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RE: Cold Hardy Perennial Food Shrubs & Trees: What I'm Excited About Planting This Spring!
Nice list! I have them all on our future planting list except bayberry and ginkgo. Both are interesting. I don't know much about the bayberry, will have to do more research. I know a fair bit about the health benefits of ginkgo but I am not sure how hardy it would be for us. It is probably pushing it but it might be worth a try.
The catalogue I am looking at says ginkgo is good to zone 4b. They are charging $15 per 1 year seedling which seems quite reasonable. The catalogue I have is from NB (where we are) I am thinking its worth a shot. "Corn Hill Nursery"
By "hardy for us" I meant my wife and I, I wasn't sure where you lived in Canada. We are in Alberta near Edmonton and are probably a 3b.
Sounds like you should be good.
Sorry, for some reason I thought you were in a warmer zone than me. My mistake! 3b is probably pushing it without a bit of a micro climate to work with. That said I grew lots on things in zone 0 that weren't supposed to be perennial in that cold a location.
Yeah, there is still a ton of stuff we can grow. I want to get plants I know are hardy in the ground before I start messing around with the marginal stuff but I would love to experiment with ginkgo eventually. Who knows maybe I can develop a more hardy strain!