Create Variety in your Garden with Rare and Unique Fruit Plants!
I won't be able to plant them all this year, but maybe someday soon I will buy that farm I always dreamed of and plant to my hearts content.
However, in the mean time, I thought I would share with you some of my favorite unique plants that I have found while researching. I hope you enjoy them and can take advantage of some of these great options to add drama to this years garden.
Contents at a Glance
Melons, Melons, Melons!
Rare Tigger Melon 10 Seeds - Heirloom - Delicious -Easy
These melons are yellow with brilliant fire-red, zigzag stripes and golden color flesh.This productive plant produces plentiful amounts of very fragrant 1lb melons. The golden white flesh is very sweet and tastes like a cantaloupe.
Victorian Perfumed Melon 10 Seeds
This pretty little vine is an heirloom treasure often forgotten in modern day gardens. In days long ago, the melons were carried in the pockets of those who may not have had the facilities needed for proper hygiene. The melons would help to mask body odors when one was not able to bathe, thus the term 'pocket pomander' was born. Stories of old tell that Queen Anne herself carried one, which would explain why common names such as Her Majesty's Melon have been used.
Vedrantais Charentais Melon 10 Seeds
These Heirloom Cantaloupes originated in Italy and where perfected in France. The skin is uniquely colored, The fruit inside is rich orange, sweet and deliciously fragrant.
Pepino Melon Pear 10 Seeds-Solanum muricata-Indoors/Out
Originating in the Andes this very large cream colored melon with purple staining has a mild, lightly sweet taste and is becoming popular as a vegetable in salads or cooked in stews.
Snow Leopard Variegated Honeydew 5 Seeds
This sweet and flavorful unique personal-sized honeydew is excellent for specialty and farmer's markets, restaurant sales and the home garden.
Spiky or wrinkly
Organic Sungold Casaba Melon 35 Seeds
The Sungold Casaba Melon is a short season casaba that ripens well even in northern areas. The oval fruits have a smooth, golden yellow skin with deep creases and sweet,juicy, greenish-white flesh.
African Kiwano Jelly Melon 10 Seeds
The African Kiwano Melon is a bright orange, oval fruit growing from 6 to 9", with numerous spines and hairy stems and leaves. Flesh is bright green, smells like banana and tastes like a mix of lime and cucumber. It can be eaten raw or, preferably, made into a juice or used in sorbets. This Native African Plant can produce up to 100 fruits on a single vine!
Bittermelon- Foo Gwa - 10 Bittergourd Seeds
Bittermelon is one of the most popular vegetables in China, Taiwan, Vietnam, India and the Philippines. This unique plant is grown mainly for the immature fruits although the young leaves and tips are also edible. The plant produces cucumber-like fruits that are pale white with pronounced bumps. The flavor is slightly bitter and is an interesting addition to soups and stir-fries.
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Watermelons
Organic Golden Honey Watermelon 35 Seeds
Golden Honey Watermelon an early, medium-sized watermelon with dark green skin produces fruits that are 10- 20 pounds and 10-12" in. in diameter. Flesh is yellow-orange, sugary and crisp with large, light tan seeds. Harvest when the tendril closest to fruit has withered and the melon sounds hollow when tapped.
Mexican Miniature Watermelon 15 Seeds -Melothria scabra
This newly rediscovered heirloom produces abundant crops of 1-2" fruits that have the appearance of miniature watermelons, and fall off the vines when ripe. Actually a sweet cucumber flavor, contrasted by a surprising sourness, as if they are already pickled!
Moon and Stars Watermelon 25 Seeds
This legendary melon, the "Moon and Stars Watermelon", rediscovered in rural Missouri, has helped rekindle the current interest in heirloom fruits and vegetables. The leaves of the vines are yellow speckled while the dark-green skin of the melons has a unique patterning of bright-yellow splashes resembling moons and stars. Growing as large as 40 lbs., these fruits have bright-red flesh and are memorably sweet.
Berries
Yellow Wonder Alpine Strawberry 10 Seeds
This Strawberry is a wonderful variety if you have trouble with birds eating all your strawberries. The yellow fruit do not attract birds, thus bird damage is much less of a problem than with traditional red strawberries. These are very easy to grow in full or part sun.
