Desert Peach
"The soil was scattered about the package,"
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Overall rating: 3.0 / 5 from 3 reviews.
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"The soil was scattered about the package,"
"These three arrived small and dry, were recovering well and then were gnawed by an herbivorous dog. One was not able to recover from that. The other two are putting out new leaves and appear happy. I will know more about them after a winter. I changed the planting location from where I originally intended after learning that they are thicket forming and that individual trunks in the wild rarely exceed seven years. I am hopeful for their future and will know more in a year or so."
"I planted the desert peach in 2012. I am at 7500' in Colorado and am borderline zone 4/5 depending on the winter and average 10-12"" of water per year. The shrub is now ~2' tall and had multiple blooms for the first time last summer. I'm hoping it is finally well-established and will grow more quickly now. The good news is that it has survived in a very harsh environment. I've grown many other shrubs from HCG e. g. , Lewis Mock Orange that have thrived."
Blooming in mid-spring, the shrubby Desert Peach (Prunus andersonii) perfumes the garden. Its small pink flowers have five concave petals and whisker-like stamens, followed by a crop of fuzzy peaches, which have a heart-shaped seed in the center. Its native range includes eastern California and western Nevada, where it grows in the desert and mountains. This long-loved western native is rarely grown because of the difficulty of collecting its seed, but Chief Horticulturist David Salman has been Desert Peach for several decades in his Santa Fe gardens, where he collects the large seeds. It prefers sandy or decomposed granite soil, and careful attention to watering is needed to get the young plants established. But once comfortable, the shrub is long-lived and a wonderful addition to the xeric garden. Desert Peach is a host plant for a wide variety of butterflies and moths and provides habitat and food for birds and other pollinators. This plant is recommended for western gardens only. Companion plants include Apache Plume (Fallugia) and Sand Cherry (such as Prunus besseyi Pawnee Buttes®).
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