Sea Buckthorn is a shrub that produces attractive berries high in vitamin C.
While we can't confirm claims that the berries are effective in treating various ailments, many people believe consuming the berries helps with arthritis, infections, and asthma, among other things.
Because Sea Buckthorn plants have attractive pale silvery-green leaves, dense branches, and large thorns, people like to grow them in ornamental hedges or as a first row in a shelterbelt.
This species is also known as one of the more salt-tolerant species for those with saline soils.
Very popular with permaculture types who use the nitrogen fixing properties of this plant to benefit other nearby fruits.
Note: these plants typically reach maturity and make their sex easily known (females producing fruit) in their 3rd or 4th year of growth. Our seedlings are too young to identify their sex.
These two-year-old plants are good-sized and ready to begin producing berries. Greenhouse-grown from seed, transplanted to our bareroot fields for a second growing season.
Stock Type: Bareroot Age: 2 years (P+1) Size: 15-50 cm (6-20")
The Indian Summer seed source is a cold hardy and drought tolerant selection developed by Bill Schroeder at the Prairie Farm Rehabilitation Administration (PFRA) in Indian Head, Saskatchewan. This seed source is largely from Russia and Mongolia originally and is highly sought after for a few reasons including its berries, growth habit, and agroforestry applications including nitrogen fixing, wildlife cover, intercropping, reclamation, and more. The Canadian government used some of the plants from this seed source in their breeding program for larger berried and thornless varieties.
Stock Type: 412A Plug (125 ml) Age: 1 year (1+0) Size: Heights not available at harvest
SEA BUCKTHORN QUICK FACTS
Zone: 2b Height: 5 m (15 ft) Spread: 4 m (12 ft) Moisture: dry, normal Light: full sun Berries: small berries that can be used for making jelly and wine, even medicines Growth rate: medium Life span: medium Maintenance: low Suckering: high Pollution tolerance: high
In row spacing: 0.9 - 1.2 m (3 - 4 ft) Between row spacing: 5 m (16 ft)
