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Home | OLD-Blog | FRUITING PLANTS – 2023 Newsletter

FRUITING PLANTS – 2023 Newsletter

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

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Our plants are for sale ONLY at our Boulder location. We DO NOT ship plants. Come visit us!

Hours by Season

MARCH HOURS
Thursday-Sunday, 9AM-5PM

APRIL-OCTOBER HOURS
Tuesday-Sunday, 9AM-5PM

Mondays, CLOSED

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303-939-9403 (Retail)
staff@nullharlequinsgardens.com

4795 North 26th St
Boulder, CO 80301

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Our Hours

Seasonally, MARCH to OCTOBER.
MARCH HOURS:
Thursday-Sunday, 9AM-5PM

APRIL-OCTOBER HOURS:
Tuesday-Sunday, 9AM-5PM

Mondays, CLOSED

The plants we grow are organically grown. All the plants we sell are free of bee-killing neonicotinoid pesticides.