| Pages: | 224 pages |
| Book Art: | Full-color photos and illustrations throughout |
| Size: | 8 x 10 inch |
| Publisher: | Chelsea Green Publishing |
| Paperback: | 9781931498401 |
| Pub. Date | May 16, 2007 |
| eBook: | 9781603581387 |
| Pub. Date | May 16, 2007 |
Einset Seedless Table Grape is prized for its dark red, early ripening, sweet and flavorful fruit. With their unique, strawberry-like flavor, these firm, seedless grapes are great for late summer snacks and salads. A Cornell University introduction, Einset is hardy to Minus 15° F (USDA zone 5)
Light up your landscape with this graceful shrub. Sutherland Gold is prized for its clouds of finely cut, golden yellow foliage. Grow this 5-6 ft. tall shrub in partial shade for the best effect. Sutherland Gold fruit must be cooked before eating.
This unique species of Hardy Kiwi bears good crops of striking, cranberry-red fruit with red flesh. Very popular in taste tests, these delicious Kiwis are prized for their sweet-tart flavor.
Salal Evergreen Shrub is an attractive, evergreen, small shrub that displays profuse, delicate, white and pink, bell-shaped flowers accented by glossy, dark green foliage. The abundant, dark purple, blueberry-size berries ripen in late summer and are juicy, sweet and tasty. Good for fresh eating and drying, they also make tasty jam and preserves. A very valuable food source for millennia in the Pacific Northwest. Salal grows in full sun or partial shade on the coast and in partial shade in warmer, interior regions.
A beautiful evergreen groundcover, this East Coast native produces profuse, small white flowers followed by sweet and flavorful, bright red berries, which taste just like Wintergreen candy. Growing to about 6″ tall, it will spread slowly to a foot or more in diameter.
Grown for many years in Oregon, this reliable and productive variety bears abundant crops of dark mahogany colored fruit. The very sweet, juicy, and firm fruit is great for fresh eating, preserves, and drying. A naturally dwarf tree, Black Spanish is well suited for container culture and can bear two crops a year.
One of the best varieties for the Northwest, Desert King is very productive and reliable, producing abundant, yellowish-green figs with sweet and richly flavorful, strawberry colored flesh. Because it ripens in mid summer, Desert King is a great variety for gardeners in coastal, high elevation, and other cool regions. Desert King also withstands fruit damaging late spring frosts better than any other variety we grow. We sometimes call this fig the Dessert King!!
Spicebush, from the laurel family, form attractive shrubs and will have either male or female pale yellow flowers that produce glossy red berries. The leaves, flowers, and berry all have a very flavorful spice which gives it it’s namesake. A tea can be made from the aromatic leaves and twigs, and the dried and powdered fruit can be used as a spice.
These plants are grown from seed and the sex is unknown at their current age. Male and Female plants are required for fruit set. Planting multiple will increase chances of cross-pollination.
