CURRANTS, GOOSEBERRIES, BLACKBERRIES, RASPBERRIES
One of our specialties is fruiting plants that are adapted to Colorado conditions. All the apples we carry are resistant to fireblight and good tasting. And the cherries we sell are all proven successful in Colorado. Our grapes are the hardiest of any you will find, delicious fresh, in juice and a few are good for wine. And we have productive & good tasting currants, gooseberries, blackberries, strawberries, raspberries including:
Crandall Clove Currant and Gwen’s Buffalo Currant
Both are 5’x4’ with very fragrant yellow flowers in spring and annual bearing of sweet-tart berries full of healthy phytonutrients and reddish fall color; these are native currants selected for better fruit
Triple Crown Thornless Blackberry
Late blooming so avoids late frosts, medium to large sweet berries, semi-trailing, best pruned to 8’
Orient Nanking Cherry
Selected for flavor; it’s good; same 6’ height, xeric, red cherries
Johns, York and Adams Elderberries
Larger berries, 8’, better edible elderberry, need two to pollinate, beautiful white flowers, berries are high in nutrition, loved by the birds
Hinnomaki Red Gooseberry
Excellent flavor, tangy skin, sweet flesh, 3′, productive
Invicta Gooseberry
Very large greenish white sweet fruit, very productive, vigorous
Imperial White Currant
Clusters of white fruit with rich flavor, early ripening, from 1895
Alagan Black Currant
Sweet and strong flavored European, culinary and medicinal, need 2
Niwot primocane Black Raspberry
Bred in Longmont, fruits on new wood, excellent flavor
Also, Anne yellow raspberry, and Heritage and Polana red raspberries
Bali Cherry
Semi-sweet cherry, very hardy to -54F, good for fresh eating and baking
North Star
A natural dwarf 6-8′, good tasting fruit, dependable, good ornamental too
Also, Montmorency, Mesabi, Carmine Jewel, Juliet, Romeo
STRAWBERRIES
We will have a wonderful selection of Colorado-adapted strawberries with REAL Strawberry Flavor
Ogallala
Finally found this old-time favorite cross between wild Rocky Mt. strawberry and garden varieties. Okay with less-than-ideal soil, everbearing, productive
Fort Laramie
Everbearing, large, sweet, aromatic fruits, heat & cold tolerant
EarliGlow
June-bearing, some say THE best tasting
Alexandria Alpine and Yellow Wonder Alpine
Runnerless, small intense fruit
PLUMS
Mount Royal
Deep blue sweet, juicy flesh, mid-late Aug, self-fertile, tough
Toka
Rosy-red, freestone, spicy & sweet, ripens Aug/Sept, very productive, requires a pollinator
Also, Stanley, Italian, Red Haven, Superior, Green Gage, Alderman
PEACHES
Reliance, Contender
APPLES
Cortland
Crisp, juicy, delicious fruit, for fresh eating, baking, cider; successful
Sweet 16
Sweet and juicy, aromatic, stores well, Zone 3, successful
Dakota Gold
Large, yellow fruit is good fresh, for sauce and pies. Zone 2-3, keeps for 1 week
Also, Liberty, Haralson, Honeycrisp, Hazen, Macfree, Mandan, Zestar, Freedom, Honeygold, Red Baron, Zestar, Snow Sweet, Haralred, Rhuby, Sharon, etc
PEARS
Summercrisp, Parker Pear, Nova and Loma
GRAPES
St. Theresa
Zone 4, purple with excellent flavor, seedless, fresh eating & raisins
Swenson’s Red
Zone 4, red, seeded grape, high sugar content, delicious flavor, superior
Also, Swenson’s White, Trollhaugen, Valiant, Lacross, Concord, and Marquette