1. Pawpaw 2. Korean Dogwood 3. Jujube 4. Figs 5. Cornelian Cherry

You are right. Figs are pretty rare here in Denver CO zone 6a. When I started my little collection of figs two years ago. Master gardeners, would say it's too dry here, cold winter etc. Don't do it. Now I have 11 varieties. Two inground. Will be planting more varieties inground. Don't understand why people are trying to discourage others from growing figs. You are doing a great job bringing awareness, and ideas ( mulching ) for growing in colder climate.

I live in Scotland, there is a public garden just down the road from me, and I was amazed the first time I realised figs grew there.

I have both fig trees and paw paws in my yard. Important notes when growing paw paws. #1-You must plant them when they are small (less than a foot tall). They don't transplant well once they get bigger. #2- You must provide them with a shade canopy of some sort until they get about 3 ft. tall. They are naturally an understory tree. Baby trees can't take all that hot sun. If You are willing to wait the time it takes for them to start producing (about 5 years) and willing to shade them for the first 2 or 3 years, they require very little care after that. Mine have just reached the production age and are about 5 ft. tall. I just prune the dead or weird branches out every couple of years and fertilize them every winter. I got my first few blooms last year. The blooms aren't showy and are pollinated by beetles, not bees. The trees are quite attractive on their own though as they have almost tropical looking large lobed leaves.

I reside in Zone 6b. By piling leaves around my figs, the figs begin growing, in the spring, from the protected depth that was surrounded by leaves. A great head start than from ground level. I pile leaves to 3 feet around each fig.

It is important to know the specifics when it comes to pawpaws! You only mentioned that you need 2 preferably 3 trees for cross pollination, but what you failed to mention is that they cannot be trees that have the same genetics. In other words if your trees all are cloned from the same tree, it won't work; you need two trees with different genetics.

Thank you. I have a Chicago fig that started producing last summer. SE Idaho at 4600 feet can get pretty cold. Because of your video now I know I want to try the Paw Paw thanks

Don't forget the native American Persimmon tree. I personally have a black mulberry tree (must have 2 for pollination) and not only are mulberries fantastic to eat or make wine with, but are an amazing attractive tree for birds who love the berries as much as humans do. Can't understand why more homeowners do not plant this wonderful tree.

I love your content. My only negative critique is, while genus names are always capitalised, species names are always lower-case. Always.

I found some Cornelian cherries growing in the park in NYC and knowing that they have to fall off the tree by themselves for the best flavor, I picked some off the ground, washed them at home and ate them. The flavor reminded me of cranberry-apple sauce with a texture like a soft apple. They were very pretty, about the size of olives but shiny and bright cherry red.

I've grown all of these except korean dogwood. For me, the only ones worth eating/keeping around are the pawpaws, and the figs. The flavor of the jujube and cornelian cherry was "meh" at best and I took them out (and yes, I let them get fully ripe before eating). Some other unique fruit I'm growing in zone 6b is a hardy asian persimmon (allow to ripen to softness before eating), dolgo crabapple (mouth puckeringly sour yet sweet), quince, and elderberries.

I am buying an Asian pear tree. Growing in pots…have fig, goji berries , blueberries, raspberries and a nectarine tree. This is my last fruit tree. No space, I gave away my 5yr old olive tree, to make space for the Asian pear variety niissikie (sp). Yay for home grown fruits….organic and so much sweeter.

Pawpaws are native here in West Georgia. Unfortunately I've never eaten one because the squirrels, raccoons and possums get them before they fully ripen. Muscadines are everywhere too.

I dug up my paw paws from a friend's yard some time ago. They are hard to transplant. You need more than one variety which can be an issue because these things send up runners all over the place. The problem with native paw paws is that none of them are alike. There are now a lot of people out there cultivating various varieties and they have all sorts of different characteristics. If you want to get started on paw paws, order three different varieties from some of the various nurseries. They often sell them like that. The cool thing is that they tolerate a lot of shade. The bad thing is that like all fruit trees, the deer will eat them when they are young.

Paw paw supposed to be prolific in my area, but never heard of it and neither has anyone else I knew. It wasn’t until I went to a native nursery that I learned about it and they gave out samples. I have 4 trees planted, one actually one did not make it as the leaves came out but then died away and was told to leave as it might put up new shoots from roots and it did. I am always looking for rare things to plant, I just got sugarberry, serviceberry, and a huckleberry (free ugly plant now thriving). Never saw any in store and only learned about them from videos.

Thank you i live in zone 5 and i am always looking for fruit trees for this area

I planted two Cornelian Cherry trees about 10 years ago. It took a long time for them to produce fruit. Even then, I almost missed it, because the fruit forms on the interior of the tree, beneath the canopy. They've got to be almost burgundy-red-ripe to be enjoyable.

