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Issai is a self-fertile variety of the so-called mini-kiwi. This means that unlike the species it does not need a male and a female plant to produce fruit. Apart from tasty fruit it is a nice plant, too, with deep green leaves and scented flowers in June.
It is a vine that is less vigorous that the ...
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full sun
4 (down to -34°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Ken’s Red is a female variety of the so-called mini-kiwi (kiwiberry). It is a vine that is less vigorous that the species. Apart from tasty fruit it is a nice plant, too, with deep green leaves and scented flowers in June.
Its fruit has smooth skin, and both skin and flesh have various shades ...
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full sun
5 (down to -29°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Jenny is another self-fertile variety of kiwi. This means that it does not need a male and a female plant to produce fruit. Apart from tasty fruit it is a nice plant, too, with deep green leaves and scented flowers in June.
It is a vine that bears hairy, brown fruit of the same taste and shape like ...
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3 - 4m
full sun
7 (down to -23°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Saskatoon is a native Canadian species of juneberry. It is cultivated for very tasty and juicy fruit which are deep purple to blue-purple berries similar to blueberries. They are formed in short clusters and best picked when fully ripe = when it turns the deepest colour. It can be used in any way yo ...
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1 - 3m
1 - 1,5m
full sun
1 (down to -46°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
RAINBOW PILLAR® is a unique variety of shedblow serviceberry with upright, columnar growth that is suitable for small gardens and hedges. In April it produces numerous star-shaped, white, scented flowers that are followed by small, spherical berries. These are ready to be picked when their red ...
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1 - 2m
full sun
4 (down to -34°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Juneberry is a large shrub cultivated mostly for its delicious and healthy fruit. It is a large deciduous shrub or a small tree.
Flowers are star-shaped, white and scented and appear in mid spring. Oval leaves are up to 8 cm long, emerge bronze and mature to green colour, turning scarlet red or dee ...
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2 - 6m
2 - 5m
full sun
4 (down to -34°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Recently, less known fruit trees and shrubs are becoming more and more popular mainly thanks to their original taste as well as positive impact on our health. Black chokeberry is one of them. It is in the same rosaceae family as the service tree and its fruit is similar, too. The lustrous fruits are ...
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full sun
3 (down to -40°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Nero is a Slovak variety of purple chokeberry with large fruit and leaves purple tinged on the reverse. The lustrous fruits are black, about twice as big as black currant berries, and are rich in vitamin C and other important microelements such as ferrum and iodine. They can be eaten fresh, in fruit ...
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1,5 - 2m
1 - 2m
full to partial sun
3 (down to -40°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Recently, less known fruit trees and shrubs are becoming more and more popular mainly thanks to their original taste as well as positive impact on our health. Chokeberry is one of them. It is in the same rosaceae family as the service tree and its fruit is similar, too. The lustrous fruits are black ...
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1,5 - 2m
1 - 2m
full sun
3 (down to -40°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Sweet chestnut is cultivated for several beautiful features. The deciduous leaves are deep green, elliptic to oblong, up to 20 cm long, distinctly serrated and glossy, turning deep golden yellow in autumn. Flowers are creamy beige catkins that appear in July. They release a rather strong fragrance ( ...
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5 - 10m
full to partial sun
5 (down to -29°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Teutonia is another extraordinary Japanese dogwood which, apart from its ornamental features, is valued mostly for its exquisite fruit. It is produced from small spheres, composed of tiny flowers that open from late May or early June. The showy parts are four surrounding bracts. They are broadly lan ...
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1,5 - 3m
1,5 - 3m
full to partial sun
5 (down to -29°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
European hazelnut is a well-known shrub of European woodlands which is popular mainly for its fruit - nuts. It is a suckering, thicket-forming shrub with numerous upright stems. As it is a dense and large shrub it is commonly used as a screening plant. It will also make a wild hedge which should be ...
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2 - 4m
2 - 4m
full to partial sun
4 (down to -34°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Hazel is a well-known shrub of European woodlands which is popular mainly for its nuts.
It is a suckering, thicket-forming shrub with numerous upright stems. As it is a dense and large shrub it is used as a screening plant. It will also make a wild hedge which should be controlled if required compa ...
II - III
2 - 4m
full to partial sun
4 (down to -34°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Contorta is a contorted version of our European hazelnut. It was found as a spontaneous mutation of a branch in a hedge in Tortworth, England, in the middle of 1800’s by a Victorian gardener Canon Henry Nicholson Ellacombe. Enthusiastically and willingly he cut off a twig brought it to his fri ...
