Current Species List For My Permaculture-ish Garden (Updated 2/2023)

This is a list of edible species (as well as non-edibles I find useful) that I am growing in my developing permaculture-ish plot (Temperate climate, USDA Zone 8, Washington State, USA) which includes a small property of my own as well as two neighboring properties belonging to family members.

Looking over this list it would seem that I could feed myself with this, but in reality many of these plants are still in their early stages of establishment, and not all of them are highly productive... In addition to this list there are other edible species naturally present on the property which are not included since they do not offer any meaningful production at this time.

KEY:

🍇 = producing very good quantities each year
🍒 = producing lightly each year (either from lack of maturity or lack of capability)
🌱 = acquired, but have not yet planted out
All unmarked have been planted, but are not yet producing
= potentially on the chopping block for removal for one reason or another.

Rosaceae

Apples (Malus domestica & hybrids):

*🍇'Centennial' (Crab) - Highly productive of large crabs good for fresh eating, but I find they seem at their best slightly before they appear fully ripe. Make a nice soft mushy pickle when preserved in salt brine that is a useful addition in cooking. Fruit seems pest prone due to thin skins and soft flesh.
*'Winter Banana' - Grafted at the top of the 'Centennial' tree.
*🍒Columnar - Not sure which one... Either North Pole or Scarlet Sentennal. The deer keep eating it...
*🍒'Evereste' (Crab) - Highly ornamental and productive crab that is good for cooking.
*🍒'Liberty' - Highly disease resistant red apple.
*'Wolf River' - Extremely large red streaked apple which I grafted onto a wild volunteer seedling apple.
*'Ellisons's Orange' - An offspring of the famous English Cox's Orange Pippin.
*'Wine Crisp' - A Patented variety that is supposed to be resistant to a range of apple diseases and a very long keeper (many months).
*'William's Pride' - Ripens in August
*'Pristine' - Ripens in August
*'Granny Smith' - Late Ripening
*'Dutch Mignonne' - Free spurring for espalier
*'Egremont Russet' - Free spurring for espalier
*'Gana' or 'Ben Davis Black' - Long keeping
*🌱'Galarina' - Long keeping. Similar to 'Gala'
*🌱'Golden Harvey' - High sugar content for making strong hard ciders.
*🌱'Golden Russet' - High sugar, good keeper
*🌱'Sundance' - Keeps 7 months
*'Vanderpool Red'
*'Hunt Russet' - Exceptional keeper.
*'Stahls Winterprinz'
*🌱'Roter Eiserapfel'
*🌱'Zabergau Reinette'
*🌱'Pendragon'
*🌱'Roxbury Russet'
*🌱'Cinnamon Spice'
*🌱'Gloria Mundi'
*🌱M.27
*🌱EMLA 26 Rootstock - Spare rootstock for grafting. Produces trees 40-45% of standard size.  Low tendency for suckering.

Pears (Pyrus sp.):

*'Bosc' (P. communis) - Classic high quality pear that should keep well and have some disease resistance.
*'Rescue' (P. communis)
*'Seckel' (P. communis)
*🌱'Orcas' (P. communis)
*🌱'Johantorp' (P. communis)
*'Yoinashi' (P. pyrifolia)
*🌱'OHxF 87' - Rootstock
*'Baby Shipova' (xSorbopyrus) died

Medlar (Mespilus germanica):

*🍒'Monstrueuse de Evreinoff' - Large fruited French variety. Poor eating quality compared to 'Macrocarpa'. 
*'Macrocarpa' - My favorite tasting variety.  I top worked it onto my 'MdE' that had inferior fruit.

Hawthorn (Crataegus sp.)

*Washington Hawthorn (C. phaenopyrum) - Flowers make a pleasant tea.
*Tejocote (C. mexicana) - Yellow fruited form
*Azarole (Crataegus azarolus) - two seedlings grown from the cultivar 'Angelo Rosso'.  I'm not sure if this is the correct species based on image searches...

Quince (Cydonia oblonga):

*'Aromatnaya'
*'Van Deman'
*'Pineapple'
*'Seker Gevrek' - Supposedly longer keeping than your average quince.
*'Meech's Prolific'
*'Krymskaya'

Flowering Quince (Chaenomeles sp):

*'Toyo Nishiki' (C. speciosa) - Multi colored flowers.
*'Victory' (C. speciosa) - Red flowers.  Large fruit.
*'Contorted' (C. speciosa)
*🌱'Chojubai Red' (C. japonica var. alpina?)
*🌱'Orange Delight' (C. japonica) 
*🌱'Tanechka' (C. ×superba) - appears to be thornless
*'Jet Trail' (C. x superba) - Received in error, but will keep.  Supposedly productive of small fruit on a white flowering low growing shrub.
*🌱'Not Minerva' (Chaenomeles ×? - possibly ×clarkiana or ×californica)
*🌱Seed Grown (C. cathayensis) - More tree like with larger fruit than common flowering quince. Not commonly available.

Aronia (Aronia melanocarpa + hybrids):

*🍒Seed grown - Productive dark berries good for winemaking.
*🌱🍒'Viking' - I like the flavor of this one.  Yes, it's very tannic (like all Aronia), but I crave that sometimes. 