Thank you! Helpful and informative.

Great video and list. I read about the various fruits and berries, etc in Robert Hart's Forest Gardening book (and later, an old video posted on KZfaq). Saskatoon berries, gooseberries, blackberries, hardy kiwis, pears, cherries, so much to choose from.

I'm in a cold climate and wondered what kind of trees I could get edible fruit from them and grow here.Thank you for the nice information.very nice video

Thanks these are some species I didn't know about

I’m in UK and I am always looking for something different to grow so more videos please 👍

this was very informational for anyone who knows little about cold hardy fruit trees. Thank you.

Thank you very much.

Thank you so much for this video! I am a new subscriber😊

Thank you for the recommendations

Fantastic thank you

Thanks!

Great videos! I've only just come across them today - I live in southern Spain with a hot summer but frequent sub zero temps in winter due to the altitude so you're giving me lots of ideas!

I have six sprouted cuttings from my wife's grandfather's tree sitting by the window. I can't wait to plant them outside.

Nice, I have all on the list.

Thank you so much!

Very good Info. We need to grow these trees! More Trees, more fruit, better Food! Thanks! Volume very low. Turn up the volume, next video

very helpful, thankyou

Here in the south figs are very common and loved they hold up better as a jam or jelly wildlife love them so you have to keep an eye out when they start ripening

Good video. I live in VA and these are incredibly common plants that are everywhere, both in yards and even more so wild in the woods (except the Cornelian cherry).

Great video. Thank you so much

Good to know.

Worth noting the Pawpaw are in the Anonna family such as Cherimoya, Atemoya, Sugar Apple, Custard Apple etc and has similarities to them as you would expect

Great video very informative, FYI your stereo sound does not return to stereo until the end, I'm intrigued by all of these trees because they don't get huge, my issue is across the street has cottonwoods & Maples that are getting bigger/ shading my place, several you said can tolerate more shade, I'll be researching, I'm in mtka, mn, zone 3-5 depending... thank you

One day, I'd love to try a paw-paw..[northwest Indiana]

I have one Corus mas and it is fruitful just by itself.

I live in Loudoun County Virginia about an hour from Wash DC…we have dozens, if not over a hundred pawpaw trees on our 3-acre treed property. There are only a dozen or so mature ones though. I only pick a couple of the fruits a year out of all that grows because most have already fallen to the ground by the time I see them…

Had bunches of PawPaw trees on my place in Tennessee! Delicious! Now have figs in Texas!

Thank you

"Picking up Paw paws, put 'em in your pocket. Way down yonder in the Paw Paw patch."

Thx for this info

Tried Pawpaw once from a farm-stand in Rhode Island. Tasted like mangoes to me. Jujube is common at Asian stores in CA. Figs are popular backyard trees in CA and many places.

I think that last one is on my corner of the block. Was thinking they were a type of cherry, but was always afraid to try one

I mean this is the lease negative way possible; dogwood is a poor choice because people can forage it, the fruits are also apparently slightly grainy which some people don't like and it would make a poor crop for sale. If you encouraged something like rare red-fleshed apples or pears, people will be more likely to grow them and we can keep rare heritage pommes alive. Pawpaw is such an amazing choice because of its rich history and the fact its so rare, foraged pawpaws can be random in flavor but cultivars are typically refined and I would argue a incredibly rare treat for most.

Great video. I’ve been considering adding a couple jujube to my yard.

These grow wild in Eastern Kentucky. As kids we would go through the woods and pick them.

i have all of them in my garden in southern germany. I also have loquat trees which would fit perfectly into this list. Look them up. They are very ornamental, evergreen, easy to grow and have delicious fruits

Figs grow well here in Oregon.

I want try all that

I would have put persimmon 2nd on your list. Persimmon pulp used in some baking recipes will make the tree a must have for some of your readers. Check Amish areas for the pulp and recipes for the fruit. I think it will make you a believer in this fruit tree.

Cornus mas has little yellow flowers. You show in the picture some kind of Prunus

The photo of flower added on cornus mas represents something from genus Prunus not Cornus. The true flowers appear in late winter /early spring (in Poland), they are small and yellow.

for figs look around for people who have them and produce in your area. then collect cuts in fall place in sand keep in cool place you should get at least one out of every 10 clippings. there are hundreds of kinds. I'm in vancouver BC as far north as possible for these trees. there are 2 kids that produce in large amounts here. green outside and red inside then the green outside and yellow inside, the ladder has 2 crops a year. careful how you prune them or you won't get figs.

