Adaptation in the Age of Warming As gardeners and nursery workers we have a keen eye on what we can expect from our local climate and what kind of weather we get in a season. While weather is constantly fluctuating our climate was historically thought to be relatively stable on...
An extremely delicious and early ripening loquat variety that is widely grown in parts of Europe. Argelino produces orange fruits with a lot of sugar but nice tang to balance them out. We haven’t found Argelino to be the most reliable producer here in the Pacific Northwest, but it is certainly a valuable cultivar, especially in milder parts of the country.
Bella Gold Peacotum is a very new exciting fruit type from Zaiger Hybrids. A cross of peach, apricot, and plum that has the best qualities of all of its parents.
A unique plumcot selection from Salem, OR, Sultry Sunset Plumcot produces abundant crops of plumcots with the color of a deep New Mexican sunset on their pinkish orange skin and deep red flesh!
Ensure cross pollination by ordering our pineapple guava bundle! Four of our Pineapple Guava plants will ensure that you have sufficient cross pollination between your plants and get great crops of this delicious and unique fruit.
Apollo has medium to large, oval fruit with smooth, thin, light-green skin and a blue-green surface bloom. Pulp well-developed, slightly gritty. Flavor very pleasant, quality excellent. Ripens mid to late-season. Tree upright and spreading, to 8 ft. tall, vigorous and productive. Self-fertile, and will pollinate our other varieties!
So far it’s been a rather mild winter for us here in the Pacific Northwest. The thermometer has rarely dipped below 32 degrees and we’ve been taking advantage of the mild temps by taking care of the many winter tasks and planting tough woody plants in our gardens and around...
Beautiful brightly colored tubers, tuberizing after equinox, harvested late fall, after frost. Important food plant to the Andean mountain peoples. Seed tubers are medium sized.