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Any Fig tree sellers in Pittsburgh area?

14 years ago

Does anyone know of any local nurseries or someone who sells named variety fig trees in the Pittsburgh or western Pa area? I would like to get a Black Mission, Ronde de Bordeaux, Valle Negra etc

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  • 14 years ago

    You probably won't find the last two in a nursery. Your best bet is a forum member or eBay. I have seen Black mission at HD/ Lowes.

  • 14 years ago

    Tony,

    I'm in Pittsburgh (Beechview) and I haven't seen much offerred locally. In fact the only time I see anything is on Craigslist, usually one or two ads in the spring from local gardeners.

    If you are interested in cuttings I will be pruning around Thanksgiving. I have a Lattarula purchased from a nursery on the west coast and my mother-in-law has a fantastic variety I do not know the name of. It was brought over from Calabria by her father (if I have the story right) in the 1930s. Pale golden skin, a honey sweet ivory flesh, and a small eye. It is prolific and weathers our winters well as long as you wrap or bury it. The only drawback to it is it seems to be very hard to root cuttings.

    Aaron

  • 14 years ago

    hello Aaron,

    if you have extra cuttings for sale, i sure would like to try growing the one from Calabria. please let me know.
    luke

  • 14 years ago

    Aaron,
    Yes that sounds great, I'd like to get some cuttings. Please email me at tonymartin1@zoominternet.net When it comes to buying fig trees here I've only seen Hardy Chicago at Lowe's so far and most nurseries that I've checked don't carry Fig trees.
    Thanks in advance,
    Tony

  • 14 years ago

    If that works it is a photo of the Calabrian mystery fig. I don't know much about figs other than I love eating them, so for all I know this is a common variety. From the descriptions I have read it sort of sounds like "Italian Honey" actually. I do know it is delicious!

    Tony, I'll send you an email today. I did take a couple of cuttings last night to try the plastic baggie method, but since the tree hasn't gone dormant yet I'm doubtful they will take.

    Luke, right now that and the Lattarula are the only figs I have so I'm happy to trade for cuttings from another variety. Otherwise I'm happy to send them out for whatever the postage ends up running. Send me an email to tobul at pitt dot edu and we can work out the details.

    Aaron

  • 14 years ago

    It was returned as undeliverable. I just did a cut and paste, so I'm thinking maybe you made a typo?

  • 14 years ago

    Aaron,
    Yes I typed it wrong, it's tcmartin1@zoominternet.net It should work now.
    Tony

  • 14 years ago

    I think that you should contact this person for fig trees.
    Here's the site
    http://sites.google.com/site/mediterraneanfloragarden/

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