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HOUGHTON KEWEENAW
CONSERVATION DISTRICT
2016 ANNUAL TREE SALE
Houghton Keweenaw CD
(906) 482-0214
Board of Directors
Gina Nicholas, Chairperson
Tom Collins
Mark Klemp
Jim Rivard
Steve Siira
NRCS
Rob Aho, Engineer
ONE DAY TREE SALE
First Come, First Served
Saturday, May 7 from 8 AM until NOON
at the Houghton Keweenaw Conservation
District Office
711 W. Lakeshore Drive, Houghton 49931
(906) 482-0214
All prices include 6% sales tax
Wildflowers
2 inch by 5 inch plugs
5 for $25
Columbine One of the earliest flowering plants in Spring for pollinators. Red and yellow flowers on plants to 2 feet tall, tolerates a wide variety of soils and sun, from shade to full sun. Deer resistant. Self sows small black seeds. Purple Coneflower Drought tolerant, deer resistant plants with purple daisy‐like flowers. Bees love their flowers which blossom June through September. Up to 4 ft tall, best in full/partial sun, moist to medium soils. Lance Leaved Coreopsis Showy golden blooms from late spring to early summer, sunny sites with dry or sandy soil. Large 1.5 inch flowers grow to 2 feet tall on long stems. Sweet Joe Pye Weed Stunning pink to purple clustered flowers 4 to 7 feet tall! Vanilla scented and loved by bees, Monarch and Swallowtail butterflies. Blooms July through September. Prefers moist, well drained, rich garden soil and tolerates partial to full shade. Butterfly Weed A great milkweed for a sunny loca on in a dry area. It has vivid orange flowers, a low mounded profile, and a racts and sustains bu erflies. Rose Milkweed Also called Marsh or Swamp Milkweed. Large rose‐pink flowers with vanilla fragrance, a racts all kinds of bees and bu erflies. This deer‐resistant plant grows in full sun in moist to medium soils. Apricot
Peach
Pear
Nectarine
Fruit All semi-dwarf root stock
Variety Descrip on Pollinators Arc c Glo Very sweet, white fleshed nectarine streaked with crimson, semi‐cling pit. Flavorful with a balance of sweet and acid, popular market variety. Cold hardy. Self‐fer le Red Clapps An excellent red pear that ripens before Bartle . It is Any pear except Late August fine‐grained with very white flesh and excellent flavor Red Clapps similar to Clapp’s. Red Bartle Its red color and dessert quali es make this a popular Red Clapp market variety. Plant trees 12 apart. Seckel Pear Small dessert pear; also called “sugar pear” or “candy Red Clapps, any Mid pear”; fruit is super sweet with a hint of spice; o en pear except used in cooking and canning, also enjoyed fresh. Note: September Bartle or Seckel Cannot pollinate Bartle trees Reliance Originated in New Hampshire in 1964; dark red skin splashed over yellow; round fruit is medium to large Self‐fer le in size; bright yellow flesh is burs ng with flavor. Wenatchee Moorpark Self‐fer le; good Abundant large yellow fruit. Flesh is a greenish‐yellow. pollinator for Good for drying and home canning. other apricots Sweet as honey; up to 3 inch fruit; crisp, cream Honeycrisp colored flesh is mild, sweet and aroma c. Cold hardy. Apple
We look forward to seeing you at the 2016 Tree Sale, 711 W. Lakeshore Drive, May 7, 2016
Mix and
2016 HKCD Tree Sale Featured Plants
$25 each, 5 for $110
Match Fruit Trees
Harvest Mid‐July Late August Mid August August Crabapple, Mid Cortland, Fuji, Gala, McIntosh, Wolf September River Crabapple, Fuji, Gala, Mid to Late Honeycrisp, McIntosh, Pippin, September Wolf River Cortland Ruby red apples with a snowy center that won’t brown when cut; perfect for pies and cider; cold hardy. Jonamac McIntosh dessert apple, dark red, medium size. Firm, Early Crabapple, Gala, Fuji, crisp fruit. Makes a great pollinator due to extended Cortland, Honeycrisp September bloom me. Gale Gala Cortland, Wolf A mild, sweet ea ng apple known for its deep red color; stores well. One of the top 3 ea ng apples in the River, Honeycrisp, McIntosh, Fuji U.S. Crabapple, Early to mid September Great for cidering
Heirloom Apples
Fruit All semi-dwarf root stock
Variety Descrip on Pollinators Harvest Gravenstein Originated in Denmark around 1797. Tasty dessert and culinary apple, cold hardy. Great for ea ng, baking and drying; the dried apples given to troops in WWII. Sops of Wine Old English variety from 1832. Mild flavor, great for cooking, wine and hard cider. Crabapple, Golden Early; Late delicious, McIntosh, July to Early Jonathan, Yellow August Transparent Crabapple , Cortland, Golden Delicious, Fuji, Early Gala, Honeycrisp, September Jonathan, Wolf River, Yellow Transparent Yellow Transparent Early summer apple, good for drying, freezing, Cortland, sauce, juice and wine. Light‐textured, juicy flesh. Jonathan, Very sweet flavor. Originated in Russia pre‐1870. MacIntosh, Wolf Crabapple, Early; Late July to Early August River Did you know? Our familiar apple (Malus species) was domesticated from the
Khazakhstan region. Crab apples have other apples bred into them, often from Siberian,
Asian or European strains. The main distinction between apples and crab apples is size:
Larger fruit are apples, while 2 inches or smaller diameter fruit are called crab apples.
