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[gallery ids="6081,6080"] The most popular almond for the home orchard. It produces heavy crops of soft-shell nuts with sweet, flavorful kernels. The tree is very winter and frost hardy, but requires a hot summer to ripen. It is self fertile. Almonds need full sun and a well-drained soil....

Exceptionally narrow growing selection of the native Aspen. The branches are sharply ascending. The summer color is typical aspen green, with bright yellow gold fall color. The foliage quakes and trembles in the wind. The bark is silvery gray. This is a male selection. It grows best in full sun, and is widely adapted to...

A medium textured fern with leathery, shiny dark green fronds. In early spring, the young fronds or fiddleheads appear and slowly unroll. They are native to Western North America. It prefers part to full shade, in moist, rich soils. Once established, it is drought tolerant, especially in shade. Trim off any old, tired fronds in...

An evergreen fern that is native to the eastern U.S. Grows equally well in moist or dry areas. Fronds are similar to Western Sword Fern. Typically grows in fountain-like clumps. It prefers an organically rich, well-drained soil in part shade to full shade. Can be massed on dry slopes to help with soil erosion....