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The plants listed and expanded
upon on our website are only a partial list and many, many more items are
offered at DNA Gardens Retail Centre. Listed here are the
ones we showcase and find of particular interest. On retail,
we offer a wonderful blend of unique, cold hardy plants ideally
suited to create beautiful,
pleasing, low maintenance gardens. |
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| APRICOT TREES | |||||||||
 We
have two varieties to offer. Prunus x Sunrise and Prunus
Capilano.
We have placed them in the tissue culture lab in 2006, so please
call us to see how they are making out. At the time of the last update, they look
great. Click this link APRICOT
INFO for lots of information about these varieties.
Apricots are beautiful in bloom with pink flowers. Trees are
vigorous growing and very hardy. Fruit is not a sure thing
because they bloom early. You might say fruit is a bonus. |
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| APPLE TREES | |||||||||
| Please enter our apple orchard via this link TO APPLE ORCHARD to find apples that will thrive in our tough, tough climate. | |||||||||
| BIRCH - Dakota Pinnacle ® - Betula platyphylla | |||||||||
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Dakota Pinnacle ® BIRCH'
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| CHERRY PLANTS | |||||||||
Evans
Cherry Prunus
cerasus  Since we helped introduce Evans cherry in 1995, it has sold non-stop, we have been the hub for nursery sales and when folks witness a tree laden with fruit it becomes a must have. Overlooked for years, these cherries have been growing since 1923 in the Edmonton area. These cherries are extremely hardy and withstand -45 degrees Celsius regularly. In unofficial comparisons in Edmonton, Evans out-produces Meteor, Northstar and other contenders by 5 or 10 to 1 margins. . Mature height of 12 to 14 ft. Fruit is a bright red cherry Click here to learn how to grow Evans |
with translucent flesh. Ripe in
late July when it pulls easily from the stem, fruit can be left on
the tree well into September. In fact, the flavor mellows and
sweetens with time. Flavor is bold - a mixture of sweet tartness.
Healthy Too! Per 1/2 cup: 25% of daily Vitamin A requirement. (Six
times more than sweet cherries) and only 39 calories. Excellent for
eating fresh, good for canning and pies are great. Because it
is self pollinating, you only require one plant to set fruit. Yields
of 50 pounds per tree are easily attained!! Produces in 4th
year. This plant is hardy to zone 2A, not 2B - zone 3 preferred.
Plant in rows 18 feet apart with 8 feet between plants in the row.
Kirsch liquor is made from sour cherries. The strong cherry flavor
stands up well to processing and these cherries are often used for
pie filling, jams and jellies. |
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Rose
Cherry Prunus cerasus  Click here for Rose Cherry picture The Rose cherry is an early maturing shrub, loaded with dark-skinned, tart cherries. It will be a small tree in more protected locations. Fruits as early as 2-3 years. Large fruit - 5-7 grams. Great for bonsai. Dark brown skin with red flesh. (Evans has yellow flesh) The rose can be grown as a tree or a shrub. It produces fruit consistently at DNA Gardens in central Alberta. This cherry is also known as Lutowka and it was originally imported into Alberta by Kris Pruski from Warsaw, Poland in 1988. |
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Carmine Jewel Favorite of DNA Gardens! We think of this plant as a little princess - well behaved and beautiful. Combinations of P. cerasus and P. fruiticosa (Sour cherry and Mongolian cherry) Introduction from the Department of Horticulture Science, University of Saskatchewan. Skin and flesh is dark red. Fruit is abut 4 gm with a small round, hard pit. (desirable when using cherry pitting machines or pressing fruit for juice). High flesh to pit ratio. Superior cold hardiness! Self-fruitful in other words cross pollination is not required. Fruit is exceptional for pies, cooking, juice, wine or flavoring for ice cream or yogurt. Many like to eat the cherries fresh especially towards the end of the season when the tartness mellows! SK is juicier than sweet cherries and has similar sugar levels but additional citric acid makes them tarter. Near the end of the season, fruit can be collected quickly by shaking tree limbs and using a tarp. Season runs from mid-July till the first or second week in August. |