Plant Fanatics, I really appreciate how you have given a strong difference between 'Pawpaw and Papaya'. Unfortunately, Google is responsible for much of the mistaken identities between the two. Apart from the fact that they each look completely different to each other, wherever you grow Pawpaw, you can't grow Papaya. The slightest frost will kill Papaya, Carica papaya. The strangest mention of fig in the bible was in Mark 11: "12 And on the morrow, when they were come from Bethany, he was hungry: 13 And seeing a fig tree afar off having leaves, he came, if haply he might find any thing thereon: and when he came to it, he found nothing but leaves; for the time of figs was not yet. 14 And Jesus answered and said unto it, No man eat fruit of thee hereafter for ever."

Love this video. I live in Southern Maine and my soil is clay. I can rototill and loosen the soil but I find the the roots of trees cannot get deep and therefore are exposed to very cold winters. Any recommendations???? Thanks.

How about chokeberries? :) (Aronia)

Figs are super easy to grow

The mulberry tree here in sub tropical Victoria, near Gippsland Lakes "where it rarely gets below zero. More like 2 to 3°c is the lowest and that's just for a 2-3 week cycle and just at night for a few hours. The tree bears fruit in early spring. It's situated in a water encatchment, that's also the local dog park. It's supposed to have an oasis of native plants and reeds, that soak up water. The tree line is well mulched with free council mulch that sits there all summer composting down to make nice stuff. People have started to plant, fruit trees and seeds, wrapped unwanted ferns around natives, and bulbs of every unwanted colour and style. The natives are dying one by one "not being fertilised with just native tree mulch, that's not the right pH" yet the unwanted stuff is flourishing. Must plant pears, as woody old pears trees provide the best dry juice for cider. No yeast needed, it starts fermentation before you finish crushing them, even after freezing. Freezing fruit makes the juice run.

Its not a paw paw you speak of, but a sapote. A paw paw has many tiny seeds like peas in the middle. The sapote has large seeds. The custard apple, is a sapote. There's also the chocolate pudding fruit, another sapote.

I'm starting a tree project in Kathmandu, Nepal. Kathmandu can get pretty polluted, mostly from India's air current. Our NGO is working to put trees on the rooftops of the homes because there is just no land left. Kathmandu is about 1,200 meters high and it mostly rains only during May-August. We have 18-inch pots made from 25% recycled. What trees would you recommend so the people will be more responsive to the project? Nepal is an emerging nation and people struggle.

How physically close do pawpaws need to be for pollination? Are we talking side by side or just maybe in the neighborhood?

Amelanchier ( serviceberry) is another great cold hardy native fruit tree. The Chinese Jujube scares me due to its invasive potential

I live in zone 3-4 for planting. Coldest this area here was -36. It got to -50 not far north from here. Compared to here. The ones you are showing are not cold hardy. Except for that last one. Now Chokecherries are very cold hardy plants. They can stand up to USDA zone 2. Juneberries can stand zone 4 as well. Though I did see one that was able to handle zone 3 for several years.

The largest commercial pawpaw orchard that I know of is outside lexington, KY. Some of their fruit is used by one of the local wineries to make pawpaw wine. Also, there is a pawpaw seed vault somewhere in Illinois. There are something like 30 different varieties. North America's only native fruit.

Cornus mas has small yellow or sometimes chartreuse flowers at the end of winter. The flower picture inset for your cornelian cherry looked like something in the rose family (perhaps even true cherry, though the green bark reminded me of Prunus mume) instead. It absolutely is not any species of dogwood (Cornus).

Can you find some truly cold tolerant plants. Like colder than zone 5. I'm just outside possible pawpaw range

Figs and the Cornelian Cherry are the only ones I've personally seen and eaten. It makes me sad that there are so many great fruits we simply don't know and can't buy... If you ever take a look at ancient recipes, you'll find so many spices and other ingredients you struggle to get today.

Pawpaw +Korean fruit. Rest of its I have.

Paw Paw interior looks a lot like a cherimoya.

Korean Dogwood is sweet but the outside flesh is tart, and it has a hard seed.

I would love to grow most of these here but in zone 4 if not wrapped and heavily mulched they won't make it.

Pawpaw/ papay is the Kalinago (Carib)word from the Arawakan speaking peoples of the Caribbean, papaya is the Spanish conquistadors corruption of pawpaw. We still use the original word in the islands that still have a Carib culture and not the Spanish version. The Spanish obviously confused the fruit after they headed up to North America.

Do you think I could plant the pawpaw and fig in Minnesota planting zone 4

Where do I find a paw paw tree?? I love the fruit!!

PLANT FANATIC, When I was in Afghanistan I was introduced to a local Lemon variety that could be eaten whole, rind and all, just spit out the seeds. The lemons were smaller than bears limes. Any idea what variety they were and where I can get a hold of a tree or some seeds??? (I wanted to bring seeds back, but customs said “no seeds.”)

