Fruit Trees & Shrubs

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Fruit Trees & Shrubs

There is nothing better than growing your own! At Van Wilgen’s, we think it is important for our kids to know where food comes from. Dive into growing your of Fruit for your next feast.

Please note, below is a sample of some of our favorite plants that we carry throughout the year, and not a representation of current inventory. To find out what’s in stock, pay us a visit or give us a call. We’re here to help.

Verns Brown Turkey Fig

Verns Brown Turkey Fig

The best Fig available for the northeast, ‘Vern’s Brown’ is the standard for the home garden for good reason! Its year to year reliability is outstanding producing a large crop […]

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Little Miss Figgy™ Dwarf Fig

This low maintenance, miniature Fig will WOW you with its deeply lobed, blue-green leaves and its abundance of incredibly healthy, dark purple fruits. Its dwarf size makes it ideal for […]

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Peters Honey Fig

Peters Honey Fig

While not hardy to northern areas, this great tasting Fig will have you taking out all the stops to see it through the winter just so you can enjoy its […]

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Italian Everbearing Fig

This ethnic favorite is a staple in many of the yards of Mediterranean immigrants but is found far more rarely growing in other yards. One taste of this sweet fruit […]

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Nikita’s Gift Hybrid Persimmon

Nikita’s Gift Persimmon is easy to grow and typically starts producing fruit in 2 to 3 years after planting. Naturally compact it is the perfect addition to the collectors garden […]

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Rosseyanka Persimmon

A perfect blend between soft Asian and ripe American Persimmons, ‘Rosseyanka’ provides large, seedless fruits that once ripened have a sweet, rich flavor enjoyed well into the winter months. Attractive, […]

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Magic Fountain Weeping Persimmon

A distinct selection of native Persimmon noted for its rapid, upright growth and weeping branches. Will reach 10 to 15 feet tall and 5 to 7 feet wide. Female variety, […]

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Persimmon Tree

Strongly growing with a broadly oval shape, this native tree blooms in May with fragrant greenish-white flowers as long, deep green foliage emerges. 1-2″ diameter tasty fruit matures in fall […]

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Jiro Persimmon

Jiro Persimmon

Here is a plant that there is no doubt you would be the first one in your neighborhood to grow. Persimmon is not a tree normally found in the northeast […]

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Meyer Lemon

Fragrant flowers and juicy, thin-skinned fruit make the Meyer Lemon the pre-eminent tropical lemon. Keep away from frost and freezing contitions during New England winters. Will produce and survive in […]

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Viking Chokeberry

Viking Chokeberry

While we were admiring the beauty, toughness and hardiness of this Swedish introduction in the landscape, the Swede’s were back home doing the same yet taking it a step further. […]

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Flavor Delight Aprium®

Flavor Delight Aprium®

(Semi-Dwarf) Welcome to the world of better fruit by hybridization! Flavor Delight Aprium® is a cross between Apricots and Plums that is about 3/4 Apricot and 1/4 Plum with the […]

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