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2 - 3m
full to partial sun
4 (down to -34°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Filbert is a hazelnut species from S.E. Europe and S.W. Asia and exhibits a vigorously growing many-stemmed shrub with deciduous leaves. Purpurea is an old variety with deep maroon to near black leaves. They are 5-12 cm long, 4-10 cm wide, and during summer the colour of maturing leaves changes to d ...
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3 - 6m
full sun
4 (down to -34°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Another hardy fig that can grow and even fruit in our climate (zone 6) is called Bornholm’s Diamond (Bornholms Diamant). Its name and characteristics were derived from a Swedish variety called Bornholm bred on on island of the same name. This one is more tolerant of damp weather which makes it ...
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full sun
6b (down to -21°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
One of the hardiest figs for our climate (zone 6) is named Brown Turkey. As the name suggests the fruit is brownish-red or blackish-purple, relatively large and sweet. They do not require pollination. Immature fruit and branches contain sap which can be an eye and lip-irritant. Palmate leaves are ve ...
1 - 2m
1 - 2m
full sun
6b (down to -21°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Peretta® is a Swiss addition to the group of hardy figs for zone 6. It produces greenish-brown, sweet fruit from mid August. They do not require pollination. Immature fruit and branches contain sap which can be an eye and lip-irritant. Palmate leaves are very ornamental – mid green and la ...
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1 - 2m
full sun
7 (down to -23°C)
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for zone 7
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5 (down to -29°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Common walnut is a native tree of the Old World. Its natural habitat lies between South-eastern Europe and Himalayas. Irrespective of its large size it is still one of the most sought-after fruit trees of our country.
Walnut has attractive, pinnate foliage that have a unique scent. Flowers are cat ...
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5 - 20m
full sun
5 (down to -29°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Honeyberry is an edible version of honeysuckle with fruit of similar taste and appearance of blueberry. The fruit is sweet or sweet-and-sour, 25-35 mm long, oval, deep blue. The fruit ripens very early, often already in May, about two weeks before the first strawberries.
Trávníček is a Czech select ...
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3 (down to -40°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Bolero columnar apple tree makes medium-sized, rounded to slightly cylindrical fruits with a smooth, green skin that turns yellow as it ripens and takes on faint red tones. The flesh is almost white and its taste is best compared to James Grieve – very juicy, crispy, and pleasantly sweet with ...
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0,4 - 0,5m
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5 (down to -29°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Fuji is a remarkable jabloně of great popularity. It was bred in Fujisaki, Japan, in 1939 as a cross between Red Delicious and Virgina Ralls Genet. Thanks to its qualities it became the top selling and favourite apple of Japan and since late 1960’s when it was introduced to the world it has ga ...
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5 (down to -29°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Golden Delicious is a favourite apple brand. It comes from the USA, 1890. The fruit is sweet, juicy and crisp, of golden yellow to greeny-yellow colour. Its size is dependent on soil fertility. The fruit can be very large.
It is usually trouble-free as far as late frosts and is disease resistant. T ...
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full sun
4 (down to -34°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Granny Smith is a famous apple variety from Australia from late 1800´s. It is renowned for sharp flavour and tough, lime green skin. Fruit eaten fresh is chrunchy and juicy. Thanks to firm texture it is ideal for cooking as it keeps its shape. Fruit matures late and stores well.
Granny Smith apples ...
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4 (down to -34°C)
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for zone 7
Melrose is an attractive and tasty late apple. It is a result of crossing Jonathan and Red Delicious. The apples are sweet and crunchy. Their colour is red. Ideal snack apple or for cooking. Tastes best about one month from picking. It can be stored until end February.
Apple trees should be pruned ...
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for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Polka columnar apple tree makes medium-sized, rounded to slightly cylindrical fruits with a pale green skin that changes to rosy red as it ripens. The flesh is almost white and its taste is best compared to Spartan – very juicy, crispy but firm, and pleasantly sweet with low acidity. It mature ...
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0,4 - 0,5m
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5 (down to -29°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
This is probably the earliest apple in our climate, of Russian origin from around 1800. Its name is different in every country, the English name is White Transparent. It produces good crops of medium-large to large fruit with greenish-yellow, soft skin and very juicy flesh that can be quite sharp fo ...