Service Berry (Amelanchier alnifolia):

*🍇'Regent' - a stoloniferous variety that flowers and fruits havily. I strongly suspect that although listed as A. alnifolia, it is quite likely to be either A. stolonifera or a hybrid.
*🍒'Northline' - Native edible fruit similar to blueberries, but biologically like mini apples.
*🌱'Smokey'
*Unkown - from Cascadia Edible Landscapes in Seattle.
*Running Serviceberry Seedling (Parent - 'Success')

Stone Fruits (Prunus sp. & hybrids):

*'Matsubara Red' (P. mume)
*🍇'Early Golden' Plum (P. salicina) - Excellent yellow plum. When fully ripe has a texture reminiscent of apricots with flavor suggesting peach.
*'Emerald Beaut' (P. salicina)
*🍒'Methley' Plum (P. ×rossica) - Very early ripening and productive.
*🍇Probable St. Julien (P. insititia)- Very sweet green plum that turned out not to be anything like the variety supposedly planted. Probably a rootstock tree due to graft failure in the nursery before purchase.
*🍒Unknown Sweet Plum (P. sp) - Very sugary variety planted from a root sucker from a clonal patch at a friend's house.
*Italian Plum (P. domestica) - A very productive strain dug as a sucker from a Seattle area garden.
*'Jam Session' Plum (P. sp.) - Damson type.
*🍇Cherry Plums (P. cerasifera) - Non-native volunteer with each tree having slightly different flavor and overall quality. Some with deep purple/red leaves and some with green leaves. Fruit small, but abundant. Some specimens tend to bear biannually.
*'Johann's Myrobalan' (P. cerasifera) - Name worthy selection found along a roadside, this specimen has heavy production (every year) of small, dense/meaty, good flavored plums that are great for fresh eating even before fully ripe which gives them a longer season of harvest for fresh eating. I've rooted cuttings, planting one for myself and have shared with a couple others for further evaluation.
*🌱Sweet Cherry 'Compact Stella' (P. avium)
*🍒Sour Cherry (P. cerasus), 'Surefire' - Highly disease resistant cultivar with tart fruit that still has enough sugar for fresh eating or cooking.
*🌱Sour Cherry 'North Star' (P. cerasus)
*🌱Sour Cherry 'Evan's Bali' (P. cerasus)
*'Black Boy' Peach (P. persica) - Very dark fleshed peach with resistance to peach leaf curl.
*🌱Sweet Pit Hunza Apricot Seedling (P. armeniaca)
*Korean Bush Cherry 물앵두 (P. japonica)

Strawberries (Fragaria sp. & hybrids):

*'Darrow 72' (F. chiloensis ssp. patagonica)
*Musk Strawberry (F. moschata)
*'GS28' (F. tibetica) - A tetraploid species which may be useful for hybridizing.  This clone is unusual for the species in that it has perfect flowers.
*'Mignonette Tetraploid' (F. vesca) - A tetraploid conversion of the old classic (normally diploid) which may be very useful for intergeneric hybridization with Rubus species.
*🍇'Golden' (F. vesca) - Clumping alpine type, and readily growing from seed. Both red and white berry forms setting fruit whenever weather is warm enough for pollinators.
*'Reine des Vallees' (F. vesca) 
*Fragaria viridis - seedlings
*🍇'Totem' (F. ×ananassa) - June bearing with very upright stems on vigorous plants. Great flavor.
*🍒'Albion' (F. ×ananassa)
*'Aptos' (F. ×ananassa)
*'Rebecka' (F. ×vescana)
*'Sara' (F. ×vescana)

Blackberries & Raspberries (Rubus sp.):

*🍇Red Raspberries, 'NR7' (R. idaeus) - Compact, dwarf and thornless. Produces on both new and second year stems.
*🍒Red Raspberries, probaby 'Canby' (R. idaeus) - Originally from old patch growing at Tolstoy Farm in Eastern Washington.
*'G-16889' (R. idaeus) - seeds of a tetraploid which I'm attempting to germinate.  I only had about 5 seeds so fingers crossed.
*R. idaeus 'Joan J' (patent expires July 14, 2026)
*🍒'Bristol' (R. occidentalis) - found to be the same as 'Munger' using SSR [Dossett and Bassil, 2012]
*🍇'Triple Crown' (R. fruticosus)- Vigorous, thornless.
*🍇'Wild Treasure' Blackberry (R. hybrid) - Thornless hybrid of native dewberry and Waldo blackberry.
*🍇'Ouachita' (?) Blackberry (R. fruticosus) - Upright, thornless.  Weird Flavor.
*🌱'Prime Ark Traveler' Blackberry (R. hybrid) - Upright, thornless.  Fruits on first and second year canes.
*🌱'APF-236T' Blackberry (R. hybrid) - Thornless dwarf marketed as "Baby Cakes".  Taste isn't great.  Will be killing this...
*🍒Thimbleberry (R. parviflorus) - Native, variable productivity. Very tasty when ripe and well watered.
*'Thornless Boysen' (R. ×) - Boysenberry
*'American Thornless' (R. × loganobaccus) - Loganberry
*'Glencoe' (Rubus ×) - purple raspberry 

Rose Hips & Flowers (Rosa sp. & Hybrids):

*🍇'MEIdomonac' aka "Bonica" - Heavy blooming pale pink rose that was planted as an ornamental and surprised me with a nice crop of rose hips. I did try making tea from them which was pleasant so I will continue using it for hips.
*'Marchesa Boccella' (R. ×damascena) - Good rebloomer and excellent resistance to foliar blackspot disease.  Flowers make excellent tea.

