Arkansas Black

Arkansas Black apples grow darker as they ripen, becoming a very dark red or burgundy color. Fairly tart when fresh-picked, the apples mellow with storage. Arkansas Blacks are considered an excellent keeping apple, keeping for six months in good storage conditions.    

Pollinator: Golden Delicious Apple, Granny Smith Apple

Harvest Season: Late October - November

Braeburn

New, from New Zealand. Superb late season fruit: very crisp and tangy, more flavorful than Granny Smith. Excellent keeper. Green with dark red blush. October-November harvest. Estimated chill time 700 hours.

Pollinator: Fuji, Gala

Fuji

The Fuji Apple has become one of America's favorite fresh eating apples. This firm, crunchy, juicy, white fleshed apple has excellent flavor and fine visual appeal. The Fuji Apple Tree may be considered the finest apple to take southern summer heat. The Fuji Apple Tree is the latest ripening southern apple.

Pollinator: Braeburn, Red Delicious, Pink Lady

Harvest Season: October 10 - 20

Gala

The Gala apple is a crisp, sweet and juicy apple with excellent flavor found in groceries across America. This medium sized, round shaped apple has a golden yellow skin with a reddish orange blush. The Gala apple will handle a considerable amount of summer heat and could be another choice to add to southern home orchards. It ripens mid-August to early September and requires 500 chill hours.

Pollinator: Braeburn, Granny Smith, Fuji, Pink Lady

Harvest Season: August 10 - 20

Golden Delicious

The Golden Delicious apple is an excellent all purpose cooking apple. This apple has firm, white flesh that retains its shape when baked or cooked. Its rich mellow flavor, sweet and crisp, is an asset to any recipe. You can cut down the sugar in pies and sauces made from Golden Delicious apples. The skin is so tender and thin that you can skip peeling for many recipes.

Pollinator: Self Fruitful

Harvest Season: September 10 - 20

Granny Smith

The Granny Smith apple is considered the best pie  apple in the world. The skin is an attractive bright green color, which is retained long after harvest. This  is a firm, sweet/tart apple that is good for eating, cooking, and sauce. Granny Smith is a good choice for both hot or cold climates. It ripens August to September. The Granny Smith apple requires 400 chill hours.

Pollinator: Self Fruitful

King

Large, old-time red-striped apple with classic apple flavor. Its coarse, crisp flesh is subacid, sweet and distinctly perfumed. Used for dessert, cooking and cider. Fairly rectangular shape, with ribs near the base. Ripens mid-season, about with Golden Delicious. Keeps several months, but at its best soon after harvest. Horizontal limbs, spreading growth habit. Estimated chilling requirement 800-1000 hours.

    Pollinator: Self Fruitful

Pink Lady

Hot climate apple from Western Australia. Very crisp, sweet-tart, distinct flavor, good keeper. Skin reddish-pink over green when ripe. White flesh resists browning. Harvest begins late October in Central CA, about three weeks after Fuji. Requires 4-500 hours chill time.

     Pollinator: Gala, Braeburn, Fuji, Granny Smith

Yellow Transparent

Long-time favorite cooking apple for the very early summer (June to   early July in most climates). Crisp, juicy and flavorful:excellent for sauce and pies, also used fresh and for drying. Skin of fully ripe fruit is pale yellow, waxy, thin, transparent. Very winter hardy, vigorous, dependable tree begins bearing very young. Estimated chilling requirement 800-1000 hours.

   Pollinator: Gala

Apple 3n1

No more worrying about which apple pollinates which. These trees have their pollinatiors built right in! There are several combos of apples to choose from and you can learn more about them here.

Black Tartarian

The Black Tartarian Cherry is a medium sized purplish-black sweet cherry. The flesh is dark red, juicy, very rich and delicious. This erect tree is a productive and vigorous grower. The Black Tartarian cherry needs pollination by another sweet cherry and the fruit ripens late June.

Meteor

Meteor is a semi-dwarf, sour cherry. It has large,  bright red fruit that is mostly used for cooking. The tree  itself is an attractive, naturally small tree with dark green  foliage and pretty blooms. Meteor is a self-fruitful variety that ripens mid to late June.

Montmorency

The Montmorency cherry is the most popular sour cherry in America and it is the classic pie cherry. The tree is extremely winter hardy and very heavy bearing. The Montmorency cherry tree is self fertile and it ripens in early July.

Rainier/Bing 2n1

This grafted 2in1 plant has both Rainier and Bing Cherries. Because the two cherries pollinate eachother, there is not other pollinator needed. Both types have fruit that matures mid-season.

