Posts Tagged ‘Nanking cherry’
Featured Fruit — Nanking Cherry
Nanking Cherry Exerpted from “Plums on the Prairies” by Rick Sawatzky Click to access plums.pdf “Prunus tomentosa, Nanking cherry, is widely grown in the prairie provinces. Nanking cherry as well as eastern and western sandcherries are listed with the plums because they are more closely related botanically to the plums than to true…
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By Bob Purvis Nanking cherry (Prunus tomentosa) has been grown as a substitute for pie cherry trees by Alaskan gardeners for many years because of its hardiness (zone 2—it has fruited in Fairbanks, as well as in Anchorage). Unfortunately, I know more than a few Alaskans who have had great difficulty getting their bushes…
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