Misc. Rosaceae:

*🌱Sorbus domestica

Eleagnaceae:

(Eleagnus sp.):

*'Fruitlandii' Silverberry (E. pungens x?) - Evergreen with tasty red fruit in spring. Winter blooming. Doesn't seem to set fruit without a pollinator.
*'Golden Silverberry' (E. pungens) - Evergreen with variegated leaves. Hopefully will be a good pollinator for 'Fruitlandii'.
*🍇'Pippi' Goumi (E. multiflora) - Highly productive of large fruit. 
*🍒'Sweet Scarlet' Goumi (E. multiflora) - Selected variety with high quality fruit, but very poor production.
*🍇'Carmine' Goumi (E. multiflora) - Productive, above average size and quite tasty.
*🍒'Garnet' Autumn Olive (E. umbellata) - Small red tasty berries late in the season.

Seaberries (Hippophae rhamnoides):

*Male, 'Lord' - A supposedly thornless selection which so far seems to be true. Needed to wind pollinate female cultivars.
*Female, 'Byantes' (marketed under TM name "Goldensweet") - Sweeter than average. Not sure if this is due to higher sugar content or simply lower acid content.
*Female, 'Otradnaya' - Large fruit.

Moraceae

Figs (Ficus carica):

*🍇'Desert King' - Green exterior. Productive of large breba crop.
*🍒'Violette de Bordeaux' - Dark exterior. Bifare.
*'Stella'/'Cordi' - Green exterior, red interior. Bifare.
*🍒'Florea' - Aledgedly increadibly cold hardy and also productive. I'm mostly interested in using this to share rooted starts with people in colder parts of the state. Bifare.
*🍒'Hardy Chicago' - Dark exterior. Main.
*'Verte/Green Ischia' - Green exterior.
*🌱🍒'LSU Purple'
*🌱'Gillette' - Edible male variety. Bifare.
*🍒'Ronde de Bordeaux'
*'Black Zadar' (BC)
*'Sweet Diana' - Vigorous, tall growing 'Celeste' type found in NY.
*'Giant Amber' (UCD)
*🌱'White Genoa' (UCD)
*🌱'Tarantella'
*'English Brown Turkey'
*🌱'Longue d'Août
*'Marseilles Black' (VS)
*🍒'Brown Turkey' - Allegedly a good variety among the many going under this name.
*🍒'Uncle Corky's' - Very productive of brebas, perhaps as productive as 'Desert King'
*🌱'Brooklyn Hand Grenade'
*🌱'Yellow Lebanese'
*🌱'LSU Tiger'
*🌱'Siblawi'
*🌱'White Marseilles'
*🌱'Genovese Nero AF' (probably same as 'I-258')
*🌱'Izbat an Naj'
*🌱'Butler Striped' caprifig
*🌱'Conadria'
*🌱'Strawberry Verte'
*🌱'Coll De Dama Blanca-Negra'
*🌱'Black Madeira'
*🌱'Ischia Black'
*🌱'Mary Lane'
*🌱'Sucrette'
*plus way more (around 60 varieties being trialed now)

Mulberries (Morus sp.):

*Dwarf Black Issai (Morus alba) - Small growing bush type rather than tree like.
*🍒'Shangri La'

Ericaceae

Blueberries/Huckleberries/Cranberries (Vaccinium sp.):

*🍇Red Huckleberry (V. parvifolium) - Native grows on rotting red cedar stumps.
*🌱🍒Blueberry, 'Libery' (V. corymbosum) - Grows up to 7 feet high. Being planted as part of a mixed hedge.
*🍒Blueberry, 'Misty' (V. sp)
*🍒Blueberry, 'Elliott' (V. corymbosum) - Late ripening and resistant to mummy berry.
*🍒Blueberry, 'Reka' (V. corymbosum) - Apparently less picky about soil type than other blueberries.
*🍒Blueberry, 'Top Hat' (V. sp)
*🍒Blueberry, 'Pink Lemonade' (V. sp)
*Blueberry, 'Baldwin' (V. ashei) - deep blue, late ripening
*Blueberry, 'Delite' (V. ashei) - light blue, late ripening
*🍒Evergreen Huckleberry (V. ovatum)
*🍒Cranberries (V. macrocarpum), 'Stevens' - Poor performer here with VERY few fruit produced each year.
*🍒Cranberries (V. macrocarpum), 'Pilgrim' - Planted in wine barrel bog. Very productive!
*🌱Cranberries (V. macrocarpum) 'Bergman'
*🌱Cranberries (V. macrocarpum) 'Early Black'
*🌱Cranberries (V. macrocarpum) 'Ben Lear'
*🌱Cranberries (V. macrocarpum) 'Hamilton' - A non-vining type.  It has flowered, but not set fruit.
*Lingonberry, 'Koralle' (V. vitis-idaea) - Planted in maple wine barrel.
*Lingonberry, 'Erntesegen' - Planted near Black Lace elderberry.
*Lingonberry, 'Ida' - Planted near light post.
*Lingonberry, 'Red Pearl' - Planted under eastern redbud tree.
*Lingonberry, 'Regal' - Planted under Alaska yellow cedar.

