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Fruit trees
Sprite Delight 2 In 1 Cherry Plum Well suited for people with small yards in most climates. This combination ensures you bountiful tasty fruit of the Delight-Cherry Plum and the Sprite Cherry Plum. The 2n1 Cherry/Plum – Sprite – Delight is a great combination of two fruit trees grafted on the same rootstock.
Autumn Sweet The fruit is oval, fully purple colored, firm and very sweet. This plum dries well and has an excellent shelf life. It is late blooming and will need a pollinator. The Autumn Sweet plum is a new variety and it produces larger plums than Italian.
Bartlett The Bartlett Pear tree produces a pear that is bright yellow. It is the nations leading pear variety. They tend to bear fruit for up to 50 to 75 years on a good site. Along with its very sweet and juicy flavor for eating, it is widely used for canning and cooking because of its excellent taste. They do require bees to help pollinate. Bartlett Pears do not ripen properly on the tree, so growers pick the fruit when it is mature but green.
Bing Bing cherries are good for cooking as well as out-of-hand eating. The Bing Cherry tree requires cross-pollination to produce fruit. The skin is smooth and glossy and the flesh firm and sweet. It produces a very large, delicious cherry that ranges in color from a deep garnet to almost black. The flesh is very solid, reddish-purple in color, and is flavorful and juicy.
Braeburn The Braeburn Apple has a sweet flavor balanced with a moderate tartness that produces a unique blend. The under color is yellowish green and is shaded by a broadly red-striped color pattern. Braeburn apples are an old-fashioned sweet apple with a smooth and crisp texture. It's great for snacks and salads. It is a late season apple with a long storage life. Its eating qualities make it adaptable for cooking as well as fresh use.
Chestnut An excellent pollinator for other fruit apples. The Chestnut Crabapple blooms in early to mid-May. A very hardy plant with a medium storage life. It produces a very large crabapple, up to 2" in diameter that ripens in early September. It usually has a partially russeted skin and hangs well on the tree.
Lapin The Lapin Cherry, (la-PAHN), the french word for "rabbit", is a big, beautiful, dark red cherry. These are some of the largest, juciest cherries that grow on trees. The Lapin is an excellent pollinator and is a heavy bearer.
Comice It is sometimes referred to as the "connoisseur’s" pear. The Comice is not self-pollinating and requires a pollinator.
Cortland The Cortland Apple tree is rated as an excellent dessert and processing apple. Cortland apples are wonderful for kabobs, fruit plates and garnishes because they don't turn brown quickly when cut. The Cortland apple is an attractive large red-striped apple that can be best described as juicy.
D Anjou Anjou pears have exceptional keeping qualities. The best flavor is realized when stored 1-2 months. Requires cross pollination with Bartlett or any other pear with the same bloom date.
Damson Damsons are mostly self-fertile and cross-pollinate with plums.
Early Italian It separates freely from pit.
Elberta And it grows well in a wide geographic belt, from Zone 5 all the way through the northern portion of Zone 9.
Fantasia Why settle for store bought fruit? Grow one of your own.
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