Beach plum

Beach plums thrive in dry and sandy or gravelly soil. In the wild they grow in the extremely well drained sandy soils of the coast, often right in the sand dunes …

Grows In Poor Soils! Beautiful white blossoms cover the branches of this shrub-like tree in the spring. The blossoms develop into colorful fruits that make

The Beach Plum Tree is a native American plant that is most often associated with growing wild on the sandy easy coast dunes. Fragrantly sweet spring blooms give way to tiny purple fruits in August.

Buying plants in pots is expensive, but collecting seeds is free, so last fall I decided to save seeds from a variety of plants so I could try growing them. Most seeds from plants that grow wild in our climate need a period of "stratification." This means exposure to moisture and cold, and it simulates the environment a seed would encounter in nature, once it fell off the mother plant and went through winter. Most seeds will not sprout until after this, which makes sense: if a seed sprouted…

One September before we were married, my husband took me up to his grandmother's house in the dunes near Ryder Beach in Truro. He sat me down at her…

Name: Prunus maritima aka beach plum Type of Plant: A native North American shrub that flowers in the spring. Hardy to zones 4-9 Why I Love this Plant: Beach plums grow well in sandy, acidic soils and they thrive in the northeastern climate. They are a suckering plant, meaning they will s

Beachcombers and shoreline foragers on the East Coast will know the anticipation of August in the dunelands. The beach plum peal of late summer sends us ex

Beach plums will forever remind me of my grandmother. Every September when I was little, we would head out, baskets in hand. This year was the kind that Gr

Here is a our story about the elusive Wild Beach Plum. Prunus Maritima is a member of the rose family and often confused with rose hips by the uninitiated. Beach plums grow along the seashores of t…

#Coco_Plum Fruit : Coco plum scientifically known as Chrysobalanusicaco, it belongs to the chrysobalanaceae family. The cocoplum, Paradise Plum and icaco, is found near sea beaches and inland throughout tropical Africa, tropical Americas and the Caribbean. #fruits #healthy_fruits #fruits_info #coco_plum_fruit