com for important No more using KNIFE & PRUNER SHARPENER avocado growing information, which your shirt trying C orona AC8300 blade sharpener. will be critical to your success. to get fruits and This five inch super carbide file vegetables in with no slip handle fits easily in LITTLE CADO This self fertile dwarf from the garden, your pocket. It works great on your cultivar makes a dwarf backyard simply put on the grafting knife or on your pruners tree. In your yard it will grow about Roo, fill the pouch and the cylinder insuring clean orchard cuts. T767: 8-12’ in height. Little Cado produces chute allows you to deposit your $8.95 good tasting, green skinned fruit collection without messy fallout. with medium-thin skin. Fruit size Adjustable cotton straps fit any size ORCHARD 8-14 oz. Ripens May-September. in comfort and are designed to fit LADDERThe Also known as Wurtz. Hardy to 25° F. over the shoulders rather than the perfect ladder J280Q: $54.95 each neck to provide all day comfort. for picking fruit BACON B acon type with flavorful T036: $29.95 each or pruning your green skinned fruit with smooth and dwarf fruit trees TWISTER FRUIT or for other jobs creamy flesh. Good production on PICKER®The an attractive, upright tree. Trees are around the yard. Twister Fruit Picker Even a shorter slightly more frost resistant than ® is designed Bacon to 28°F. A type B pollinator person can reach for the home 10-12 feet, safely it needs a type A like Mexicola for fruit grower to pollination when grown indoors. and comfortably, easily pick hard standing 4 feet J285Q: $54.95 each to reach fruits of off the ground MEXICOLA Semi dwarf variety many types. This on this 5 1/2’ tall with high quality fruit with thin, ingenious tool is sturdy, lightweight aluminum tripod shiny black skin. Fruit size is 4-8 made in America style, orchard ladder. The 26 inch oz. The avocados ripen in August from very durable lightweight base width and tripod leg provides to October. It is cold hardy to parts. It gently grabs any kind of stability on the uneven ground of 18*F and therefore somewhat fruit larger than one inch diameter. your orchard. This commercial extending where Avocados can Purchase a common pole, available orchard ladder was made less than be successfully grown. Often self at a hardware store, including mop 6’ tall, for Raintree customers, so it fertile when grown outdoors at the poles to screw into the bottom of is UPS shippable. Please order this limits of its range, this pollen type A. the picker. You adjust the tension so item separately. Built to order. Allow Avocado needs a Type B pollinator you pick the fruit without crushing 2-3 months for delivery. T122Q: like Bacon when grown indoors. it. It is much superior to a basket $149 J290Q: $54.95 each picker. It would make a great gift for a fruit nut. T037: $45 each Supplies FELCO LEATHER HOLSTER rune partner! If you want to P be the fastest, best looking Bird Control BIRD NETTING B irds love to eat the fruit from blueberry bushes, cherry CHERRY & SMALL FRUIT HARNESS and most accurate pruner in trees and grape vines. Get your ttach the sturdy clips of this A the west (or east) you need share by putting netting over your comfortable a holster for your pruners. plants. 14’ x 25’ piece of netting, professional Attach through your belt. enough to cover two dwarf cherry pickers cotton T275: $14.50 trees or lots of bushes. Black harness to holes netting with 2” mesh. T430: $14.50 drilled in your 1 to FELCO PRUNERS These are the pruners used by professionals each 3 gallon bucket and ergonomically throughout the world. Each person COMMERCIAL BIRD NETTING BY pick cherries and at our nursery packs a pair in a THE FOOT W e have long rolls of small fruits with holster on their hip. They are of bird netting. Use it over grapes or both hands free. unsurpassed quality and Swiss build a structure over blueberries T030: $15 each made precision workmanship. or dwarf cherry trees. Secure with Solid forged metal alloy handles clothespins at the bottom. (Cut to are complemented by a hardened order at 5’ intervals, 25’ minimum 88 cutting blade. A hardened bolt and length per piece. HEAVY DUTY Home Orchard Organic Optimum Blends This is 17 feet wide. This Ecological Products Prepared in Olympia, green netting MYCO PAKS Place a teabag-like Wash., these com- is top rated mycorrhizae pack at the bottom of plete, high-quality commercially your planting hole or pot, next to organic mixes include and is rated for the roots. Use one pack for each all the ingredients 10 years if taken (existing) foot in height of your you need to be suc- in for the winter. T433: $1.35 per foot plant. Mycorrhizal fungi enable cessful. BIRD SCARE TAPE This tough shining the root system to increase in ORGANIC metallic tape is red on one side and size and capacity to absorb the BLUEBERRY silver on the other. Each roll is 250’ long nutrients already in your soil. FERTILIZER For and 7/16 inch wide. Tie several strands Building up your soil with organic blueberries, lingon to the top of a tree and it shimmers in matter allows mycorrhizae to berries, tea and other the wind and looks like fire to the birds. thrive. It works on all fruiting plants acid loving plants. we offer except for Blueberries, 5 lb bag. (3-2-4) Mix & match Each roll will do 8 semi-dwarf fruit Huckleberries, Lingonberries, any four 5-lb trees or a row of berry bushes. (The T143: $15; Pkg of birdies get repelled and go elsewhere, Cranberries, Filberts and Oaks. 4: $11.50 each bag bags for T185: 75 cents each; Package $11.50 per hopefully to neighbors who have of 10: $3.50; Pkg of 30: $7.50; ORGANIC TREE bag. purchased our bird attracting items.) Pkg of 100: $20 & SHRUB MIX For T080: $5.95 per roll flower and fruit development. Grafting & Training Organic Apple Contains mycorrhizae. 