Fruit Trees
Imagine biting into a cool, crisp apple, freshly picked from the tree by your very own hand? Apples aren't your fancy? How about a peach? A pear? A plum, cherry, or apricot? We have them all and then some, ready to be planted, picked, and enjoyed.
Fruit trees, however, are seasonal. We get them in stock beginning in early April and they tend to be quite popular, so get them while you can.
Fruit trees are semi dwarf 5-6' tall. Listed below are the fruit trees we normally carry and are subject to availability at time of inquiry and purchase.
NO trees are currently in stock as of 6/13/2010
Apples
Cortland - A mid-season blooming tree. Harvest apples from mid-September to early October. Apples are medium sized, red stripped and are good all purpose apples. They are sweet and juicy with a hint of tartness. Flesh is tender and bright white. Use them for fresh eating, cooking, cider, baking, sauces, and freezing. Excellent for salads as they don't brown quickly when sliced. The tree is an annul bearer and heavy producer. Plant with another apple tree with the same bloom time, such as Red McIntosh for pollination. Hardy Zone 4-8.
Jonathan - Medium sized , sweet-tart fruit. Mid-season flowering and late fruiting. Pollinate with Yellow Delicious or with other mid-season blooming apple. Good for fresh eating, freezing and for all purpose cooking.
McIntosh - An early blooming tree. Harvest apples in mid-September. Apples are medium to large, bright red with a mildly tart, spicy flavor. They are good for baking, for making applesauce and cider. The apples are thin skinned. The tree is very cold hardy and resistant to cedar apple rust and fireblight. McIntosh is partly a self pollinator but plant with another tree. Gala and Liberty have been suggested. Hardy Zone 4-6.
Red Delicious - A mid-late blooming tree. Harvest apples in late September. A large, waxy, dark red, conical shaped apple that is sweet and good for eating. A high yielding tree that tends to be biennial unless thinned. Plant with another apple that blooms at the same time such as Yellow Delicious. Hardy Zone 5-8.
Gala - An apple that has sweet, firm flesh. Fruits are Pink-yellow with green stippled stripes. Great for fresh eating and sauce. This apple ripens early and has a long storage time. A mid-season bloomer. Needs another apple for pollination.
Honeycrisp - These yellow apples are sweet-tart. A very heavy producer that Is good for fresh eating, juice and sauce. They have an extended ripening period that overlaps Gala and Jonathan. Trees are resistant to scab, cedar-apple rust and fireblight. Fruit has a long storage time. A mid-season bloomer. Needs another apple for pollination.
Fuji - A flavorful, red, crunchy, sweet and crisp apple. An all purpose apple. A late season bloomer. One of the most popular eating apples. Great for sauce and salads too. Has a great storage life. Needs another apple for pollination.
Yellow Delicious – A mid to late season bloomer. Harvest apples in late September. A yellow apple that is a good all purpose apple, with a sweet, tangy flavor. Partially self fertile but still plant with another apple that blooms at the same time. A great pollinator for other apple trees. Hardy Zone 4-7.
Granny Smith - The green, tart, late-season favorite that keeps well. Best used for cooking, in pies, or just eating.
Honeygold - A yellow, midseason apple, crust, and juice. It tastes like a Golden Delicious with just a touch of honey.
State Fair - A tart flavored apple that is good for eating or baking. An all-purpose fruit that is one of the better early apples.
Sweet Sixteen - A rosy red apple, fine-textured, crisp, high sugar. It has a unique, pleasing flavor and is good for fresh eating, pie, or sauce.
Wealthy - Large and red, with a tart flavor. A multi-purpose apple, good for cooking, pies, sauces, and juices.
Candy Crisp - A newly introduced apple. Glossy yellow with a pink blush, it is extremely mild and sweet, somewhat pear-like, in flavor. Very disease resistant and keeps for up to four months.
Apricots
Moorpark - Juicy, sweet, large fruit. Ripens in late June Freestone. Good for fresh eating, canning, drying. Plant two for proper pollination.
