This "Native Arkansas" fig guy drives me nuts with his really awkward listings, then insults people at the same time. I bought one also and it died, it was also shipped in the box just like that, it arrived half open with upside down ALL THE SOIL POURING OUT. He was a pain when email him about the poor condition of the tree when shipped. I hope you left negative feedback! I bolded some of the stuff he says. Here is what he says about the Ark fig(arrr): I found this fig tree when I bought this very very old house over a 100 years old. It still has a well in the back and the walls were just 2 by 12 stood straight up. The Fig Tree had lots of very old looking large roots that ran along the bank of the creek but the tree was almost dead from the lack of light. So I cut the trees around it and BOOM the next year it came back huge with more figs than I count. The figs are sweet as sugar and are a golden light brown when ripe. This is not a Brown Turkey fig. This is a very hardy native Hot Springs Ar fig. It is not a hybrid of any kind. It is also very cold hardy. It freezes pretty hard up here. This year we had a very very late freeze. (note photo another fig in my yard with burnt leaves) my other figs lost most of there fruit this tree lost none. This fig tree has been here as long as the house. No one seems to know what the name of the fig is so I am going to call it. Historic Ar Fig Tree I am a fig tree collector and I have never seen a fig tree like this. It is very Cold Hardy very sweet. Grows Fast. 2quart plant one plant growing on one container Rooted in Full sun Ready to go in full sun pretty heavy so shipping 12.99 this is a very very hardy fig if you kill it you had to realy mess up!!! all plants sold as is no refund no returns people do strange things with plants. Happy Bidding :) all figs I sell are self polinating all plants sold as is I am not resoponsble if fig dies people do strange things with plants. Here is the other one called a Capitola long big green: one one gallon CARICA CAPITOLA LONG fig makes large green yellow figs with long neck on the figs center is white very sweet. one crops hot summers makes figs sweeter I have only one like this to sell the price is the price sold as is no refunds people do strange things with plants

Leftwood, After talking with Bors about these previous experiments at Sask grafting high I found out it applied only to using less than 2 year old pie cherry seedlings as scions. Apparently such seedlings when less than 2 years old grow out of sync. and often winter kill (when left growing that way) where as the more mature bigger trees work in sync. (stop growing soon enough). Using these young scions when grafting high to mature trees makes them change to act more mature... thus the act of grafting high saves tender seedling types from otherwise freezing to death. In light of these facts it now appears that maybe grafting high tender varieties on a hardy rootstock no longer applies the way I used to think because it applies to making seedlings cold hardier which in itself might have nothing to do with how hardy the rootstock your grafting to is... Notice I said might. So I'm going to give it a shot using sweet cherries high on the hardy Amur cherry anyways. Who knows. Grafting on Amur cherry is good anyways for vole prevention. Has anyone seen a moose eat Amur cherry? I havn't. Neither has Dr. Bors seen it. He's tasted them and says the reason must be that the wood is too tart. He's also pulled opened freezers with his hybrid pie cherries inside and says the whole freezer smells really great (ie. compelling to herbivores) as of sweet cherries.

We got a Yoshino cherry tree and planted it late April. We keep watering it very well. It has been three weeks, and the leaves are turning dry, and dropping downward. It looks like it's dying. The other trees planted at the same time is doing good. Is it dying? Why? Any idea is appreciated.

Not many....just a few branches. Some parts of the city can grow them allot better...Bernie told me about a tree in Edmonton... One of my clandestine horticultural contacts lives just south of downtown Edmonton and sent a photo of his 12 year old Lapins taken today, July 8. He lives just up the hill from the Muttart conservatory, so the cold air goes downhill away from him. Also he is in about the best possible microclimate as all the big downtown buildings act as giant radiators and warm the coldest winter temperatures a few degrees. His tree is on standard rootstock, and is about 15-20 ft. tall. He has not had temperatures below -32C, the limit for Lapins, for several years. This tree did suffer some winter damage for a couple of winters years ago, but has recovered. This is the second year of a big crop. So yes, it is possible to grow sweet cherries in Edmonton under ideal conditions and location, at least until a winter colder than -32C hits the location. Lapins is also self fertile, so that helps with pollination. Bernie