posted 9 years ago
Hello, I am making a food forest in my parent's backyard in Nantucket, Massachusetts (zone 7b) and am working with my neighbors to create their food forest and start a rare edible plants nursery. I have planted a myriad of fruit trees including lots of Peaches, Pears, Plums, Apricots, Apples, Pluots, Cherries, Paw Paws, Persimmons, Mulberries and some leaf crop trees too. I'm looking to get a hold of as many different large fruit or large edible seeded varieties of different species within the medium to high nitrogen fixing genus known as Elaeagnus. In this quest, I've found and procured a couple Elaeagnus x Ebbingei shrubs, Sweet Scarlet Goumi as well as the wild Goumi have some of the Large fruited Russian Olive from Afghanistan (Elaeagnus Angustifolia Var. Orientalis) that Baker Creek Seeds sells seed for occasionally (Here's the link if you're interested: http://www.rareseeds.com/bail-fruit/submit-review/) and some Trebizond Date seeds of the broad leaved large fruited shrub variety and the Narrow Leaved 40 ft tall tree variety from an ebay seller. Anybody know of any large fruited Elaeagnus cultivars that are out there? Or where to get them? My hopes is to propagate them and make them available to people as an edible nurse crop for their fruit trees. If anyone would like to trade plants or seed, I'm into that too.
Thanks friends!
Best Regards, Alden Lenhart