If you have an area to plant, the following are things that I have or will have by next spring. If you have a lawn, you can do some interesting stuff with landscaping. If you live in the Northwest, I would suggest you look at http://www.raintreenursery.com/ It is a great web site.
Here it is.
E510 Boysenberry
A distinctly tart, juicy cross between blackberry and red raspberry, these large, red-black berries mature at up to 2” long. The harvest of delicious, aromatic fruit continues to ripen for up to two months. Try eating them fresh with cream or baking into a spectacular pie---exceptional. Trellis the trailing, vigorous canes. USDA Zones 6-10. full description
E572 Marionberry
Although thorny, Marionberry has such an incredible, rich flavor that many people prefer it to any other berry for eating out of hand and for making superb pies, jellies or juices. Plants produce consistently heavy crops of high quality fruit starting in July and continuing for several weeks. Not to be confused with the former mayor of Washington, DC. USDA Zones 7-9. Available in 4” pots. full description
FE575 Prime Jan Blackberry (Fall Ship)
Blackberries have just become a lot easier to grow! Introduced to the American gardener for the first time ever...an upright, free standing "primocane blackberry that bears ON FIRST YEAR CANES. For almost twenty years gardeners have enjoyed "primocane" raspberries like Summit and Dinkum. Allow the blackberry to grow for a season. Then each winter cut the cane just above the ground and allow it to grow back. At the beginning of September through the fall, simply harvest the fruit. If you wish, like the raspberries you can allow the canes to full
E585 Tayberry
This heavy-bearing backyard winner, a cross between blackberry and raspberry, was developed in Scotland. Vigorous, arching, thorny canes produce large, flavorful berries that are very long, narrow and reddish black when ripe. Tayberry can be grown in a sprawling clump, like a black raspberry. USDA Zones 5-9. full description
Climate Zones: 5 to 9 click for specific grow
E588 Triple Crwn Thrnlss Blkberry
This cultivar can produce 30 pounds of large, very sweet, shiny blackberries per plant, making it, with Chester, by far the most productive. Fruit has superb flavor both eaten fresh and used to make jelly, toppings or juice. Vigorous canes, up to 2” in diameter and 15’ long, thrive in areas of the country too cold for other blackberries and produce huge crops in July and early August. Grow it like a vining blackberry, at 8’ spacing, or for those with less space, cut new canes the first summer at 6' tall and snip the laterals back to 2’ long in full description
5 to 9 click for specific growing info
D703 Viking Aronia
Bred in Sweden. Very flavorful and incredibly productive, it is used for juices,jams, soft drinks and wines. A handsome, disease resistant bush to 6 feet with an equal spread. Excellent red fall foliage. full description
FH212 Gold Flame Honeysuckle (Fall Ship)
(Lonicera x heckrotti 'Gold Flame') The buds on this shrubby, twining vine begin as pink, opening to a heavily fragrant creamy yellow. Blooms for the hummingbirds and you from spring through summer. Sun or partial shade. One gallon size. full description
Climate Zones: 6 to 9
H203 Wolfberry Vine (Lycium barbarum)
This productive Northern Chinese cultivar has large, tasty bright red berries. One gallon plant. full description
D583 University of Washington Cornus Mas
This tree comes from the Center For Urban Horticulture at the University of Washington. It is a heavy producer of tasty oval-red fruit and is the most productive in a group of trees. It is a beautiful tree. full description
Climate Zones: 4 to 8
FD578 Yellow Fruited cornus mas
This beautiful edible ornamental produces beautiful yellow flowers each spring and is loaded with unique yellow fruit 1 inch long each fall. Use another Cornus Mas variety as a pollinizer for fruit. 1 gallon pot. full description
G340 Salal
(Gaultheria shallon) Salal was used widely by all of the Northwestern coastal Indians as a staple in their diet. It was eaten both dried in cakes and fresh from the bush. Fully ripe salal berries from robust healthy bushes are flavorful and juicy. If planted in the sun, the beautiful, upright, leathery leaved bush will grow only about 2 feet tall. In the shade it can reach 5-10 feet. Berries are the size of blueberries and are blue-black in color. Space plants 2 feet apart in full sun, 4 feet in shade. 4 inch pot. full description
Climate Zones: 6 to 9
G360 Wintergreen
(Gaultheria procumbens) Wintergreen berries ripen starting in late August until winter and are bright red. They can be made into tea, eaten raw, or mixed into fresh fruit salad. Both leaves and fruit taste like wintergreen lifesavers. They are a native of the eastern United States and hardy to USDA Zones 3. This plant is a creeper and will spread outward 12 inches or more. Plant 12 inches apart, in partial or full shade. Needs a loose, acidic soil with high organic matter content. It grows to about 6 inches tall and makes a great edible red and full Climate Zones: 3 to 9