5 pound Supplies Maggot Control bag. (3-4-4)T109: $15; Pkg of 4: $11.50 each bag APPLE MAGGOT CONTROL BAGS Grafting tools and supplies are list- rotect your apples and pears P ORGANIC CANE & STRAWBERRY ed on page 59. from Apple Maggot infestations. MIXMineral augmentation for GRAFTING BANDSFor people While thinning to one per cluster, strong flowering and fruiting. purchasing rootstocks, we offer usually in May or early June, slip Contains mycorrhizae. 5 pound photodegradable 8 inch by 3/8 inch the opening of the nylon bag, bag. (4-4-2) T140: $15; Pkg of 4: by .020 inch grafting bands. With with your two index fingers, just $11.50 each bag these you can quickly wrap grafts enough to completely cover the ORGANIC ALL VEGETABLES MIX without wax. T 240: 10 for $1.50 new, ideally nickel size fruitlet. ids in growing nutritious, tasty A The bag will fill with the growing vegetables. No lime. Contains BUDDING BANDS 5 by 1/4 by .016 fruit and protect it. This product inch bands for T budding. T 090 mycorrhizae. 5 pound bag. (4-5-3) has been used succesfully here T139: $15; Pkg of 4: $11.50 each (Bundle of 20): $1.50 at Raintree and by many fruit bag CHIP BUDDING TAPE Use this hobbyists. They are quick and clear stretchy plastic tape for chip easy to use! Includes Instructions! budding or grafting. One roll is These new heavier weave bags Grow More in Less Space enough for hundreds of grafts. provide extra codling moth These innovative complete systems T150: $3.50 each roll protection. Contains 144 bags. enable you to grow lots of food T167: $12.50 organically in a small space. Each PARAFILM BUD GRAFTING TAPE N EW! Excellent for wrapping buds tube has hose-connected drip irri- to retain the moisture and hold the Biological Pest Control gation. Hook up union secure. Parafilm breaks down one or a series. See page 31. Instructions are over several months. Fast growing buds push through the parafilm. It’s CODLING MOTH TRAPST161: included. 90’x1/2”x .002mil roll. T153: $5.00 $11.95 ALL SEASON each roll APPLE MAGGOT TRAPST163: STRAWBERRY TREE KOTE SEALERTanglefoot $19.95 PLANTER asphalt tree pruner sealer seals APPLE MAGGOT LUREST164: Grow lots of pruning and grafting cuts with a $7.99 the best tasting waterproof seal. It is an asphalt strawberries in a small space. based black paint and comes in a small 8 oz can with a cap brush Home Soil Test Kit The late Tom applicator which makes it easy to HOME SOIL TEST KIT Help your Wood designed use. T184: $9.95 plants by testing the soil. The kit each planter provides four pH tests and two with a full length BRANCH SPREADERS Commercial each for Nitrogen, Phosphorus and drip tube inside. orchardists routinely spread the Potash. Most plants we offer prefer Fill a planter limbs of fruit trees to maximize their a pH of 6.0 to 7.0. T496: $7.50 with potting soil. strength and productivity. Now you each Then hook one, or a series of planters can do the same. (All spreaders to each other and to a garden hose. come in bundles of 25 only.) After a Instructions included. T295 (3’ few months the branches will adjust Build a Trellis planter, holds up to 50 plants): and the wooden spreaders can be BERRY WIRE T070: 15 cents a $39.95, 4 for $120 removed and reused. T610 4-inch foot (Minimum 200 ft.); T070R pointed: 25/$13.50 (2,900 ft roll): $160 89 Mason Bee and GREEN BERRY BEE HOUSE T he GREEN BERRY same as the Blue Orchard Bee Bee Houses House. Inside it contains corrugated BEE (40 POLLINATION means MORE and cardboard with 100 nesting holes BEES IN BETTER FRUIT! You have invested providing space for females to lay STRAWS) time, money, and love in your fruit up to 200 offspring. (without bees) (Osmia trees and berries. Now help them T352: $45 aglaia) do their best for you! Mason Bees, Pollination NESTING CARDBOARD FOR GREEN of late also called Blue Orchard Bees and Green Berry Bees, are safe, easy- BERRY BEESummer green berry spring to-use native pollinators that you bees are tiny and are often less than and summer berries, kiwis and can manage. Mason bees don’t 1/4 of the size of our spring mason garden veggies is a cinch with the produce honey and they don’t sting bees. It provides 99+ nesting Green Berry Bee. These bees will but they are superior pollinators for tunnels. This is a one time use continue to pollinate after the Blue any orchard. Blue Orchard Bees fly product, then the cardboard wrap Orchard bees have finished their in cool spring