Blenril Apricot Scion for Pacific Northwest

I had an opportunity to visit a farm in British Columbia that had the Blenril Apricot. The fruit had all the flavor I expect from a California grown apricot. According to the farmer, it also seems this particular cultivar is well suited for growing/producing in the pacific northwest. Does anyone in Washington/Oregon have this cultivar in their collection, and would be willing to share scions? Or any recommendations for cultivars that have done well in the PNW region? Thanks

Hi Ann, welcome. I would also love to try that varietal. Burnt Ridge Nursery in SW Washington state has been very helpful for PNW proven varietals.

I'm also in Pacific North West, and I have one Self-Fertile Apricot tree.
It seems like I get a good crop of wonderful fruit maybe every fourth year.
I think the primary issue here where I am is that late frosts, or windy, rainy weather during blossom make the pollination difficult.

... I am pretty sure I have the variety, 'Puget Gold'... but it was one of my early plantings and I lost the tag and records long ago ...
I planted it more than fifteen years back probably... the tree gets damaged sometimes by winter weather and seems prone to disease and some insect troubles...
But its fruit is quite wonderful when fully ripe, which happens when we get a hot Summer...
Fresh apricots, fully ripened, are so tasty and soft and fragile.  It makes me understand why they can't have good fresh Apricots at the supermarkets.

This year was a good Apricot year - I got a lot of really tasty fruit, despite (because of?) some rough Winter weather.
I'll have to look into this Blenril variety!

I live in Oregon and I love apricots, they're one of my favorite fruits. I've had a Puget Gold in my orchard for about 23 years and it only occasionally does it produce a crop, but they taste great. I also had a Creswell apricot in my food forest that I purchased from Territorial Seed Company nursery about 20 years ago. The tree produced about once every four years until about four years ago it suddenly died. It had delicious apricots, but they were small. I saved the last crop of seeds and planted them after stratifying them in my fridge for a few months. I got several to grow. The fastest grower was planted into my food forest and is now about 8 feet tall. It flowered last summer for the first time and should hopefully produce some fruit next year (fingers crossed).

I have three other Creswell seedlings for sale for $15- $20 each. They're all about 5 feet tall and in 1 1/2 and 2 gallon pots. If you live in western Oregon, you could check out my nursery or I also deliver in the Eugene/Cottage Grove/Florence area. Purple moosage me for info if you're interested. I think I also have some seeds left of Puget Gold and Creswell, but I'll have to check.

I'm also interested in Blenril, I'll be looking it up later today and try to get more info. I'm also interested in getting seeds from Chinese, Manchurian, Harglow and other late blooming apricots.

My old Creswell cropping:

I can't seem to find Blenril apricot anywhere, except a brief mention in my old (2000) Fruit, Berry and Nut Inventory book. The Virus-Free Fruit Tree Collection at Washington State University in Prosser, WA was listed as the only source for Blenril scion wood. They have a website, you might want to check it out.

https://www.cpcnorthwest.com/s/fruit-trees