With deep crimson, almost purple skin, Arkansas Black is a striking apple. It is very similar to the Arkansas Black Apple except the Arkansas Black Spur offers a much more compact size and growth habit due to the buds and branches growing more closely together. This apple is crunchy in texture, with smooth waxy skin, and well balanced sweetness to acidity. It is great for baking, fresh eating and is a favorite of cider makers. Another benefit of this apple is the wide range of temperatures it can handle, from icy winters to blazing hot summers. This tree also blooms late, avoiding frost bitten blooms.

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Latin Name: Malus sp.
Site and Soil: All apples like 1/2 day to full sun and well-drained soil.
Rootstock Description:
M-7 is considered a semi-dwarf rootstock growing 12-16 ft. in height. M-7 is very hardy and adapted to most soils. Vigorous, drought tolerant, and well anchored, trees on M-7 should not require staking.
M-26 is considered a dwarf rootstock, growing 8-12 ft. in height. M-26 induces early bearing, usually in 2-3 years after planting, and grows well in most soils, except very wet and poorly drained ones. On windy sites, trees grafted on M-26 may need staking.
Pollination Requirements: All apples need another variety nearby for pollination. Neighboring trees often offer sufficient pollen for good fruit set. Consider Mason Bees to help pollinate and increase fruit production.
Hardiness: Hardy to minus 30° F or below.
Bearing Age: 2-3 years after planting.
Size at Maturity: Dwarf 8-12ft. / Semi-dwarf 12-16 ft.
Taste: Aromatic, sweet-tart
Fruit Skin: Dark purple to almost black
Fruit Flesh: White
Bloom Time: April
Ripening Time: October
Yield: 30-50 lbs.
Pests & Diseases: Arkansas Black can be affected by Apple Scab. Apple Scab is more prevalent in regions with wet springs, like we have in the Pacific Northwest. While it doesn’t seriously affect the eating quality of the fruit, it can cause black spots on the apples and foliage. Apple Scab can be controlled by sulfur and other sprays. Codling Moth can create wormy apples and aphids can damage the foliage of apple trees.
USDA Zone: 4-8

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This juicy Nectarine features a deep red and amber skin with golden orange flesh and some freckling once sun kissed. The Freckle Face Nectarine has a very high sugar content that’s balanced by its acidity. This is a newer variety that has already won a few California taste tests.

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Latin Name: Prunus persica var. nucipersica ‘Freckle Face Nectarine’
Site and Soil: Peaches and Nectarines like full to 1/2 day sun and well-drained soil.
Rootstock Description: Our Peaches and Nectarines are grafted on Lovell Peach rootstock. Lovell Peach is well adapted to different soil types.
Pollination Requirements: Self-fertile but bigger crops when planted with another cultivar.
Bearing Age: 2-3 years after planting
Size at Maturity: 15 ft. in height.
Fruit Skin: Red
Fruit Flesh: Golden
Taste: Very sweet with good acidity
Bloom Time: March – April
Ripening Time: Late June to early July
Chill Hours: 400-600
Yield: 50+ lbs.
USDA Zone: 6-9

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Chalkdiki is a famous olive from Greece that produces particularly large olives that have an excellent meaty texture and great flavor.

Latin Name: Olea europaea
Site and Soil: Olives like a warm, protected location with 1/2 day to full sun and well drained soil.
Pollination Requirements: Arbequina is self-fertile, though crops will likely be heavier with another variety nearby. Olives are wind pollinated and should be planted no more than 20 ft. apart. You can assist pollination by moving pollen from flower to flower with a small brush.
Hardiness: Arbequina olive is hardy to 10° F. or below.
Bearing Age: 1-2 years after planting
Size at Maturity: 8-10 ft. in height (20 + feet without pruning)
Bloom Time: May
Ripening Time: October
Yield: 20+ lbs.
Pests & Diseases: Our Olives have not been bothered by pests or diseases
USDA Zone: 8

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A beautifully striped fig that has a very stable variegation on its figs. Very similar to Panache, and many folks say they’re the same, but we’ve always had our stock plants labeled different and it does seem like the Bordissot Blanca Rimada ripens a bit earlier than Panache.

One of the easiest fruits to grow, and a true gourmet delight, you should not live your life without feasting on this sweet, delectable fruit. To fully enjoy fresh Figs you must grow your own. When fully ripe and at their tender, shipping them long distances is virtually impossible. Another plus for Figs – deer don’t like them (most of the time)!

