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  • The Golden-yellow 'Gold Cot' Apricot

    Resembling a small, yellow peach, ‘Gold Cot’ Apricot is a large freestone fruit that will keep in the refrigerator for several weeks. It can be used for preserves, drying, desserts, and canning. Apricots contain carotenoids which are antioxidants that help prevent heart disease , reduce "bad cholesterol"...
    Posted to Featured Plants (Weblog) by barb-nhn on 11-06-2009

  • Early Flowering Okame Cherry Tree

    The Okame Cherry tree is one of the earliest of the flowering cherries. Before the leaves appear, its carmine-pink petals, with rose-red calyx and reddish flower stalks, open fully and last 2 to 3 weeks. What a wonderful and consistent year-to-year blooming habit! The fruits of this tree are small, and...
    Posted to Featured Plants (Weblog) by barb-nhn on 10-30-2009

  • The Juicy Cresthaven Peach

    The Cresthaven Peach Tree produces a very firm, juicy, highly colored red fruit that is great for freezing and canning. The clear, firm flesh is resistant to browning, and the skin is smooth but tough. Cresthaven peach is yellow fleshed and shows considerable red around the pit. This peach is a mid to...
    Posted to Featured Plants (Weblog) by barb-nhn on 10-28-2009

  • The Eureka Lemon, a Large Producer

    The Eureka Lemon produces large crops of lemons annually. Bearing fruit all year, this lemon fruit tree produces somewhat knobby, thick-skinned lemons, and each lemon has a short neck at the stem end. Watering this fruit tree systematically, like once a week is very important, but containerized citrus...
    Posted to Featured Plants (Weblog) by barb-nhn on 10-24-2009

  • The Popular Kwanzan Flowering Cherry Tree

    Of all the flowering cherry trees, Kwanzan Flowering Cherry tree is one of the most popular and is a beautiful vase-shaped ornamental tree. This hardy deciduous tree is a moderate grower with an upright and spreading form; grows to a height of 20 to 30 feet. The bundles of large double pink blossoms...
    Posted to Featured Plants (Weblog) by barb-nhn on 10-23-2009

  • The Handsome Japanese Tree Lilac

    The Japanese Tree Lilac is a small, specimen tree or large shrub that has stiff spreading branches with a somewhat oval-rounded to vase shaped crown. This handsome landscape tree grows upright, to about 30 feet, and has a wide trunk. It produces very showy, cream-white flowers in large panicles in June...
    Posted to Featured Plants (Weblog) by barb-nhn on 10-21-2009

  • For the Small Yard : Forest Pansy Redbud Tree

    The Forest Pansy Redbud Tree is a true harbinger of spring, and everyone enjoys the clusters of tiny, rose-purple, pea-like flowers that bloom profusely. The flowers are on the branches and mature trunks for 2-3 weeks in early spring (March-April), before the foliage emerges. Forest Pansy is an excellent...
    Posted to Featured Plants (Weblog) by barb-nhn on 10-15-2009

  • The Ever-Popular Bartlett Pear Tree

    The Bartlett Pear tree produces a pear that is bright yellow and is the nation's leading pear variety. This pear tree tends to bear fruit for up to 50 to 75 years on a good site. It displays white flowers in April and May and is ready for harvest from mid August until mid September. The fruit is...
    Posted to Featured Plants (Weblog) by barb-nhn on 10-11-2009

  • Profuse Flowering Eastern Whitebud

    The Eastern Whitebud tree adds a striking touch to any landscape. It is best known for its profuse white pea-like flowers. The heart-shaped leaves of this redbud tree are 3-5" across, and its fruit are brown flat pods about 2-3" long. The stout trunk of this small tree usually branches close...
    Posted to Featured Plants (Weblog) by barb-nhn on 10-10-2009

  • Cot-N-Candy Aprium - it is like eating candy!

    Aprium trees produce fruit that is extremely sweet. The fruit has a strong apricot overtone with a hint of plum. The Cot-N-Candy Aprium is an apricot-plum hybrid that resembles an apricot. It looks like an apricot, but has a distinctive flavor and texture all its own; skin has a slight reddish pink blush...
    Posted to Featured Plants (Weblog) by barb-nhn on 10-08-2009
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