Compare before you choose

Choosing plum seedlings

American vs Canada Wild Plum trees

Pembina vs wild hybrid plum seedlings

Canada Wild Plum vs Pembina seedling trees

Toka vs Black Ice plum trees

Manchurian apricot and the two wild plums

Western sandcherry vs black chokecherry plants

Western sandcherry vs Manor cherry plum

Beach plum vs western sandcherry

American vs Canada Wild Plum seeds

Pembina vs Seedling Plum Seeds

Canada Wild Plum vs Pembina seeds

Red, black or white Nanking cherry?

Three bush cherries with red, black or white fruit.

Romance Series vs Evans cherry seeds

Nanking vs Romance Series cherry seeds

Wild vs Garrington chokecherry seeds

Garrington vs Oxheart chokecherry seeds

Nanking vs Evans cherry seeds

Nanking cherry vs pin cherry seeds

Pin cherry vs wild chokecherry seeds

Which black currant?

Choose by how you want to use the fruit, then compare flavour, relative picking season and the reported disease responses. These groups are starting points, not a ranking of performance here.

Which currant for fruit, flowers or a hedge?

Seven currants grown for different reasons: native fruit and wildlife, spring flowers, or a dense hedge.

Titania vs Wild American Black Currant

Crandall seedlings vs American black currant plants

A guide to currant seeds

European vs American black currant seeds

Clove vs American black currant seeds

Black currants vs red currants

Black currants vs clove currants

Red currant vs clove currant seeds

Red currant vs American black currant seeds

Gooseberries: two native species and a farm selection

Compare the fruit, thorniness and growing habit of our two native gooseberries and the unnamed purple gooseberry from our farm. The shared common name Northern Gooseberry can refer to different species.

Purple Gooseberry vs Hinnomaki Red

Northern vs Canadian gooseberry plants

Two native gooseberries and Hinnomaki Red

Aurora vs Berry Blue haskaps

Aurora vs Boreal Blizzard haskaps

Aurora vs Boreal Beast haskaps

Choosing among the three Boreal haskaps

Unusual fruit to try

Compare fruiting quince, mulberry, prinsepia, chokeberry seedlings and blackthorn by their fruit, growth and site. Seedling variation and regional limits matter as much as the fruit description.

Choosing sea buckthorn: fruiting selections, males and seedlings

A fruit crop needs a female and a compatible male for pollen. Named fruiting selections, a known male and unsexed seedlings offer different choices, so compare their role before buying.

Thiessen or Northline saskatoon?

Choose Thiessen for large berries and repeated fresh pickings, or Northline for later, more uniform ripening and a spreading edible hedge.

Trees for shade, flowers and wildlife

Choose by the space you have and what you want from the tree: shade, spring flowers, autumn colour or fruit for wildlife. This comparison includes both native and introduced trees.

Chokeberry and its lookalikes

Chokeberry, chokecherry, nannyberry and blackthorn are different plants. Compare the fruit and the shape of the shrub before choosing one for preserves, wildlife or a thicket.

Which plant for a hedge?

Start with the shape and size you want: a clipped boundary, a flowering screen or evergreen shelter. Compare the full grown size as well as the pack offer; pruning and the site will affect the hedge you grow.

American elderberry or a named selection?

Compare a spreading species shrub, two named fruit selections and an ornamental grown for golden foliage.

Black walnut vs butternut

Three Jerusalem artichokes

American vs European mountain ash seeds

American black vs Blue Elderberry seeds

American black vs Red Elderberry seeds

Bunchberry vs Woodland Strawberry seeds

Wild raspberry vs woodland strawberry seeds

Haskap vs Saskatoon seeds

Black, red and blue elderberry seeds

Apples by ripening time and use

Compare apples for fresh eating, cooking, juice or storage. The recorded harvest ranges help with planning, but weather, crop load and site affect when fruit is ready.

Viburnum seeds compared

Downy Arrowwood vs Wild Raisin seeds

Redosier vs Pagoda Dogwood seeds

Dogwoods at three different scales

Ninebark vs Redosier Dogwood seeds

Woods' Rose vs Ninebark seeds

White Spruce vs Norway Spruce seeds

Winterberry vs Wild Raisin seeds

White spruce vs Engelmann spruce seeds

Redosier dogwood vs downy hawthorn seeds

Caragana vs Amur Maackia seeds

White Spruce vs Dahurian Larch seeds

Purple vs Pale Purple Coneflower seeds

Three Echinacea species