Fuji Apple $35
This is the top commercial apple most requested apple tree variety. A lot of local gardeners grow this cultivar with decent results. I believe it performs best in colder winter climates, but my tree does make fruit every year.
Granny Smith Apple $35
This is a wonderful apple for Orange County. If you let it ripen on the tree until Christmas, it then becomes a sweet, fragrant
yellow apple. Unfortunately I have only one tree in stock.
Gary's Strawberry Fig $16 1-gallon
About 5 years ago a volunteer (bird planted) fig tree in my back yard started producing fruit. I've eaten fruit from many volunteer figs trees and most have been mediocre (green skinned, white fleshed, bland tasting) fruit. A couple have been goat figs, which contain fuzzy male anthers making them inedible. This tree is exceptional. It appears to be an offspring of
Panache (Tiger) fig. It has a similar berry-flavor and rich red flesh but doesn't have the novel striped skin of the
Panache. The fruit is a bit larger, juicier and the fruit doesn't tend to crack open which sometimes ruins the
Panache crop. I've grown over 20 cultivars of figs and I rate this selection as my favorite. Of course, my feelings are a bit biased. The leaves are unusually large and deeply lobed. The tree can grow large, but can be maintained under 10'.
Italian Everbearing Fig $16 1-gallon
I was given this from an Italian-American family. It had been passed down for many generations. They didn't have a name for it and we've previously sold a few as
Italian Grandmother, but we now believe that it is a cultivar being sold as
Italian Everbearing. The fruit is large and fairly juicy and sweet, similar to, but a bit firmer and less bell-shaped than
Brown Turkey. The tree is semi-dwarf to 10-12' tall and wide and produces a good spring crop as well as a good summer-early fall crop. I believe it to be one of the best overall fig cultivars.
The majority of fig trees we received from fruit tree suppliers in previous years were infected with mosaic viruses. The symptoms appear in early spring as deformed leaves with mottled variegation. The health of a virus infected fig is not severely affected and you may not see a drop in production, but I've got to believe that a virus-free tree will produce more and/or better tasting fruit. Fig orchards remove virus infected trees. Our fruit tree suppliers have admitted that they have given up trying to keep their stock clean because the virus spreads too easily and reinfects their clean stock. So far the fig trees I am propagating and selling do not show symptoms of virus. Of course, they can still catch viruses from other figs nearby. A mite is the primary vector.
The
Panache fig should be available in 2 months. These are much slower growing than most other cultivars. Panache fig is famous for its berry flavor, sweetness, striped fruit and striped stems.
Other fruit bearing plants still available include: Anna apple, Gold Kist apricot, Bacon avocado (1), Carmen-Hass avocado, Gem avocado, Stewart avocado (1), Dwarf Brazilian banana, Jewel blueberry, Jubilee blueberry, Misty blueberry, Sunshine Blue blueberry, thornless blackberry cultivars, seedling cherimoya, dragon fruit, Flame seedless grape, Venus seedless grape, Cabernet Sauvignon wine grape, Chardonnay wine grape, Zinfandel wine grape, Lisbon lemon, Gold Nugget mandarin (1), Satsuma mandarin, Red Baron peach, Burgundy plum, Wonderful pomegranate, Rossana raspberry (4), Minneola tangelo (2), and more.
