Sand Plum Is Chickasaw Plum, Sand Colina Plum, Mount Cherry, Prunus Angustifolia
Prunus angustifolia has many names but is delicious both for wild animals as well as human consumption.
We drove over to Arkansas a few days agone to catch Pine Ridge Gardens as well as purchase a few shrubs for our dorsum acre where nosotros receive got fruit as well as nutrient for wildlife.
Sand Plums are a cracking source of jelly making fruit if you lot tin larn whatever earlier wild animals takes them all.
Chickasaw plum plants grow fifteen feet tall as well as broad inward a twiggy form.
The bark is dark as well as the stems are reddish.
February through May, minor white flowers as well as piddling crimson plums appear. The flowers receive got 5 white petals with reddish or orangish anthers. The plums are cherry-like as well as tend to endure quite tart until they fully ripen subsequently inward the summer.
Chickasaw Plums thrive inward depression water, loose, sandy soil with Sun to part-shade. The ones I planted 2 years agone receive got died without forming clumps because the surface area became also shady.
I asked MaryAnn King, possessor of Pine Ridge, if she had whatever exceptional planting suggestions as well as she responded, "They grow with the route then you lot know what to do."
Since I'd similar to receive got many to a greater extent than than I could afford to purchase, I'm going to endeavour my manus at propagating them yesteryear cuttings.
Pine Ridge Gardens has provided many of the native plants nosotros receive got added to our backyard landscape inward the yesteryear fifteen years. King sells at her plant nursery (open houses function on this month) every bit good every bit selling at many festivals simply about the Tulsa area.
This is the ideal fourth dimension to found shrubs, trees, jump blooming bulbs, garlic, onions, perennial blossom seeds, native found seeds, etc.
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| Fall inward the Ozarks |
We drove over to Arkansas a few days agone to catch Pine Ridge Gardens as well as purchase a few shrubs for our dorsum acre where nosotros receive got fruit as well as nutrient for wildlife.
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| Native Sand Plums |
Chickasaw plum plants grow fifteen feet tall as well as broad inward a twiggy form.
The bark is dark as well as the stems are reddish.
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| MaryAnn King as well as Candy |
Chickasaw Plums thrive inward depression water, loose, sandy soil with Sun to part-shade. The ones I planted 2 years agone receive got died without forming clumps because the surface area became also shady.
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| Native make Prunus angustifolia |
In 1874 they were cultivated yesteryear Native Americans as well as early on settlers to endure used every bit a nutrient source, comprehend for livestock, windbreaks, erosion command as well as wild animals food. If you lot desire them for your kitchen, protect the plants from rabbits, deer, birds, squirrels, etc.
I asked MaryAnn King, possessor of Pine Ridge, if she had whatever exceptional planting suggestions as well as she responded, "They grow with the route then you lot know what to do."
Since I'd similar to receive got many to a greater extent than than I could afford to purchase, I'm going to endeavour my manus at propagating them yesteryear cuttings.
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| Pine Ridge Gardens native nursery |
Pine Ridge Gardens has provided many of the native plants nosotros receive got added to our backyard landscape inward the yesteryear fifteen years. King sells at her plant nursery (open houses function on this month) every bit good every bit selling at many festivals simply about the Tulsa area.
This is the ideal fourth dimension to found shrubs, trees, jump blooming bulbs, garlic, onions, perennial blossom seeds, native found seeds, etc.