weather that would can be recycled.. This product fits season. This beautiful little hard- ground a honey bee. Green Ber- inside the Green Berry Bee House. working shiny green bee is native ry Bees fly in late spring and early It will take the green berry bees 2-3 to the Pacific coast and suited for summer. Both types of bees nest in years to use all the nesting tunnels. and only available to ship to OR, small holes and lay eggs that hatch T343G: $9.95 each WA and CA. Ships in March and out to pollinate your trees the next CORN ECO STACKED TRAYS F or April and May. T343F: $39.95 spring. They do this year after year! Blue Orchard Bees only. New each Get started with a powerful per- biodegradable stackable trays with POLLINATION WITH MASON BEES manent pollination force that can 30 nesting holes. This system allows 34 pages; By Margriet Dogterom; 1 become the equivalent of a whole you to see what is in each hole in the 2nd Edition. A great book on hive of honey bees. You don’t have fall and is easily cleaned and reused understanding mason bees and to be a beekeeper to get the best managing them for pollination and fruit you’ve ever seen. Just let the each year. the bees do the job! The Blue fruit production. S427: $15 Orchard Bee BEE MOVIE: ‘‘HOW TO” MASON House comes BEE DVDA 30 minute fascinating Mason Bee Houses with a set of step by step instructive video from The Blue Orchard bees and the trays. Place Dr. Margriet Dogterom on attracting Green Berry Bees each have their the trays and caring for mason bees. Watch own custom designed house. inside an close ups of the bees laying eggs These attractive wooden shel- open ended weatherproof container and building their nests. S422: ters provide space for females to under an overhang on the east side $19.95 lay offspring. The houses will be of a building, out of direct rain and functional for about ten years. The wind. T331: $19.50 space above the nesting trays can Replacement Parts STARTER COTTAGE WITH STRAWS be used as a safe release point REPLACEMENT STRAWS One set of to place the bees. If you’re just For Blue Orchard Bees only. The wooden Cottage comes with 20, 6” 6” replacement straws (100 Straws) starting out, we recommend the without bees.T348: $13.50; One Calm Bee Nation which has every- long straws. A set of 3 1/2” straws (40 Straws) thing you need, including the bee removable front without bees. T345: $6.50 house. piece provides safe entrance BLUE ORCHARD CALM BEE NATION and exit for the Labels & Guards I ncludes the Blue Orchard Bee bees. It has House and eco trays along with PERMANENT LABELS Flexible room for the plastic labels are readable for less 30 bees in cocoons. Ships only 6” straws with December through February. T349: than a year. We offer bees we also sturdy aluminum SOLD OUT. AVAILABLE FALL sell. Affix the 2017. labels with malleable Cottage to a wall with the bracket wire. These labels GREEN BERRY CALM BEE NATION provided. Each season you will will be readable and I ncludes the Green Berry Bee need new 6” straws. T 333: $17.50 stay on the tree for House and corrugated cardboard years. Use a pencil with 100 nesting holes along with 40 bees in straws. Ships only March Just the Bees, Please or ballpoint pen to inscribe variety and April. Only available to ship to BLUE ORCHARD BEES (10 BEE name, rootstock etc. OR, WA and CA. T351: $79 COCOONS) (Osmia lignaria) You They are useable on BLUE ORCHARD BEE HOUSE will receive 10 Bee cocoons in both sides. Order Contains interlocking trays a cardboard release box. Blue one for each of the with 30 nesting holes made of orchard bee cocoons are shipped plants you purchase. biodegradable CORN material with coolpacks to maintain healthy Tie each loosely providing space for females to lay bees. The cardboard box that the around a side branch up to 144 offspring. (without bees) bees arrive in serves as a release so it won’t girdle the T332: $45 box for our Blue Orchard Bee branch as it grows. houses. Ships December through T485: 10 for $2.50; February. T343D: SOLD OUT. T485B (Box of 90 AVAILABLE FALL 2017. 100): $17.50 More than Cookbooks Books PLANT MARKERS E ach stands 10” high and is easily read as THE ART OF PIE NEW!The Art of the a permanent row or Pie by Kate McDermott. Hardcover tree marker. The nice How to Order Books 352 pages. The author uses looking copper writing For complete book descriptions beautiful color photos and teaches surface measures 1” and even more books on us how to make the best savory and high by 2 1/2” wide. Use growing fruit, please visit sweet pies out of many of the fruits a pen to write and at raintreenursery.com. in the Raintree catalog. She has the same time emboss developed more than a dozen great the plant name on the label. T448 If books are ordered with plants, crusts, half of them gluten free. (Bundle of 10): $9.50 use the shipping cost chart on the Kate, who lives in Port Angeles, WA, order form or on our website. We is a long time friend and customer TREE GUARDS suggest you order books sepa- of Raintree. S013: $35.00 P rotects young trees rately from plants and supplies be- and vines! These SIMPLY