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Latin Name: Ficus carica
Site and Soil: Figs do well in a variety of soils, but require at least 8 hours of sunlight during the growing season.
Pollination Requirements: Self-fruitful.
Hardiness: Hardy to between 0° & 5° F.
Bearing Age: 1-2 years after planting.
Size at Maturity: 10-20 ft in height, smaller with pruning.
Taste: Sweet berry
Fruit Skin: Green and yellow striped
Fruit Flesh: Red
Bloom Time: Flowers are not noticeable as they are inside the fig.
Ripening Time: Breba starting in July, and main crop in August through September
Yield: 10-15 lbs. or more per plant.
Pests & Diseases: Figs are not bothered by pests or diseases in our region. Cover plants with netting if birds are a problem. Fig Mosaic Virus is a benign virus that exists in all cultivated fig trees. Yellow spotting of the leaves is a cosmetic symptom that shows more in container culture, but is quickly outgrown once trees are planted in the ground. The presence of FMV in all cultivated figs has become widely accepted, as even the national germplasm repository for figs maintained by the USDA has Fig Mosaic Virus. If the presence of FMV is a concern, then purchasing fig trees may not be the best option for you.
USDA Zone: 7
Sunset Western Zone: 4-9, 12-24
Sunset Northeast Zone: 31, 32

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Obusa was introduced to the Hawaiian islands in the 1990s and is thought to be a cross between Tanaka and Kusunoki. Fruits are deep yellow and quite large, and perhaps most exciting for us here in Oregon, it is supposed to be a late flowering variety. We’re still trialing this one but it’s looking like it might be a winner here.

A strikingly beautiful, small to medium size evergreen tree, Loquats feature long, dark green, deeply toothed foliage and tasty, light orange, apricot-like fruit. Loquat is very happy in the Maritime Northwest, although its pesky habit of blooming in the winter makes it difficult to produce fruit in our region, though planting more than one plant as well as providing habitat for over wintering hummingbirds that pollinate the loquat flowers greatly increases chances of fruit. Loquat’s ornamental value makes it well worth growing and, depending on the winter weather, you should occasionally receive a crop of this unusual and delicious fruit.

Latin Name: Eriobotrya japonica
Site and Soil: Loquats like 1/2 day to full sun and well-drained soil.
Pollination Requirements: This tree is self-fertile
Hardiness: This Seedling is hardy to 0º F. or below.
Rootstock: grafted on loquat seedlings
Bearing Age: 3-5 years after planting
Size at Maturity: 12-15 ft, up to 30 ft. with great age if left unpruned
Bloom Time: December – February
Ripening Time: Early summer
Yield: 50+ lbs.
Pests & Diseases: This tree is not bothered by pests or diseases.
USDA Zone: 7
Sunset Western Zone: 6-24, H1, H2

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Malta Purple Red is a fig we’ve grown for years but rarely tasted as the main crop is too late for us most years here. It does ripen a small breba crop that is quite delicious with a nice thick skin and good texture. The main crop is one of the most prolific of any fig we grow with figs at every node and it’s a vigorous grower too.

One of the easiest fruits to grow, and a true gourmet delight, you should not live your life without feasting on this sweet, delectable fruit. To fully enjoy fresh figs, you must grow your own. When fully ripe and at their most tender, shipping them long distances is virtually impossible. Another plus for Figs – deer don’t like them (most of the time)!

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Latin Name: Ficus carica
Site and Soil: Figs do well in a variety of soils, but require at least 8 hours of sunlight during the growing season.
Pollination Requirements: Self-figful.
Hardiness: Hardy to at least 0°F, and reports of it surviving below that
Bearing Age: 1-2 years after planting.
Size at Maturity: 10-20 ft in height, smaller with pruning.
Taste: Sweet!
Fruit Skin: Purple Red…
Fruit Flesh: bright red
Bloom Time: Flowers are not noticeable as they are inside the fig.
Ripening Time: August-September
Yield: 10-15 lbs. or more per plant
Pests & Diseases: Figs are not bothered by pests or diseases in our region. Cover plants with netting if birds are a problem. Fig Mosaic Virus is a benign virus that exists in all cultivated fig trees. Yellow spotting of the leaves is a cosmetic symptom that shows more in container culture, but is quickly outgrown once trees are planted in the ground. The presence of FMV in all cultivated figs has become widely accepted, as even the national germplasm repository for figs maintained by the USDA has Fig Mosaic Virus. If the presence of FMV is a concern, then purchasing fig trees may not be the best option for you.
USDA Zone: 7a
Sunset Western Zone: 4-9, 12-24
Sunset Northeast Zone: 31, 32

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Very cool ornamental fig that we grow just for the funky foliage that looking almost more like Ficus afghanistanica than Ficus carica. As far as we’ve been able to tell, this clone does not produce figs without pollination. We’re sure if it’s even a female fig, it could be a caprifig but we haven’t cut open any dropped figs. Growers folks in California and other Blastophaga blessed regions might get edible figs off this, otherwise it is a funky addition to the landscape for its unique foliage.

