Waldo County Soil and Water Conservation District Annual Fruit Tree and Shrub Sale 2018 Offerings We are returning this year with many carefully selected fruit trees, berry plants and landscape shrubs and perennials that will enhance your property’s health, natural balance, beauty and productivity. Our Landscape Plants theme this year is Wet and Dry: Beautiful Natives for Rain Gardens, Wet Areas and Shorelines. The plants offered will also tolerate drier conditions. We are also returning with popular Inside this issue plants that offer year-round color and interest, and that are good substitutes for invasive plants now Inside Story Inside Story banned. Buttonbush, at right, is a lovely shoreline Inside Story bush that can stand inundation...and also has Inside Story beautiful flowers that feed butterflies and retain their form into the winter. Important Dates 05/31 06/26 Native shrubs such as the highbush or American cranberry (at left) offer flowers, fruits and fall color that is as 07/29 attractive as invasive shrubs like burning bush or Japanese barberry. Each landscape plant we offer has been selected for multi-season interest and color as well as wildlife value. Fruit Trees and Shrubs SEMI-DWARF APPLE On MM111 rootstock – semi dwarf trees – grow 15-20’ but can be pruned to a shorter height. Hardy and quicker to bear fruit than standard trees. 1. Wolf River Apple – (Left) Huge heirloom, great for pies, making a big comeback in Maine. Disease resistant and extremely hardy. 2. Holstein Apple – Seedling of Cox Orange Pippin, but larger. Creamy, yellowish, juicy flesh is aromatic and very flavorful. Nice spreading, growing habit and scab resistant. Fall ripening. 3. Tumanga Apple – Very tasty, highly flavored apple that is somewhat disease resistant. Ripens in the fall and will keep 3-4 months. 4. Black Oxford Apple – Rare heirloom, almost black, good eating, cooking and cider. This variety is making a comeback in Maine. Ripens very late. Quite disease and insect resistant. Originated in Maine in the late 1700’s. 5. Baldwin Apple – (Right) Famous heirloom variety – large, crisp, solid and juicy flesh. Great for eating, cooking, and cider. Biennial bearing but can be annual with pruning and thinning. Disease and insect resistant. 6. Burgundy Apple – Large, beautiful apple that hangs well on the tree after ripening. Distinct, very tasty flavor. 7. Honeycrisp Apple – Early Fall – Considered by many as the best of the newer apples. Perfect crisp texture, flavorful and juicy. Also a great keeper. Very hardy and scab resistant. 8. Opalescent Apple – Large dark red heirloom, once widely grown commercially in New England. Very tasty and attractive apple. 9. Gravenstein Apple - Early 1600’s heirloom. Good eating and famous for cooking, especially pies. Ripens early, and is extremely hardy. SEMI-DWARF FLOWERING CRABAPPLE TREES 10. Dolgo Crabapple – Large white flowers and profusion of red apples. Highly flavored apples are rich in pectin and make fantastic red jelly. Very disease resistant. 11. Brandywine Crabapple – We offer this once again as nothing is prettier than a Brandywine Crabapple tree in full bloom. Looks like a tree of dark, pink roses when in bloom. Also very fragrant! Tart, little yellow apples can be used for cider. Blossoms at a young age. STANDARD SIZE PEARS: NOT SELF-FERTILE 12. Buerre Clairgeau Pear – Large, smooth fruit that has grainy flesh at first but becomes smooth and tender when ripe. Very healthy productive trees. 13. Rogue Red Pear – Beautiful very sweet, large fruit. Good keeper. MISC. PLANTS 14. American Chestnut: Not blight immune but resistant. Need 2 for pollination. 17. Purple Passion Asparagus – A beautiful, productive plant much sweeter than the green asparagus. Great eaten raw right in the garden or in salads and stays tender even as it gets larger. BERRIES, GRAPES 15. York Elderberries - (Left)Fast growing shrubs with nutritional, tart berries generally used for jam, jelly, wine and pies. Produces more berries when growing two or more varieties. All Zones 16. Adams Elderberries - Feed wildlife, birds and yourself with nutrient rich fruit. All Zones 18. Tri-Variety Grape Bundle – In each bundle you will receive one each of the following varieties: Reliance – produces large clusters of round, red, medium-sized berries with tender skin non-adhering to flesh. Color is pink to red when fully mature with delicate Labrusca flavor and aroma, without noticeable seed traces. Vanessa – (right) produces medium-sized clusters of bright deep red berries with moderate bloom, firm flesh and crisp texture. Flavor is mildly aromatic but not of Labrusca type and is considered among the best of red seedless grapes. Canadice – produces compact cluster of medium size, pink to light red seedless berries. A slipskin variety with tender and edible skin with a distinct but not overpoweringly Labrusca flovor. Highbush Blueberry Plants: These plants are extremely hardy and the berries are sweeter than most highbush varieties. Plants do very well when planted in a peat moss and shredded pine bark mixture with little or no soil. A ph of 4.5 – 4.8 (provided by the peat moss) is critical for healthy, long-lived plants as is regular watering, especially during the first year. Since the roots stay in the original hole, an organic fertilizer is important. A thick, pine mulch is also important – refreshed annually. 