Strawberry Tree (Arbutus unedo):

*🍒'Compacta' - Attractive evergreen with ornamental and tasty fruit. Best flavor/texture is just before they look fully ripe while they transition between orange and red.
*Seedlings of standard form

(Gaultheria sp.):

*🍒Salal (G. shallon) - Native evergreen understory shrub with tasty purple berries.
*🍒Miquel's Wintergreen (G. miqueliana) - Spreading low evergreen with fragrant leaves and white berries.
*Wintergreen (G. procumbens) 

Grossulariaceae

Gooseberries (Ribes uva-crispa & hybrids):

*🍇'Black Velvet' - Upright growth habit. Intensely flavored small berries.
*🍇'Colossal'
*🌱🍒'Hinnomaki Red'
*🍇'Hinnomaki Yellow' - Low growing. Productive. My favorite for fresh eating, sweet and fruity.
*🍒'Jeanne' - Thornless
*🌱'Invicta' - Produces well here and tends to be pretty tangy in flavor.
*🌱🍒'Whitesmith'
*🌱'(Whinham's) Industry'
*🌱'Oregon Champion'
*🌱'Abundance'
*🍇Unknown (probably 'Poorman') - Very tasty and not too tart, but very little production for the first few years. Now as it's very well established it is beginning to bear heavily.

Currants (Ribes sp):

*🍒Red, 'Jonkheer Van Tets' - One of my top two choices rivaling 'Rovada' (based on the varieties I've tried) in terms of eating quality (great cooked and above average for a red when fresh).
*🍒Red, 'Rovada' - The first cultivar of red currant I grew and still one of my top two choices (based on the varieties I've tried) in terms of eating quality (great cooked and above average for a red when fresh).
*🌱🍒Red, 'Rosetta'
*🍒White, 'Imperial' (R. rubrum)
*🍒White, 'Primus'
*🌱White, 'Zitavia' - My original appeared to have some sort of virus and didn't produce so I killed it and was gifted a new one from a friend which so far appears to be healthy.
*🍒Black, Consort (R. nigrum x ussuriense) - Self-fertile. 
*Black, 'Hill's Kiev Select' (R. nigrum x) - Hybrid black currant.  I haven't gotten any fruit because I planted it too far from my other black currants.
*🍒Black, 'Titania' (R. nigrum x ussuriense)
*🌱Black, 'Ben Connan'
*Clove Currant, 'Crandall' (R. odoratum)
*Clove Currant, generic (R. odoratum)
*Golden Currant, Mike's clone (R. aureum) - a delicious orange fruited clone from a wild plant in eastern WA.

Cactaceae

Hedgehog Cacti (Echinocereus sp.):

*🌱E. triglochidiatus v. inermis - Growing in terra-cotta pots for now.
*🌱E. triglochidiatus v. gonacanthus White Sands, NM form -

Prickly Pear Cacti (Opuntia sp.):

*🌱O. phaeacantha v. woodsii 'Brilliant Orange' - Growing in terra-cotta pots for now
*🌱O. phaeacantha 'Plum' - Growing in terra-cotta pots for now
*🌱O. phaeacantha 'Mesa Sky' - Growing in terra-cotta pots for now
*🌱O. phaeacantha 'Orang-i-tang' -
*🌱O. macrocentra - Growing in terra-cotta pots for now. Seems to be vigorous. Started growing pads way faster than the O. phaeacantha cultivars planted at the same time. Very promising.
*🌱O. hybrid 'Desert Glow' - Upright.  Yellow-orange fruit.
*🌱O. 'Desert Romance' - Proved non hardy in a wet zone 8a winter.  Turned to complete mush.
*🌱O. 'Desert Delight'
*🌱O. 'Desert Dream'
*🌱O. 'Desert Apple'
*🌱O. 'Desert Green'

Solanaceae

*🍒'Crimson Star'/'Ningxia #1' Goji Berry (Lycium barbarum) - Commercial cultivar from northern China.  Reddish orange berries.
*🌱Broad-leaved Goji Berry (Lycium chinense) - Better used as a vegetable than as a fruit.
*🍇Tomatoes (Solanum lycopersicon) - naturalized in greenhouse.

Myrtaceae

*Chilean Guava, 'Villarica Strawberry' (Ugni molinae) - Un-named selection.
*🌱Chilean Guava, 'Flambeau' (Ugni molinae) - Variegated form.
*Feijoa (Acca sellowiana) - Multiple seed grown
*Cranberry Guava (Myrteola nummularia) - Far Reaches selection
*🌱Cider Gum (Eucalyptus gunnii)

Adoxaceae

Elderberries (Sambucus sp.):

*🌱'Ranch' (S. canadensis)
*🌱'Nova' (S. canadensis)
*'Bob Gordon' Black Elderberry (S. canadensis)
*'Wyldewood' Black Elderberry (S. canadensis)
*🍒'York' Black Elderberry (S. canadensis)
*🍒Blue Elderberry (S. cerulea)
*🍒'Laciniata' Black Elderberry (S. nigra var. laciniata)
*🍒'Eva' Black Elderberry (S. nigra var. laciniata x purpurea)
*'Eiffel 1' Black Elderberry (S. nigra) - Fastigiate
*🌱'Samdal' Black Elderberry (S. nigra)
*🌱'Haschburg' Black Elderberry (S. nigra)
*🌱'Pulverulenta' (S. nigra)
*🌱'Marginata' or 'Aureomarginata' ? (S. nigra)

Viburnum (Viburnum sp.):

*Manchurian Viburnum (Viburnum burejaeticum) - Disappointing, planning to cull.

Lardizabalaceae

Five Leaf Akebia (Akebia quinata):

*Unconfirmed ID - Cutting grown from an established specimen growing on a fence in the greater Seattle area. Seems to be the generic purple type often sold without a varietal name. Will need an additional variety for cross-pollination.

Blue Bean Shrub (Decaisnea fargesii)\

*🌱Blue Bean Shrub - 

Rhamnaceae

Jujube (Ziziphus jujuba):

*'Tigertooth' - Own root tree.  Not sure if it will ripen its late season fruit here.
*'Sugar Cane' -
*'GA-866' -


Raisin Tree (Hovenia dulcis):

*🌱Seed grown - Edible swollen flower petioles.

