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Southwest Ohio Native Fruit Garden (lemmy.world)
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I'm currently hunting down pawpaw trees, Blueberry bushes, black raspberry, and other native fruits for my garden.

Looking for suggestions.

I looked into black cherries, but they get too large and too easily wind damaged for the proximity I'd have to plant them to my house.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Ok, but cherries and apples aren't native; colonists introduced them. I think the pawpaw is the only native tree with edible fruit and you already listed it.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The American Black Cherry (Prunus serotina) is native, it gets upto 80 feet tall.

And while I do have some non-native plants. I'm hoping to fill out the rest of my garden with Native fruit. I have found two native plums to my region(Prunus Niagra and Prunus Americana).

And apparently I've been ignoring a variety of native nuts, though they are all too large. I'm hoping to keep any trees under 30ft, but I'm also planting things that aren't trees.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Neato, I didn't know about that cherry. Good luck with your search and your garden!