One of the easiest fruits to grow, and a true gourmet delight, you should not live your life without feasting on this sweet, delectable fruit. To fully enjoy fresh Figs you must grow your own. When fully ripe and at their tender, shipping them long distances is virtually impossible. Another plus for Figs – deer don’t like them (most of the time)!

Click here to read our Fig Growing Guide.

Latin Name: Ficus carica
Site and Soil: Figs do well in a variety of soils, but require at least 8 hours of sunlight during the growing season.
Pollination Requirements: Self-fruitful.
Hardiness: Hardy to between 0° & 5° F.
Bearing Age: 1-2 years after planting.
Size at Maturity: 10-20 ft in height, smaller with pruning.
Taste: tastes like endless possibilities and cool foliage
Fruit Skin: ?
Fruit Flesh: ?
Bloom Time: Flowers are not noticeable as they are inside the fig.
Ripening Time: ?
Yield: 10-15 lbs. or more per plant.
Pests & Diseases: Figs are not bothered by pests or diseases in our region. Cover plants with netting if birds are a problem. Fig Mosaic Virus is a benign virus that exists in all cultivated fig trees. Yellow spotting of the leaves is a cosmetic symptom that shows more in container culture, but is quickly outgrown once trees are planted in the ground. The presence of FMV in all cultivated figs has become widely accepted, as even the national germplasm repository for figs maintained by the USDA has Fig Mosaic Virus. If the presence of FMV is a concern, then purchasing fig trees may not be the best option for you.
USDA Zone: 7
Sunset Western Zone: 4-9, 12-24
Sunset Northeast Zone: 31, 32

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Another excellent Chilean myrtle that is not seen as often in North America as Luma apiculata but is a close relative of that plant and in many ways very similar. Often referred to as Luma blanca, or the White Chilean Myrtle, Luma chequen is grows in drier areas than Luma apiculata making it a bit more drought tolerant. White flowers and dark purple fruits taste similar to Luma apiculata and cold hardiness seems similar as well. Protect from those subfreezing winds.

For an instant Chilean garden try planting the White Chilean Myrtle with the Chilean Hazelnut and Chilean Wineberry!

Growing Info:

Latin Name: Luma chequen
Site and Soil: 1/2 day to full sun and well-drained soil.
Rootstock Description: Self-rooted
Pollination Requirements: Self-fertile.
Hardiness: Hardy to approx. 10° F, possibly lower when established
Bearing Age: 2 years after planting.
Size at Maturity: 15-20 ft. in height
Bloom Time: April
Ripening Time: October
Yield: 5-6 lbs.
Pests & Diseases: Chilean Myrtle is not bothered by pests and diseases.
USDA Zone: 8b

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A unique species of loquat that is wonderfully ornamental and often planted in landscapes around the South and Southern California but not often seen outside of those areas. Named for its new growth that is a beautiful deep bronze color. Its fruits are not large and delicious like Eriobotrya japonica, but it is thought that some opportunity exists for hybridizing the two, gaining the cold hardiness and fruit quality of japonica with the summer flowering and autumn fruit ripening of deflexa, but only time will tell on that. The bronze loquat has a chance in protected zone 8 gardens but is typically thought of as a zone 9 plant.

Latin Name: Eriobotrya deflexa
Site and Soil: Loquats like 1/2 day to full sun and well-drained soil.
Pollination Requirements: This tree is self-fertile
Hardiness: Hardy to around 20º F. or a bit below.
Bearing Age: 3-5 years after planting
Size at Maturity: 12-15 ft, up to 30 ft. with great age if left unpruned
Bloom Time: February-April
Ripening Time: September
Yield: 50+ lbs.
Pests & Diseases: This tree is not bothered by pests or diseases.
USDA Zone: 7

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An excellent selection for expanding the mulberry season, Grover’s Best begins ripening before Illinois Everbearing and has good sized fruits with delicious flavor. A great balance of sweet and tart and a very reliable heavy producer.

Exotic, sweet, and delicious, Mulberries are very popular in Central Asia and the Middle East. Now you can grow and enjoy this juicy and nutritious fruit! Mulberry fruit resembles a Blackberry and is delicious eaten fresh. It can also be dried for tasty winter snacks. Mulberries are pest and disease resistant and form an attractive, small tree with dark green, tropical foliage. Along the ancient Silk Road in Central Asia, Mulberries are widely grown for their foliage, which is used to feed silkworms.

Latin Name: Morus sp.
Site and Soil: Grover’s Best mulberry likes 1/2 day to full sun and well-drained soil.
Pollination Requirements: Self-fertile.
Hardiness: Hardy to minus 15° F.
Bearing Age: 2 – 3 years after planting.
Size at Maturity: 15-20ft. in height (occasionally up to 25+ ft)
Bloom Time: Spring
Ripening Time: June to August depending on your climate
Yield: 15-25 lbs.
Pests & Diseases: Mulberries are not bothered by pests or diseases.
USDA Zone: 5-10

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