19. Toro Blueberry - Highbush type cultivar. Height will be 5-6”. Plants are vigorous and grow upright in stature. Ripening of the fruit is mid-July. Yield is very consistent and heavy. The fruit buds and stems are very tolerant to fluctuating winter temperatures. Fruit size is large. Quality of fruit is excellent. Flavor is very sweet with low acid. 20. Elizabeth Blueberry – Highbush type cultivar. Height is6” at maturity. Bush is upright and slightly spreading. Ripening of fruit is late July. Yields are high and consistent with very large fruit, prized for its excellent flavor. Outstanding plant vigor. Raspberry 21. Boyne Raspberry – A new, early summer bearer for Zone 4-5. A vigorous grower of sweet aromatic berries of medium size, juicy dark red and very good quality resistant to root rot. Hardiest of all the raspberries. Developed to survive below zero temps. Very productive, study, strong, summer-bearing canes of 4-5’. Landscape Shrubs All of the landscape plants we offer contribute to the natural balance and health of your land, providing food for pollinators as well as birds and wildlife. They also offer traditional garden beauty with color and texture throughout the year. This year, we are offering some small trees you might not have imagined planting. Serviceberry, or shadbush, offers a beautiful flush of small white blooms early in the spring and edible berries. Pussy willow is a great wildlife plant that also provides those early buds and flowers, just as we are longing for signs of spring. These plants can handle wet and dry conditions of shorelines and rain gardens. Landscape Shrubs: Returning Favorites 22. Summersweet (Sweet pepperbush) - (Clethra alnifolia) ‘Hummingbird’ - This native shrub is somewhat unique in providing spikes of white, fragrant flowers in late summer when few shrubs are blooming and which grows in the shade or sun. Fall foliage is yellow to orange. Summersweet will grow in well drained or wet soils. It is compact and mounding but spreads and can create a lovely hedge or border of medium height 3-8’. 23. Virginia rose - (Rosa virginiana) This lovely native rose is ready to give you old fashioned scented roses while providing vigorous, spreading growth that can provide a low hedge or erosion control on steep, rocky, dry areas or shoreline. It likes sun but will grow more slowly in part shade. Foliage and stems offer lovely, deep reds in fall and persistent beautiful hips for wildlife food…a great replacement for barberry or burning bush. 3-5’ 24. Highbush cranberry - 15-18” plant - (Viburnum opulus) This tall (to 12’) shrub is just plain gorgeous, offering dark lobed leaves, dense rounded growth and brilliant clusters of showy white flowers turning to bright red clusters of berries, which birds don’t eat, so they persist into winter. A must have for a showy area of shrubs! Its dense foliage will shelter songbirds. Foliage is a deep, complex burgundy color in fall that will make you just as happy as burning bush. Can be pruned to keep at a lower height. Wet to dry areas. 25. Red-osier (red twig) dogwood – (Cornus sericea) 18-24” plant - (Swida sericea) This spreading, tall (6-8’) shrub is perfect for woodland or wetland borders and other wet places including rain gardens, but it will also grow in drier soils. Its red twigs create year around interest. If you are removing honeysuckle, multiflora rose, knotweed or other plants that tend to come up in these areas, this vigorous shrub is the perfect replacement. 26. Shrubby cinquefoil - (Potentilla fruticosa)‘ Goldfinger’-18-24” plant - If you want a vigorous, bushy shrub that performs like a bed of long flowering annuals, this is your plant. It spends most of the summer covered in yellow flowers accented by small, lacy green leaves that are a bit on the bluish side, so it offers a unique foliage texture and color. Wet or dry soils! Easy to prune into small mounding shapes. 1-3’ 27. Serviceberry – (Amelanchier canadensis) 12-15” plant - is rare in that it offers interest in every season. It kicks off in spring with beautiful white flowers, which develop into tasty purple berries that attract birds in early summer. Or harvest the berries and use them to make delicious jams, jellies, and pies. A small tree that will grow to 25-30 feet. 28. Buttonbush - (Cephalanthus occidentalis) 12-15” plant - Is a wonderful addition to the shore of a pond, wetland or lake., doing quite well with changes in water level.