Sand Plum Is Chickasaw Plum, Sand Loma Plum, Mount Cherry, Prunus Angustifolia
Prunus angustifolia has many names only is delicious both for wild animals together with human consumption.
We drove over to Arkansas a few days agone to catch Pine Ridge Gardens together with purchase a few shrubs for our dorsum acre where nosotros receive got fruit together with nutrient for wildlife.
Sand Plums are a groovy source of jelly making fruit if you lot tin larn whatever earlier wild animals takes them all.
Chickasaw plum plants grow xv feet tall together with broad inwards a twiggy form.
The bark is dark together with the stems are reddish.
February through May, small-scale white flowers together with niggling cerise plums appear. The flowers receive got 5 white petals with reddish or orangish anthers. The plums are cherry-like together with tend to move quite tart until they fully ripen after inwards the summer.
Chickasaw Plums thrive inwards depression water, loose, sandy soil with Sun to part-shade. The ones I planted ii years agone receive got died without forming clumps because the expanse became also shady.
I asked MaryAnn King, possessor of Pine Ridge, if she had whatever especial planting suggestions together with she responded, "They grow with the route together with 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 essay my manus at propagating them past times cuttings.
Pine Ridge Gardens has provided many of the native plants nosotros receive got added to our backyard landscape inwards the past times xv years. King sells at her plant nursery (open houses operate along this month) every bit good every bit selling at many festivals around the Tulsa area.
This is the ideal fourth dimension to constitute shrubs, trees, jump blooming bulbs, garlic, onions, perennial bloom seeds, native constitute seeds, etc.
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| Fall inwards the Ozarks |
We drove over to Arkansas a few days agone to catch Pine Ridge Gardens together with purchase a few shrubs for our dorsum acre where nosotros receive got fruit together with nutrient for wildlife.
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| Native Sand Plums |
Chickasaw plum plants grow xv feet tall together with broad inwards a twiggy form.
The bark is dark together with the stems are reddish.
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| MaryAnn King together with Candy |
Chickasaw Plums thrive inwards depression water, loose, sandy soil with Sun to part-shade. The ones I planted ii years agone receive got died without forming clumps because the expanse became also shady.
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| Native arrive at Prunus angustifolia |
In 1874 they were cultivated past times Native Americans together with early on settlers to move used every bit a nutrient source, encompass for livestock, windbreaks, erosion command together with 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 especial planting suggestions together with she responded, "They grow with the route together with 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 essay my manus at propagating them past times 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 inwards the past times xv years. King sells at her plant nursery (open houses operate along this month) every bit good every bit selling at many festivals around the Tulsa area.
This is the ideal fourth dimension to constitute shrubs, trees, jump blooming bulbs, garlic, onions, perennial bloom seeds, native constitute seeds, etc.