Plants & Farm Sales

Plant list and prices
FARM ADDRESS:  3295 Compton Road, Victoria, BC 
Eco-Sense has entered a new phase to officially become a farm.  Our focus will be spread out to include many aspects of food.  This is to keep life interesting, to mirror life’s reality, to adapt to changing growing conditions (climate change), and increase resilience in unpredictable economic times.  Gord is expanding his perennial plant knowledge exponentially…his brain is well suited to this and I find it very sexy when he rattles off Latin names.

• We will be selling specialty perennial plants here at Eco-Sense, as well as plant group packages (guilds).
• Also available will be extra items like eggs, teas, herbs, seeds, and produce from the garden.
• We plan on having a weekly open house  – schedule is on the top right menu of our page – (starting  Saturday April 26th of 2014). where people can come and wander through the food forest, talk to us about plants, specific cultivars, guilds, chickens, veggies, nuts, water systems, energy, food preservation, cheese making, mud, ponds, climate resilience, rant about politics, etc.  We may even talk about our Eco-Sense home or the Eco-Hut.

Below is the beginnings of the plants we will offer for sale (pick up only).  It is organized as follows – links to specific section at the top, followed by a running list of everything.  So if you are specifically searching you can go to the section of interest… and if you just want to feel empathy for us in our learning curve you can scan the list.

Fruits and Berries

Nuts and Edible Seeds

Nitrogen Fixers

Useful Trees and shrubs

Roots and Tubers

Herbaceous, Annual and Perennial Veggies, Seeds

Tea and Tea Related

Perennial Veggies:

The List

Currants

• Black Currants   (Ben Tirran, Ben Hope, Ben Connan)
• White  Currant     (White Pearl Currant)
• Pink  Currant  (Gloire de Sablon Currant)
• Red Currant

Josta Berry (black currant X gooseberry)

Honey Berry (Haskap)

• Early flowering:  Borealis, Tundra, Honey Bee (sold out for 2015)
• Late flowering:  Blue Hokkaido, Blue Velvet, Blue Mist, Blue Sea, Blue Pagoda (Japanese varieties better suited for the coast)

Gooseberry

• Hinomaki yellow gooseberry (Sold out for 2015)
• Hinomaki Red gooseberry

Cornelian Cherry

• 2 cultivars sold as set for Cross Pollination (Pioneer, Elegant)

Seabuck Thorn

• Russian and German varieties, sold in cross pollinating sets
• Russian:  Titan (f), Star of Alta (f), Botanica (f) pollinating male
• German:  Golden Sweet (f), Orange Energy (f), Hergo (f), Sirola (f) pollinating male

Highbush Cranberry

Black Elderberry

• 3 cultivars  – Nova, York, Korsor
• Nova and York sold as a cross-pollinating pair

Goumi

• Red Gem, Sweet Scarlett

Hazelnuts (EFB resistant varieties

• Theta, Jefferson, Yamhill, Gamma, Eta, Sacajawea
• From Oregon State University breeding program

Autumn Olive

• 4 cultivars Ruby, Amber, Garnet and Fernwood, self fertile

Fuzzy Kiwi

• Hayward (f), Saanichtn 12 (f), Fuzzy male
• Sold as a pair if one female is bought,…
• If multiple females are bought – one male serves up to eight females

Hardy Kiwi

• 3 female cultivars Michigan, Anna, Issai (Issai partially self fertile),
• 2 males Andrey and a male
• sold minimally as a pair with choice of Female and male or 1 male can pollinate up to 8 females

Arctic Kiwi

• sold as a pair Pasha (m) and Arctic Beauty (f)

Goji

• Several varieties from the Barbarum and Chinense families

Japanese Climibng Yam (Dr. Yao)

• sold out for 2015

Chinese Dogwood

Sezchuan Pepper tree

• Peferrably sold in pairs for x pollination despite ours being self fertile

Raspberry

• Honey Queen (white), Heritage (red)

Dwarf Sour Cherry (8 feet tall)

• 4 cultivars out of Sakatchewan breeding progran – Romeo, Juliet, Cupid, Valentine
• Self fertile – but better with two

Grapes

• Himrod  and Interlaken (green table and juice)
• Vanessa (red table and juice)
• Soveriegn Coronation (purple table and juice)
• Fredona (table and arbour(
• Pinot Noir (wine)
•  Steuben (black wine) Limited quantity)
• Castel (red wine)

Shiny Leaf Yellowhorn – (Chinese macadamia)

Mulberry – Black and White

• Black:  Paksitan Black(tall),  Morus nigra(med.), Illionois everbearing(short)
• White:  Ivory and Carmen

Toona Sinensis (Chop Suey tree or Chinese Mahogany)

• edible tree – keep coppiced for edible shoots and leaves

American Persimmon (Diospyros virginianna)

• Sold out for 2015 – seedlings ready for 2016

Chinese Date Plum (Diospyrus lotus)

• Sold out 2015

Japanese Persimmon (Diospyris kaki)

• Izu (non astringent)

Chinese Date Jujube (Ziziphus jujuba)

Paw Paw

Hardy Pecan (Carya illinoinensis)

• 2 Cultivars ultra northern – Campbell NC4 and ‘Large’

Black Locust

Honey Locust

• Sold out 2015

Black Walnut

Japanese Heartnut walnut (2 types)

Butternut walnut

Buartnut walnut (Heartnut X Butternut)

English Carpathian walnut

• Sold out 2015

Siberian Pea Shrub

Ginko Biloba

Russian Olive

European Olive (Aberquina)

Juneberry /Saskatoon

Forsythia

Chinese Ginseng (Panax ginseng)

• for 2017

Siberian Ginseng

Purple Cone Flower (Echinacea)

Guava (Psidium guajava)

Pine Nuts

• Siberian Stone Pine – 16″ tall

Russian SWEET Almond (Prunus tenella)

• Fed to bunnies this winter… more for 2016

Wintergreen

Perrenial Arugula

Lingon berry

Capulin Cherry

Butteryfly Bush

Fig

• Desert King (to 20 feet) and Negronne dwarf black (to 8 feet)
• Hardy strawberry (bush to 3 feet)

Tea (Camelia sinensis var cultivars)

Bay Laurel

Kohlrabi (giant Supersmelchtz)

Perennial Leek (allium ampeloprasum)

Hungarian climbing pea

Chick peas (2  types: Black kabuli, Desi)

Helda Bean

Black Heritage pole bean

Quinoa

Watermelon (Blacktail Mtn)

Scarlett Runner Bean

Orca Bush Bean

Oca (white)

Yacon

 

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