Sungold – Tender golden skin, blushed orange. Rounded, medium sized fruits with a mild, sweet flavor good for fresh eating and for making preserves. Ripens early August. Freestone. Plant with Moorgold as a pollinator. Hardy Zone 4-7.
Cherry
Sweet
Bing - Mid-season, large cherries with burgundy red skin and flesh. Flesh is firm, juicy and sweet. Excellent for eating and canning. Most popular commercial variety. Ripens late June to mid-July. Requires a pollinator such as Black Tartarian or Stella. Hardy Zone 6-8.
Black Tartarian - Medium sized, bright, purplish-black, sweet, juicy cherries. Vigorous and heavy bearing tree. Ripens early June. Excellent pollinator of other cherry trees. Requires pollinator, any sweet, early cherry such as Bing. Hardy Zone 5-8.
Ranier - A sweet yellow cherry with a red blush. These cherries are very sweet. Good for fresh eating cooking and stores well. The fruit is crack resistant. Needs a pollinator, Stella works well.
Stella – Large black cherries. Flesh is black, sweet, juicy and moderately firm. Vigorous growing tree. Ripens late June to early July. Self-fertile. Good pollinator of other cherries. Hardy Zone 5-8.
Sour
Montmoency – Bright red cherry with yellow flesh. Excellent tart pie cherry. Freezes well. Very productive. Self fertile. Ripens early July. Hardy Zone 4-7.
Plums
Brookes Gold - An early fruiting golden colored plum with yellow flesh. These are large plums that are great for fresh eating and preserving. Needs another plum to pollinate. Choose Stanley or Italian Prune.
Italian Prune - A purple plum that ripens mid September. Great for fresh eating and drying. A European type that needs another European type for pollination.
Stanley - A deep purple plum with a amber-green flesh. A European type, freestone. Can be dried without pitting. Great for cooking, canning, drying and fresh eating. Hardy vigorous tree, high production. Semi-self pollinating, but produces best with another European type as a pollinator.
Green Gate - A yellowish-green oval-shaped plum that is small to medium in size and self-fertile. Its juiciness lends itself to uses that include: cooking, canning, preserving, or just for dessert.
Toka - A medium to large plum that is firm, spicy-sweet, and flavorful. This self-fruiting fruit has a reddish-orange skin with yellow flesh and ripens in the late summer.
Peaches
Elberta - A large freestone peach with a sweet, succulent flesh and red-blushed, yellow skin. It's good for eating, cooking, canning, and freezing. Extremely disease and insect resistant. Usually ripen mid to end of July.
Early Elberta - An early ripening large, freestone peach with sweet and juicy flesh. Great for fresh eating, canning, making preserves and drying. Ripens in July. This tree is resistant to borer, canker, brown rot and leaf curl. Self pollinating.
Reliance - A semi-freestone medium-to large peach. Very hardy tree that resists canker. Very showy Spring blossoms bloom late so are rarely damaged by frost. Fruit ripens in mid-August. Great pie peach. Self pollinating.
Red Haven - Medium to large, freestone peaches. Great for fresh eating, canning and freezing. Flesh is resistant to browning. Tree is resistant to bacterial leaf spot and leaf curl. A heavy producer. Very cold tolerant. A nearly fuzzless peach. Self pollinating.
Pears
Bartlett - One of the most popular and recognized pears. Large fruits that are very juicy with white flesh. Considered the best early ripening pear. Semi-self pollinating but produces better when planted with another pear.
Clapps Favorite - Large, sweet pears with yellow skin. Great for fresh eating, cooking and canning. A hardy, productive tree. Needs another pear for pollination.
Luscious - Produces medium to small, juicy, sweet pears. Taste similar to a Barlett. Resistant to fireblight. Needs another pear for pollination. This tree's pollen is sterile and cannot be used to pollinate another pear.
Kieffer - A large pear with greenish-yellow skin blushed in red. Its coarse, crisp, juicy white flesh makes it great for canning, baking, and making pear honey. It is a self-fruiting pear that is very disease resistant.