Unfortunately, I’m in area 3/4, which makes it extremely difficult to find any fruit trees that are hardy enough to withstand our harsh/cold winters. NONE you’ve shown in this video are appropriate for Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, unfortunately. I really would like to find more that are appropriate for my area (so would the deer!😡). Any ideas? Thanks!🙂

-25 degrees is not cold. Was looking for trees to grow in zones 2 or 3.

Where would you get the Jujube trees from?

Good content, but the sound is kind of scuffed in the video

Good video! One small detail: The blossom you display with the cornelian cherry is not the blossom of Cornus mas, cornelian cherry, which is yellow and appears already in februari. The blossom displayed here is most likely the blossom of Prunus spp. which would appear late march to mid april.

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I saw a wild paw paw tree growing in a West Virginian forest, back in the late 70s. I had no idea what that strange fruit was, it looked greyish in color. Now I wish I had tasted the fruit. Sounds delishus! I would love to get hold of some seeds. How long does it take to fruit?

Just trying to appease my OCD and hopefully help instead of annoy...There should be an extra "o" followed by a comma on the title...Cold Hardy Fruit Too, Wow!.

Where to find a Pawpaw tree, hey from South Carolina.

Now I'm fig-hungry! It's prob been decades since I've had one. Are dates the same fruit - different species? And I wouldn't mind having a go at a Cornelius tart cranberry fruity you mentioned with some strawberry and rhubarb...and a crumble top! And you?

Some herbaceous trees are excellent for dining. Sassafras is one I highly recommend, but it's incredibly hard to transplant, as it is normally part of a clone colony. Not just the roots are edible. The leaves, dried, make an incredible addition to a medicinal herbal tea for a sore throat, as their mucilaginous nature is quite soothing.

Were can I find a map with your growing zones?

The sound was all muffled, but was still able to read the closed captioning.

do you think I could grow cold hardy pomegranate in zone 5 even if people say the lowest is zone 6

Looking for a cherry that grows in zone 9, Arizona, anyone grow the Brazilian Cherry, it is chill hours here , 450 would be on the high side, peaches Apricots, do OK some years are so so re chill.

Would be nice if you gave actual temps for all of them.

We have persimmons here but I would like to grow the big ones I see at the store will they grow in WV

Cold Hardy? Where are you growing? Kentucky? Come back with some zone 3 and 4 plants.

Cold Hardy.. Yeah I love articles with interesting definitions of "Cold Hardy". Even better when they come from warm places. Growing up in the upper Midwest, we considered something Cold Hardy if it survived in the zone 3 micro climate at the bottom of the hill. If not, it required zone 4 and was only cold tolerant. You are in zone 7? AK? That is one zone off Austin where you can grow Guavas in your back yard. Maybe insulate and cover it until it is big and you can have cold hardy guavas. As for the list. In the spring 1. I'll know if the Pawpaws survived their first winter. 2. I expect the fig to be dead. I have talked to an expert and they said "Deader than a door nail" is their prediction. It is said to be the most cold hardy fig and is doomed. Also "dies to the ground" is not "hardy", that is "barely surviving". You uncle who just had his 7th heart attack before 40, is not "Deep fried food hardy". 3. Jujube didn't get one the last 2 years due to COVID leading to people gardening. Will try again. It should be killed stone dead over the winter, even when planted against the house. 4. Korean Dogwood. Thought that was a Che for a second. I will have to test these in the future. 5. Get another 5 lbs of northern pecans and this time don't kill them all when sprouting them. Killing them is winter's job. 6. Hope the blackthorn sprout. 7. I suspect the chestnuts will be dead. 8. Hope the maypops didn't die again. 9. Still need to find the right Mayhaw. 10. plant a Meader Persimmon if one is in stock this year. 11. when the Peach is bigger plum and pluot/apriplums may get grafted in. 12. I'm going to top off a cherry and graft in Bing and Ranier cherries. Lets see if those make it through the winter. So now for some actual cold hardy plants. I'm officially in zone 4 but grow zone 5 all over. These should all grow and fruit. 1. Sea berry. 2. Honey berry 3. Peaches. Yep peaches. This year I also plan to try grafting in some nectarine from what may be an overly optimistic scion seller. 4. Apricots. 5. All kinds of kiwis. Lots of cold hardy kiwis out there. I throw bag or two of mulch on tehm in teh fall. The parts that were not covered still bud and grow. 6. Yellow horn. They are beginning to flower these years (3?). good looking plant after some grooming. 7. Akebia. No fruit yet. I just throw a bag of mulch on them when it begins to snow. 8. Goji berries. They say zone 5 but are just fine. Too fine in fact. They are also shovel hardy and fire hardy, so I now have a goji berry problem. Do not plant these. Flavorless fruit and the plants are vermin. 9. All the boring stuff Apples, grapes, raspberries, strawberries, currants, etc. And ground cherries can self seed out doors.