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["Lon J. Rombough" <lonrom@hevanet.com>]

I've grown Hall's Hardy.  It's a peach-almond hybrid and it's usually grafted on something like St. Julian plum rootstock.  It's the rootstock you have to think about.  Peach rootstock isn't particularly invasive, but plum stocks like St.  Julian may sucker.  Incidently, the "nuts" of HH are thick shelled, resembling a peach pit more than an almond.  The trees make a nice ornamental, but the nuts are almost as hard to crack as black walnuts.   You might try Prunus tenella.  It's sold as an ornamental, but some types produce a good number of nuts on a bush.  Just don't eat them  raw - they have to be cooked to destroy the cyanide in them.  
-Lon Rombough
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On Apr 27, 2009, at 7:37 PM, Geoffrey Tolle wrote:

Folks:

I'm getting two Hall's hardy almonds to try out and with no real 
expectations of survival or full fruition in my Zone 5. However, I will 
be having some space open up next to my garage wall and I'm wondering if 
anyone has experience with almond roots near walls. Are the root systems 
shallow or deep? Will they destroy my garage wall and floor or grow 
there rather happily (should they survive the winters)?

Thanks for your input,

Geoffrey Tolle
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