Sovereign Hill Farm

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Fruit Gardens

The range of fruit here runs from the usual suspects of strawberries, blueberries, raspberries, blackberries, peaches, apples and elderberries up to more unusual species like Honey Berries, Sea Buckthorn, Service Berry, European Mountain Ash, Russian Quince, Shipova and Dogwood. Our fruits are integrated into other gardens including the forest garden.

Here is more comprehensive listing of our fruits

  • Strawberries - 4 varieties
  • Italian Musk strawberries - like alpine strawberries, incredibly fragrant, sweet fruit
  • Azarole - Crataegus azarolus
  • Aronia - Aronia melanocarpa
  • Cornelian Cherry - Cornus mas - 3 varieties
  • Figs
  • Mountain Ash (Sorbus aucuparia) variety "Rabina"
  • Shipova (Sorbus x Pyrus) Unique hybrid of Mountain Ash and Pear
  • Baby Shipova
  • Quince - bush, ornamental with fruit
  • Russian Quince - (Smyrna, Mellow, Kuganskaya varieties)
  • Ivan's Beauty (cross of Mountain Ash and Aronia)
  • Ivan's Belle (Cross of Mountain Ash and Hawthorne)
  • Service Tree - Pear form
  • Mulberry
  • Peach - 2 varieties
  • Apple - 2 varieties
  • Pear - 2 varieties (Ubileen and Conference)
  • Sea Buckthorn - about 7 varieties
  • Chernika
  • Gingko
  • Cinnamon Vine
  • Honey Berry
  • Blueberry
  • Raspberries - 5 varieties
  • Blackberries - 2 varieties plus wild
  • Black Raspberries - wild
  • Ammelanchier - (Shad Bush/Service berry/June Apple) 3 or 4 varieties
  • Bush Cherries
  • Plum