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Our Easiest to Grow Edible Plants
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$34.99RisingStar® Peach
Prunus persica 'RisingStar' Start the peach season right with RisingStar®! Good disease resistance to bacterial canker in this large, orange-red fr...
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$11.99Aronia Seedling
Aronia melanocarpa Each hardy bush will be loaded with nutritious black fruit in late summer, and show off its glorious colors each fall. The seed ...
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from $23.99Jersey blueberry
USDA Zone: 4-8 Grow Height: 6' (Medium) Sun: Full Sun Ripening Time: Mid-August until first frost Pollination: Partially Self Fertile Read our B...
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from $23.99Bluecrop Blueberry
Bluecrop is one of the mainstays of the blueberry industry, prized for it's excellent flavor and how extremely productive it is! The berries are li...
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$22.99Sutherland Gold Elderberry
Sambucas racemosa 'Sutherland Gold' Lovely lime-yellow foliage and a graceful habit set this elderberry apart. Each golden leaf is finely incised, ...
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$26.99Variegated Elderberry
Sambucus nigra 'Variegata' A large, dense, cascading shrub that grows to 12' tall. A real show stopper in any landscape, the variegation is a golde...
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$26.99Nero Aronia
Aronia melanocarpa 'Nero' Bred in the former Soviet Union, our plants at the nursery are loaded with glorious, white blossom clusters each spring, ...
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from $14.99Autumn Brilliance Serviceberry
Amelanchier x grandiflora 'Autumn Brilliance' A named cultivar of apple serviceberry, this plant is selected for the explosion of fall color that v...
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from $32.99Mount Royal European Plum
Every August, a huge crop of delicious plums ripen in abundant clusters on this hardy, European plum tree. The medium size, round, blue plums with ...
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from $32.99Methley Asian Plum
Prunus salicina x 'Methley' Methley is the most reliable and easiest-to-grow fruit tree we offer. Every year in July, before any other tree fruit i...
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XANDER’S RAINTREE ORCHARD BLOG
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Mulching Fruit Trees
I describe spreading wood chips around fruit trees in the orchard at Raintree Nursery. I'm excited that we just got a large load of wood chips dumped at the nursery. Wood chips, and other types of mulch, provide many benefits to fruit trees and the orchard ecosystem as a whole.Read now -
The Persimmon Tree: Centuries of Fall Colors and Sweet Rewards
The American and Asian persimmon trees in Raintree's orchard bear delicious late season fruit and add warm fall colors to the visual palette on a walk through the orchards. Persimmons are remarkable and useful trees, with attractive foliage, sweet fruit, and hard wood. Individuals trees can be quite long-lived and the Asian persimmon has a long cultivate history in East Asia, with many named varieties and much cultural significance. I relate me experience with the persimmons at Raintree to their desirability and interest in general.Read now -
Organic Control of Some Orchard Insect Pests
Certain insects can be damaging pests to orchard fruit. The apple maggot and spotted wing drosophila are two fruit fly species that I monitor and control at Raintree. Biologically intelligent organic controls give the home orchardist hope for having clean in spite of these flies. Monitoring for apple maggot and Suzuki fruit fly using traps is a powerful tool for me. The traps also catch and kill some adult flies. When used widely, traps can help make a real dent in their populations. I discuss the life histories of these insects and how understanding their life cycles can be applied to their control. The codling moth is also mentioned.Read now
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Planting with Raintree
Raintree Nursery helps Wranglerstar start a home orchard.