It has great potential for landscaping in small yards. With glossy
leaves and crisp white blooms - train to either a shrub or small
tree. Plant a flowering and fruiting hedge. Plant height is 6 to 8 ft (2 m) and has a very low tendency to
sucker. Click here for pictures SK Carmine Jewel is one of six new and exciting cherries released from the University. Carmine Jewel will always stand out for its earliness. Its value will remain because its fruit will command top dollar early in the season. As more information is coming in, it appears that Carmine Jewel will be the workhorse of a new cherry industry. It pits mechanically very well and the fruit makes incredible pie and the juice has very good flavour. This is a winner that is not going to disappear! Click this link to find Dr. Bob's Cherry growing guide. |
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University of Saskatchewan Cherries
Prunus cerasus SK Tart Cherries At long last, what we all have been waiting for - prairie cherries! Zone 2 Hardy. The University of Saskatchewan has released their incredible cherries, the result of breeding work since 1940. These cherries have been tested extensively for the last ten years in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. They are growing without irrigation after establishment, in heavy clay soil with a pH of 8. The U of S cherries are bush fruit with dwarf stature - a mature height of about 8 feet tall unlike eastern tart cherries that are 15-25 feet tall. The shrub like habit makes it suitable for over the row harvesters, the kind used for saskatoons. All of these selections are suitable for high-density plantings which would be a strong competitive advantage. Another very significant advantage of producing sour cherries on the prairies is the reduced incidence of pest problems. Growers in Ontario or Michigan require from |
eight to sixteen or more
spray applications to control a variety of diseases and insect
pests. Experience at the University of Saskatchewan suggests that
no more than one of two applications would be needed to control cherry
fruit flies and leafrollers. These cherries are good
candidates for organic production. The 5 varieties plus SK Carmine Jewel, offer 6 to 8 weeks fresh fruit consumption because of early and late varieties. Fruit holds well on the bush – doesn’t drop. It will wait, while getting sweeter and sweeter. When very ripe, just give the branches about five shakes to remove all the fruit. Harvest tree in just a few minutes. If fruit is holding on, try again in a few days. High yielding! Mature trees produce from 10 to 15 kilos of fruit per bush. Size of quarters! Dark red fruit high in sugar. As much or more sugar than Bing cherries! Plants are self-fertile and one can expect the first harvest within 3 years of planting. If you are a commercial grower, give yourself a marketing edge by being the first in your area to grow cherries! |
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Juliette
A fresh eating type. The University affectionately calls it “Sweetie”. Large fruit at 4.5 grams with brix up to 20. Few suckers. Romeo This is a dark red/black cherry similar to Carmine Jewel appearance but ripens later. Very flavorful. Good for fresh eating and processing. This productive cherry is one of the best for juice. Valentine This is the most productive of the selections. It is looking very strong with much heavier flower bud load compared to the other cherries. It fruits heavier and fruits at a younger age. Slight suckering. Fruit size about 4.5 grams |
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Convoy - Fruit is scarlet
red with yellowish flesh, 3.0 cm in diameter. Stone is
somewhat free. It is an upright, narrow, hardy and
productive shrub. Fruit ripens early September.
Quality is good for fresh eating and canning. Zone 2A.
