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Comments (3)Hi, I'm in Edmonton too, have a big backyard and have lived in this house for 17 years, and have always been interested in fruit growing. I've got two plum trees, a pear, three apples (plus I've grafted on other varieties), grape vines, a row of saskatoons (3 varieties), raspberries (3 kinds). I'm not growing cherries right now, but have grown the varieties, Comet, Evans, and Nanking. I've had good luck with everything except cherries. My Nanking survived for 10 years or more, but never produced heavily (though enough to eat), until our neighbour's Nanking got infected with something and died, and it spread to our bush, so I took the plant out and added more saskatoons. My Comet never amounted to much, and died after several years. The Evans cherry was most successful, produced heavily for a few years, then had serious dieback so I removed it. I think cherries like it fairly dry, and mine was in the vegetable garden so received quite a bit of water. If I were to recommend fruit bushes/trees for someone with a small space like you say is the case for you, I would probably recommend either Smoky saskatoon or a dwarf apple tree, perhaps one of the varieties with several apple varieties grafted onto a single tree, as the best choices. Saskatoons are reliable in this climate, and grow 8-10 feet high. Same height for a dwarf apple, and of all the fruit trees in this climate, apples are king. Your requirements sound like a full-sized apple would be too big, but if you do have moderate room, the variety September Ruby I would highly recommend. Mine is 17 years old and about 12 feet high, fruits very heavily one year and lightly the next, tastes somewhat like the commercial variety Delicious, and keeps in the fridge for several months (unlike many apples here, which go soft very quickly). I would avoid the Kiwi -- it's more ornamental than fruitful, and you need both male and female plants for fruit, so will need to grow multiple vines to be sure you will get any fruit at all. Many (all?) cherries are self-fruitful, so you only need one tree/bush for fruit. Apples require cross-pollination, but that can be from trees hundreds of metres away, so in the city you only need one variety and cross-pollination is still guaranteed. Wonderful plums can be grown here, but they need cross-pollination. My trees only produced a few plums until I grafted on a pollinator (and that pollinator has to have the same bloom-time as your main tree), now I get hundreds of plums each year... more needy than what you are looking for I think. As for sources... well, Sprout Farms used to be the best place around for hardy Alberta fruit bushes and trees, but last year they didn't operate their nursery. Most standard or popular fruit trees can be found at any of the major nurseries around the city... Holes, Greenland, Salsbury, etc. Though I haven't yet checked these guys out in person, DNA gardens, near Red Deer, specializes in Alberta fruit trees, bushes, plants, etc. I'm going to check out their selection of haksap berries this spring, as they seem to carry the latest cultivars which are major improvements on the older varieties. Anyhow, here's a link: http://www.dnagardens.com/catalogue.htm Hope this helps, Don...See MoreNew Tree Species To Edmonton
Comments (6)Hi Andres, I planted the Moonglow Magnolia in Sept. 2008. I was told it was hardy so I hedged by covering the bottom 3 feet with a thick layer of straw but left the top exposed. It did start to bud out in the spring but the temp swings in the spring did the top in. I did get some nice growth from the bottom of the stem so it did survive. I did not cover it with hay this year as it was thickly crowded by mums and the early snow covered it before it got cold so I am hoping for good luck again. I would say that if you want to keep the top you need to wrap it for the winter and into spring until the temps stabilize. I think I will let it grow into a shortish bush that I will be able to wrap easily. It is supposed to be a nice multi branch tree if you let it go. I am also hoping to get out to Vancouver this year and track down a Sieboldi magnolia the are also quite hardy and will survive out here if it is wrapped. It has nice down facing flowers which works for me as I have a dropped patio. The one I brought from Vancouver years back survived 2 years in a pot sunk in the ground for the winter before the neighbors stole it....See Morelapins cherry in Edmonton
Comments (4)I'm pleased to say that my lapins from Kuhlman is alive and well, just about to bud out, no freeze back,.. all the way to the tips,....thanks to the green house effect! LOL Konrad...See MoreHelp with some fruit plants near Edmonton Alberta
Comments (6)I cant seem to load any pictures. Im on a galaxy S3? i dont know why it wont work. Dont know what honey berries are but perhaps i have both. One plant has fewer larger berries that i dont doubt are gooseberries and the others have lots of small berries clumped together that look similar but smaller the plants look very similar. I just found them (this is our second summer here on a 10 acre parcel) so dont know how they were last year. I had suspected the minimal rain may have had something to do with it. I wish i could show you the patch its a disaster and im not sure how to go about reviving it. Not sure what kind of plums we have closest i can figure out they're wild plums? But we had bucket loads last year and it looks like this year wont be much different. Looks like they started with the 3 tree's a number of years ago now there are about 10 of them that are producing to some degree. We jucied them last year made a neon pink juice would probably make great jelly or syrup but haven't gotten around to it yet. In the old root cellar under the old house there are some canned plums but I'm not about to try them to see kf there good. Lol...See Moreostrich
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