New varieties this
year!
All prices include
6% sales tax
Gravenstein Apple
Great for cidering
Heirloom Apples
Fruit Whitney Crabapple
Pollinators Harvest We look forward to seeing you at the 2016 Tree Sale, 711 W. Lakeshore Drive, May 7, 2016
Mix and
2016 HKCD Tree Sale Featured Plants
$25 each, 5 for $110
Match Fruit Trees
Variety Descrip on Wolf River Large, outstanding cooking apples, and good in Crab apple, cider as well; dull red with pale yellow skin with Cortland, Fuji, Late Gala, Honeycrisp, dull red, juicy and tender with a tart flavor; grows McIntosh September true from seed; dates to 1875. (Jonamac) Whitney Edible Crab The Lunch Box apple; good quality crab apple, up to 2 inches; starts tart and sweetens as it matures; crisp; yellow striped with red; bears early; good for jelly, canning, pickling, preserving and spicing. Dates to 1869. Self fer le, Early excellent pollinator for all September apples Berries by the Bag
Variety
Blueberry
Jersey
Northland
Strawberry
Patriot
Berries
We look forward to seeing you at the 2016 Tree Sale, 711 W. Lakeshore Drive, May 7, 2016
2016 HKCD Tree Sale Featured Plants
All Star
Honeoye
Encore Red
Raspberry
Chester
Blackberry
Description
Large and upright with medium-sized, good flavor
berries. Bush/berries are excellent and satisfactory Through Mid
September
for both hand/mechanical picking. 18-24 inches.
Reaches height and width of 4 feet. Very
productive often yielding >20 pounds per bush.
Dark blue, medium sized berries with high sugar
content excellent for jams and baking. 18-24
inches.
4 to 6 feet height, yield ranging from 10 - 20
pounds of tight clustered fruit that are large and
firm. 18-24 inches.
Concord August
Pricing
Mix and Match
4 packs
$32 for 4 Plants
(same variety)
8 for $60
Early July
Large strawberry that "has that sweet, good old
strawberry flavor" with an almost perfect
strawberry shape. June-bearers are sensitive to
day length and send out runners in spring as day
length increases.
June
Large, “sweet as honey” gives Honeoye its name.
The best for freezing. Beautiful red color, sweet
and highly aromatic. Plants are highly resistant to
disease. 2-week harvest period. June-bearer.
June
$13 for 25 plants
$50 for 100 Plants
Large attractive fruits ripen mid July and last into
mid-August. Sturdy, nearly spineless canes do not
Mid July
need support. Fruits on tops of canes make for
easy harvesting. 2.5 inch container
Most winter hardy, thornless. Giant, glossy jet
black berries. Resistant to cane blight. 2.5 inch
Mid August
container
Guaranteed Grapes
Variety Harvest
5 for
$18
10 for
$35
5 for
$23
10 for
$45
Self-fertile, 12-18 inch plants
$8 each or 5 for $38
Descrip on Flowering Vigorous, hardy and productive; medium sized clusters of large blue-black
berries; tough skinned, flavorful and highly aromatic. All-purpose grape for May-June
grape jelly, juice, flavoring soft drinks and candy.