Mature height 3.5 m. |
Dura - Fruit is dark green with a purple mottle and flesh is maroon-purple. Size is large - 3.5 cm in diameter. Stone is somewhat free. Quality is good for dessert or canning. It is a low spreading bush, which is hardy and productive. Season is from later August - October. | ||||||||
Manor - Fruit is dark red with purple flesh. 2.5 -
 3.0 cm in
diameter. Good fresh eating, excellent for canning. |
New Oka - Fruit has purple-red tough skin with dark red flesh of good quality and 2.5 - 3.0 cm in diameter. Grown as an upright bush. It is somewhat hardy but should be well sheltered. Ripens mid August to early September and fruit remains edible on the tree for 3 weeks. | ||||||||
Sapa
- Fruit is blue-black with red flesh and abo ut 2.5 cm in
diameter. Lower branches usually fruit well. Grown as
a bush in a sheltered location. Fruit begins to ripen in
late August, is uninjured by September frosts, and will remain in
good condition until October. |
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Garrington
Chokecherry Prunus virginana
Click this link to find chokecherry growing information Fruit size is large - good for processing. (8-10 mm) It fruits consistently and prolifically. The bush matures to a height of 8 ft and easily fits inside a mechanical harvester. Garrington performs well in processing tests of Dr. Janet Panford. Delightful syrup can be made! Yields of 21,000 pounds per acre have been documented at the University of Saskatchewan. |
Garrington Pollinator Chokecherries require cross-pollination. We are currently using an elite seed source of cross-pollination. Recommended ratio of one seedling pollinator for every eight Garrington planted Click this link to see DNA Garden's wild black cherry orchard pics. |
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this link to find Black currant pictures Ben Nevis Black Currant These are new currant varieties from the Scottish Crop Research Institute. They are superior to the traditional varieties that have been planted previously on the Canadian prairies. The Ben series are selected for heavy, commercial production. Ben Nevis is a sister seedling of Ben Lomond, mid-season, productive with large, firm berries. It has good frost tolerance. It has fruited well in the Edmonton region with no signs of over-wintering problems. It is somewhat resistant to rust, grows vigorously and has good production. Non-propagation agreement not required. |
Ben Alder Black Currant Another Scottish currant with high yields of medium-small berries which produces a juice with high color stability making it a top choice for juice extraction. The plant flowers late so it is escapes many spring frosts. More resistant to mildew than Ben Lomond. Bushes are vigorous and are machine harvested. Susceptible to WPBR (White Pine Blister Rust). Production does not seem to be reduced as the rust is bothersome late in the season. Non-propagation agreement required. |
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Ben Tirran
Black Currant A new variety, the result of a complex cross bred by the Scottish Crop Research Institute (SCRI) . It is well suited for commercial juice production as well as the U-Pik markets. This variety has large, attractive, shiny, deep black berries, good tolerance to winter temperatures, reasonable tolerance to spring frosts, pleasant acid-sweet flavored fruit, suitable for mechanical harvesting and late flowering, hence avoiding spring frost damage. Habit of growth is upright and vigorous. UK data of Ascorbic Acid content per 100 g Ben Tirran = 147 mg compared to Ben Lomond at 125 mg. Mean flowering dates (SCRI data) Ben Tirran May 20th compared to May 4th for Ben Lomond. Ben Tirran usually crops around 7 days later than Ben Lomond and produces a more uniform and even ripening. It has produced consistently high yields on all test sites, including UK National Trials. (5 year means) UK yields: Baldwin - 10,349 pounds per acre, Ben Lomond 14,810 - pounds per acre, Ben Tirran - 15,077.9 pounds per acre. Non-propagation agreement required. |
Ben Connan Black Currant Ben Connan is a new black currant variety bred by the Scottish Crop Research Institute (SCRI). Large, deep black berries make it an ideal variety for commercial growing, especially U-PIK, and for the home garden market. Very high yielding with compact growth habit. This is an early variety of black currant, suitable for mechanical fruit harvesting. In the UK, Ben Connan crops approximately 4 or 5 days earlier than Ben Lomond and produces a more uniform and even ripening. Average # of berries per 250 g: Ben Connan 187/ Ben Lomond 206. Ascorbic Acid Content per 100 g: Ben Connan 130 mg/ Ben Lomond 119 mg. It produces high yields on all test sites and was the highest yielding variety in UK National Trials. UK yields: Baldwin - 10,349 pounds per acre, Ben Lomond 14,810 - pounds per acre, Ben Connan - 16683.8 pounds per acres. This is a cross between Ben Sarek and Ben Lomond. It is not ideally suited for juice production but is excellent for canning, jams, preserves, conserves and consuming fresh. (Let get good and ripe! North American palettes require this fruit to be dead ripe.) Non-propagation agreement required. |
