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Lime - Bearss - Sale Price: $126.95 Ornamental Fruit Bearing Tree The Bearss Lime is an ornamental, fruit bearing tree. One would look charming as a small specimen tree in a sunny spot of your yard, or use one as a patio plant to move indoors in colder weather. Your Bearss Lime tree is an evergreen, dwarf variety growing about 10 feet tall, with an equal spread. Its deep green foliage is a perfect accent for the fragrant, white flowers that will grace your branches in the spring. That foliage is also a beautiful backdrop for the fruit as the bright green rind attains a gentle yellow blush at maturity. Your tree is a fast grower and will easily adapt to whatever shape you chose for it with some gentle pruning. It has a dense, rounded crown and its evergreen nature will present a handsome silhouette for your landscape year round. The most impressive feature of your Bearss Lime is of course the fruit it produces. The Bearss Lime is high-producing tree, with the heaviest production during winter and early spring (in warmer regions). Its limes have a smooth rind with green, juicy flesh. They have a long shelf life and are prized for their uses in a large variety of drinks and culinary dishes. Some people even use the leaves for culinary and decorative purposes as well. The Bearss Lime tree is perfect choice for an indoor/outdoor lime tree with high production and excellent fruit. * Outstanding fruit production and quality* Evergreen* Fragrant flowers

Blueberry - Top Hat - Sale Price: $32.95 Blueberry ‘Top Hat’ is a perfect choice for small spaces, container gardening, and even bonsai! This compact little shrub produces a mass of pristine white blossoms in spring, and then becomes a prolific producer of full-sized, delectable sweet-tart fruits that you can eat fresh or use for pies, muffins, cobblers, jams, preserves, and syrup. Blueberries are extremely nutritious and have a high vitamin and antioxidant content.  Every year they get more expensive at the grocery store … so why not grow your own? It will pay for itself with the first harvest in July and August.  ‘Top Hat’ can be grown in-ground or in a large pot, in full sun or part shade; its most important requirement is acid soil (4.5 to 5.5 pH). After your harvest, you can enjoy the handsome, leathery leaves, which turn a ruddy bronze. Bonsai enthusiasts rave about how ‘Top Hat’ will even produce flowers and fruit in a bonsai dish! Zones 4-7.

Currant - Consort Black - Sale Price: $57.05  Ornamental Shrub with Delicious Fruit The Consort Black Currant is a deciduous shrub bearing edible fruit. It would look lovely in a naturalized area, as a group planting, or as a single specimen plant in your yard. Your Consort Black Current will certainly provide succulent fruit, but it’s also a lovely ornamental bush. White, bell-shaped flowers hang from the plant in 1-2 inch clusters in the spring. These floral beauties also emit a pleasing, sweet fragrance that will attract bees and butterflies to your yard. Even without your Currant’s floral artistry, its light green foliage gives your shrub a lively, vital appearance. As the blooms of your Black Currant fade, clusters of ¼ inch berries ripen into a glossy ebony. Just imagine popping one into your mouth for that explosion of tart-sweet flavor that only the Black Currant is prized for! Make into preserves, pies or wine and still have lots left over to share with friends and family because your Black Currant will be a high producer every year. Before the leaves of your Currant drop for winter, it will gift you with one more treat in the form of a blazing display of reds and yellows as it casts off it summer plumage. Your Black Currant will grow to about 6 feet in height with an equal spread. It’s self-fertile, so you can just have one if you like and still get a great harvest. The Consort Black Currant is a beautiful shrub that requires little care and yet provides a bountiful harvest. What more could you ask for in a garden shrub! * Edible fruit * Spring flowers and fall colors

Osage Orange - Sale Price: $17.95 Strong and Hardy Ornamental The Osage Orange is a small to medium sized tree that can grow almost anywhere.  People often choose it as an ornamental, and it would look lovely as a side planting in your yard, or even as a hedge along a boarder. The Osage generally stays under 30 feet in height, and can make an excellent shade tree.  You’ll love its rounded, irregular crown that will add some unique distinction to your landscape.  The 6 inch lance-shaped leaves are a dark robust green, a perfect shade to contrast the many lighter green shades of summer.  You’ll notice small green flowers as they begin to grace the Osage’s branches in the spring, and love the citrus scent of its fruit in the fall.   The Osage has a rich history.  It was often used by ranchers as a natural property fence.  The Osage’s strong wood, hardy nature and thorny branches all combined to make hedges that were effective in holding in livestock.   Think of the fun you’ll have telling friends and neighbors about the “living barbed wire” from the old west that you have growing in your yard!   The Osage is still valued its incredibly strong wood.  In fact, archers still prize the wood for making bows just as American Indians did in the past.    The Osage fruit consists of a 6 inch wrinkly ball that changes from green to yellowish when ripe.  It’s not used as food by humans, but squirrels and other wildlife love it.  For a unique ornamental tree with a lot of year round appeal, the Osage is a great choice. * Ornamental tree* Fall fruit* Hardy

Lemon - Meyer - Sale Price: $126.95 Versatile Tropical Plant with Superior Fruit Sometimes called the perfect lemon tree, the Meyer Lemon tolerates versatile growing conditions and produces outstanding fruit.  It would be equally spectacular as a houseplant, ornamental patio plant or as a focal point in your yard. Meyer Lemons can reach 10 feet, but will easily adjust to less than 4 feet indoors.  Just when you think the beauty of summer and excitement of fall harvests are done, your Meyer Lemon will surprise you with a November bloom…and repeat it again in the spring!  The dainty white flowers will charm you with their delicate purple base, while their intense citrus fragrance will fill your home or yard with their captivating scent.  After the blooms pass, clusters of lemons will appear and begin to ripen.  When not in bloom, your lemon tree will continue to delight with its glossy leaves of deep green and upright, compact appearance. The Meyer Lemon is rounder, sweeter and less acidic.  The fruit also bears a unique hint of orange flavor.  The flesh, juice and rind are all highly prized by chefs.   Meyer Lemons are one of the hardiest dwarf citrus trees you can find, and among the most versatile.  Bring one into your home today and begin to experience its outstanding benefits. * Tolerates versatile conditions* Outstanding fruit* Hardy