D470 Smokey serviceberry
(Amelanchier alnifolia) 3 or more $8.50/each The 3/4 inch blue black fruit is sweet and considered the most highly flavored serviceberry. The very productive plant can be trained as a multi-stemmed bush or small 12 foot tree. Plant it 10 feet apart, or 4 feet apart in a hedge. full description
Climate Zones: 3 to 9
E397 Royalty Purple Raspberry
The large fruit of this highly vigorous, productive purple raspberry from New York state offers a unique, delicious, sweet flavor and aroma. When ripe, berries turn from red to purple. full descriptionClimate Zones: 4 to 8 click for specific growing
G130 Red Pearl lingonberry
Heavily productive, easy to grow! Selected from the wild in Holland for its tasty fruit, vigorous growth and brilliant green foliage. It grows to 16 inches and spreads rapidly. 4 inch pot. full description
D561 Sweet Scarlet goumi
This Ukrainian variety was selected for fruit production by Kiev Botanic Garden. One gallon size. Better production with a Goumi seedling D562. full description
D562 Goumi seedling
Plant one of these small, well-rooted seedlings to pollinate Sweet Scarlet and increase its production of fruit.
L620 Frau Dagmar Hastrup Rose
We don’t know if this holds true of the namesake but this Danish rose is famous for having extremely large hips. Loads of large round flavorful crimson hips decorate the 4-5' tall, disease resistant rose. Grow it on a small trellis or use its sprawling habit to make a great mass planting. Starting in June and through the Autumn it is covered with pretty pale pink single flowers with soft yellow stamens. Each fall it sports flowers and large tasty red hips at the same time. One Gallon Pot. full description
Climate Zones: 3 to 9 click for specific growing info
L640 Rosa Rugosa Alba
This special rose not only produces an abundance of large, very fragrant single white flowers from summer through autumn, it is loaded with large tasty red hips. The foliage is deep green and disease resistant making these bushes, month after month, a collage of white, red and green. Grow as a thick spreading 6 foot tall hedge. USDA Zones 2-9. full description
Climate Zones: 2 to 9 click for specific growing
C470S Harglow Apricot/St Julian
A late blooming, early ripening, self-fertile apricot that has proven itself in our maritime Pacific Northwest and in most of the nation. It is another introduction from the Harrow Research Station in Ontario, Canada. It shows some resistance to brown rot and other diseases. The firm sweet, flavorful fruit is medium to large and a deep orange color with a red blush. full description
Climate Zones: 5 to 9
C830G Montmorency cherry on Gisela 5
The classic pie cherry tree. The beautiful upright tree thrives in our area. It produces an abundance of bright red cherries. On Gisela 5 rootstock. Will be 8-10 feet. full description
C821G Lapins sweet cherry on Gisela 5
A self-fertile variety of sweet cherry with large black fruit of very good flavor. The cherries are crack resistant. On Gisela 5 rootstock. full description
G667 Kinnickinnick 'Vancouver Jade'
(Arctostaphylus uvaursi) The variety is named 'Vancouver Jade'. This native evergreen ground cover thrives in well-drained soils, even in sand. It needs little care. Prostrate trailing branches thickly covered with small dark green leaves yield white or pink blossoms in late spring. Bright red edible berries follow, lasting well into winter. Native Americans valued the berries as food and the leaves in smoking mixtures, though now the fruit is most often eaten by birds. It is a beautiful way to cover a lot of ground in a hurry. It is great for
G220A All Field Berry Anna
(Rubus articus x stellarticus) variety Anna. Rarely seen in the United States, these super hardy groundcover raspberries were developed in Sweden by noted horticulturist Gunny Larsson. Thick raspberry foliage grows only one foot tall each spring and dies completely back to the ground each winter, only to resprout vigorously from the roots the next spring. Therefore, the potted plants which we offer may be without top foliage if purchased in winter.The pink fragrant flowers and juicy, delicious bright aromatic berries add to its landscape attrac Climate Zones: 3 to 7
E065 Black Beauty elderberry
(Sambucus nigra) A spectacular ornamental bush for your yard, Black Beauty grows about 10' tall with deep, purple-black foliage. Lemon-scented, pink flowers cover the bush in June and July, contrasting perfectly with the foliage. Black Beauty bears clusters of edible black berries in fall when pollinated by another S. nigra variety. From the East Malling Research Station in England. P.P. 12,305. Photo from springmeadownursery.com.