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Ben Hope Black Currant
This is a much planted commercial black currant in England. It is very upright in growth and quite tall which makes it nicer to harvest. You might say more of the fruiting plant is in the "strike zone" making the collection of fruit more likely for a mechanical harvester. Winter hardiness is good. It is doing well at DNA Gardens. |
Ben Sarek
Black Currant This is a mid-season cultivar with large firm berries. Very productive and displays a compact semi-dwarf growth habit, about 1 meter tall and is ideal for PYO farms and home gardens. It fruits ahead of Ben Lomond and is resistant to mildew and White Pine Blister Rust. Non-propagation agreement required. |
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| CURRANT, ASSORTED RED, WHITE AND PINK | |||||||||
Pink Currant - Glorie De Sablons A unique variety that produces abundant, pink berries. Beautiful, transluscent, sweet fruit, delicious fresh or for preserves. |
Currant - White
Pearl |
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 Red Currant,
Red Lake This is a heavy yielding high quality red currant. Makes the tastiest of jams and jellies. It grows very well here for us |
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| EXOTIC FRUITS | |||||||||
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Hinnomaki
Red and Yellow  New red fruited dessert gooseberry from Finland. Produces heavy crops of sweet, large fruit. Produces well at DNA Gardens. We are really happy with this one. Makes wonderful tarts! Throw away the concept of puckerish, green little fruit. These are so tasty they can be eaten fresh. |
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Valiant Grape These are the very best black grapes to grow in our climate. People are always impressed and amazed when they see them growing so well for us. Grapes love full sun and heat. Many other varieties on trial at the farm. |
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| HASKAP OR HONEYBERRY | |||||||||
| Native to eastern Siberia and Canada, this edible member of the honeysuckle family has been around for a long time. New breeding work has greatly improved the wild selections. They are growing and fruiting well at the University of Saskatchewan and DNA Gardens. Crops of large, lovely, turquoise tasty berries ripen ahead of strawberries and are very nice eaten fresh with cream and sugar. "Flavour reminds you of wild blueberries but without the seeds," says Rick Sawatzky. Exceptionally hardy, easy to grow and no pest or disease problems. Imperative that you have more than one variety for cross-pollination and good fruit set. Click here for additional info |
Berry Smart ™ Blue - More vigorous than Belle.
Best pollinator for the new University Haskaps. Makes the best jam! Berry Smart ™- Belle - Another new variety from the Russian breeding program  Svetlana - Pollinator selected at the University of Saskatchewan Cinderella - Smaller size bush with large size fruit. This is a fresh eating favorite at DNA Gardens! Impressive fruit size, flavour and lots of fruit. Mature plants are similar in height to Berry Smart |
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Dr. Bob from the University of Saskatchewan
has done it again! His new breeding program with the Haskaps are
amazing! If you wish to get into the newest nutriceutical berry,
call us today. We are taking orders for the growing of
orchards. Tundra Selected for commercial growers. Excellent flavour. Berry size is 1.49 g. Borealis Biggest fruit and the best tasting. 1.62 g fruit. This is for U-pik and homeowners because it does not stand the rigours of the cleaning line equipment.  |
9-91 - Selected for commercial growers. Excellent
flavour. Berry size is 1.29 g. 9-15 is a commercial selection that may be excellent for drying of fruit. 9-92 - Commercial selection that is slightly smaller than Tundra.
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| Hazelnuts! Wow! 2 years in a row we have had excellent crops of tasty nutritious nuts. The nuts are collected from our own nursery site in central Alberta. Lovely fall colour, no suckers, an excellent bushy, very hardy, compact ornamental / fruit plant. Plant legend should include: Full Sun or Part Shade, Xeriscape H: 7' x 5' |
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| LILY - ASIATIC LILY - MARTAGON | |||||||||
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Lovely
lilies at the end of this link!