QUINCE by Barbara cause shipping is charged based Ghazarian, 216 pages. A great guards protect the on your order total and plants and trunk of newly planted holiday gift book for the fruit lover. supplies are often bulky and more Read about the culture and history trees or vines from sun expensive to ship. Call in your scald and cracking. of the Quince. The recipes allow book order and we can save you readers to become Quince culinary Simply wind the tree money on shipping! guard around the masters. S105: $21.95 lower two feet of the We feature practical books about GOJI RECIPESby Donald Daugs, trunk. Get one for edible landscaping and fruit grow- 72 pages. The author includes each new tree. T 364: ing by America’s most knowledg- harvesting information, nutrient $2.50 each; able and most readable garden values and a wide variety of Goji 5+: $2.00 each; writers. Each is a long time friend Berry recipes. S036: $8.95 10+: $1.50 each; of and collaborator with Raintree 25+: $1.25 each Nursery. Pruning and Propagation Lightweight Berry Rakes Edible Landscaping TRAINING & PRUNING YOUR HOME ORCHARD b y Pacific Northwest These rakes are handmade in Maine YOUR EDIBLE LANDSCAPE Extension, 14 pages. Dr. Robert and specially designed for the most NATURALLY b y Robert Kourik, Stebbins uses clear diagrams efficient harvesting of a specific size 370 pages. (Reprinted after being to show you how to prune your of berry. Each is extremely strong, out of print) Robert has brought backyard fruit trees. S335: $3 made of sturdy lightweight alumi- together the best information num with spring steel teeth. on backyard fruit and vegetable THE PRUNING BOOKby Lee Reich, growing from throughout the 234 pages. The noted edible plant HIGHBUSH horticulturist and garden writer has BLUEBERRY world. This is a step by step guide to selecting, planting, pruning, taken the mystery out of pruning. RAKE For Through clear color pictures and text, highbush grafting and caring for hundreds of the best edible landscaping the beginning gardener will learn how blueberries. 1 to choose the right tools and make 1/2 lbs., 6” wide plants. The book includes more useful information than we, in our the right cuts. It covers fruits, nuts, x 5” deep x 3” berries, conifers, broadleafs and high with 4 1/2” research, had seen in one place. We borrowed much from his book all the fun techniques like bonsai, long, 6.1 mm pleaching and many types of espalier. spaced spring in writing our catalog and there S327: $21.95 steel teeth. A great holiday gift! are ten times that number of gems T310: $54 we didn’t have room for. If you find HUCKLEBERRY RAKE Designed the charts and information in our How-To Guides for efficient harvesting of catalog useful then you will love From England huckleberries. With spring steel 6.1 Robert’s book. This is the most useful and fascinating book on These books are originally from En- mm spaced teeth. 6” wide. Has a gland. They are the best “How To” well for collecting berries. T320: fruit and vegetable growing. We suggest you read the tree planting guides we have seen. $65 section before you put your trees PLANT PROPAGATION by Alan HIKER’S MINI BERRY RAKE H and in the ground. S 490: $49.95 Toogood, 256 pages. A step-by- made tough like the other rakes but step illustrated guide. Learn from only 4.5” wide and one pound with a reversible handle and 4.5 mm More Fruit Growing Books the experts how to graft, bud, make hardwood or softwood cuttings, steel tooth spacing. Fits perfectly in UNCOMMON FRUITS FOR EVERY stool beds and other techniques. a backpack. The ideal holiday gift. GARDEN b y Lee Reich, 292 pages. Learn to start your own plants T330: $44 Lee Reich’s prized book has been from seed or understand nursery LINGONBERRY RAKE See page 15. revised and expanded. The book propagation. Included is a list of T300: $24.50 includes information, photos, thousands of plants, including those drawings and detailed information in our catalog and instructions CHILDREN’S BERRY RAKE T307: on most of the unusual fruits offered for propagating each one. S 080: $14.50 in the Raintree catalog. A great gift $34.95 LEAF & STEM SHAKING TRAYT305: for the serious fruit grower. S 346: $9.50 $16.95 91 Growing Guides ery. Visit raintreenursery.com to GROWING GREENS FOR LOVE AND learn more. These authors present MONEY by Susan Moser, DVD. A THE HOP GROWER’S HANDBOOK interesting concepts in fruit growing ee page 71. S S 048: $34.95 delightfully updated instructional and self-sufficiency. DVD and booklet explaining THE APPLE GROWERSee page 31. • Eating on the Wild Side commercial, organic salad greens S005: $39.95 gardening using an unheated • One Straw Revolutionary by HOW TO GROW ASPARAGUSS205: Larry Korn 30x72’ greenhouse. The set details $3.95 a successful, part time, one-person • Understanding Roots by Robert THE HOLISTIC ORCHARD. Michael Kourik gardening operation requiring Phillips walks you through his relatively little capital investment, organic orchard management system. S145: $39.95 DVDs low maintenance, while providing a speedy return. You can have a clean, safe, quiet workspace Drip Irrigation