Fresh Fruit & Cut Flowers
We grow and cultivate fresh local fruit and cut flowers to provide the community with high-quality, sustainable products that support the agricultural viability of the Mid-Atlantic region.
Seasonal Fruit Offerings
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Soft, Bush, & Cane Fruits
Soft fruits grow on herbaceous plants (strawberries), bushes (blueberries), canes (raspberries), or vines (grapes) and thrive in moist, humus-rich soils. While they can grow in partial shade, full sun ensures the best yield and quality. Modern breeding has enhanced their size, flavor, and vigor, providing a consistent, seasonal supply.
Click below to discover the Soft, Bush & Cane Fruits available on a seasonal basis at Stelo Nursery Garden
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Orchard Fruits
Fruits like apples, pears, peaches, and cherries are divided into pomes (seeds in a core) and stone fruits (a single seed in a hard shell), both part of the Rosaceae family. While small orchards declined due to urbanization, growing awareness of their nutritional, environmental, and cultural value has sparked renewed interest in small-scale production.
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Annual Tender Fruits
Tropical fruits like tomatoes and pumpkins grow on annual plants that need a frost-free season to mature. Typically started indoors in winter, they’re planted outdoors in late spring. Breeding focuses on faster production, while gardeners enhance flavor and space efficiency with heirloom hybrids.
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Shrub & Flower Garden Fruits
Ornamental shrubs with edible fruit offer unique culinary uses, often richer in vitamins than cultivated varieties. While rarely eaten raw, they enhance jams and preserves and attract wildlife to gardens.
Cut Flowers Offerings
Warm Season Tender Annuals
A universal term for any plant that produces from seed to mature flower in a single season. Often showing off the most colorful & dramatic displays in the heat of the summer. Starting transplants indoors can help to get a jump start on longer maturation times. Typically these plants are referred to as the easiest to grow and least hassle for the novice gardener.
Please note, most require replanting on a seasonal basis to maintain uniform stands of flowers. Recent hybridization efforts have created season extending cultivars; which allow for cuts to be picked throughout the growing season.
Cool Season Hardy Annuals
A collective term for any annual that is cold tolerant, relishing cooler daytime/nighttime temperatures, which typically allows the plant to overwinter in the grower’s specific USDA hardiness zone. Typically planted in the fall of the previous growing season, these resilient beauties are able to withstand the cool temperatures of fall/early spring. Most thrive as early transplants, and provide the earliest blooms of the cut flower season.
Perennial Cuts
Led by garden-inspired floral design, perennial cuts refer to a minimally disruptive approach of growing cut flowers that center around utilizing permanent plantings. Perennial cuts exemplify seasonality to their core.
They often require maturation (2-3 years) to establish & flower, but can be produced from bulbs, herbaceous plants, woodies, vines, or grasses. Their dependability is influenced by how well their peak flowering or fruiting seasons align with environmental and growing conditions. One should be warned that the Beth Chatto concept of “Right plant, right place” is imperative when setting up a perennial cutting garden.
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Steven Stup - Founder