The Anna Apple Anna Apple is an Israeli selection with a remarkably low chill requirement. It is large and has light greenish-yellow skin with a slight red blush. The Anna Apple fruit is sweet, slightly tart, and crisp with a creamy white flesh. Anna Apples are good choice for fresh eating, apple sauce, or homemade pies. The trees produce at an early age and the fruit stores very well. Anna Apple trees need only 200- 300 chill hours to produce delicious apple that ripen in late June. Pollinator required. Ein Shemer and Dorsett Golden are perfect pollinators for the Anna Apple tree. Tree height 10’ to 20’ and width 10’ to 20’. About Dorsett Golden Apple Tree... The Dorsett Golden Apple Tree is an excellent choice to pollinate with the Anna Apple Tree. It has a medium to large fruit that is firm, smooth, has crisp flesh and has a sweet and tart flavor. The Dorsett Golden Apple Tree has yellow skin with an orange-red blush and ripens mid-June to early July. This apple requires a pollinator and the Anna Apple is a great pollinator. This apple has low chill hours of 250 and the tree size is 10 to 20 feet tall and wide. Aprium – Apricot/Plum Hybrid Aprium trees produce fruit that is extremely sweet. The fruit has a strong apricot overtone with a hint of plum. The fruit is 75% apricot and 25% plum. In appearance, an aprium resembles an apricot without the fuzzy coat. The aprium is a stone fruit. The very sweet flavor of the aprium can greatly enhance pies, salads, and preserves. Aprium trees do best if planted on well drained soil in areas out of strong winds. Apriums are self-pollinating or self-fertile but larger fruit and more fruit will be achieved by pollinating with any other apricot tree. Apriums need 500 to 600 chilling hours, which is the chilling requirement of temperatures below 45F degrees necessary to fully break dormancy of deciduous fruit trees. Avocado, Lila "Lila" avocado trees bear a medium-sized, pear-shaped fruit in the early spring season. The fruits of this cold hardy tree have a rich, pleasant taste and high oil content. The tree is hardy to 20degrees. Lila avocado is 6 – 12 oz. in size and ripens July – Sept. , thrive in U.S. Department of Agriculture hardiness zones 9 through 11, where they often serve as shade trees. Tree size is 25ft tall and 20 ft. wide. Avocado, Joey The Joey was ooriginally found in Uvalde, TX. by Joey Ricers. Joey is a medium sized Mexican avocado weighing approximately 6-10 ounces. It is known to be a heavy bearer with the fruit ripening from August to October. As a mature tree it may withstand temperatures as low as 15-18 degrees. Joey avocado is a self pollinator. The Joey avocado tree grows erect, usually to 30 ft. Avocado, Mexicola Grande The Mexicola Grande has a glossy, near black, thin easy to peel skin. The fruit is creamy, almost delicate in texture and has a flavor that is rich, nutty and smooth. Mexicola Grande avocados are petit in size and weigh an average of four ounces to eight ounces. The fruit ripens from August to October. The tree is fast growing and very cold tolerant to 18 or 20 degrees and grows to a height of 25 to 30 feet and 15 to 20 feet wide. Avocado, Pancho (Poncho) The Poncho originated as a seedling at Stuart Place, Texas and has great cold weather tolerance, 15-18 degrees. The blooming period begins in January and the fruit matures in July and early August. The fruit is oval to slightly pear shaped, 3-6 ounces in weight, light green colored and thin skinned. The seed is medium sized, and the flesh is greenish-white, with a rich nutty flavor. The Poncho is the best mid-summer variety presently available and grows to 20 to 30 feet tall. Kiowa Blackberry The Kiowa Blackberry is a very high yielding thorny cultivar developed by the University of Arkansas. Kiowa is thought to be one of the biggest blackberries in the world with a splendid sweet tart flavor. With 'Kiowa' (above), you'll be picking huge, tasty berries for six weeks. Big fruit plus a long season make this one of the most productive of the upright blackberries. The Kiowa Blackberry need to be planted in a 5 foot wide and 5 foot apart raised bed. Natchez Blackberries The Natchez Thornless Blackberry fruits are very large, elongated and glossy black in color. Natchez Blackberries are great for jams, jellies, juice mixes or just eating fresh off the bush. It is considered an erect to semi-erect variety, but would truly benefit from trellising. Some extra support will be especially