Other Fruits:

Pawpaw (Asimina triloba):

*Seedlings - Seed grown from two batches of seed (both from ebay). One batch was wild collected from the best tasting fruit found while someone traveled through multiple states. The other batch is seed from selected commercial varieties.
*'Allegheny' - Died
*🌱'Overleese' - Died

Persimmons (Diospyros sp.):

*Saijo' persimmon (D. kaki) - Early ripening type.  Barely hanging onto life
*🌱Persimmon seedlings (D. kaki) - From open pollinated fuyu type.  Grafted kaki always struggle for me, but these seedlings are doing fine so far.
*Date Plum Seedlings (D. lotus)

Grapes (Vitis sp.):

*🍇'Niagara' - Low vigor, but small pale greenish berries are very sweet and tasty. Delicious.
*🍒'Island Belle'/'Campbell's Early' (V. labrusca)
*'Interlaken' (V. labrusca) - Small green/golden grapes.
*'Venus' (V. vinifera) - Patented large blue grape from University of Arkansas breeding program.
*'Black Monukka' (V. vinifeta)
*'Petite Jewel'
*'Sweet Shelly' (NY 47616) - Small sweet slipskin berry on a slower growing vine.
*🌱🍒'Pixie Cabernet Franc' (V. vinifera) - Dwarf vine that is supposedly still productive.
*🌱'Centennial' grape (Vitis vinifera)
*🌱'Delight' grape (Vitis sp.)
*🌱'Jupiter'
*🌱'Mars' (Arkansas 1508)

Hardy Kiwi (Actinidia sp.):

*'Ken's Red' (A. arguta x melanandra)
*'Ananasnaya' (A. arguta) - Great yellow fall color
*🌱'Cordifolia' (A. arguta) - High in sugars
*'Issai' (A. arguta) - Semi-self fertile. Lacks vigor, but I'm using it in a spot where I don't want an overly aggressive vine.
*'MSU' (A. arguta) - longer fruit
*'Clark' (74-46) (A. arguta) - Male
*'Meader' Hardy Male (A. arguta)
*🌱'El Dorado' (A. chinensis) - Smooth-ish skinned fruit with some soft hairs and cream/yellow flesh. 6-7 fruit per pound. Mildly rose scented flowers. Medium-Low Vigor.
*🌱'M.WO3' (A. chinensis) - Male selection with good bloom overlap for 'El Dorado'.  Noted as having fragrant rose scented flowers. Medium Vigor. 
*‘Dr Szymanowski’ (A. kolomikta) - A variegated form with perfect flowers. 

Pomegranate (Punica granatum):

*'Eversweet' - Edible even if not fully ripe.
*'Parfianka' - Well rated for flavor.
*'Desertnyi' - Juice has orange flavor.
*'Sverkhranniy' - Early.  Soft seeded.
*'Sumbar' - Early. Soft seeded.
*🌱'Kazaki'
*🌱'Surh-Anor'
*🌱'Salavatski'
*🌱'Kaj-Acik-Anor'
*🌱'Al-Sirin-Nar' - Hard seeded juice variety.
Here's a link to my pomegranate trial.

Olives (Olea europaea):

*🍒'Arbequina' - currently growing in ground in the greenhouse. Ripens too late.
*🍒'Leccino'
*🍒'Pendolino' - Very early ripening
*🌱'Ascolano'
*🌱Seedlings of 'Pendolino' - From fruit ripened locally

Hardy Citrus :

*Bitter Orange (Citrus trifoliata), Generic - Accidental addition after a citrus failed to overwinter in my greenhouse and the rootstock took over. It's an attractive shrub and I look forward to experimenting with it's future fruits.
*🌱Yuzu (Citrus x junos), Seed grown
*🌱'Dunston' Citrumelo (X Citroncirus), Three seed grown specimens.
*🌱'Morton' Citrange (Citrus trifoliata x Citrus sinensis) - Two seed grown specimens.
*🌱'Thomasville' Citrangequat ((Citrus trifoliata x Citrus sinensis) x Citrus marginata)- One seed grown specimen.
*🌱'Changsha Mandarin (Citrus reticulata) -
*🌱'Bloomsweet' (Citrus hybrid) - Semi-hardy
*🌱Mystery Hybrid (Citrus trifoliata x ?) - Very hardy trifoliate hybrid with grapefruit like fruits, but leaflets are more narrow and not round-ish like known trifoliate/grapefruit hybrids.  Said to be sweet.

Magnolia Vine (Schisandra chinensis):

*'Eastern Prince' - Self-fertile cultivar. Shade tolerant.

Pindo Palm (Butia sp.):

*🌱Pindo Palm, (Butia capitata, but likely B. odorata) - Flavorful fruit and oily seed.  Started with five, but now down to two on account of winter losses.
*🌱Butia eriospatha - Two plants which had grown from a single double embryo seed.  They are doing pretty well considering they had very little roots at the time I purchased them.  They've overwintered multiple years not without protection.