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1,5 - 3m
full sun
5 (down to -29°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Redcats is a columnar apple variety with deep red fruit of excellent flavour. It resembles Gala variety. It is medium-sized, rounded, the flesh is firm and crisp, juicy, with a good sweet/sour balance. The fruit is resistant to scab, canker, and powdery mildew. Redcats a midseason variety can be pic ...
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0,4 - 0,5m
full sun
5 (down to -29°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Summerred is an early apple tree variety from 1964 which originated in Canada as a self-pollination of McIntosh Red and Golden Delicious. Though both the parents are midseason apples, Summer Red produces its fruit as early as from late August in a good season. The apples are medium large, beautiful, ...
3 - 4m
2 - 3m
full sun
4 (down to -34°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Rode Boskoop (Boskoop Red) is a red version of an old and popular Dutch variety of Belle de Boskoop late apple. It produces incredibly large fruit that can weigh up to 250g. It is often irregular or rounded with ribs. The skin is tough, rich red on most parts, and the flesh is pale yellow-green matu ...
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2 - 3m
full sun
7 (down to -23°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
APPLETINI is a French crabapple variety which is not only ornamental, but it also makes edible fruit of a great taste. The fruit is not large but compared to the size of the fruits of other crabapple varieties these apples are giants – like a ping pong ball, which is probably why its breeders ...
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2 - 3m
full to partial sun
5 (down to -29°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Nottingham is an English medlar variety renowned for its rusty brown fruit of apple and pear flavour. The fruit is a little flattened at the end and about the same size as those on the species. It is edible only after the first frosts, or if picked early it should be bletted in room temperature in o ...
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3 - 4m
2 - 4m
full to partial sun
5 (down to -29°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Mulberry is a versatile tree used in ornamental landscaping as well as pomiculture. You can find it in standard forms with a long trunk, or as a half-standard which is suitable for easy fruit picking. It can also be seen grown as a shrub densely branched from the ground. Here we will describe edible ...
3 - 10m
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5 (down to -29°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
White mulberry and its Pendula variety is one of the top popular weeping trees. No wonder – apart from its beauty it offers tasty fruit. Moreover its small size makes it an ideal specimen tree even for small gardens. Its deciduous leaves are heart-shaped, toothed at margins, up to 15 cm long, ...
2 - 3m
1 - 2m
full sun
4 (down to -34°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Aprikose von Nancy, De Nancy, Gros Peche or simply Nancy Peach is an old and proven variety of apricots from 1709. It originated in France and is valued for production of large fruit of excellent taste and good garden performance. The fruit is almost rounded, deep orange, red flushed, the flesh is a ...
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5 (down to -29°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Bulida is a Spanish apricot tree variety from 1940. It is very hardy and a heavy cropper. The fruit is large, firm, yellow-orange without a red blush, very sweet, free-stone, and juicy with melting flesh. Maturing time is usually from early August, in good summers the fruit may ripen already in from ...
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5 (down to -29°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Harcot is a Canadian breeding of apricots made by Richard Layne from Harrow in Ontario. It is a very hardy and tasty apricot variety from 1978. The fruit is medium-sized with orange and red skin, ripening from late July. The flesh is sweet and juicy, freestone, and the stones have sweet kernels. Fru ...
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2 - 4m
full sun
5 (down to -29°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Hargrand is a Canadian breeding of apricots made by Richard Layne from Harrow in Ontario. It is a very hardy and tasty apricot variety from 1979. The fruit is large if thinned in late spring. It has orange skin with some red pigment spots and mature from the first week of August. The flesh is sweet, ...
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full sun
5 (down to -29°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Harlayne is a Canadian breeding of apricots made by Richard Layne from Harrow in Ontario. It is a very hardy late apricot variety producing fruit from about mid August in CE climate. The fruit is deep orange red flushed, almost rounded, sweet, aromatic, and freestone. Fruit is great for fresh consum ...
3 - 5m
2 - 4m
full sun
4 (down to -34°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Polonais is a late apricot tree variety from Provence in France. It produces rounded to oval fruit of golden yellow skin with orange cheeks and some red freckles. The flesh is sweet and juicy, mildly aromatic and medium firm which makes it ideal for making preserves apart from eating fresh. Maturity ...