4 to 9 click for specific growing info
E180 Evergreen Huckleberry
The best fruiting plant for the shade. A native of the Pacific Northwest. This evergreen bush is beautiful throughout the year. In the spring and the fall the foliage turns from green to a striking bronze color. The late summer ripening berries are a dark blue; tart and flavorful. The fruit is a little smaller than a blueberry. The shrub grows best in the shade where it can reach 6-8 feet without pruning. In the sun it only grows to 3 feet tall. It has a compact, full growth habit and spaced about 3 fee full description
Climate Zones: 7 to 10
C500 Frost Peach ™/Lovell
A flavorful, yellow fleshed peach good for canning or fresh eating. Semi-freestone. The longest tested curl resistant choice. Ripens mid-August. Self fertile.
B038 Bartlett Pear/OHxF333 rootstock
The most popular pear in the U.S. and also in Europe where its called Williams. Fruit ripens in early September. The large pears turn yellow with a pink blush as they ripen. A favorite for eating fresh and canning. full descriptionClimate Zones: 5 to 9
C275 Superior Asian Hybrid Plum/Myro 29C
Proving its name since 1933, this very hardy Asian-American hybrid from Minnesota remains a favorite. The very large fruit has dark red skin and delicious meaty yellow flesh. It blooms with and is pollinized by late blooming Japanese plums like Burbank, Emerald Beaut or a wild American plum. The tree bears a heavy crop of pointed, clingstone fruit at an early age. Plums ripen in August, and keep well on the tree. Climate Zones: 4 to 9
C250 Stanley Plum/Myro 29C
A flavorful, very large purple prune plum. Excellent for eating fresh, drying or jam. A heavy bearer, self fertile an
FD487 Grenada Pomegranate (Fall Ship)
A top commercial variety in California, Grenada's fruit matures in mid-August. Fruit is a deep red color, inside and out. "Grenada" is the Spanish name for pomegranates.
D087 Havran Quince/Quince rtstk
A traditional Turkish variety from Izmir research station. It has very large, pear shaped fruit. The white flesh is sweeter than American cultivars. Fruit ripens late September. Introduced to the U.S. by Dr. Elwood Fisher. full description
E403 Firecracker Strwbry (bn 25)
Celebrate and extend your early-summer strawberry season with a bang! Firecracker strawberries start ripening around the fourth of July when other June-bearing varieties are wrapping up. Then, for about 3 weeks, plants produce loads of medium-large, highly flavored fruit that is red through and through. USDA Zones 6-10. full description
L503 Russian Tea
(Camellia sinensis) Grown from seed gathered in Tea plantations in Sochi, Russia along the Black Sea. This is the northern most area where tea is grown commercially. Flowers are white and fragrant. Plants are hardy in the Pacific Northwest. One Gallon pot. full description








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