0:25:06 So, the first one is Hanson's Bush Cherry
0:25:09 Hanson's Bush Cherry is also know as Sand Cherry, Latin name is Prunus besseyi, don't think I will be giving you all Latin names, but this one is important that I give this to you, because...
0:25:20 I spent a lot of time trying to find Sand Cherries, and spending quite a bit of money, buying them from Stark Brothers, and I'm gonna say today, if you want REALLY HEALTHY LARGER Sand Cherries - Hanson's Bush Cherry - get them from Stark Brothers. The stuff I got from Stark Brothers, 2-3 feet high, big root systems, and if you want this plant this year, you need to order it soon!
0:25:46 Gurney's sells it, so Stark and Gurney's are two places that sell it - I'm NOT gonna recommend Gurney's even though I bought some this year, I'm giving you a lesson here - I bought them from Gurney's this year because you get like 3 to an order, and I think they are like $12-14 bucks to an order - they are really small - there is NOTHING wrong with them - okay?
0:26:04 Nothing at all wrong with them, they just kinda small for the money - 'cause if you cruise on over to a place Cold Stream Farm, and even though they have Sand Cherry in their subject line, right, it's a Sand Cherry Prunus besseyi, when I was running searches for Hanson's Bush Cherry and Sand Cherry, I could not find this page, even though I buy from this company all the time. It never occurred to me that they would have this plant. I always thought it as a really improved variety, hard to find, because the only other two places I found it so far - Gurney's and Stark.
0:26:34 And bought it from Gurney's because Stark was not taking orders for it, until very recently - like they was out of stock. So instead of taking... like Gurney's was taking orders for spring, because they know they gonna have them... Stark wasn't willing to do it.
0:26:46 So, I wanted more this year, so bought like 20 of them from Gurney's - well, one day I thought - Prunus besseyi - right, so it it's (spelled out), okay, is the last name in the genus species, so I googled it, boom, Cold Stream Farm comes up, how about this, I can get twen... - if I buy 25 minimum, 1-2 foot tall, which is about what you get, in fact I'd say that is bigger than what you get from Gurney's for a $1.97 a piece, I can 2-3 footers at 25 or more for $3.29 a piece, and if I just want lots of them, I can get 6-12 inch ones, which is about what Gurney's will send you, for $1.50 a piece.
0:27:31 Now they are considerable higher till you go over than 25, that's how Cold Stream is... when you go over 25 you get a big price break, when you go a hundred you get another big price break, so I usually buy 25 plants because my view is if I need 10, I can always pot up the other 15, put a $5.95 price tag on them, and sell 'em to my customers - in this case they are all going into the ground.
0:27:57 So what is a Sand Cherry, or this Prunus besseyi, why it's called Hanson Bush Cherry, it's actually an improved Sand Cherry, so it's a little bit more fruitful, it has a little bit more flavorful fruit, it's very, very hardy, you can grow it in zones 4 thru 8, and I really believe with a little shade and the right soil conditions it will probably handle zone 9... and I really believe with like with rocks, to like, collect heat and what have you it would probably survive zone 3...
0:28:27 So it's really really flexible, it grows 4-7 foot high in a shrub form, in the spring it is positively gorgeous, it flowers, it's not like a typical cherry that flowers like a pig, it's a white flower, but it's literally completely covered with flowers, like it it flowers a little here and a little there, and throughout the canopy, it's the entire stem from where it leaves the trunk all the way to the tip, is covered with flowers - bees love it! I mean they just like you walk up to one once it is on bloom and it's like [buzzing noise] just bees everywhere!
0:28:59 It produces a small cherry, it tastes - just like a cherry, I mean just like any, kind of, right between sweet and tart, and it will grow in places where, if you try to grow regular cherries, they won't grow, so it's an option where you don't have any other option, plus it's compact, you can prune it to any size or shape you want, you could up a row of these, like a hedge row in an HOA, you know, with a hedge trimmer [grrrr noise] and shape is square if you want to, it'll grow, it doesn't care, and again you can get it for dirt cheap.
0:29:33 And it will produce these cherries for you - the down side! The cherries are about half pit .cause they are small - so it's not like sitting back and and piggin' out on a big sack of cherries you can buy from the market - but it's all the flavor, and I'd say a little more, it was - I've got my first ones last year, really intense, awesome flavor - it'll make excellent jams juices wines meads, all that good stuff -
0:29:58 um, it certainly would be a product you could dry and dehydrate - I never bothered yet to try, but I don't think it's gonna work with like a cherry pitter, you know the ones where stick a cherry in it and you push and the pit come out and then the cherry is pitted - I don't think that's gonna happen with these, i'd think you have to maybe make a little bitty one but I don't think that's gonna work, I think it's gonna be something you have to store with the pit, so if you did a dried cherry product you would have to remove the pit, you could make fruit leathers, there's all kinds of great stuff, but you can grow this, and again, it's hardy, I mean, that's the thing, it lives HERE, if it lives here, it'll live anywhere...
