I enjoy sea buckthorn, but it’s not for everyone. It’s like an oily Tang flavour. I’ve purchased the dried fruit and powdered fruit from Omega Fruit (Canada) – she also sells plants, but I think you have to order bulk quantities. I purchase frozen berries from various sources for making juice and cocktails. You can find the juice at Russian/Eastern European groceries but they are loaded with added sugars, which is something I try to avoid. **
Personally, I worry that they would behave too invasively in my region so I’m reluctant to introduce them. In New England they may be a little more subdued, not sure.
I planted a maypop two springs ago. It survived a very cold winter here in 5B okay, but it did indeed seem pretty prone to spreading via roots. The other thing I hadn’t realized at the time is they’re not self-fertile. So you need two non-clones. Since I wasn’t sure if the commercial Maypops are all clones, and the fruit seemed kind of niche, and since I don’t like things that spread that aggressively, I decided to ditch it. On the plus side everything loves the flowers. All kinds of bees and everything were all over them all the time.
Just Fruits & Exotics (FL) is one of my favorites.
I’ve also been happy with:
Edible Landscaping (VA)
One Green World (OR)
Burnt Ridge (WA)
Trees of Antiquity (CA)
Isons (NC)
Maple Valley (WI)
HoneyberryUSA (WI)
Adams County (PA)
Bob Wells/Sorelle Farms has always been excellent. They have a good variety online, but if you’re in Texas they have even more available for pick up. Tons of varieties, good prices, and delightful owners.
I ordered blueberries from Planting Justice a couple of years ago and received wrong varieties and substandard plants. Maybe they have improved since then, but I won’t order from them again.
Welcome to Texas! Try Womack Nursery out of Deleon Tx. if you are looking for fruit trees. It is family owned and I always have good success with them. If you like persimmons, the Eureka is the best and most productive I have found.
Alpine Strawberries are super cheap and easy to grow from seed. I’ve even just scattered the seed in fall into bare ground and had a carpet of them grow in the spring. I have upwards of 200 plants, all grown from seed, lining many of my paths for a quick easy snack while working in the yard. I can recommend strawberryseedstore.com as having high quality seed of true to type Alpine Strawberry.
You have to keep to your plan on what you want to look for on the Edible Landscaping site and browse after your list is complete. I think I kept one main page open and made new tabs for each new fruit. They are a great nursery, I’ve visited in person.
I have certainly seed nursery websites where it was quite sad to use or contact them. Edible landscaping is a very hard website to navigate compared to a website like Raintree Nursery or Bay Laurel Nursery. There are some nurseries I also just cannot seem to get a hold of over the phone that are big. One Green World has not been answering the phones for at least 2 years now and I have tried to call Trees Of Antiquity plenty of times and they never seem to answer. Now with One Green World they do answer emails and I have not tried to email Trees Of Antiquity but sometimes I do prefer just calling on the phone.