Mid
Season
An extremely cold hardy, red wine grape. Produces dry red wine, rosé, port, A few days
earlier than
acid reducing techniques are often used by the winemaker.
Concord
Late
Season
A few days
Seedless Concord with clusters and berries smaller than Concord. Matures
later than
earlier than Concord with good flavor perfect for pies and preserves.
Concord
Late
Season
Frontenac deep colored wines. Produces grapes with high sugar and high acidity, so
Concord Seedless Harvest Winter-hardy, medium-sized red, seedless grape with strawberry-like flavor;
Summerset moderately vigorous plants with small to medium compact clusters; quite
Seedless disease-resistant; edible at pink stage in August, but much more flavorful
and sweeter if left to ripen to full red; great for juice and jelly.
May-June
Early to
Late
Season
Northern White Cedar
(Thuja occidentalis) 40-60 ft, pyrimidal shaped, grows on a variety of sites. Shade tolerant.
Windbreaks, hedges and wildlife habitat.
Red Pine
(Pinus resinosa) 50-80 ft; coarse, well drained sites. Can tolerate dry, windy or rocky sites.
Shade intolerant, extremely cold tolerant. Windbreak, wildlife habitat.
White Pine
(Pinus strobus). Up to 150 ft. Moist to somewhat poorly drained sandy/sandy loam soils.
Shade tolerant. Food, nesting sites, wildlife cover.
White Spruce
(Picea glauca) 90-100 ft, best on well drained soils. Shade tolerant. Windbreak, good winter
wildlife habitat.
Tamarack (E. Larch)
(Larix laricina) up to 65 ft; deciduous evergreen; slender pyramidal tree; tolerates standing
water, acidic soils; prefers full sun. Turns golden in fall and drops needles each year.
Other Plants
Variety
Description
All male hybrid, highly productive, very vigorous. Most winter hardy of
Jersey Giant
Jersey Hybrids. Medium to large (7-9") green spears with purple bracts.
Asparagus
2 yr old root.
Canada Red Juicy stalks, cherry-red clear throughout. Keeps color when cooked.
Rhubarb
Tender stalks high in sugar, no need to peel.
(Prunus serotina) grows in in both lowland and upland woods; one of the
Black Cherry largest of native cherries, to 50-75 ft; profuse clusters of fragrant white
flowers; ripens late summer, dark purple-black edible fruit.
Harvest
Spring, 2nd year Bundle of 6 plants
after planting
$8
2-3 years after
planting
(Cornus sericea) bright red twigs and stems, fast growing,
multi-stemmed, deciduous shrub; 4-5 ft. with spreading habit; flat topped
clusters of tiny white flowers in late spring; clusters of whitish to bluish
tinged late summer fruit which is attractive to birds; good fall color.
N/A
American
Hazelnut
(Corylus americana) native multi-stemmed shrub, 8-16 ft; dry or moist
thickets, woodlands and wood margins, valleys, uplands and prairies; 1/2
inch egg-shaped edible nuts in leafy husk; may be roasted, ground into
flour; coveted by squirrels and birds.
August to
September
Highbush
Cranberry
(Viburnum Trilobum) native ornamental to 12 ft. with maple-like leaves,
white lacecap flowers May to June; shiny bright red berries, edible but
not tasty, preferred by wildlife.
1 Root $10
September
Redosier
Dogwood
(Sorbus americana) medium sized tree up to 30 ft; feathery leaves;
Mountain Ash clusters of white flowers in May to early June; bright red berries last into
the winter, eaten by birds.
Pricing
N/A
August
Bundle Bundle
of 10
of 5
plants Plants
$27
$15
We look forward to seeing you at the 2016 Tree Sale, 711 W. Lakeshore Drive, May 7, 2016
Conifers
2016 HKCD Tree Sale Featured Plants
Plug size under 4 inches
25 for $15, 50 for $30
Houghton Keweenaw Conservation District
711 W. Lakeshore Drive, Unit A
Houghton, MI 49931
Thank you for supporting your Conservation District!
Office Location:
711 W Lakeshore Dr. Unit A
Houghton, MI 49931
Park at waterfront park
New varieties added this year!
All prices now include
6% sales tax