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Enter our lily garden via this link to
find additional varieties available.  Lily link click here Ultra, ultra hardy, zone 2. These long lived beauties thrive in sun or shade. They range from 3 to 5 feet tall with up to 40 to 60 blooms per stem. These collector's items are hard to find. We have seedling whites and pinks now and have many more varieties sizing up in our lab available in the next years. |
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| This is a lovely ornamental that is not widely known or planted. This was breed by Lloyd Lee of Barrhead, Alberta. It was named after his wife, Ethel. This |
Mayday has lovely pink blooms in
the spring and is more upright in habit than typical white Maydays. Picture of Ethel |
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| PEAR TREES | |||||||||
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Enter our
Pear Patch via this link to
see just some of the hardy pears we can grow in Zone
2. Many fine pears available in 2007. Many more pears under review. |
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Purple Garden Peas |
Dutch White Bean Red Beans Heritage Sweet Peas Corn |
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Garden Tip by Doc E.: For award winning peas and beans, dig your planting area 2-feet deep, put shredded newspaper or compost in the bottom, re-fill with dirt and plant. They love deep rich soil. |
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We have gone plum crazy! Enter
our plum orchard here via this link To
the Plum Patch to view plants
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Test Tubes of
Potatoes! Try planting test tubes of each of the varieties located below. Plant in large pots on your deck or in a corner of your garden. Keep adding soil for mountains of gourmet potatoes. Very vigorous growers. Certified disease and virus free plants. Great family project – gourmet, heritage potatoes. |
 We produce potato plantlets for the seed potato industry in our
lab. Commercial growers, we welcome the opportunity to grow certified disease and virus free potatoes for you. Arden Delidais, owner of DNA Gardens shows some cultures in the tissue culture lab. |
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Butter Ball
The soft buttery taste brings delight to any meal. Russet skin with golden goodness. An Heirloom late potato, oval shaped with shallow eyes. |
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All Blue - Deep blue skin with blue flesh, excellent rich
flavour. Makes fun purple mashed potatoes, or rainbow French
fries for kids! Antioxidants are found in these dark
fleshed potatoes. |
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Red Beautiful red skin and pink insides! Pink mashed potatoes! Yummy! |
Banana
Fingerlings
 A superstar of the fingerlings! Chefs like them for their excellent flavour and versatility. Yellow fleshed, waxy skinned. banana shaped tubers with shallow eyes. Rich buttery flavour. 15 to 20 small tubers per plant. |
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Honeyqueen Raspberry Bred by Robert Erskine of Rocky Mountain House, Alberta. Beautiful golden colored sweet fruit. Something completely different, does not have the same tart taste of red raspberries. We joke that this patch is where our weeding crews disappear to. |
SK Red
Bounty Raspberry Another new variety released by the University of Saskatchewan. This is a floricane, meaning that fruit 
bares
on 2nd year wood. High yielding raspberry that is superior
to Boyne. Large berry, good quality and great taste.
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Wyoming raspberry  This is a non-suckering delightful tasting raspberry. Hardiest of the black raspberries. Good for jams and jellies. It should be supported because the branches are long and arching. Fruit ripens mid to late August. |
SK Steadfast
raspberry Another high quality raspberry from the University of Saskatchewan. Hardy and excellent fruit quality. Low suckering!. Incredible - a polite, well behaved raspberry. Great for city gardens. Click here for more info |
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SK Red Mammoth New release by the University of Saskatchewan. An exceptional high yielding floricane (fruits on two year old wood). Hardier, bigger and sweeter than Boyne! The plants are sturdy and vigorous with some suckering. Berry diameter 21.5 mm compared to Boyne at 16.3 mm. Ten berries weight 27.3g compared to Boyne at 21.3 g, Long production season. A favorite among the staff at DNA Gardens. Recommended for both gardeners and commercial growers. COPF royalty and propagation by license agreement. Certified disease and virus free. Click here for more information |
Highlights of recently released Raspberry Cultivar Trials - 2006
Summary Floricanes out produced the primocanes. The two cultivars form the University of Saskatchewan, Red Bounty and Red Mammoth had the highest yields with 7,222 kg/ha (6,442 lbs/ac) and 4,366 kg/ha (3,894 lbs/ac) Red Bounty appears to be an excellent choice for processing. It had by far the highest yield. The fruit ripened uniformly and is easily harvested mechanically. Red Mammoth had only slightly higher yield than Algonquin, but it has much larger and arguably more flavourful fruit. Boyne, which is still one of the more commonly grown cultivars, yielded substantially less...Red Bounty was indeed by far the highest yielding cultivar, which makes it particularly attractive for processing. On the other hand, Red Mammoth, would most likely be a good choice for U-Pik operations. |
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| Fancy, large fruited saskatoons are so desirable. Plant the best and get true value. Plant our tissue culture material where a Martin is a Martin, Honeywood is a Honeywood and a Theissen is a Theissen... You get the idea. | |||||||||
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Honeywood
Click here for
additional saskatoon info Good fruit size at 16 mm with full and tangy flavor. Flowers 4 - 8 days later than most other varieties and also ripens later. We like the vase shape habit of growth and the low suckering. Very productive and consistent yielding. The bush size of 8 ft keeps it in harvesting height. (25 cent royalty) |
Northline Larger fruit than Smoky but smaller than Martin and Honeywood.
