This low maintenance, miniature Fig will WOW you with its deeply lobed, blue-green leaves and its abundance of incredibly healthy, dark purple fruits. Its dwarf size makes it ideal for use in the landscape or in containers.
While not hardy to northern areas, this great tasting Fig will have you taking out all the stops to see it through the winter just so you can enjoy its bounteous yearly crop of medium-sized, yellow-fleshed, very sweet tasting fruit. ‘Peter’s Honey’ will mature as a small, spreading tree with deep green, deeply indented foliage. Its fruit, like that of all Figs, is really a hollow receptacle with hundreds of fleshy flower facing each other forming a fruit-like structure that is borne twice in a single season. The first crop of fruit is early in the year from old wood while a wholly different fall crop arises from the new wood produced on the tree that year. No matter how the fruit arises or when it comes, it is a taste sensation that is not to be missed especially since this selection may have one of the sweetest fruits in the Fig world! ‘Peter’s Honey’ needs special care to make it through our winters. The best way to grow it would be in a container in a bright, sunny area that can be moved to a protected, warmer winter spot, free from our naormal winter conditions
This ethnic favorite is a staple in many of the yards of Mediterranean immigrants but is found far more rarely growing in other yards. One taste of this sweet fruit will change that! You won’t want to miss out on this easy, self-pollinating, everbearing Fig as it produces loads of reddish-brown fruit that are even larger than the old stand by, Brown Turkey Fig, containing juicy, sweet pink flesh that is wonderfully delicious either fresh or dried. This small, rounded tree will be an attractive addition to the landscape along with being oh so dependable in the fruit production department. Colossal 9″ lobed leaves add a distinctly tropical flavor to the landscape on this tree that should be grown in full sun and heavily protected, just like your Mediterranean neighbors do, to make sure it makes it through the winter to fruit like crazy next year..
Nikita’s Gift Persimmon is easy to grow and typically starts producing fruit in 2 to 3 years after planting. Naturally compact it is the perfect addition to the collectors garden or the novice orchardist as it is rarly bothered by pests and diseases. It is a high producer (over 50 lbs) of sweet, flavorful, reddish-orange fruit in the fall. Plus the green foliage turns a beautiful rainbow or orange to yellow shades in the fall. Persimmons are widely planted across Asia because of they are delicious and easy to grow. Nikita’s Gift is a cross between an Asian and an American persimmon. Although it is self-fruitful, a larger harvest is seen when planted near a male persimmon.
A perfect blend between soft Asian and ripe American Persimmons, ‘Rosseyanka’ provides large, seedless fruits that once ripened have a sweet, rich flavor enjoyed well into the winter months. Attractive, glossy dark green foliage in summer, turning a brilliant orange in autumn.
A distinct selection of native Persimmon noted for its rapid, upright growth and weeping branches. Will reach 10 to 15 feet tall and 5 to 7 feet wide. Female variety, so will produce golden 1″ fruit in the fall. Not only a unique ornamental, ‘Magic Fountain’ produces a much sought after fruit. Let the fruit remain on the tree after the leaves fall, and through a few hard freezes to insure sweetness.
Strongly growing with a broadly oval shape, this native tree blooms in May with fragrant greenish-white flowers as long, deep green foliage emerges. 1-2″ diameter tasty fruit matures in fall with an orange to purplish color. Easy to grow. Fruit is colorful and highly prized. Tree can be used as a specimen. Drought resistant with few insect problems. May need (2) plants to ensure proper pollination.
Here is a plant that there is no doubt you would be the first one in your neighborhood to grow. Persimmon is not a tree normally found in the northeast nor is its fruit, wildly popular in many other countries in the world, anything more than a curiosity here. Having said that, this hardiest variety of Persimmon will make a spectacular ornamental in your yard with the reward of providing you with great quantities of great tasting, multi-use fruit perfect for eating fresh or cooking with. ‘Jiro’ is a rounded, vigorous tree with large, course textured foliage that blooms inconspicuously in spring. Its self-fruitful nature means that it will bear fruit without having a pollinating neighbor and its fruit, looking like a large tomato, will load up in massive numbers on its strong branches. ‘Jiro’ is a non-astringent type of Persimmon meaning that you can enjoy eating it fresh right off the tree without your lips puckering when they mature in October! You’ll enjoy its custard like flesh consistency and its mellow, cantalope-like flavor. You’ll also enjoy how nice it will look when its large leaves color up beautifully in fall.
Fragrant flowers and juicy, thin-skinned fruit make the Meyer Lemon the pre-eminent tropical lemon. Keep away from frost and freezing contitions during New England winters. Will produce and survive in a large container.
(Semi-Dwarf) Welcome to the world of better fruit by hybridization! Flavor Delight Aprium® is a cross between Apricots and Plums that is about 3/4 Apricot and 1/4 Plum with the tantalizing attributes of each. This dense tree fills with flowers in early May which soon give way to fruit. The fruit looks like an Apricot with similar size and with the same firm, pleasingly yellow flesh color. Fruit matures in July and one bite will reveal the tasty bonanza result of the crossing of two fruit types with a sweet, luscious flavor that gives you the taste of both Apricot and Plum as you greedily wolf it down! Flavor Delight will fruit heavily and is self-fruitful but, let me let you in on a little secret! The fruit will be larger if it is cross pollinated with an Apricot…either way, you will reap the taste benefits of the crossing of the Plum and Apricot world for a long time with Flavor Delight!