Flora Fauna Farm and Nursery

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Flora Fauna Farm and Nursery

We are a small nursery in south valley Albuquerque that focuses on fruit trees that thrive in our tough high desert ecosystem.

05/30/2025

Loading some pomegranates for market tomorrow!

05/10/2025

Mowing down prunings between the tree rows. Everything is tree food if you think about it!

04/30/2025

Babcock peach, chip budded last summer when I should have been packing for a trip. Left through summer, fall, and winter in a dormant state.

Now for the fun part. Cut off the heads and watchem grow! Like cutting the string on a balloon 🎈

04/25/2025

3 Y.O. Netleaf hackberry: a profile in teenage goofiness.

Hackberries are in need of a rebrand (let's call them sugar berries instead). This is the southwestern cousin of the larger common hackberry. Grown from a pocketful of seed collected around Bisbee, Arizona into the Chiricahua mountains.

Beautiful orange berries arrive on medium sized desert trees with interesting bumpy bark.

If you can see past their bad name and awkward teenage stage you will not be disappointed.

I'm potting these ones up, but if someone wants a bare root tree they could snag one if it's in the next day or so. Otherwise wait until they've grown into the pot.

These are grown in air pruning beds and grown out in the field before going into root pouch pots because --Friends don't let friends plant girdled roots!--

04/17/2025

Time to batten down the hatches in the House O' Fruit so the wind can test its structural integrity just a little bit more.

Meanwhile, the jujubes, mulberries, and pomegranates are plotting a takeover.

04/11/2025

Finishing up bare root shipments, digging, and potting. Moving on to keeping things watered and maintained and selling potted trees!

04/07/2025

Getting just a tad more jujube scion wood into the cooler for spring grafting season. Can't ever have enough!

02/17/2025

We've been digging, grouping, and about to begin sending out some orders this week. Don't tell anyone I stopped to post 🤫.

Should be mostly caught up by the end of the week, and then I can stop flinching every time an order comes in and start doing my usual happy dance!

02/02/2025

We've been busy staging next year's potted inventory and setting up a pot-in-pot system for the future.

Really excited for the water savings and heat stress reduction that this system will afford us in the years to come!

01/10/2025

Sure is great to get a little moisture, scant as it was.

Here's a tree that we always grow a few of each year, which is most easily described as a tree form of arborvitae.

It is always curiously absent from local planting lists, but it's easy to keep happy, long lived, and super useful as a windbreak. Birds go wild for the seeds each fall.

It's from Manchuria and the Russian Far East and always look their best in the snow.

11/12/2024

Jujubes have entire shoots that are deciduous, not just leaves. These are the fruiting shoots, and they are formed a new each year. Because they don't overwinter their flower buds, they don't receive any sort of winter damage to them or have them bloom too early in the spring.

If you're looking for a fruit tree or NM adapted shade tree, it's still possible to purchase potted stock on the website. We also have newly available bare root stock available for pre-order now for the next month or so.

11/04/2024

I think I might be enjoying Osage Orange seed processing a little too much... It's a great day for tree seed processing ☺️.

We use these seeds to grow rootstock that we graft Che fruit, as well as fruitless thornless shade trees onto. 1 YO grafts are usually a little cold sensitive the first year after grafting, so I will hold on to them in a protected spot until spring and then might have a few for sale.

Address

421 Clark Road SW
Albuquerque, NM
87105

Telephone

+15052736176

Website

http://www.florafauna.farm/

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