Good flavor. Shorter shrub than the other 3 toons listed here.
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| Lee # 3 This variety was selected by the late Mr. Lloyd Lee. On our farm, we really like it. It ripens ahead of the other saskatoons and it extends our season. 5 to 6 feet tall, with excellent flavour. Fruit is the same size as Northline. A real winner and most definitely underplanted. | Lee # 8 Again, a variety that nobody except DNA Gardens carries. The parentage, Northline mother crossed with a Theissen father, yields a high quality saskatoon that yields well, has good fruit size and excellent flavour. This one is similar to Northline but it ripens more evenly. About 6 to 7 feet tall but this always depends on the amount of moisture. | ||||||||
| Martin This is a selection of Theissen made by D. Martin of Martin Nursery in Langham, Saskatchewan. Average berry size is larger than Theissen and it ripens more evenly. This is a great berry for U-PIK. People are drawn to this berry because of the great fruit size. Prune to keep within easy picking height. | Smoky This is the saskatoon everybody knows. Fruit is large, round and sweet. Smoky has the highest sugar/acid ratio of today's varieties. Habit is upright and spreading and suckers freely. An oldy but a goody, it just keeps on producing and producing. Berry size is 14 mm with a shrub size of 8 ft. | ||||||||
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Very ornamental silver leaves and vibrant orange fruit.
The bushes or
 small trees have orange berries which are very showy and persist through the winter. There is interest in the fruit as a source of Vitamin A, C, E and other medicinally valuable oils. Buckthorns possess the capacity to fix atmospheric nitrogen and thus enriches the soil. They demand full sun and are extremely drought tolerant. These plants are favored in reclamation projects because of their tolerance of alkaline, saline soils and high pH. Because the plant is dioecious, the male and female flowers are found on separate trees, for fruit production both male and female trees are required. Hergo - a German variety with good fruit production and ornamental value. Striking orange berries which persist through the winter. Leikora - A good fruiting German variety. Frugana - Another good fruiting German variety. Male pollinator - Clonal selection from Indian Head, Saskatchewan. Newly
released from Indianhead PFRA breeding program. SBT
can be mechanically harvested if grown as a standard and if the
right clones have been planted. Unfortunately, a lot of
inferior seedlings have been planted. These 2 new varieties
offer good fruit quality and harvest-ability. Very few
thorns and low pull tension. Fruits especially high in
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Swedish Aspen
(available for export)
Click here for pictures These trees are just beautiful. They make a dramatic statement. Line your driveway with these beauties. Besides being very hardy, they have excellent ornamental properties such as spring and fall color. These plants grow 30 ft tall and only 3 to 4 ft wide. They make the perfect shelter belt for areas where a screen is wanted. Very little suckering make them ideal in strawberry plantings. The name of the game on the prairies is to stop the wind and hold the precious snow. We can improve our growing conditions and create micro-climates or our own "Little Gardens of Eden." All of these native plants we offer make excellent fruiting shelter belts or you might consider some striking Swedish Aspen. |
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Thunderchild Flowering Crabapple Covered with stunning pink flowers in spring. Beautiful purple foliage all summer long and small red fruit into the winter. These plants will bring shades of exotica to your property. Thunderchild is a fire blight resistant variety. Nursery folks - This plant, fresh from our lab, is on it's own roots eliminating budding and grafting. |
Robert
Chokecherry Click this picture for enlargement. |
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conscious Japanese used the
equivalent of 700 metric tones of Stevia leaves in 1987.