3 - 5m
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5b (down to -27°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Imola is a town in Italy renowned for the race track The Autodromo Internazionale Enzo e Dino Ferrari. It is close to Bologna in a region called Emilia-Romagna, possibly the most important Italian region for growing fruit trees. Reale d’Imola is an apricot tree which originated there in one of ...
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5b (down to -27°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Burlat is an early variety of sweet cherries. The fruit is vivid to dark red, mid-sized or large, very sweet and juicy, with medium firm flesh. As it is very precocious it is not vermicular.
It is partly self-fertile but benefits from being pollinated by another early cherry. It likes slightly acid ...
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full sun
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Dönissens Gelbe is a super sweet and aromatic variety of yellow sweet cherries from Germany. It produces masses of medium-sized, juicy fruit in July. Its colour brings one advantage – it is usually untouched by birds who relish on red-coloured cherries.
It is self-sterile and needs a pollina ...
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for zone 7
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Hedelfingen is a very good variety of sweet cherry. It bears medium-sized fruit in early summer. Fruit is sweet and crunchy and partly resistant to cracking. It gains its colour about a week before it is truly mature. It needs protection from cherry-worms.
It is not self-fertile and needs a pollina ...
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5 (down to -29°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Moreau is a dark-skinned variety of sweet cherry which has been popular with growers for many decades. It bears sweet and aromatic fruit in early July. It is medium resistant to cracking and cherry diseases. It needs protection from cherry-worms.
It is not self-fertile and needs a pollinator – ...
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5 (down to -29°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Stella is one the best modern self-fertile varieties of sweet cherries. It comes from Canada and produces reliable crop of large, sweet, very dark red, juicy fruit from end July. Self-fertile means it does not need a pollinating partner and you can have just one tree in the garden and there will alw ...
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5 (down to -29°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Sunburst is another modern variety of self-fertile sweet cherries. It produces heavy yields of large, dark red, glossy, free-stone fruit of excellent flavour – sweet and juicy. Harvest begins in late July. The fruit is significantly resistant to cracking in rainy weather.
Self-fertile means i ...
4 - 6m
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full sun
5 (down to -29°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Van is a mid-season variety of sweet cherry. Its fruit ripens in early July. Fruits are large, heart-shaped, deep red, almost black. The flesh is aromatic, sweet, and has excellent taste. It needs protection from cherry-worms.
It is not self-fertile and needs a pollinated for heavy crop. It likes s ...
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full sun
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Büttners Rote Knorpelkirsche is a great and unique sweet cherry variety from German Halle found already in 1795. In early 2000‘ it was renamed to ALTENBURGER MELONENKIRSCHE which truly does no make its pronunciation any easier.
This cherry produces excellent fruit of unique taste and beautif ...
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5 (down to -29°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Morellenfeuer is one of the top German sour morello cherries. It bears medium-sized, burgundy-black fruit with dark, juicy flesh that is both sour and light sweet, aromatic, freestone. It is ideal eaten fresh as well as processed in jams, preserves, desserts etc. It is a late variety cropping in Aug ...
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5 (down to -29°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Jojo® is the world's first ever plum tree variety fully resistant (not just tolerant) to PPV (plum pox virus). It is a German cross between highly popular, early variety called Stanley, and German variety Ortenauer which brought genes responsible for its health. The fruit is very good. It is me ...
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5 (down to -29°C)
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for zone 7
President is an amazing moyer plum variety of excellent taste and late maturity. Unlike most moyer plums such as Stanley of Jojo which can be picked up as early as in late August, you have to be more patient for President as it ripens in roughly mid September. And as it matures over almost 4 weeks y ...
3 - 6m
2 - 3m
full sun
4 (down to -34°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Reine Claude d´Oullins is another French variety out of Reine Claude range. It is a greengage with large, spherical fruit of greeny-yellow fruit. It is delicious, sweet and juicy taste, the flesh is attached to the core. It is an early variety that ripens from mid to end of August.
It flowers in Ma ...
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5b (down to -27°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Stanley is one of the most tasteful and reliable varieties of plums. The fruit is sweet and juicy, though firm. Flesh is orange-yellow, skin is smooth, deep violet-blue. The fruit is excellent fresh as well as canned, high sugar content makes them ideal for drying.
It blooms late in the spring and ...