White Strawberry Fragaria 30 Seeds
The White Woodland Strawberry is a small-fruited, woodland strawberry that is grown both for its ornamental value and its tasty berries. Numerous, small, 5-petaled white flowers with yellow centers appear throughout summer Flowers are followed by small pure white strawberries which may also be harvested throughout summer. Flowers and fruit are usually simultaneously present on plants in summer.
Chichiquelite Garden Huckleberry 50 Seeds/Seed-Heirloom
Originating in Africa, Garden Huckleberry grows to 3' tall and resembles a pepper plant. Each plant bears hundreds of small, dark purple - almost black - berries all Summer long. The fruit is edible when cooked & sweetened. The sweet, intricately flavored fruits can be used for pies, cobblers, preserves, even wines. The fruit is harvested when it turns from glossy to dull. Leaves can also be cooked like spinach. Easy to grow in good soil.
Rare Jaltomate Black Berry Bush/Plant 10 Seeds - Easy to grow!
These dark purple berries look like blueberries but have white flesh that tastes like a mix between a grape and a tomato. They can be eaten fresh, dried or made into jam. This plant is Rare, originating in Mexico.
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Higher Yields Through Hydroponics
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Vermiculture = Worm Composting
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International
Tasmanian Kangaroo Apple 15 Seeds
This evergreen shrub is in leaf all year, in flower from August to October and will grow to about 4 feet. The fruit can be eaten raw or cooked however, it must be thoroughly ripe because the unripe fruit is poisonous. It is best harvested once it has fallen from the plant. In cooler regions this plant makes a great house or patio plant.
Yugoslavian Finger Fruit 15 Seeds
This fruit was originally introduced as "Pineapple" in 1885 by James J.H. Gregory of Marblehead, Massachusetts. This plant is great as an ornamental, but also good for use as a summer squash when the fruits are small.
Thailand Rock Banana 5 Seeds - Ensete superbum - RARE
This rare ornamental banana is indiginous to northern India and the higher elevations of Thailand. Its bright green leaves may reach 8' with a width of nearly 2' the plant may reach 10'-12' in height while its trunk is nearly 6' tall with an enormous swollen base of 7' - 8' in circumference at the base, narrowing to 3' below the leaves. This plant is hardy to 30 F. If left out in cold regions it must be mulched to keep from freezing.
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Passion Flower
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Love-In-Mist Passion Vine 10 Seeds - Passiflora foetida
The Love-In-Mist Passion Vine is native to the Amazon Rainforest. It is a climbing and flowering perennial vine that has edible fruits. The seeds are very small and black. The stems and leaves are covered with yellow hair. A tea of the leaves is used for some nervous disorders.
Yellow Passion Fruit 15 Seeds - Passiflora
The Yellow Passion Fruit has a slightly larger fruit, with bright yellow skin and slightly tarter pulp than the traditional Passion fruit. Most other characteristics of the vine and fruit are similar to the purple passion fruit.
Banana Passion Fruit Passiflora Mollisim 10 Seeds
A yellow, oval shaped passion fruit with bright yellow skin and orange pulp. Pulp is edible and very tasty and is often used in juice making. It is commonly used in parts of South America to flavor ice creams, drinks, and cocktails.
Sweet Calabash Passion Flower 15 Seeds- Passiflora
This wonderfully interesting variety of the Passion Flower, looks almost like a spider ready to strike, when the flower first begins to open. It produces the same wonderful tasting fruit that is great for juicing.
Edible Passion Flower 5 Seeds - Passiflora edulis
This plant features unusual but beautiful 3 inch flowers, followed by edible fruits after a hot summer. It is a self clinging climber from Brazil that grows well in a greenhouse or conservatory as a houseplant, or outside against a sheltered wall. Flowers begin in early summer and last till autumn. It is Hardy in zones 8-10, but in cooler areas it can be brought inside as a houseplant in the winter.
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- ArtByLinda ArtByLinda Jun 2, 2009 @ 11:29 pm
- Very rare and unique lens, beautifully done! Thanks to the random lens viewer, or I might have not ever found it! Linda
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- LoveSimpleThings LoveSimpleThings Feb 6, 2009 @ 1:56 pm
- Love your lens. I haven't had time to start my gardening related lenses yet. This gives me some great ideas too. Thank you!
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