I think theJapanese are on to something and perhaps we should sit
up and pay attention. With the rampant weight problems and
associated health issues in our modern society, now is the time to
make some serious life choices. Stevia plants The herb itself is found to have good therapeutic qualities. We are waiting for the best stevia plants to be available in the marketplace. The existing varieties have too much bitterness and modern breeding has selected better plants but they are slow coming to market. We will be all over them when they HIT the market. |
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  Native Wood Lilies are very hardy and you see them
growing in almost any location. They compete with
grass in thick hay fields or raw cut banks along road-side ditches.
Flowers are large, up to 3 inches long with bright orange/red
coloring and black spots.1
to 5 flowers per plant! Plants are 6 to 24 inches tall and form
whitish, scaly bulblets. Travelers feel like they have discovered a
rare treasure when they find wood lilies in the wild. Misguided, they
collect blooms by pulling the entire stem
which leaves the bulb without leaves to replenish the food supply
for the following winter. This puts a stress on
diminishing supplies of native plant material. We think these
lilies have tremendous landscape value, specifically xeriscape possibilities. We
have them planted in our flower beds where we enjoy them because
they bloom well ahead of hybrid lilies. This is
a truly hardy, perennial, prairie plant - a treasure to
discover in the wild. Our plants are seedlings grown in
the lab. Large quantities available for projects.
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| BOOKS | |||||||||
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Foods That Fight Cancer, Preventing
Cancer Through Diet. This book is a must have. Beautifully illustrated, and easy
to read and understand, 2 Canadian scientists are leading
authorities in cancer research. Be sure to see page 127 on
polyphenols, chapter 11 on the benefits of berries, and chapter
15, elaborating on resveratrol. Recipe Book 50-pages of mouth-watering prairie fruit recipes, complete with beautiful color photos. Produced by the Saskatchewan Fruit Grower's Assoc. |
Cherry Manual A guide to Commercial Production. Great
value, loaded with information - from history to growing to
marketing to recipes. Includes excellent photos.
Written by Dr. Bob Bors and Linda Matthews from the University of
Saskatchewan.
Saskatoon Manual Being re-written as we speak, by Dr. Bob Bors & Linda Matthews. Leave your name and number with us, and we’ll call as soon as it’s ready. |
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| Get cooking with cherries today! This hard to find tool is just what you need. Ideal for canning, freezing, dehydrating and baking. Easy to use! Quickly removes pits from fresh cherries with a push of the plunger, no mess or wasted fruit. Features automatic feed tray and catch hopper for pits. Makes a great Christmas or birthday gift! Made from strong, durable plastic. Easy to clean. | |||||||||
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Deet
Free Mosquito Spray A wonderful product made locally in central Alberta. Contains emu oils. |
Pet
Spray Don't forget your best friend! Deet free product formulated for relief of mosquitoes. |
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Neem
Oil Solve bug and disease problems organically. This is incredible stuff! We use it lots on plants, but we have used it to clear up mites in dog's ears and rashes on kid's bellies. This is made from the Neem tree that grows in many tropical places. It has been used in India for |
centuries. In India, they use Neem in toothpaste. In fact, local people will brush their teeth with sticks of the neem tree. Recently, a fellow told me his grandmother in India used to line the bottom of linen closets with the leaves of the Neem tree. We are assuming the leaves would act as insect repellents. | ||||||||
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