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2 - 4m
full sun
4 (down to -34°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Toptaste® is a modern variety of plum tree tolerant of sharka virus. It produces quite large fruit of excellent taste, possibly one of the best – hence its name TopTaste. It is an early variety ripening in September. The plums are oval to rounded, rich blue outside and yellow inside, very ...
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full to partial sun
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Mirabelle de Nancy is a cherry plum which is believed to be present and popular in France since the 15th century. Cherry plum is specific fruit, something between damson and plum. This variety produces rich yellow or golden-flushed, spherical, free-stone fruit that is juicy and sweet, not particular ...
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full sun
5 (down to -29°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Bonanza is a dwarf variety of peach with excellent fruit. It has profusion of typical peach-like, bright pink flowers that are clustered along short branches in a dense plant. The leaves are mid green, semi-glossy, narrow and elongated, and not much smaller than on a classic peach tree. Extreme dens ...
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5a (down to -29°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
If you like peaches and are looking for a heavy cropper try Fayette. This freestone variety bears large fruit that can be compared to the modern varieties. It has smooth, deep red skin with some yellow-orange shades, yellow flesh, and sweet taste. It matures from end August until mid September. Frui ...
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5b (down to -27°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Redhaven is one of the most successful commercial varieties of peach in the world. It comes from the USA, and was registered in 1973.
It flowers profusely, is self-fertile and very productive. The fruit is mid-sized, with yellow and red hairy skin and yellow flesh and ripens from mid to end summer. ...
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5a (down to -29°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Suncrest is a late peach tree variety, a cross between Alamar and Gold Dust. It produces large, rounded fruit with only slightly flattened tops. The skin is yellow-green, remarkably flushed carmine red when mature. The flesh is firm, yellow, very sweet, juicy, and aromatic. Stone-free and self-ferti ...
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5b (down to -27°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Bonfire is a spectacular new variety of dwarf ornamental peach with edible fruit. It has profusion of typical peach-like, light pink flowers that are clustered along short branches in a dense crown. The leaves are fantastic deep burgundy red and glossy, narrow and elongated, and not much smaller tha ...
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5a (down to -29°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
AMBER® is a dwarf peach tree developed by Chris “Floyd” Zaiger (1926-2020) who devoted all his adult life to breeding stone fruit. He set up Zaiger’s Genetics in Modesto, California, USA, where plants are bred using hand pollination rather than using DNA manipulation. As of 20 ...
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5b (down to -27°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Platycarpa is not a peach variety but a type (form), in botany it is recognized by var. or f. in front of the name. It has many names and is most often called flat peach, donut peach, even UFO peach, and among growers commonly paraguayo peach. From a fruit tree expert I learnt that this is a wild fo ...
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5 (down to -29°C)
for zone 5+6
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Silver Prolific is a dwarf nectarine variety with excellent fruit. It has profusion of usual peach-like, bright pink flowers that are clustered along short branches in a dense plant. The leaves are mid green, semi-glossy, narrowly lanceolate, and not much smaller than those on any other peach tree. ...
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5a (down to -29°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Clapps Favourite is an early pear tree variety that was first introduced in the USA before 1860. It bears medium-sized pears with greeny-yellow skin, red flushed. The flesh is sweet, soft and juicy, “melt in the mouth”. It is ideal snack fruit eaten just as picked from the tree.
It cro ...
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Conference is a famous pear tree from the 19th century. It was first introduced at the National British Pear Conference in 1885, hence its name. It has medium-sized fruit that is pyriform if cross-pollinated, or banana-shaped if self-pollinated.
The fruit is pale green with golden brown russet pat ...
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4 (down to -34°C)
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for zone 7
Williams is probably the most known and spread out pear in the world. Its complete name is Williams bon Chretien and comes from the UK, 18th century.
It is an early variety bearing mid-sized or large fruit with light green or yellow skin. The flesh is very juicy, aromatic, and sweet, it quickly sof ...
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4 (down to -34°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Kosui is a nashi pear of excellent taste, for me definitely the best I have had so far. It produces rounded fruit with smooth, dark sandy yellow skin covered with tiny speckles. The flesh is white, extremely juicy and sweet, and on top of that so aromatic – you find yourself wondering when som ...
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for zone 7
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3 (down to -40°C)
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for zone 7
VARIETIES
Orion is a Czech variety of white currant. It produces long racemes of medium sized berries. They are sweet and juicy, and mature from midsummer. Shrubs are upright and strong. Very resistant to fungi diseases.
