To: "North American Fruit Explorers" <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Sorbus
Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2007 22:17:35 -0600
Hans, Thank you for your offer of sorbus, but of course it would be too
difficult to legally import it. I did ask Hidden Springs Nursery about
Sorbus, they are about 50 miles north of us, and they said it did very
poorly there, too much humidity and disease. This was followed by the
comment that they didn't carry plums because they got too much black knot
disease. I never get black knot where we are, they are down in a hole and
don't get the breezes that we get. So I'll have to ask around some more to
see if anyone else has them growing. I remember how lovely the Rowan trees
were in England, and never imagined I could graft them onto pear rootstock.
Donna