Fruit Trees

  Apples

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 Tree has become one America's favorite     fresh eating apple trees. This firm, crunchy, juicy, white     fleshed apple has excellent flavor and fine visual appeal. It is     of medium size with a lovely reddish-green color. 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.

    350-400 chill hours.

     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. It is     also outstanding when used in a fruit bowl and for fresh fruit.

     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. Well-colored fruits are a very attractive red with some contrasting yellow. 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. In hot summer climates   especially, begin picking while fruit is still green and tart. Season   lasts 3-4 weeks. Very winter hardy, vigorous, dependable tree begins   bearing very young. Most fruit is borne on short, heavily-spurred   branches. Estimated chilling requirement 800-1000 hours.

   Pollinator: Gala

Cherries

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 and the fruit      ripens late June. Black Tartarian requires 900 chill hours.

Montmorency

     The Montmorency cherry is the most popular sour cherry in America and it is the classic pie cherry tree. Montmorency cherries have proven over the years to be outstanding for cooking and pie-making. The tree is extremely winter hardy and very heavy bearing. It ripens in early July.

     The Montmorency cherry tree is self fertile and produces large sized, dark red, cherries with good flavor and quality. Flesh is clear and yellow in color.

Harvest Season: June 3 - 15

Peaches

Loring

    Loring has very firm, melting yellow flesh with excellent flavor. It     is freestone and ripens in mid-season around August. 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. 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.

     Pollinator: 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.

   Pollinator: Self fruitful

   Harvest Season: July 8 -13

Red Haven

      The "blue ribbon" peach! 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. Fruit is medium to large--just right for fresh snacks, canning or freezing. This heavy-bearing, cold-hardy peach is also disease resistant--shrugging off leaf spot. Ripens early July.

    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

Pollinator: Self fruitful

Harvest Season: June 28 - July 3

Pears

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

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

Plums

Bruce

    This large red skinned, red fleshed plum has delicious flavor. It        requires a pollinator for best harvest.

    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

Pomegranate

Pomegranate wonderful

       Large, purple-red fruit with delicious, tangy flavor.    Best quality in hot inland climate. Gaudy red-orange    bloom, ornamental foliage. Long-lived, any soil.    Requires 150 chill hours.

   Pollinator: Self fruitful

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