Book EASY STEPS TO FRUIT TREE PRUNING using minimal equipment, help DRIP IRRIGATION b y Robert b y Jacky King and Gary Moulton, DVD. provide low fat, high nutrition food, Kourik, 181 pages. New and To learn how to prune, you need to see contribute to local food security, revised. Successful growing of fruit it done —and then see it again. Gary Moulton from the Washington State and lower our collective carbon foot depends on a good drip irrigation print — and get paid well for doing system. Kouriks’ concise words University Research and Experiment and illustrations show you how to Unit at Mt. Vernon shows you how. He it. And, you can eat what you grow! succeed. His humorous style reads starts with how to use the right tools Marketing ideas offered, including like a good novel. S111: $24.95 properly. He demonstrates how to the popular, expanding national prune the tree from the day you get it farm-to-cafeteria program. The Berries from Raintree. Learn how to prune and purchaser is invited to call Susan for shape it for maximum fruit production. encouragement. S 530D: $54 HOMEGROWN BERRIES 280 pages. Learn how to bring old trees back Succeed in your berry growing into production and how to work with CONTROL OF APPLE adventures with this backyard espaliers. Gary covers both central ANTHRACNOSES522: $14.50 grower’s guide to choosing and leader and open center systems and growing the berries offered by explains the differences in pruning THE HOLISTIC ORCHARD. 5 hours. Raintree. Includes recommended different types of fruit trees. Fruit tree Michael Phillips walks you through varieties for each US region. S047: pruning will no longer be a mystery. his organic orchard management $19.95 S520D: $34.50 system. S145D: $49.95 HOW TO GROW STRAWBERRIES See page 10. S200: $3.95 HOW TO GROW RASP AND BLACKBERRIESSee page 14. S040: $3.95 Wine and Cider Making For cider making books, see page 34. For wine and grape books, see page 75. Books for Living We recommend the following books written by friends of Raintree Nurs- Have a Garden Designer Visit You A service for Western Washington We work with a great group of with all aspects of your garden and gardeners: (There are excellent experienced and affordable pro- landscape. Permaculture and garden design- fessional landscape and garden Each is self-employed and does not ers in many parts of the nation. To designers. Each of them is a well trained professional, with in-the- work for Raintree. Each is busy, so find them try googling “permacul- call one now to discuss your project ture” or “edible landscape” and dirt experience and a deep special interest in using organic methods. and their affordable rates and make your state.) They are friendly and easy to talk an appointment. Please note that A great home garden and land- with. They realize that each home- there may be a mileage charge to scape starts with a well thought out site is unique. They can help you your site. design. Visit www.raintreenursery. to clarify the values, needs and If you don’t live in the Pacific NW, com/Designers.html for more infor- wants of your household so your you can still call or email a garden mation. unique landscape supports your designer and have them help you family’s way of living. Not limited with plans and ideas via the phone 92 to fruit trees, they can help you and/or internet. Visit The Raintree Nursery Garden Center Address Garden Center Welcome Shop our beautiful indoor Garden mentals at the nursery! Bring a van, SUV or a pickup truck with a tarp to take these beautiful specimens 391 Butts Road Center/Greenhouse complex for a home. wide variety of potted plants and sup- Morton, WA 98356 plies. Many are not in the catalog. Supplies Directions from I-5 Information Center We have pots, potting soil, & other supplies too big to ship. We are located south of Chehalis off We have an Information Center Interstate 5. Take Exit 71 and head where you can sit down and look at east on Highway 508. Drive approx- useful fruit growing information. The Instant Orchard; imately 24 miles to Butts Road. Turn books and supplies in the catalog as Bearing Fruit Trees onto Butts Road, and the nursery is well as reference books, videos and We have apples, plums, pears, about 1½ miles on the right. reprints are on display. peaches, cherries, mulberries and other large fruit trees in large, ready Garden Center Hours Citrus & Subtropicals to plant, tree bags. Call for culti- We have subtropicals in our warm var availability. Bring a large van or February 1-June 4: Open pickup with tarp or cover. We also Wednesday-Sunday, 10 a.m. to 4 room at the nursery. We do not have have a selection of fruit trees in fiber p.m. Citrus. Order Citrus and they will be pots, ideal for transplanting in the shipped to you. fall. See our selections on the web June 5-November 30: Closed Friday & Sunday, open other days at www.raintreenursery.com 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Bare Root Plants Are December through January: in Cold Storage Food & Drink Open Monday-Thursday 10 a.m. In January until June, the Garden We are 10 miles from the nearest