Loring

Loring is a freestone and has very firm, melting yellow flesh with excellent flavor. It has gained a good reputation as one of the better eating peaches. The peach tree is admired as much for its beauty and fragrant blossoms as it is for its fruit. It is an extremely vigorous tree and requires fertile, well drained soils. 750 hours. Self-fruitful.

    Harvest Season: July 18 - 23

Polly's White

One of the most winter hardy white peach varieties. Developed in Iowa, hardy to -20ºF. Reliable crops of tasty, sweet, medium-sized, white-fleshed fruit. Crimson-blushed white skin. 1,000 hours. Self fruitful

Ranger

One of the best late blooming/frost hardy peaches for cold climates. Medium size, full-flavored, high quality yellow freestone. Mid-season, 1 week after Redhaven. Fresh/can/freeze. 900 hours. Self fruitful

   Harvest Season: July 8 -13

Red Haven

The fruit is large, spectacular,and

award-winning. You'll enjoy bushels of big, luscious peaches with almost fuzzless skin over firm, creamy yellow flesh. This heavy-bearing, cold-hardy peach is also disease resistant.

    Pollinator: Self fruitful

    Harvest Season: July 2 - 7

Redskin Elberta

Cross of Redhaven and Elberta. Excellent quality all-purpose yellow freestone. Frost hardy. Ripens early to mid August. Also called Redskin. 850 hours.

   Pollinator: Self Fruitful

Sentinel

Sentinel is a productive and vigorous Peach variety. Its fruit is large, semi-freestone, round, and very blushed with good flavor and texture. 850 hours.

Pollinator: Self fruitful

Harvest Season: June 28 - July 3

Peach 3n1

No need to decide between peach varieties. These trees have 3 diferent varieties in one tree! There are several combos of peaches to choose from and you can learn more about them here.

Moonglow

The Moonglow Pear Tree is similar in shape as the Bartlett and has soft, juicy flesh that is nearly free of grit cells. The fruit is large with brownish-green skin and requires a pollinator for best production. The tree is very resistant to fireblight giving it a long time for you to enjoy. Moonglow pears ripen in early August, about two weeks before Bartlett.

Pollinator:Orient

Orient

Not to be confused with Asian pears, the Orient is a domestic variety named because of its large round shape that is similar to that of Asian pears. The Orient pears have yellow skin with smooth textured, sweet, firm, juicy, white flesh. It is resistant to fire blight and is a heavy producer in August.

Pollinator: Moonglow

Pineapple

This is the old-fashioned pear your Grandmother raised. Tough, hardy and hard to kill. This popular large golden-russet colored pear has a sweet-tart pineapple flavor.Produces bushels of hard cooking pears. Ripens early August.

Pollinator: Self Fruitful

Warren

Excellent quality dessert pear - and highly resistant to fireblight. Medium to large, long-necked fruit with pale green skin, sometimes blushed red. Smooth flesh (no grit cells) is juicy and buttery with superb flavor. Good keeper. Cold hardy to -20°F. From Mississippi. 600 hours.

   Pollinator: Self Fruitful

Pear 3n1

Just like the apple and peach 3n1s, these trees have 3 varieties of pear on one tree. There are several combos of pears you can choose from and you can learn more about them here.

Bruce

This large red skinned, red fleshed plum has delicious flavor. The Bruce Plum tree is a medium-sized tree, produces large amounts of brilliant wine-red fruits, large in size and excellent for canning.

    Pollinator: Methley

    Harvest Season: Early June

Methley

 A handsome, vigorous plum tree that does well in most soils. Sweetly fragrant, delicate white flowers bloom in profusion in early spring. The juicy reddish purple fruit has a sweet distinctive flavor good for eating fresh or in preserves.

Pollinator: Self fruitful

Harvest Season: Early June

Ozark Premier

'Ozark Premier' has very large fruits, red to purple skinned with yellow juicy flesh. Late to midseason. Very productive and vigorous tree, fruit is all-purpose-eating, canning, jellies and cooking. Japanese Plums are best grown in the South and West, as they are not as cold hardy as the European Plums, blooming earlier, so more subject to frost damage.     

    Pollinator: Methley

    Harvest Season: June 15 - 23

Stanley Prune

Large, dark blue skin. Juicy, sweet, delicious, greenish-yellow meaty flesh, freestone. Late summer harvest. Late blooming, extremely cold hardy and reliable. Requires 800 chill hours.

Pollinator: Self fruitful