Bare root fruit trees from Dave Wilson Nursery
Fruit Trees Nut Trees
Laughing Frog Farm
38238 Wiggins Road Hempstead, TX 77445
(713)542-6615 (cell)
These are the fruit trees from Dave Wilson Nursery. We do not ship fruit trees. We are open by appointment only.
Apples $22
Fuji
Pink Lady
Apricots $22
Gold Kist
Aprium $22
Flavor delight
Minnie Royal and Royal Lee Cherries $30 each (both required for pollination)
Jujubes $30
Li
Sugar Cane
Pakistani Mulberry $30
Peaches $20
Mid Pride
Eva’s Pride
Floridaking
Red Baron
Bonanza Miniature peach $28
Burgundy Plum $20
All in one semi-dwarf almond $22
Persimmons $29
Saijo persimmons
Matsewase fuyu
Also see my potted tree list of organically raised trees I propagated myself.
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These are bare root fruit trees that I have ordered. I did not propagate these trees myself. I already have at least one of most these varieties in the ground and I know that they do well in my climate. Some have too high a chill hour requirement for Houston inside the beltway, but should work in the outlying areas. Generally central Houston gets about 200 to 300 chill hours. Here in Hempstead, a mere 50 miles away we get 500–700 chill hours. Contact me if you have questions. 713-542-6615 email
FUJI APPLE
favorite apple. Sweet, very crisp and flavorful, excellent keeper. Dull reddish orange skin, sometimes russeted. Ripe mid September. Excellent pollenizer for other apple varieties. Low chilling requirement – less than 500 hours. Self-fruitful. USDA Zones 6 – 9
PINK LADY® APPLE (Cripps Pink) Hot climate apple from Western Australia. Very crisp, sweet tart, distinct flavor, good keeper. Skin reddish pink over green when ripe. White flesh resists browning. Harvest begins late October in Central CA., about three weeks after Fuji. Self-fruitful. 300-400 hours. (Pat. No. 7880). USDA Zones 6 – 9
GOLD KIST APRICOT Excellent backyard apricot for warm winter climates. Freestone, very good quality. Heavy bearing. Early harvest, 3-4 weeks before Blenheim (Royal). 300 hours. Self-fruitful. USDA Zones 7 – 9 (Zaiger)
MINNIE ROYAL CHERRY Medium sized red cherry; firm with good flavor. Ripens 11-14 days ahead of Bing; tree is very productive with a low chill requirement. Pollenized by Royal Lee. 200 – 300 hours or less. (Pat. No.12942) (Zaiger)
ROYAL LEE CHERRY Medium sized red cherry; very firm with excellent flavor. Ripens 11- 14 days ahead of Bing; tree is very productive with a low chill requirement; pollenized by Minnie Royal. 200 to 300 hours. (Pat. No.12472) (Zaiger)
LI JUJUBE “Chinese date.” Round shaped fruits are larger than Lang. Reddish brown, dry and wrinkled, sweet and chewy (like dates) when fully ripe in early Fall. Attractive, easy to grow tree: hardy, drought resistant, virtually pest and disease free. Requires long, hot summer. Very low chilling requirement. Self-fruitful. USDA Zones 5 – 10
SUGAR CANE JUJUBE “Chinese date.” Round fruit is smaller than Li. Sweet, crunchy flesh. Tree is precocious, hardy, drought resistant, virtually pest and disease free. Requires long, hot summer. Very low chill requirement. Partly Self-fruitful.
BONANZA MINIATURE PEACH Popular yellow freestone- large fruit is sweet, low in acid, with a mild, refreshing flavor. Mid to late June in Central CA, earlier in low desert climates. 5-6 ft. tree. Chilling requirement very low, 250 hours or less. Self-fruitful.
EVA’S PRIDE PEACH Delicious, fine flavored peach with very low chilling requirement ripens 2-3 weeks before Mid-Pride. Medium to large-sized yellow freestone – also recommended as early season peach for moderate climates – harvest 3 weeks before July Elberta. 100-200 hours. Self- fruitful. (Expired Pat. No. 7751) (Zaiger)
FLORDAKING PEACH High quality early season peach from Florida. Large, firm, flavorful semi freestone, very sweet when fully ripe. Mid May in warm winter climates. Excellent choice for S. CA. home orchards. Chilling requirement 450 hours or less. Self-fruitful.
MID-PRIDE PEACH Best yellow freestone for warm winter climates of S. CA., Phoenix, Houston, S.F. Bay Area. Also recommended for Central CA. for its exceptional flavor and dessert quality. Mid-season. 250 hours. Self-fruitful. (Zaiger)
RED BARON PEACH
flavored yellow freestone fruit. Showy double red blossoms. Mid-July. Long-time favorite in Southern CA. and Texas. Low chilling requirement, 250-300 hours. Self-fruitful. (Expired Pat. No. 4195)
BURGUNDY PLUM Maroon colored skin and semi freestone flesh. Sweet, with little or no tartness and a very pleasing, mild flavor. High taste test scores. Prolonged harvest, mid-July to mid-August in Central CA. Very productive. Narrow, upright habit. 300 hours. Self-fruitful.
FLAVOR DELIGHT APRIUM® INTERSPECIFIC Apricot-plum hybrid. Resembles an apricot but with a distinctive flavor and texture all its own. High taste-test scores, one of the most flavorful early season fruits. Early June. Very low chilling requirement. Less than 300 hours. Self-fruitful, but largest crops if pollenized by any apricot. (Expired Pat. No. 7090) (Zaiger)
ALL-IN-ONE GENETIC SEMI-DWARF ALMOND No. 1 almond for home orchards. Heavy crops of soft shell nuts with sweet, flavorful kernels. Hot summer required to ripen. 15 ft. tree, very winter & frost hardy. 300-400 hrs. Self-fruitful. (Expired Pat. No. 4304) (Zaiger)
Laughing Frog Farm
38238 Wiggins Road Hempstead, TX 77445
With the Cherry trees, do you need more than one for pollenization (sp?) to take place? And how do you think they would do in South Brazoria County? Angleton to be exact. Thanks in advance!
Yes you need one of each variety for pollenization. These trees will do well with our weather anywhere in Texas. The issue with these trees has been the root stock and the clay soils. The newroot-1 rootstock is new and is promising. It will do well in a pot and should be better in the clay soils than the mazzard or colt rootstock sold by others. These are still experimental. They need to be planted high so they do not sit in water during a rain. Please feel free to contact me with more questions.
Glen