to 4 p.m. Bareroot plants not yet Center bare root trees and berry restaurant, which is located in Mor- available. plants, instead of being outside in ton. We do have free coffee and tea sawdust, are being kept fully dor- and snacks. Phone: 1-800-391-8892 mant in optimal condition in cold See back cover for our seasonal phone hours! storage as we already do for our Custom Grafting mail order customers. Sit in our Please come visit us near Mor- comfortable Information Center You must call our horticulturist ton! February through May is the and fill out your order for bareroot ahead to reserve time and learn the optimum time to plant bare root fruit plants. We will gather your plants correct type of scionwood to bring. trees and berries. We dig our trees while you browse our Garden Cen- See page 60! in December after they lose their ter greenhouse filled with interesting leaves and go dormant. We keep potted plants or wander among our The Plants Love Rainy Days bare root plants dormant in cold large bearing tree bag fruit trees. People prefer to shop on sunny storage through June 4. Amazingly, days but remember that the plants the bareroot trees listed throughout Seconds Are a Great Value are less stressed when moved and the catalog can be wrapped to fit in transplanted during overcast or a compact car. If you elect to bring We have a lot of healthy fruit trees, especially apples, available only at rainy spells. a pickup truck without a canopy, please bring a tarp, or we have the nursery, February-June, that tarps for sale. We have many plants don’t quite meet our #1 grade. “At Nursery Only” Specials that are not listed in the catalog; be They are a great value at $10 or less We offer overstock items at reduced sure to ask about them when you each. They are not guaranteed. prices and also unusual varieties not visit the nursery. It is not necessary listed in the catalog. to order ahead, just come down! Too Large to Ship Plants If you want a specific plant, please Can’t be Ordered Ahead Cold Storage call for availability! Come early in the season for the best selection. You must come to the nursery to Clearance Sale Popular items often sell out! select and purchase these extra On June 3 and 4, bare root plants large specimen plants. Call ahead are half price as we clean out cold If ordering ahead, you must pay to check availability. You can’t order storage and every plant finds a when placing your order and tell us ahead because each is different and home. At that time we also donate when you plan to pick it up. If you you need to pick the ones you like to non-profit groups. Call us for don’t contact us and reschedule best. details. or pick it up within 10 days of when you say you will, we will cancel your existing order. Blueberries & We hire fruit hobbyists who live Ornamental Plants within commuting distance. Call if We have too large to ship bearing you’re interested. blueberry bushes, as well as orna- 93 CLASSES & Read Our Blog! WORKSHOPS Full of tips, tricks, advice and more! Have you visited our blog at www.raintreenursery.com/ To register, go to www.raintreenursery.com. Classes plantcare yet? are at Raintree unless noted. Bring a lunch to the class- If not, you’re missing out! We have everything from es. Coffee and snacks are available at Raintree. what to do with your garden this month to upcoming GROWING MUSHROOMS, WASABI & CROPS OF events at the garden center. THE ANDES Saturday, April 29, 2017, 12:30-4 p.m A mushroom expert provides hands on instruction. Learn to grow shiitake and other mushrooms on logs, stumps and wood chips. Logs, spawn and dowels are for sale. USDA Zone Map Z429. Cost: $10 EDIBLE LANDSCAPING Saturday, May 13, 9 am to 2 pm A garden designer teaches the concepts you need to design and implement your own landscape, helping you decide what to plant and where and how to plant it! The class includes permacultural principles. We send you a questionnaire and instructions prior to the class so you can draw a rough“to scale” map of the part of your property you want to concentrate on. This is a great class to attend before you design and plant your landscape. It can save you countless hours of undoing mistakes in the future. Z513. Cost: $20 per family Summer/Fall at Raintree Fruit Tasting and Nursery Tour Saturdays AUGUST 19: Guided tour, taste plums and other ripe fruit in the orchard. Noon to 2 p.m. SEPTEMBER 23: Guided tour, taste apples, pears, This is the new Arbor Day Foundation map. It uses the information used to compile the USDA hardiness zones USDA Zones unusuals and other ripe fruit in the orchard. Noon to 2 map. Listed are the average mini- p.m. mum yearly low temperatures, not OCTOBER 28: Cider Making: Fruit tasting, food pre- the the coldest temperatures ever serving! 