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["MARIE ASHTON" <bwoodtx@verizon.net>]

Here is a little more information on P. spinosa subspecies:
http://www.rhs.org.uk/WhatsOn/gardens/rosemoor/archive/rosemoorpom04mar.asp

And here is a nursery selling these subspecies (unfortunately it is in 
England):
http://www.bluebellnursery.com/cgi-bin/catalogue.cgi?cat=t&genus=Prunus&initial=P

Regards,
Richard Ashton
Oak Creek Orchard
www.oakcreekorchard.com
bwoodtx@verizon.net

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Spidra Webster" <spidra@speakeasy.net>
To: "North American Fruit Explorers" <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Monday, October 29, 2007 1:11 AM
Subject: [NAFEX] Sloe Cultivars?


> 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
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