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View & Purchase Raintree Products How to Grow & Use Our Edible Plants & Regional Growing Info. Pollination Charts Raintree Workshops Landscape Design Raintree Recipes Raintree Helps George Washington! Request a Catalog Message From Raintree's Founder Customer Service About Secure Ordering How to Contact Us Customer Compliments Meet Our Staff About Raintree Visit Raintree's new Garden Center Map To Raintree Search Raintree Raintree Home	Most Raintree varieties can be grown to perfection in many parts of Northern California. Among the many Raintree plants that generally thrive in zones G, H, I, J, K and L are most Apples, European and Asian Pears, Quinces, Asian and European Plums, Pluots, Persimmons, (We can now send our Asian Persimmons to California) Figs, Pomegranates, Hardy Citrus, Almonds, Walnuts, Chestnuts, most berries and many unusuals including Alpine and Musk Strawberries, Tea Plant and Chop Suey tree, Paw Paws, Jasmine Vines, Passifloras, Sweet Olive, Summit and Golden Summit Raspberry . Also try the new evergreen blueberries Sunshine Blue, Reveille and Misty. Please Refer to Our California Climate Zone maps View Northern California Map#1 Oregon border to Davis View California Map#2 Davis to Central CA ZONE A: (The Mountains) This is the most limiting zone, however we offer many winter hardy fruit varieties which will thrive. ZONE G: (Coast Range, Lake County, and Sierra Nevada foothills) Grow pears and walnuts, also apples, cherries, peaches, nectarines, and fuzzy and hardy kiwis. Winter minimums can get quite low - even below 10° F. requiring special protection for citrus, pomegranates, figs, and other subtropicals. ZONE K: (Cold-air basins (Low Spots) of California's central valley & some coastal valleys) Subtropicals will thrive. All kiwi varieties offered by Raintree will do well. Hot summers ripen heat loving temperate fruits including pluots, peaches, nectarines, and late ripening apples. ZONE J: (Thermal Belts of California's Central Valley) Pomegranates should ripen nicely. Almonds, fuzzy kiwis and cider gum eucalyptus (E. archerii). For fragrance, try, Tea, Sweet Olive and our exotic jasmines. ZONE L: (Northern California's Inland Areas with Some Ocean Influence). Japanese plums, pluots and quinces, pineapple guavas, pomegranates, persimmons, and figs. View Northern California Map#1 Oregon border to Davis View California Map#2 Davis to Central CA ZONE H: (North Coast, Slightly Inland).. Early blooming trees, like almonds and apricots, thrive. Summers are sufficiently cool to favor berry plantings. The heat loving Asian Pears ripen to perfection. The classic California apple country, many apples thrive including hard to ripen varieties, such as Melrose and Spigold. ZONE I: (Favored protected coastal microclimates). Zone I has it all-relative high minimum temperatures (mid-20s) and summers which are warm, but not too hot. Try Damarru, Sweet Olive, Musk Strawberries, Passifloras. Heat-loving deciduous trees such as Nectarines, Peaches, Persimmons, Figs and Pluot also thrive. Early blooming trees, like Almonds and Apricots thrive.. (When growing deciduous trees in the most temperate parts of this zone such as the immediate San Francisco Bay, make certain to plant low chill varieties. See chart on page 75) ZONE M: (Extreme Marine Influence).. Raintree specializes in varieties for cool maritime climates so you are in luck. Most of our Northwest tested varieties in the Raintree catalog will do well for you. Most of the early ripening, disease resistant apples, pears and plums we offer will thrive. Try leaf curl resistant peaches and Puget Gold apricot. Berries thrive, including Day Neutral, Alpine and Musk Strawberries, Raspberries, Blackberries, Blueberries, Currants, Gooseberries, Boysenberries, Marionberries, Tayberries, and Loganberries. Hardy varieties of Passifloras often naturalize. Colorful fuchsias attract hummingbirds, while roses bloom profusely-try our Rosa rugosa (large hip) varieties. Zone M is the home territory of Bay laurel, and hardy eucalyptus varieties grow tall. Choose "low heat" and (in the most moderate spots) "low chill" apples, pears, and curl resistant peaches. View Northern California Map#1 Oregon border to Davis View California Map#2 Davis to Central CA | RETURN TO HOW TO GROW & USE RAINTREE'S EDIBLE PLANTS | | VIEW & PURCHASE RAINTREE PRODUCTS | | HOME | SEARCH RAINTREE | info@raintreenursery.com - 360.496.6400