One of our specialties is fruiting plants that are adapted to Colorado conditions. All the apples we carry are resistant to fireblight, good tasting, and will ripen in our short season. And the cherries we sell are all proven successful in Colorado. Our grapes are the most cold-hardy you will find, delicious fresh, in juice, and a few are good for wine. Here is a small selection of our many great fruits for Colorado:
CURRANT – 6 Varieties, 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
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
BLACKBERRY – Triple Crown Thornless Blackberry, Prime Ark Freedom – Late blooming so avoids late frosts, medium to large sweet berries, semi-trailing, best pruned to 8’
CHERRIES – 8 Varieties!
Bali Cherry – semi-sweet cherry, very hardy to -54F, good for fresh eating and baking
North Star Cherry – a natural dwarf 6′-8′, good tasting fruit, dependable, good ornamental too
Orient Nanking Cherry –Selected for flavor; it’s good; same 6’ height, xeric, red cherries
Other cherries: Montmorency, Mesabi, Carmine Jewel, Juliet, Romeo
7 ELDERBERRIES, including:
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
Sambucus canadensis – selected for cooking & wine
Sambucus nigra- European variety, bigger, favored for medicinal value
Plus, Marge, Mikl’s, Thudercloud, Black Lace
Hinnomaki Red Gooseberry –Excellent flavor, tangy skin, sweet flesh, 3′, productive
Invicta Gooseberry – Very large greenish white sweet fruit, very productive, vigorous
Niwot primocane Black Raspberry
Bred in Longmont, fruits on new wood, excellent flavor
Also, Caroline, Heritage and Polana red raspberries
STRAWBERRIES
We will have a wonderful selection of Colorado-adapted strawberries with REAL Strawberry Flavor
Ogallala – 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
Ozark Beauty – very productive, vigorous, hardy, everbearing, large fruit, sweet flavor
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, Superior, Toka, Alderman
PEACHES
We may not be able to offer peaches this year, check back later in the season
APPLES
Cortland – crisp, juicy, delicious fruit, for fresh eating, baking, cider
Sweet 16 – sweet & 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 wk
Also, Liberty, Haralson, Honeycrisp, Hazen, Macfree, Mandan, Zestar, Freedom, Honeygold, Red Baron, Snow Sweet, Haralred, Sharon
PEARS
Summercrisp, Parker Pear, Nova, Manning-Miller, Hudar and Loma
GRAPES
Swenson’s Red – large red grape, high sugar content, delicious flavor, good for wine, seeded grape
St. Theresa – purple seedless grape, excellent flavor for fresh eating, juice, raisins, vigorous
Flambeau– pink to red seedless, very sweet, not a big vine for an arbor
Trollhaugen – blue seedless, sweet Concord-like flavor, ripens early, very hardy
Valiant – hardy to zone 3, semi-sweet, seeded grape, best for mountain growers, good for an arbor
Marquette – very hardy wine grape, zone 3, dark blue seeded with high sugar content, notes of cherry, spice
Concord Seedless – same Concord flavor, sweet, vigorous, productive, very good for juice, table, jellies, pies