Bright red goji berries hanging from an arching branch

Goji Berry (Bundle of 3) | Spring 2027

$79.99

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Flexible returns

Pollination Self-fertile

Bloom group 4 of 7 (Mid)

Goji pollination chart

Ripening

Will it finish before your first hard freeze?

Check it on the Ripening Map (opens in a new tab)

Disease resistanceNo strong resistance

Anthracnose : Susceptible, 2 of 5
Powdery mildew : Susceptible, 2 of 5

Scored 1 to 5. Higher resists better, and ? means no published data yet.

See it on our berry disease chart (opens in a new tab)

At a glance: Goji Berry is a goji shrub rated hardy to zone 3 in our ratings (winters to -40°F), and self-fertile, so one plant can crop.

Also called	Wolfberry, Chinese wolfberry (Lycium barbarum)
Hardy to	Zone 3 to 9. A bare number means the whole of zone 3, colder half included (winters to -40°F). Find your zone with our cold hardiness calculator.
Chill hours	About 150 hours (0 to 400). Our estimate. No published figure exists for this variety yet. That's low, so chill is never short here, but it can wake early in a midwinter warm spell. Check your chill hours or see our sources.
Pollination	Self-Fertile. Bloom group 4 of 7 (mid), early summer here. Goji sets fruit on its own, so no partner is needed. It keeps flowering through summer, which feeds bees for months. Bloom group is our estimate from the variety's origin and relatives. Pollination Charts.
Good for	Drying (8/10), fresh eating (6/10). Scores are our own 1 to 10 ratings; 8 and up makes our Best Of lists.
What you get	Bare root. Shipped or picked up in Missoula in spring, roots wrapped in moist sawdust. Guaranteed to bud out.

Overview

Goji Berry is a hardy, long-lived fruiting shrub with a long history of use in Asia and Central Eurasia, where it has been grown for food and traditional medicine for centuries. The plants we offer are grown from seed sourced from North Dakota genetics, selected for their ability to withstand extreme continental cold and harsh winters.

Growth Habit

Goji forms a vigorous, arching to spreading shrub, typically reaching 4–6 feet tall and wide over time. Plants sucker and spread gradually, making them well suited to hedgerows, food forests, and low-input plantings. They are adaptable to a range of soils and are generally tolerant of drought once established.

Fruit, Uses & Medicinal Value

Goji berries are small, elongated red fruits traditionally used dried rather than fresh. They have a long reputation for medicinal use, with sources citing general vitality, eye health, and immune support. Because these plants are grown from seed, fresh-eating quality can be variable and somewhat of a gamble. However, they are very well suited for drying, where differences in fresh flavor matter far less and the fruit performs consistently well.

Cold Hardiness

These goji berries have a good degree of cold hardiness, with genetics that have survived temperatures down to −40°F. They should be considered a solid Zone 3 shrub, well adapted to northern plains and mountain climates where many fruiting shrubs fail.

Phoenix Tears

The specific variety of Goji we are offering for Spring 2027 is Phoenix Tears. We had grown Phoenix Tears a few years ago and this variety proved to be the best of all the varieties we have grown. They are sweeter and lack the unpleasant bitter taste that goji b berries can have. These can be eaten fresh off the bush. They do get slightly sweeter the longer they are left on the plant, but unlike seedling grown gojis which tend to be completely inedible fresh, these are pleasant and sweet. And these dry just and good if not better than the seedling grown gojis. Phoenix Tears is hardy to about -40F. Solid zone 3 fruiting shrub. A great addition to any northern garden.

Photos: “Lycium barbarum” by Andreas Rockstein, via Flickr, licensed CC BY-SA 2.0; “Lycium barbarum” by Andreas Rockstein, via Flickr, licensed CC BY-SA 2.0; “Lycium barbarum” by Andreas Rockstein, via Flickr, licensed CC BY-SA 2.0; “Lycium barbarum” by Andreas Rockstein, via Flickr, licensed CC BY-SA 2.0; “Lycium barbarum - Oberhausen - Lipperstraße - Knappenhalde - Y 01 ies” by Frank Vincentz, via Wikimedia Commons, licensed CC BY-SA 3.0.

Questions we get about Goji Berry

Does Goji Berry need a pollenizer?

No. Goji Berry is self-fertile, so a single tree can set fruit. Goji sets fruit on its own, so no partner is needed. It keeps flowering through summer, which feeds bees for months.

How cold hardy is Goji Berry?

We rate Goji Berry hardy to zone 3, which means winters down to about -40°F. Our ratings come from real winters at our two Montana sites and from trusted growers across the North, not from a catalog average.

How many chill hours does Goji Berry need?

About 150 hours of winter chill (we count hours at or below 45°F), likely somewhere between 0 and 400. Nobody has published a chill figure for it, so that's our estimate from its relatives and origin. Goji needs very little winter chill. In cold country the risk is winter dieback of the tips, not a lack of chill. Our chill hours guide has a calculator for your winters, and our research page lists the sources.

What is Goji Berry good for?

Our top use scores for Goji Berry are drying (8/10), fresh eating (6/10). Anything scored 8 or higher makes our Best Of lists.

What arrives, and when does Goji Berry ship?

A dormant bare-root plant, roots wrapped in moist sawdust with a vapor barrier, shipped or picked up in Missoula in spring. We guarantee our plants bud out. Stone fruits can be slow, so if one still has not budded out by August 15, write to us and we credit you for the following spring.