appreciated in early to mid June, when their abundant yields of berries begin ripening. Blackberries perform best at a soil pH between 5.5 and 6.5. Plant spacing is spaced from 3 to 5 feet apart within a row, respectively. The spacing between rows can be 10 to 15 feet depending on plant vigor. Goji Berry The Goji Berry is a sprawling shrub with long, flexible canes and clusters of small grey- green leaves. Flowers are a brilliant purple and appear in late Spring/early Summer along the length of the canes. Flowers turn into bright red fruits that resemble small peppers. Berries grow sweeter as they mature on the plant. The Goji Berry thrives in full sun. Plants can reach 10’ tall and 5’ wide. Fertilize in early Spring just as new growth appears with either rose fertilizer or plant food for flowering shrubs. Misty Blueberry The Misty Blueberry is one of the most attractive, vigorous and high yielding Southern Highbush varieties. The bright blue-green foliage provides a perfect contrast to the pink and white spring flowers and sky blue summer fruit. Yields best when planted with other varieties such as the Sunshine Blue. Chilling needs are very low at 300 hours. This blueberry grows to about 4 to 6' tall and ripens from May to mid summer. The yields are high, fruit size is large (aprox. 65 berries per cup), fruit quality very good with a mild sweet flavor. Sunshine Blueberry The Sunshine Blueberry plant yields an abundance of large, tangy fruit with as few as 150 chill hours, so fresh blueberries are still a possibility for those in mild winter areas, yet hardy enough to take down to USDA zone 5. This blueberry variety only grows to about 3 feet tall and wide, so it is more suited to smaller planter areas in urban gardens where space can be a premium. Plant the Sunshine blueberry in full sun in soil that has been amended to be slightly acidic, rich, loose and well-draining. It is self-pollinating, but yields best when planted with another variety. Semi-evergreen. Black Italian Fig Another heirloom fig grown by the Becnel family of Belle Chasse, Louisiana for over 100 years. It has almost jet black fruit with deep red pulp. Fig trees are great additions to the garden, providing a fast growing green leafed backdrop to accent a corner or as a center piece for a flower bed. With select pruning, you can easily maintain the height of the tree and provide a visually pleasing trunk and branch structure during the dormant months Fig O'Rourke (Improved Celeste) The O’Rourke Improved Celeste was developed by Dr. O'Rourke at LSU University. It produces a small-to-medium-sized fruit, which is brown in color with strawberry pink flesh. The eye is partially closed with the aid of a honey-like substance. Fruit ripening is early July to August. Fruit is of good quality for eating fresh and for preserving. The tree size is 8’ to 10’ tall. Texas Blue Giant Fig This prolific tree will soon be loaded with very large sized figs with very sweet flavor, one that will require very little of your time. How can you ask for more? The purple clad beauties will be a tantalizing temptation all summer long. The Texas Blue giant does well in hot summer climates yet also a worthwhile container plant in colder locations, as figs take to pruning very well with not much effect on crop production. Water consistently and feed 2-3 times through the season as needed. This fig tree is hardy to USDA zone 6 and all higher zones. Texas (Everbearing) Fig The Texas Everbearing Fig (aka 'Brown Turkey', 'Ramsey', 'Everbearing') is a medium to large, bell shaped fig. The fruit has brownish-yellow skin with amber that is plump with a short stem and moderately closed eye which reduces fruit souring on the tree. Will tolerate colder areas and requires negligible hours chilling below 45 degrees. 'Texas Everbearing' ripens fruit over an extended period of the summer from June through August, making it prized as a re-liable producer almost every year. Grows as a large bush and is 12 to 15 feet and a spread of 12 of 15 feet. Dwarf Ruby Red Grapefruit The fruit of the Dwarf Ruby grapefruit is of an excellent quality and sweetness and the skin that covers the Dwarf Ruby grapefruit is very thin and bright. The pulp of the Dwarf Ruby grapefruit is a distinctive red but as the grapefruit tree ages the inside color of the grapefruit interior will fade as the tree matures. Sometimes the fruit of the Dwarf Ruby Grapefruit tree will grow to an enormous size, almost one pound each.