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[Spidra Webster <spidra@speakeasy.net>]

I've been enjoying a number of British podcasts and blogs and many of  
them have talked about sloes and homemade sloe gin.  Which has fired  
my desire to add Prunus spinosa to my edible landscape.  However, not  
only have I only found one US nursery selling it (so far), my quick  
Googling hasn't turned up any information about improved cultivars.   
Are there none?  If so, is that because it comes true from seed or is  
it because sloes are "good enough" for sloe gin and haven't needed  
any improvement?  I just want to know what's out there before I pull  
the trigger and make an impulse purchase.

Thanks,

Megan Lynch

Berkeley, CA
Zone 9b