0 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 plants that offer year-round color and interest, and that are good substitutes for invasive plants now banned. Buttonbush, at right, is a lovely shoreline bush that can stand inundation...and also has beautiful flowers that feed butterflies and retain their form into the winter. Im Native shrubs such as the highbush or American cranberry (at left) offer flowers, fruits and fall color that is as 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. 0 0
Fruit Trees 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.
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. 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 17. Purple Passion Asparagus A beautiful, productive plant much sweeter than the green asparagus. Great eaten raw right in the garden or is salads and stays tender even as it gets larger. 18. Tri-Variety Grape Bundle 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.
BERRIES 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. 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.
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. 25. Red-osier (red twig) dogwood 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 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. Its graceful form will drape over the water s edge to soften and beautify your pond edge, and is lovely in winter as well. Buttonbush also rewards you with compact bolls of white flowers that are irresistible to butterflies of many types.
Landscape Shrubs and Perennials 31. Pussy Willow (Salix discolor) 18-24 plant - One of our new offerings of small native trees. Pussy willow is a striking addition to a wet area and is perfect as an edge to groups of larger trees or woods. It will delight first with the furry buds we all love and then with fluffy yellow catkins that bring early color to the garden and yard. Can be coppiced or trimmed as a bush. 34. Lilac Miss Kim - The Miss Kim Lilac is one of the most beautiful and fragrant of all lilac bushes. 'Miss Kim' is one of the most widely grown because of its compact and upright-rounded form. Beautiful pale lavender blooms and burgundy leaves in fall. Grows to 4-7. Wet to Dry Area Perennials These plants can be used in eave areas, rain gardens, wet areas, pond and lake shorelines but also in well drained garden beds. 29. Bee balm - This beauty will vigorously spread and give long lasting, raspberry red color to a perennial bed, and bring in the hummingbirds as well as insect pollinators. 30. Swamp Milkweed - is native to most of the USA and eastern Canada with the exception of the west coast. It is a nice addition to a butterfly garden and is also attractive to many species of butterflies as a nectar plant. Swamp milkweed is not invasive as some other milkweeds are and is well behaved in the garden. 32. Butterfly milkweed Plug - Returning favorite. This rare New England native offers spectacular orange sprays of flowers that provide Monarch butterfly habitat. Good for dry areas. 33. New England aster Purple Dome - Can t be beat for dense, purple fall flowers and compact, dense foliage growth, so it never looks weedy. It provides the critical late food for pollinators that we count on our asters for.
Waldo County Soil and Water Conservation District 46 Little River Drive Belfast, ME 04915 PLEASE PLACE STAMP HERE Here is your 2018 Annual Spring Fruit Tree, Shrub and Berry Sale Catalog! Waldo County Soil and Water Conservation District is offering new landowner resources. The District offers a free conservation assistance program, where we can visit your property to help you plan for using healthy conservation practices to improve your landscape. Please contact us to schedule a free walk and talk consultation. We can assist you in selecting and placing the plants we are offering here. This spring and summer we will also be offering workshops related to healthy practices for your garden and property. See our online Calendar for more information. Our website also offers many online resources in eco-landscaping, land management, environmental education, forestry, invasives and more. This Plant Sale Catalog and Order Form are available online: Visit us at www.waldocountysoilandwater.org. Pick up day is May 5. We will have gardening experts on hand, and special offerings the day of the sale. Volunteers needed! If you have some time to help out with our sale this year, we would very much appreciate it! May 3rd through the day of the sale, we could use help preparing the orders and tagging the plants to get them ready for pick up on Saturday. Please check the box on the order form or call Kym Sanderson at 338-1964 ext. 4.