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Guided tour at 2:30 p.m. It’s recorded. A plant not fully dormant great fun! Help us make and blend cider from lots of can be damaged at much warmer different varieties. Bring some cider home! Don’t bring temperatures. Other factors, including chilling requirements and heat units, fruit. We supply apples. Taste unusual cultivars and are critical to plant performance within learn how to preserve many Raintree catalog fruits. a climate zone. These are the zones Taste Raintree dried fruit and jelly. listed for each variety throughout the catalog! Our website also has useful End of Season Cold Storage Sale Northwest Zone Maps. June 3 and 4, 2017 Enjoy huge savings as we clean out cold storage and every plant finds a home. Call us for availability and details. Most remaining bare root items will be half price or less! Customer Satisfaction Guarantee Classes at WSU Mt. Vernon We supply quality plants. Our plants are guaranteed to arrive alive and well and be true to name as OCTOBER 7: Apple and pear sampling day. For more labeled. When given proper care, they will leaf out information, go to www.wwfrf.org. and grow. We are proud of our 99% success rate. Claims for unsatisfatory plants or shortages must be made within seven days of receipt of the order to get a follow us on full refund. Call us immediately, and we will work with you to correct any problem. If any plant fails to leaf out and grow, and facebook and twitter you believe the plant was defective, notify us during the first year, and we will place a credit for the cost of the item in our system towards future purchases. for the latest news Or we will replace your plant — one time free — provid- ed you pay the shipping. and great deals! Sale items are guaranteed at the sale price. Bonus items are not guaranteed. 94 Raintree Nursery Most customers will only need one column to total their order. Purchased by: COMPANY 391 Butts Rd. Morton, WA 98356-9700 NAME Phone Orders Drop-shipped items such ADDRESS SUITE/APT.# 1-800-391-8892 (All times are Pacific Time) as citrus, avocados and CITY STATE ZIP ladders require separate January: Monday-Friday 8-4 shipments. DAYTIME PHONE February-June 4: Monday-Friday 8-5; Sat. 9-4; Sun. 10-4 ALTERNATE PHONE June 5 - December: Monday-Thursday 9-4 Place these items in E-MAIL ADDRESS Fax Orders the 2nd Choice Item # Column. (FAX ORDERS ONLY) KEY CODE CUST. # Toll Free 1-800-391-8892 24 hours a day, 7 days a week Order Online www.raintreenursery.com 24 hours a day, 7 days a week Send a Catalog to a friend Ship to: q Same as “Purchased by” ADDRESS Name COMPANY NAME Address SUITE/APT.# ADDRESS City State ZIP CITY STATE ZIP 2nd Order 1st Order Item # Qty. Description 2nd Choice Item # Price If Total Each Applicable GIFT CERTIFICATES (See gift card message line below) Bundle of 10 Permanent Labels #T485 $2.50 Total of Items Payment Method (Free Plant Owners Manual with each order.) Mix & match any 18 4” pots q Check q Money Order q American Express q Visa q MasterCard q Discover and take an extra $18 off. Subtotal Card Number Shipping & Handling CVV The CVV Verification code is found on the back of your card. We need the last 3 digits. Order Subtotal Exp. Date Code For American Express we need 4 digits on the front! WA Residents Insert your local tax rate: Signature Order Totals Total Enclosed for your order(s) Gift Card Message SHIPPING CHARGES Call us at 1-800- WEST EAST ALASKA 391-8892 if you OF THE OF THE HAWAII PUERTO have any questions. ROCKIES ROCKIES RICO NO If your order totals: Ground Zone Skip Up to 15.00 10.95 19.95 Please call 15.01 - 30.00 14.95 26.95 for 30.01 - 60.00 18.95 29.95 a 60.01 - 90.00 21.95 33.95 quote. 90.01 - 140.00 23.95 35.95 SHIPPING INFORMATION Ordering only 140.01 - 400.00 Over - 400.00 15% 10% 25% 20% berries or We ship by UPS ground. Some of our plants are healthily growing in pots small plants? If your first choice of any item is sold out, please choose an option: and ready to ship. The other plants are dormant and in cold storage. They We can save you money on will arrive in good condition and grow for you. shipping. q Send comparable substitutes q Send substitutes only to ensure pollination Call us at 1-800- q Please call or e-mail me q Send a refund NOTE: The weather is too warm for shipping to customers in the South. 391-8892. q No Substitutes 95 Raintree Nursery REQUESTED MATERIAL PRSRT STD OR OCCUPANT 729200 U.S. Postage 391 Butts Road Morton, WA 98356 PAID (800) 391 8892 - www.raintreenursery.com Permit #188 Albany, OR CUSTOMER # KEY CODE Plants Non Plant Visit Raintree.............................. 93 Classes...................................... 94 BERRIES............................................................................................. 4-23 Order Form................................. 95 Landscape Designers.................. 92 FRUIT TREES..................................................................................... 23-58 Gardeners Supplies................ 88-91 ROOTSTOCKS................................................................................... 58-60 Books-DVDs.......................... 91-92 Landscape Guide/Regional UNUSUAL FRUITS.............................................................................. 60-67 USDA Zone Map......................... 94 Info ..............................On Website HERBS.............................................................................................. 