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Silver Creek Nursery Ltd.

Orange Energy Sea Buckthorn (Female)

Orange Energy Sea Buckthorn (Female)

Species: Hippophae rhamnoides

History: Orange Energy sea buckthorn was developed in a breeding program headed by H.J. Albrecht in Berlin which began in 1971. Using plants growing around the Baltic Sea, he created several varieties adapted to both coastal and continental climates that are now used for juice production in Germany. Orange Energy, which was introduced in 1980 and released in 2005, stands out for its exceptionally large berries, high vitamin content, and heavy crops.

Why We Grow It: The berries are flavourful, tropical and quite tart. It's a later season variety, and when ripe the whole bush turns orange with it's incredible load of fruit. The bush reaches 6-8 feet at maturity, though can be pruned smaller.

The leaves and young branches are suitable for animal fodder, which we can attest to from the hens that run around our retail area in summer, sampling from our potted sea buckthorn plants whenever Steph isn't around to chase them away. Sea Buckthorn have nodules on their roots which help fix nitrogen into the ground, and are a common plant in permaculture orchards for this natural 'fertilizer' effect on plants in its vicinity.

Fruit Specs

Recommended Use: Cooking, baking, jam, wine, juice, tea, animal fodder

Fruit Size: Large

Storage: Keeps up to two weeks in the fridge

Harvest: September - Mid

Growing Specs

Canadian Hardiness Zone: 4

Soil Preference: Prefers clay loam but adaptable to different soil types

Flowering Time: Late

Bloom Colour: Yellowish-white

Pollination Requirements: Requires a male plant for pollination in order to produce fruit

Sun/Shade Requirements:

Full sun (approx. 8-10 hours of sun daily)

General Growth Habits:

Shrub reaches 2-3m tall, produces heavy crops. Flowers in May.

Thorns: Yes

Shipping vs. Pick Up

CLICK HERE to see how shipping compares to pick up.

Shipping: Every year we ship thousands of trees across Canada (except BC due to CFIA regulations). We carefully bag roots in damp sawdust, then box them and send them out via courrier. CLICK HERE to see our shipping policy.

Pick-up: We also have thousands of trees picked up from our nursery each year. The pick-up options is free, though you must wait until you have been emailed a confirmation that your order is ready to pick up, which will have further information such as hours, locations, etc. We really appreciate if you can make an appointment to pick up, then we can be as organized as possible during our busy season.

Size at Purchase

Our ungrafted fruit tree seedlings, nut tree seedlings, berries, and other miscellaneous plants are categorized into the following sizes excluding the roots:

  • 5-15cm
  • 15cm+
  • 30cm+
  • 60cm+
  • 90cm+

All of these heights exclude the roots since seedlings and some berries will often have a lot of root growth but relatively little vegetative growth (ex. our Shagbark Hickories seedlings are often 5-15cm above the soil but will have roots that reach 20cm+ in length).

Not all of our berries and seedlings will be available in all of these grades since growth rate can vary significantly across species and even varieties. While we remain competitive in our plant size, it's also worth noting we don't use synthetic chemicals to push vegetative growth, therefore you may find conventional nursery stock larger in some instances comparatively. 

Why plant small? It's best to transplant when a plant is young so it can establish its roots before it has a lot of vegetative growth. This is much less stressful on it and bareroot plants tend to catch up and even surpass larger potted ones planted at the same time, after a few years.

Orders that are cancelled last minute due to size (being "too small"), will still incur the applicable cancellation fees if the plants are true to our grading standards as per the agreement of sale when the order was placed.

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