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  • Nanking Bush Cherry Seedling $20

    None Available Nanking Bush Cherry Plant Information The Nanking Bush Cherry seedling plant is showy in the spring with flowers and in the summer with the bright red cherries clinging closely to the branches.  It can be used as an ornamental, fruit producing shrub or as a wind break in a hedge row. In mid-Spring…

  • Planting Paw Paw Seeds | Asimina triloba Info You Need to Know

    Planting Paw Paw Seeds | Asimina triloba Info You Need to Know

    Welcome to another Great Escape Farms blog post.  Today we are talking about planting paw paw seeds.  But first, some basics on the paw paw tree. Great Escape Farms is now on Patreon! If you enjoy our work and want to help support us, please check out our Patreon page at: https://www.patreon.com/gef The Basics The…

  • How to Collect Save and Store Paw Paw Seeds

    How to Collect Save and Store Paw Paw Seeds

    This post is about How to Collect Save and Store Paw Paw Seeds.  We talk about the basics as far as what paw paw trees are and their needs, as well as how to collect, store, and plant the seeds. The Basics The paw paw tree (Asimina triloba) is a deciduous tree (and can be…

  • Sweet Scarlet Goumi Seedlings for Sale $15

    Available in late summer 2025. Goumi Plants are a nitrogen fixing, edible and beneficial plant. Rooted Sweet Scarlet Goumi Seedlings for Sale at Great Escape Nursery.  Sweet Scarlet Goumi Seedling Plant Information This is a seedling of Sweet Scarlet Goumi and should have similar qualities. Here are the qualities of Sweet Scarlet Goumi: Sweet Scarlet…

  • Seed Scarification Techniques | Scarify Your Seeds – A How To

    Seed Scarification Techniques | Scarify Your Seeds – A How To

    This post goes over several different Seed Scarification Techniques.  To scarify your seeds is the damaging of the protective coating on a seed so it will break dormancy.  Yesterday I covered the topic How to Stratify Seeds.  You will notice that this article and yesterday’s article start out very similar, but the approach and end…

  • How to Stratify Seeds | Start Seed Stratification

    How to Stratify Seeds | Start Seed Stratification

    This post, titled How to Stratify Seeds | Start Seed Stratification, explains why you need to stratify seeds and how to stratify seeds. There are seeds that you can take right off the plant, put in the ground, and a new plant will start.  I did that with green beans last year.  I planted them,…

  • Black Walnut $20

    The black walnut is a very large nut tree native to eastern North America.  The tree produces edible nuts that are said to taste better than other walnuts, but you have to work at it to get to the nut meat.  The tree has a number of useful edible and medicinal benefits.  Care needs to…

  • Grafted Persimmons $45

    Improved grafted persimmons are grafted on the American persimmon root stock, but the top (known as SCION) could be either improved American variety or improved Asian variety. We use American Persimmon rootstock because it is native and perfectly suited to handle our environment. We use improved tops, SCION wood, for larger and tastier fruit. Please…

  • Red Gem Goumi $20

    Sold out until 2026. Red Gem Goumi Plants are a nitrogen fixing and edible plant. Rooted Red Gem Goumi Plants for Sale at Great Escape Nursery.  Red Gem Goumi Plant Information Red Gem Goumi is the smallest fruit of the varieties we offer with a sweet tart flavor. It ripens in mid-summer a few weeks before…

  • Carmine Goumi $20 (Sold Out)

    Carmine Goumi Plants are a nitrogen fixing and edible plant. Rooted Carmine Goumi Plants for Sale at Great Escape Nursery.  Carmine Goumi Plant Information Carmine has the largest fruit and the sweetest flavor of the varieties we offer.  It ripens early to mid-summer and grows to 8+ feet. It is partially self-fertile but has higher yield…