Mahonia (Mahonia sp.):

*🍒Mahonia repens
*🍒Mahonia aquifolium 'Compacta' - Compact form of tall oregon grape. When I saw them in the nursery I was struck at how heavy their fruit set was.
*🍒Mahonia x media 'Charity' - Produces large clusters of fruit making it worthwhile for processing.
*🌱'Mahonia x media 'Lionel Fortescue'

Bunchberry (Cornus canadensis):

*Standard type (is there any other?) - died

Passionfruit (Passiflora sp.):

*🌱Maypop (P. incarnata) seedlings -
*🌱Passiflora ((incarnata × edulis var.  flavicarpa) × incarnata) × OP
*🌱Passiflora ('Bucky' × incarnata) × OP
Click here to see my seedling hardy passionfruit trial.

Honeyberry (Lonicera carulea):

*🍒'Czech #17'
*🍒'Sinyaya Ptitsa'
*'Aurora'
*'Blizzard'
*'Blue Hokkaido' (Chitose #6)
*'Blue Pagoda' (Chitose #11)

Staghorn Sumac (Rhus typhina):

*Male - Amazing pollen source for bees.  You can hear the trees humming with life while in bloom.
*🌱Female 'Laciniata' - A laceleaf version.  Will compare productivity with generic form.

Nuts:

Fagales:

*English Walnut (Juglans regia) - Seed grown, plus one grafted.
*Black Walnut (Juglans nigra) - Seed grown from 'Weschke' parent tree, a cultivar selected for thin shells/easy cracking.
*Heartnut (Juglans ailantifolia) - seedling
*Hardy Pecan (Carya illinoinensis) - Seed grown from open pollinated 'Kanza' cultivar.
*Chestnut (Castanea crenata hybrid) - Seed grown from 'Silverleaf'/'Eurobella' mother tree.
*🌱Chestnut (Castanea crenata hybrid) - Seed grown from 'Layeroka' mother tree.
*Chestnut, Dwarf (Castanea pumila hybrid) - Seed grown from isolated population (two trees found) of dwarf chestnut trees with characteristics indicating C. pumila ancestry mixed with other species.  Trees small like C. pumila, but differ in that they form multiple nuts per bur rather than one per bur as in the straight species.
*Chestnut, American Hybrid (Castanea dentata hybrid) - Seed grown from open pollinated tree showing traits of mixed ancestry, but with strong C. dentata influence.
*🌱Jefferson Hazel Seedlings (Corylus avellana) - Seed grown European hazels with parentage showing resistance to the hazelnut blight which damages European hazel trees.
*Garry Oak (Quercus garryana)

Pinales:

*🌱Dwarf Pine (Pinus pumila)
*Monkey Puzzle (Araucaria araucana) Seed grown from two batches of seed. One batch was shipped from South America.

Misc. Nuts:

*Yellowhorn (Xanthoceras sorbifolium)

 Vegetables (Greens, Herbs, Bulbs, Corms, Roots, Tubers, Etc.):

Alliums (Allium sp.):

*🍇Hardneck Garlic, 'Susan Delafield' Porcelain type (A. sativum var. ophioscorodon) - Huge cloves, very hot flavor!
*🍒Softneck Garlic, 'Inchelium Red' Artichoke type (A. sativum) -
*🍒Elephant Garlic (A. ampeloprasum var. ampeloprasum) - I don't care for it.
*Babington Leeks (A. ampeloprasum var. babingtonii)
*🍇Welsh Bunching Onions (A. fistulosum) - I don't pull these. I simply cut at ground level and let them regrow. I can harvest each bulb a couple times a year.
*🍇Chives (A. schoenoprasum)
*🍒Nodding Onions (A. cernuum)
*🍒Lily Leeks (A. molly) - Delightful yellow flowers with mild garlic flavor.  Excellent served as a meal topping.
*🌱A. nutans
*🌱A. x 'Millenium'
*🌱Griselle/French Gray Shallot/True Shallot (A. oschaninii) - Not the same species as commonly available shallots which are actually a selection of A. cepa.
*Rosy Garlic (A. roseum)
*🌱Garlic Chives (A. tuberosum) - Han Chung selection
*Allium wallichii
*Allium tricoccum

Lamiaceae:

*🍇Sage (Salvia officinalis) 'Berggarten' - Regular flavor, but with broad leaves and reduced tendency for flowering resulting in compact tidy plants.
*🍇Rosemary, multiple clones (Rosemarinus officinalis) 
*🍇Thyme (Thymnus sp.) - Mixed species.
*🍒Greek Oregano (Origanum vulgare ssp. hirtum)
*🍇Mint (Mentha sp.)- 'Spearmint', 'Scotchmint', 'Peppermint', 'Applemint', 'Wintergreen mint'
*Satureja vulgaris 
*Greek Mountain Tea (Sideritis syriaca)
*Mountain Tea (Sideritis clandestina)
*Olympus Mountain Tea (Sideritis scardica)

Asteraceae:

*🌱🍒Sun-snaps (H. tuberosus) 'Nora'
*🌱🍒Sun-snaps (H. tuberosus) 'Supernova'
*🍇Dandelion Root (Taraxicum officinale) - Good wine from the flowers, great for the bees.  Roasted root makes excellent beverage base.
*Ligularia fischeri - perennial leafy green
*🌱'Shogun' Aster (Aster yomena) - perennial leafy green
*🌱Chamchwi (Doellingeria scabra) - perennial leafy green
*🌱Bigleaf Aster (Eurybia macrophylla) - perennial leafy green

Misc. Vegetables:

*(Crocus sieberi) - Mix of two cultivars, 'Firefly' and 'Tricolor'. Edible corm supposedly tastes like hazelnuts.
*🌱Crocus sativus
*Chinese yam (Dioscorea polystachya) 'Nagaimo', 'Ichoimo', (Chiba) 'Tsukuneimo'
*🍒Hopniss (Apios americana) - Improved variety from Louisiana State University breeding program.  Really tasty to slugs and potato bugs.
*🍒Hopniss (Apios americana) 'Treasure' - from Oikos Tree Crops.  Thriving compared to my LAU selection.   Heavy flower production.
*🍒Hopniss (Apios americana) 'Kennebec' - 
*Eastern Redbud (Cercis canadensis) - Edible flowers and young seed pods.
*🍒Wapato (Sagittaria latifolia)
*Renkon/Lotus (Nelumbo nucifera) 'Space Lotus 36/Taikong Lian 36' - Variety selected for rhizome and seed production.
*Renkon/Lotus (Nelumbo nucifera) 'Pink-a-licious' - Variety selected for rhizome and seed production.
*Renkon/Lotus (Nelumbo nucifera) 'Pink and Gold/Jen Fin Shi Jia #3' - Dwarf variety selected for flower and seed production.
*🍇Stinging Nettles (Urtica dioica)
*🌱Fen Nettles (Urtica galeopsifolia)
*🌱Hops 'Willamette' (Humulus lupulus)
*🍇Watercress (Nasturtium officinale)
*🌱Turkish Rocket (Buni orientalis) - Perennial green with cabbage family type flavor for both greens and flower buds.
*🍒Rhubarb 'Crimson Cherry' (Rheum rhabarbarum/Rheum x cultorum) and other unknown varieties.
*🍒Rhubarb 'Plum Hutt'
*🍒Rhubarb, select seedling - Excellent heat tollerance and long season of harvest remaining in leaf after summer heat has pushed 'Crimson Cherry' and others into dormancy.
*🌱Himalayan Rhubarb (Rheum australe)
*🌱Chinese Rhubarb (Rheum palmatum var. tanguticum) - Supposedly edible, but smells really bad so I won't try.
*🍇Garden Sorrel (Rumex acetosa) - Reduced flowering selection with abundant leaf production.
*🌱French Sorrel 'Silver Shield' (Rumex scutatus) - mildly sour leafy green groundcover
*🌱Patience Dock (Rumex patientia) - 
*🍒Lamb's Quarters (Chenopodium sp.) - Tasty greens, but not common volunteer on disturbed soils.
*🌱Hablitzia tamnoides
*🍒Asparagus (Asparagus officinales) mixed varieties
*Camas (Camassia quamash) - Native edible bulb that was historically a major food crop.
*Greater Camas (Camassia l.) - Native edible bulb that was historically a major food crop.
*Yucca filamentosa - Tasty flowers, great boiled whole as a veggie dish.
*Yucca baccata
*Yucca elata
*Daylilies (Hemerocallis fulva, H. x 'Hyperion' and other assorted hybrids) - Edible buds and petals.  My favorite tasting so far is 'Hyperion'.  I will plant more of this variety for sure.
*Hosta sieboldiana 'Elegans'
*Hosta x 'Blue Angel'
*🍒Cattail, 'Variegata' (Typha lattifolia)
*🍒Squash (Cucurbita pepo, C. maxima, C. moschata) - Growing and saving seeds to develop my own land races best adapted to my conditions with minimal supplemental watering.
*🌱Moringa oleifera - Overwinter as dry dormant root similar to how dahlias are stored.
*🍇'Bronze' Fennel (Foeniculum vulgare)
*🍒'Florence' Fennel (Foeniculum vulgare var. azoricum)
*🍒Bay Laurel/Sweet Bay (Laurus nobilis)
*Horseradish (Armoracia rusticana)
*🍇Comfrey (Symphytum officinalis) - Mostly for external use as well as for green mulch and pulling nutrients from deep in the soil.
*Comfrey, 'Bocking 4' (Symphytum ×uplandicum)
*🌱Comfrey, 'Axminster Gold' - Variegated with gold edges on leaves.
*Plantain (Plantago major) - naturalized. Green form common, and purple leaved form also present.
*🌱🍇Houttuynia cordata 'Chameleon' - I have it and have tasted it, but am still debating whether I want to plant it as it can spread quite well...
*🌱Tea, Russian Seedling - Seed grown from seed sourced in Sochi, Russia.
*🌱Tea, ' Blushing Maiden' - Pink flowers
*Sweetshoot bamboo (Phyllostachys dulcis)
*🍒Myoga Ginger (Zingiber mioga) - Ginger cousin used for greens when picked young.  Click here to see a comparison of the various myoga cultivars I'm growing.
*🌱Hardy banana (Musa sikkimensis) - Seedy fruit (if it produces), but may be useful for banana leaves for steaming other foods wrapped inside. died
*Musa 'Namwah' - Not hardy, but will be using it to cross with hardy bananas in hopes of growing a hardy seedless banana. died
*Stonemaple, 'Karasuba' (Mukdenia rossii)
*Stonemaple, Quarryhill form (Mukdenia rossii)
*Saxifraga stolonifera 'Maroon Beauty' - edible greens, groundcover
*Stonecrop (Sedum oregonum) - edible leaves
*🌱Toona sinensis 'Flamingo'
*Brodiaea coronaria
*Brodiaea elegans ssp. elegans
*Triteleia hyacinthina
*Aralia cordata 'Sun King'
*🌱Angelica keiskei died, it ended up being biennial instead of perennial
*Crambe tatarica
*🌱Crambe maritima
*Zizania aquatica

Willow:

*🍒(Salix koriyanagi var. 'Rubikins') - Basketry willow with very fine flexible branches. Attractive in the landscape.