Weisse aus Jüterborg is a white currant variety with medium long racemes of ...
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5 (down to -29°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
VARIETIES
Jonkheer van Tets is a red currant from the Netherlands. This famous variety has long racemes of bright red berries of excellent taste, only medium sour. Best grown as espalier because it is a rampant grower. Ripens in July.
Kozolupský raný is an early maturing Czech variety from 2003. ...
1 - 2m
1 - 2,5m
full to partial sun
5 (down to -29°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
VARIETIES
Captivator - midseason, almost thornfree variety with rich red, mid-sized, sweet fruit of a very good taste. Late July to early August. Very resistant to mildew. Upright, moderate to fast growth, average yield.
Invicta is an early variety from England producing yellow-green fruit of good ...
1 - 2m
1 - 1,5m
full to partial sun
5 (down to -29°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
VARIETIES:
Oregon Thornless is a fantastic blackberry variety from the leading US blackberry producer: Oregon. It offers high yields of tasty fruit and does not irritate us with thorns. On top of that it has evergreen, deeply cut leaves so the plant looks beautiful even before it sets fruit. The b ...
IV - V
2 - 4m
0,5 - 1m
full to partial sun
5 (down to -29°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
VARIETIES
Idaeus is the botanical species of raspberry producing slightly oval, rich pink-red fruit that is very aromatic, medium sweet, and its juice has a rich colour. It matures in early July is best eaten fresh, either off the bush or in fruit salads or smoothies. It can be canned, frozen, or m ...
VI - VIII
1 - 2m
1 - 2m
full to partial sun
3 (down to -40°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Tayberry is relatively new type of summer fruit, a cross between raspberry and blackberry. The fruit looks like long raspberry and fully mature it has deep red to burgundy colour. The taste is aromatic and sweet, though somewhat sharp as in blackberries. They are best eaten fresh but you can store t ...
V - VI
2 - 2,5m
full sun
3 (down to -40°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Mountain ash is a common tree in our country. In the 19th century a variety with edible fruit was found in Moravia, Czech Republic, it is called Edulis.
It bears deciduous, pinnate leaves composed of deep green leaflets, serrated at margins. They change to orange, red and yellow in autumn. Its flo ...
V - VI
6 - 10m
3 - 6m
full sun
4 (down to -34°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Highbush blueberry is native to North America. It is a deciduous shrub 1-2m tall and wide producing edible, sweet berries in summer. Individual varieties differ in habit, fruit size and also slightly the taste. New, modern varieties are bred to eliminate cracking and to enhance hardiness. Flowers ar ...
V - VI
1 - 2m
1 - 2m
full sun
4 (down to -34°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Pink blueberries, now commonly called Pinkberry® are a modern attraction of early 2000's. The first plant was achieved by American breeder Mark Ehlenfeldt from Agricultural Research Service (ARS), who in 1991 crossed rabbiteye blueberry whose immature fruit is pink, and usual highbush blueberry ...
IV - V
1 - 1,5m
1 - 1,3m
full sun
7 (down to -23°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
FIREBALLS is a Dutch variety of cowberry from the Netherlands, bred by Sierteeltkwekerij Maarten Bloemen, a nursery in Venhorst, the Netherlands. It produces a profusion of small, glossy, red fruit for a long period of time - from late summer often until spring unless the berries get killed by hard ...
0,3 - 0,4m
0,4 - 1m
full to partial sun
2 (down to -45°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Lakemont or Lakemont Seedless is an excellent tasting variety of seedless grape vine. It produces large bundles of small to medium-sized fruit maturing to yellow colour in late September. The taste is very sweet, almost honey-like with a hint of Muscat aroma. It is suitable for Central-European cont ...
3 - 5m
1 - 1m
full sun
5b (down to -27°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Regent is a grape vine variety which already belongs among most popular European varieties used for wine making. It is an interspecific cross between varieties Diana and Chambourcin from 1967, developed in Germany. It forms small to medium-sized, 10-15 cm long grapes with small to mid-sized berries ...
3 - 5m
full sun
5b (down to -27°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Romeo is less known but excellent and very tasty variety of dark blue grape wine. It produces large, elongated clusters of mid-sized berries from late September until mid to late October. They are very sweet and aromatic, only slightly acidic, and contain small seeds. Romeo grape wine is very resist ...
3 - 5m
1 - 1m
full sun
5b (down to -27°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