67-70 VINES............................................................................................... 71-77 ORNAMENTALS................................................................................. 77-80 NUT TREES....................................................................................... 81-85 5 Easy Ways to Order BAMBOO, CITRUS, AVOCADOS, ETC.................................................... 85-88 1. Order online at www.RaintreeNursery.com. See our web- Akebias................... 72 Goji Berry................ 23 Pears (Euro)....... 35-38 site for special discounted items. All Field Berry.......... 12 Gooseberries...... 16-17 Peony..................... 78 2. Call or fax us at 1-800-391-8892. Almonds............. 83-84 Goumi..................... 20 Apples............... 23-35 Grapes............... 72-75 Perry Pears.............. 35 PHONE HOURS (PST) Apricots............. 48-49 Persimmons....... 62-63 January: Monday-Friday 8-4 Aronia..................... 21 Hawthorn................ 63 Plums................. 50-56 February-June 4: Weekdays 8 am - 5 pm, Asparagus.......... 68-69 Herbs................. 67-70 Plum Crosses..... 49-50 Saturday 9-4, Sunday 10-4 Autumn Olive........... 21 Highbush Cranberry.21 Avocados................ 88 Honeyberries...... 20-21 Plums, Flowering...... 79 June 5-Dec.: Mon.-Thurs.: 9 am-4 pm Honeysuckle............ 71 Pomegranates......... 64 Bamboos........... 85-86 Hops....................... 71 3. Mail your order. Prunus Mume.......... 56 Banana................... 66 Horseradish............. 68 Bay......................... 80 Ho Shou Wu Vine..... 71 4. Fax your order to 1-800-391-8892. Beech..................... 84 Huckleberry............4-5 Quinces............. 40-41 Belgian Fence.......... 30 Hydrangea.............. 78 5. Visit us at our garden center in Morton, WA. See page 93 Blackberries....... 12-14 Raspberries........ 10-12 Blueberries.............4-7 Jasmine.................. 71 for directions. Our bareroot trees are dormant and in cold Bushel and Jostaberry.......... 19-20 Rhubarb.................. 68 storage ready for shipment through June 4. Berry........... 4, 10 & 12 Jujubes................... 63 Rootstocks......... 58-60 Butternut................. 81 Leave a Legacy Roses..................... 79 Kiwis.................. 76-77 Cactus.................... 67 Kinnickinick............. 69 Rosemary................ 69 Cherries............. 42-45 We will send a Raintree Gift Cherry Plum............ 55 Lavender................. 69 Saffron Crocus......... 68 Chestnuts........... 82-83 Lemongrass............ 68 Certificate gift wrapped with Salal....................... 22 our full color catalog and Chilean Guava......... 67 Lemon Guava.......... 67 a personalized gift card for $100 Chocolate Berry....... 21 Lilac................... 77-78 Salmonberry............ 12 Gift! Cider Apples............ 34 Lingonberry............. 15 Seaberries.............. 22 your gardener. Perfect for the e P e r fect holidays! Also a great way to T h Cinnamon Vine........ 71 Locust................ 80-81 Serviceberry............ 22 Citrus................. 86-87 Loquat.................... 66 commemorate the birth of a Crabapples.............. 33 Luma...................... 67 Sichuan Pepper....... 68 child or mark moving into a Cranberries............. 10 Strawberries......... 8-10 new house. Use order form Currants............. 18-20 Maples.................... 80 Strawberry Tree....... 80 on page 95. Currant Flowering.... 77 Magnolia Vine.......... 71 Mashua................... 67 Daylily..................... 79 Medlar.................... 56 Tea......................... 64 q $25 q $50 q $75 q $100 q Other Amount $ Dogwoods.. 65, 66 & 78 Mock Orange........... 77 Thimbleberry........... 12 Recipient’s Name Monkey Puzzle......... 81 Address Elderberries........ 15-16 Mt. Ash Hybrids....... 63 City State ZIP Empress Tree........... 79 Mulberries.......... 57-58 Urban Apples........... 29 q Return gift certificate and catalog to me. q Send to recipient. Espaliers................. 30 Mushrooms........ 69-70 Eucalyptus.............. 80 Send to arrive by: Walnuts.............. 81-82 Nectarines......... 46-47 Write your greeting here Figs................... 60-61 Oca......................... 67 Wasabi.................... 68 Filberts............... 84-85 Olives........................3 Willows.................... 80 OTHER GIFT OPTIONS Flax......................... 68 Wintergreen........ 22-23 Fragrant Spring Tree.57 Passifloras............... 72 • You may choose plants for a gift and have them sent at the appropriate Woolly Thyme........... 69 Paw Paws................ 65 time for planting. We can send a gift card for the holidays (or any time) Ginger..................... 69 Peaches............. 45-47 announcing the upcoming gift, with your chosen message. Ginkgo.................... 81 Pears (Asian)...... 38-40 Yacon...................... 67 • Or select books or supplies and we will ship them in time for the holidays. Call us at (800) 391 8892 and we will expedite your gift! 96 Raintree Nursery catalog copyright 2017