Mushrooms:

*🍇Honey Mushrooms (Armillaria sinapina) - Wild, seasonally abundant. Best fresh, but abundant harvests can be dried for later use.
*🍒Shaggy Mane/Shaggy Ink Cap (Coprinus comatus) - Only spotted on a few occasions, but I hope to encourage it. It's delishous!
*🍇Turkey Tails (Trametes versicolor) - Wild, common and abundant over an extended period of time. Too tough for eating, but can be used to make a mushroom stock and is reported to have anti-viral properties.
*🍇Artist's Conk (Ganoderma applanatum) - Very abundant.  Useful for teas or stocks, but too woody to actually eat directly.
*🍇Mica Inky Caps (Coprinellus micaceous) - Wild, small, but seasonally abundant. Great flavor and easy to dry for later use.
*🍇Winecaps (Stropharia rugosoannulata) - Introduced. Seasonally available, growing in wood chip mulch.
*Yellow Morels (Morchella esculenta or other similar) - Introduced. Amazing harvest the first year, mediocre harvest the second year, no sign of them the third year. :/
*🍒Landscape Morels (Morchella importuna)
*Shiitake (Lentinula edodes) - Introduced into standing deadwood snags.
*🍒Horse Mushrooms (Agaricus arvensis) - best cream of mushroom soup ever.
*🍒Shaggy Parasol (Chlorophyllum brunneum)
*Lion's Mane (Hericium erinaceus) - Introduced into standing deadwood snags.

Animal Products:

*🍇Meat (Ovis aries, 'Piebald' sheep) - Help manage the land and the annual harvest of meat from the lambs is the dominant form of meat in my diet these days.
*🍇Wool (Ovis aries, 'Piebald' sheep) - In the past the wool has been so full of thorns and such that I haven't bothered with it, but as the land gets more tame the workability of the wool is improving. This year I bought a spinning wheel and was able to make some cozy cold weather hats as well as some dish cloths/hot pads for kitchen use. Interested in doing more...
*🍒Fat (Ovis aries, 'Piebald' sheep) - The lambs don't have much fat, but occasionally I harvest an older sheep and it will have enough fat to save for soap making.
*Eggs (duck)
*🍒Honey (Apis melifera) - Delicious, and I'm finally getting the hang of keeping them around. The key seems to be to just provide housing for local bees rather than purchasing and bringing in bees from elsewhere.
*🍒Wax (Apis mellifera) - As a byproduct of honey harvesting I get a bit of bees' wax which I have found useful here and there. I've used it to seal terracotta saucers as well as to make wood treatments.

Seed, cutting, ect. Acquired, but not yet growing:

*Musa x Helen's Hybrid
*Musa velutina
*Cornus kousa
*Allium nutans
*Allium obliquum
*Allium victorialis
*Asparagus acutifolius 
*Campanula alliariifolia
*Campanula glomerata
*Campanula latifolia var. alba
*Campanula takesimana 
*Campanula trachelium
*Darmera peltata
*Schoenoplectus acutus
*Atriplex canescens
*Atriplex confertifolia
*Tilia platyphyllos
*Rosa canina var. inermis

Ordered, but not yet received:


Possible Future Additions Under Consideration:

*Pigeons (Columba livia domestica)
*Water Hawthorne (Aponogeton distachyos)
*Sweet Potatoes: 'Okinawan' - White skin, purple flesh darkens when cooked.  Dense, sweet.
*Lanzho lily (Lilium davidii var. unicolor)
*Spring Beauty (Claytonia lanceolata) - Edible tubers.  Native.

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Comments

  1. Hi, I am from Europe, zone 6. You grow many plants. From native american fruits I grow illinois mulberry. Please tell me something about the taste of manchurian viburnum. Is it worthy to grow it for fruit eating ?

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    1. Hi Jan, my manchurian viburnum is still young and has not started producing yet. I do have high hopes for it though. It has a very attractive appearance with its leaves alone. I don't personally know anyone who grows this plant so I am not sure how old it needs to be before it starts producing. I'm hoping it will begin in the next year or two.

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  2. Is it true that Opuntia 'Desert Green' and Opuntia 'Desert Glow' are hardy for you (in the ground) in Washington? Do you have to cover them at all?

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    1. I have found that mature pads of 'Desert Green' and 'Desert Glow' are hardy here some winters, but not all winters. Younger pads are less hardy. At this point I've found it easiest to simply grow them permanently in my unheated greenhouse as it provides just enough protection to reliably get them through every winter. An added bonus of the greenhouse is it gives them a longer growing season which allows young pads more time to harden off before winter. I wouldn't be surprised if these were more reliably zone 8 hardy further south where they would naturally have a long growing season and plenty of time to harden off before cold sets in.

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    2. Thank you for the reply! I'm in central Texas (USDA Zone 8b). I bought a number of those Planting Justice Opuntia cultivars to see if they would be hardy in my zone. We had an unusual cold snap in December that killed my Desert Oasis, though. After that loss, I'm intending to cover the other O. ficus-indica cultivars and hybrids for the first three years.

      Are you getting fruit from your other, hardier cultivars? In particular, how is O. phaeacantha 'Orang-i-tang' doing fruit-wise? I bought a 'Plum' and 'Orang-i-tang', but they are still too small for flowers and fruit.

      If you're still after other fruiting varieties of Opuntia that can handle Zone 8, check out Opuntia orbiculata. They produce good tasting fruit that sometimes get HUGE. See this post: https://www.instagram.com/p/CTnYSuiBu0O/

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