Chinese Chestnut

The Chinese Chestnut, Castanea mollissima, can be used as a nut tree and a shade tree, or planted in rows as a windbreak. The nuts are sweet-flavored and create edible nuts in winter. This deciduous tree has moderate water requirements and it has a reasonable tolerance to salt and alkali soils. Landscapers plant the Chinese Chestnut as an decorative. Chinese Chestnut trees do well in hot dry climates and are blight resistant. The foliage is dim green in summer.
This hardy tree will bear fruit in 7-8 years when placed on a good site. The dark green leaves are 5”-8” in length with a easy shape that turn yellow and gold in the fall. It produces edible chestnuts after organization. The outer shell of the nut is prickly and must be detached. This variety of chestnut is resistant to chestnut blight (but not resistant). This tree tolerates heat, drought, transplanting, and dehydrated and acidic soils.

Carpathian Black Walnut

The Carpathian Black Walnut tree, Juglans nigra, 'Carpathian', can be planted as a nut manner landscape tree. Common names for the Carpathian Black Walnut tree are Persian Walnut, English Walnut, Carpathian Walnut and Madeira Nut. This deciduous tree bears nuts that are thin-shelled and simple to open. The best enlargement and nut production comes when it is located in deep, dry, light loamy soils.

Carpathian Black Walnut trees are self-pollinating but they will usually do better with one more adjacent Black Walnut. This selection comes from parent trees in central Michigan where trees crop in abundance although winter temps thrust to -34' F. It is an outstanding shade tree that bears excellent thin shell English Walnuts.