Your 2009 Order from Dave Wilson Nursery
Fruit Trees
PANACHE 'TIGER' FIG Especially fine flavor! Small to medium sized fruit with green color and yellow (Tiger) stripes. Strawberry pulp is blood-red in color. 100 hours. Self-fruitful
PETER'S HONEY FIG Beautiful, shiny, greenish yellow fruit when ripe. Very sweet, dark, amber flesh. High quality. Superb for fresh eating. Warm location with a southern exposure is required for ripening fruit in maritime Northwest. Originated in Sicily. Good cold tolerance. Zones 6-10.
VIOLETTE DE BORDEAUX FIG Small to medium size purple-black fruit wirh a very deep strawberry pulp, a distinctive sweet rich flavor. Brebas are pyriform with a thick, tapering neck; main crop figs are variable often without neck, Medium eye. Excellent fresh or dried. Breba crop, hardy. Good for container culture or small spaces. Zones 5-10.
WHITE GENOA FIG Old variety, a favorite in cool coastal areas - also excellent inland. Greenish-yellow skin, amber flesh, distinctive flavor. Prune to any shape. 100 hours. Self-fruitful. SHARP
VELVET POMEGRANTE Large sized pomegranate with a very appealing, unique mildly acid refreshing flavor. Fruit has a dark red exterior and dark seeds, the color of crushed-red velvet. Upright growing plants sets huge crops of highly ornamental fruit and can be kept any height by summer pruning. Eat fresh or use in cooking. An excellent source of antioxidants. Requires 150-200 chill hours. Self-fruitful
SWEET POMEGRANATE Sweeter fruit than Wonderful, more widely adapted (better quality in cool-summer climates). Small, glossy-leafed, ornamental tree with showy orange-red blossoms in late spring. Very suitable to espalier and container growing. Harvest late summer. Unsplit ripe fruit stores in cool, dry place for two months or more. Very low chilling requirement, about 100 hours. Self-fruitful.
