Thank you for this link. I’ve had difficulty securing grafted pawpaw trees.
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What if you wanted an extremely hardy, self-fruitful, and disease free (Euro) pear tree? That was propagated from a 300 year old tree.
Its origins are unknown, but local historians guess it may have grown from a seed planted by French fur traders that were traveling in the area at that time.
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Zill is legit.
When I lived in S. Florida we would stop in there and taste test all the varieties of mangos that were ripe at the time.
Super nice people.
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All these hard-to-find tropical fruits make me envious! My hard-to-find varieties are cold-hardy, late-blooming ones that have a chance of blossoms/fruit surviving the erratic springtime conditions of a cold desert climate at 5600’ elevation. I searched and searched online for Montrose apricot and found it available at One Green World… pre-ordered bare root for spring shipment. Montrose, CO is at about the same elevation and latitude as me, and east of the Rockies as I’m east of the Sierra. Cause for optimism! - for someone who grew up in an apricot-friendly climate and learned to love homegrown apricots. Montrose Apricot Tree - One Green World
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Reallygoodplants.com has scion wood for Shelli. I just placed an order through them today. A tad on the expensive side, but they have some unusual varieties
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I think SteadyStan on here offers cuttings to some folks… i have tried to root them twice and failed… but i received them at times that i dont prefer to root things.
DingDong seems to favor Jan/Feb for rooting them…so maybe i will give them another try.
I still have no idea why someone doesnt root them and sell them.
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I purchased some Vampire and Jefferson plum scions from Maplevalleyorchards.com last week when ordering some rootstock. Just ordered some neat scions from Nick Kasko as well Scions for sale
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He has some interesting plums to me… hoping someone runs with these and offers them grafted.
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Im just a stay at home mom at the moment. Ive got some ideas twirling around if I can successfully learn to graft this year and my trees do well, I might start trying to graft and sell unusual varieties locally, but maybe do some sort of mail order in the future. Thatd be a fun venture
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Don’t know about the fruit quality, but I’ve grown a small Loquat tree from seed, just from a nice organic fruit I got in the Netherlands. I think it too cold to fruit here, but it survives the winters outside just fine. So perhaps you can try one from seed if you have the time and space to experiment?
I seeded about 100 of them last year and about 1.5kg is planned for next year.
I am creating an orchads to promote that culture in th South of France, therefor I need as much varieties as possible.
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I forgot to mention EFN which has alot of seeds/plants of specific ecotypes as well as some improved versions of mostly wild plants, which are both hard to come by. https://store.experimentalfarmnetwork.org/ In addition to their store, there are quite a few interesting projects that members of the gardening community as a whole are doing.
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Yes, I noticed they had purple-flowered thimbleberry, which somebody had been talking about in a post here (not sure which one).
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Maybe me since i grow it. If anyone needs suckers its super vigorous and transplants pretty easy. Mines fruit qualities sucks but its only 2 years old so well see. Well my moms is 2 years old. I took some small suckers from her last june.
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Curious…do you think they would do well in the desert?
no idea. i dont water it at all but i live in an area with rainy springs. my soil is very sandy so that part should be fine?
Bob Purvis has an excellent list of fruit trees for which you can order scions. Google his name and his site will show up. I got plum scions from him a few years back.
I placed an order with Kevin at Slate Hill Farm the other day. Hes got a good variety of different scions for sale that I havent seen elsewhere
https://growingfruit.org/t/slate-hill-edible-forest-dormant-scion-spreadsheet-for-2026/76433
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