Confess: what have you ordered for spring 26?

I ordered scionwood from really good plants.

This is what I ordered:

Apricot: Bonny Royal and Lasgerdi Mashhad.

Aprium: Flavor Delight.

Sour cherry: Amarena di Pescara.

Nectaplum: Spice Zee.

Nectarine: Tashkent Gold.

Peach: Galaxy.

Plum: Laroda.

It already arrived and I already grafted them.

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I also bought scions from really good plants.
But I won’t be grafting them till mid march thru late April… :laughing:

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When you plant them, please start a thread for each of them, with a photo of the bareroot and the planted sapling. Afterwards, please update as you are able. This way we’ll have a record of how these cultivars perform at your location. For bonus points, put the cultivar name and your location in the title. :slightly_smiling_face:

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I did leave out all my scion purchases.

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1x pink blueberry
1x Elaeagnus umbellata SWEET’N’SOUR
1x Elaeagnus umbellata AMOROSO
1x Morus rotundiloba MOJO BERRY

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Would love to know how your Ruby rush does! I’m thinking about planting that next year.

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I’m very excited for this planting season, as it will be my first big planting! Here’s what I have on the way, all bare root trees from Cummins Nursery.

Apples
1x Crimson crisp
1x Dayton
2x Pristine
2x Triumph
2x Goldrush

Pears
1x Harrow Delight
1x Harrow sweet

I focused mainly on disease resistance in my selections.

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I didn’t order…I bought.

Bought 9 fig trees in pots late December / early January to learn about overwintering figs. In March / April I will buy 3 crab apples and a few 6- 8 foot 5-gallon fruit trees at the COOP. Have not decided as yet. Plans are for more figs, plums, persimmons, peaches. I have to see what they get first.

I hate mail order trees. You get overcharged for what you get compared to local tree purchases. And then you have the shipping! I’m not into twigs; I don’t do grafting. I’m not into trees no one ever heard of. I’m old, I need fruit now, not in 10 years. I generally stick with known, tried and true varieties. Sure, all the twig work and oddball varieties are a nice hobby if you got the time and land, but I don’t.

No seeds. I got a few herb containers on the deck and have plenty of seeds for them. I gave up being a slave to the garden after 12 years. I’m all fruit trees now and very happy with that decision.

I will be trying the 2 trees in 1 hole method in '26. Also, some of the growing trees in small spaces methods.

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I usually just let the trees go, wildcrafted style. But have had to do more pruning to fit in more trees. And it is not just that. Can’t get the fruit from a 26 foot tall tree and they just make a big mess that even a heard of deer can’t clean up.

Last year I made a partial switch from gas garden gear to Stihl battery equipment. I will do more in '26 to hopefully retire all 2-stroke equipment. Although will not make the switch to battery lawnmowers any time soon. Maybe when gas lawnmowers die, dunno.

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Scions

Apricots,

Robada
Moorpark

Apples,

White Limbertwig
Dixie Red Delight
Virginia Sweet
Royal Limbertwig
BlackLimbertwig
Brushy Mt Limbertwig

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Also, from Really Good Plants,

Nectarines:
Arctic Glo
Ruby Gem
Silks Road
Summer Silk

Plums/Pluots:
Globus
Mark Albert Satsuma
Flavor Fall
Splash

From One Green World:
Freckle Face Nectarine on Lovell

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I did most of my splurgin late November/December so I have most of my stuff already. Made a very big order from Baker’s Creek since I will be focusing more on annuals this year (at least for new plants). Highlights of that would be Warsaw Pasta squash, Kajari melon and Japanese Sticky corn. I also got:

From Really Good Plants (scions and cuttings):
Santa Fe Carob
Unique Feijoa
White Goose Feijoa
#8 Female Kei Apple
Male #3 Kei Apple
Sweet Female #4 Kei Apple
Fletcher White Loquat
Australian Green Mulberry
Kaester Black Mulberry
Delta Gold White Sapote
Robert’s Rainbow White Sapote

From Etsy:
Yacon tubers
Oca tubers
Supernova sunchoke tubers
Lsu American Groundnut tubers
Crispy Snack Mouse Bean tubers
Native blueberry and plum seeds
Mushroom Herb plant

Potatoes from Grand Tetons (will be shipped next week hopefully):
French Fingerling
Huckleberry Gold
All Blue
Yukon Gold
Raspberry

Home Depot:
Loganberries
Fall Gold yellow Raspberry

I have been resisting from buying any tropical seeds or plants until the end of March, as there will be two plant sales (Hollis Garden in Lakeland and USF spring sale) that I will be attending. The only seeds I would buy if available (and only if already in the US because they are available to import in) would be Annona stenophylla, Serendipity Berry (Dioscoreophyllum volkensii) and Prayer Fruit (Thaumatococcus danielli).
Non-plant buying, I have been buying larger pots, which are expensive. I probably need a few 15 gallons still, but I think I have enough 5 and 7s for now. Might get a few more 7 just because they are nice to have though.

