Ready for Winter Planting
Sweetland Garden Supply has just received our bare root tree order from L.E. Cooke Company and the Felix Gillet Institute. They won’t last long and these do need to be planted before they begin to leaf out!
Felix Gillet Varieties for 2018
The Felix Gillet Institute offers rare and unique heirloom fruit and nut varieties as originally bred by Felix Gillet in Nevada City back in the late 1800’s. These varieties are well-adapted to the the Sierra Nevada foothill climate and will provide a healthy abundance for many years to come.
Almonds
- Texas
- Provence
Apples
- Bramley’s – late season, storage, big
- Canada Reinette – mid season, russeted, cooking
- Chanango Strawberry – early-mid season, sweet, strawberry-flavored
- North West Greening – green, sugary, melty, mid/late
- Red Astrachan – delicious, mid season
- Schoolhouse – delicious, mid-late season
- Sweet Greening – green delicious, large, cooking
Cherries
- Emmet #1
- Early Black
Figs
- Donna
- Fat
- French Paillard
- Grosse Marsaille
- Japanese Fig
Plums
- Large Yellow Myro
- Robes de Seargent prune
About L.E. Cooke’s Bare-Root Trees
Based in Visalia, L.E. Cooke are growers an distributors of quality fruit, shade, flowering and dwarf trees, shrubs, berries, and grape vines. They offer “EZ PICK” varieties of many popular fruit trees. EZ-PICK fruit trees have been started in the nursery with a very low branching structure giving you a jump start at maintaining a tree to a size that is convenient for you. There is another benefit to smaller trees – they give you room for multiple varieties of your favorite tasting fruits. More on L.E. Cooke can be found at www.lecooke.com.
Apples
- Fuji
- Granny Smith
- Jonagold
- Mutsu
Apricots
- Blenheim
- Montrose
Cherries
- Bada Bing
- Black Tartarian
- Rainer
Grapes
- Flame Seedless
Pears
- Comice
- Fan-Cris
- Shinseiki
Berries
- Jubilee Blueberry
- O’Neal Blueberry
- Patriot Blueberry
- Chandler Strawberry
- Tristar Strawberry
Others
- UC 72 Asparagus
- Autumn Rosa Plum
- Redhaven Peach
- Giant Fuyu Persimmon
- Persian Fruiting Mulberry
Quantities are limited, so get ’em while they last!