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They are my favorite potato supplier. Love the Huckleberry Gold!

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My first time ordering from them. I’ve only tried grocery store and Lowes potatoes before, and haven’t had very much success. Decided to go with some more reputable tubers.

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I’ve ordered from them for years, always good quality and good to work with. The taste of the HG was a big hit in our house this year.

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just bought 5 lbs of evangeline sweet potatoes from flying tater farm. This way i can try them and i i like grow them for slips. not too bad, 16 bucks including shipping which is about the same as some of the more expensive sweet potatoes at the grocery store (3ish dollars a lb)

I also went to a lot of grocery stores and sampled their sweet potatoes. Ended up settling on white bonita ( i think?) and okinawa from 99 ranch. korean sweet potato from hmart (which tasted tremendously better than a-mart and 99 ranch’s japanese style sweet potato, no idea if theyre the same but we’ll go with the best tasting ones).

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You grow the most fascinating array of plants! For pots, I have been ordering Pro Cals from Hydropros because they’re cheap, heavy duty and their shipping is the best. I recently got ten more 10g and I think it was $14 shipping.

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Haha, this thread is awesome, I’m glad I’m not the only one pulling my hair out and wondering what I was thinking :sweat_smile:

We have the following incoming this spring, April is going to be a busy month for us.

Fruit trees
(20)Fuji (9/16 caliper)
(20)Gala (9/16 caliper)
(20)Mcintosh Apple - 12-36"
(10)Wealthy Apple - 12-36"
(10)Cortland Apple - 12-36"
(10)Saskatoon Service Berry
(10)Red Currant
(10)Black Cherry

Rootstock:
(15) Manchurian Apricot
(100)M111 Apple
(10)Antanovka Apple
(10)St Julian Plum
(10)Mazzard Cherry
(10)OHxF X333 Pear

Scion Wood
Apple: 6-12"
(lots)Mcintosh
(lots)Jonagold
(1)Honeycrisp
(1)Goldrush
(1)Wealthy
(1)Novamac
(2)Pristine
(1)Liberty

Cherry(12" scions, 3/16 to 1/4"):
(1)ranier,
(1)utah giant,
(1)black gold.
-Possible rooted cuttings for Carmine Jewel and Juliet

Plum(12" scions, 3/16 to 1/4"):
(1)superior,
(1)kahinta,
(1)toka

Peach/apricote (12" scions, 3/16 to 1/4")
(1)contender
(1)Debbies Gold
(1)wescot

Pears(12" scions, 3/16 to 1/4")
(1)Comptesse Clara Frijs
(1)Douglas
(1)Concorde

Non-fruit stuff
(25)Chinkapin Oak - 2-3ft
(25)Bur Oak - 2-3ft
(10)Blue Spruce - 18-30"
(10)Norway Spruce - 12-20"
(10)Dappled Willow - 16-24"
(10)Gold Mound Spirea - 10-16"
(10)Lynwood Gold Forsythia - 16-24"
(10)Mockorange
(10)Red Twig Dogwood
(10)Nanking Cherry
(10)Purple Leaf Sand Cherry
(10)Old Fashioned Lilac
(10)Blue Spruce Sedum
(10)Weeping Willow
(10)Corkscrew Willow
(10)Chocolate Chip Ajuga

Seeds: Yellowhorn, Butternut, English Walnut, Nanking cherry, Shubert Chokcherry, Black Cherry, Ginko Biloba, Katsura tree, Dutchess apple, Antanovka apple, St Julian plum, Manchurian Apricot, Hazel Nut, American Elderberry, and Honey Locust.

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No kidding!

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Let us know if your arctic-series apricots produce sucessfully. No one else has reported on them yet.

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Ahhh. I had resigned myself to growing grocery store potatoes yet again, but now here I am ordering potatoes from them. Thanks…

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