Fruit Trees
Spring season is here with many fruit trees in the nursery, such as apples, cherries and peaches. Many of them are available in multiple varieties. For a complete list of available fruit trees, see below. Also, check out the descriptions of each variety further down.
- Apple - Fuji Apple, Rome Apple, Gala Apple, Granny Smith Apple, Red Delicious, Jonathan Apple
- Apricot - Tilton Apricot
- Cherry - Bing Cherry, Montmorency Cherry
- Fig - Texas Everbearing Fig
- Mulberry - Fruiting Mulberry and Fruitless Mulberry
- Olive - Fruiting Olive
- Peach - Hale Haven Peach, Jefferson Peach
- Pear - Bartlett Pear
- Plum - Santa Rosa Plum, Stanley Plum
- Quince - Orange Quince
Apple
Fuji Apple
A big super sweet apple that gains new fans each year. It is a great substitute for sugary snacks. It is also excellent for apple crumb pie and salads. Cool weather in the late fall helps develop reddish-pink color and superb sweet flavor.
Rome Apple
Good-quality Rome apples are firm with smooth and clean skin. The coloring is a brilliant and almost solid shade of red. They are the best apple for baking, but also good eaten fresh & in salads.
Gala Apple
The Gala is red-on-yellow in color. It has a yellow tender flesh and a mild taste, but it is crisp, sweet, and juicy. Loses flavor in storage.
Granny Smith Apple
The Granny Smith is a medium to large apple with a very juicy, white, tart, superhard flesh. As the season progresses, Granny Smiths get sweeter. Although they're not particularly good for baking, Granny Smiths are great for pies.
Red Delicious
Red Delicious apples being mildy sweet are better for eating than for cooking or baking.
Jonathan Apple
A Jonathan is a very round, deep yellow apple with bright red stripes and creamy white, semisweet flesh. Although not very hard it is good for just about anything - cooking or eating out of hand.
Apricot
Tilton apricots are a unique looking apricot and are one of the most flavorful of all apricots. Their appearance is noted by having a slightly flatter shape with a "suture" line that goes halfway around the fruit. This longtime favorite is tender and juicy with a sweet-tart flavor. Goes well with pork and poultry, try an apricot and chicken salad.
Cherry
Bing Cherry
The Bing Cherry is the most famous sweet cherry variety. It produces a very large, delicious cherry that ranges in color from a deep garnet to almost black. Bing cherries are good for cooking as well as out-of-hand eating. The flesh is very solid, reddish-purple in color, and is flavorful and juicy. The Bing Cherry tree requires cross-pollination to produce fruit.
Montmorency Cherry
The Montmorency Cherry is the classic pie cherry tree. Montmorency cherries have proven over the years to be outstanding for cooking and pie-making. The berries are medium sized, dark red with good flavor and quality. Flesh is clear and yellow in color.
Fig
The Everbearing Texas Fig is a medium to large, extraordinary sweet and flavorful fig. It is very productive and hardy, the color is smudgy-amber with a solid gold pulp. Likes full sun and is not fussy about soil.
Mulberry
Leaves of the deciduous Fruiting Mulberry are varied in form, size and shape. Blackberry-like fruits are sweet but tart. Home gardeners grow fruiting mulberry for use in jams, jellies and for making wine. Fruitless Mulberry are desirable for landscape use. Fast growing, relatively easy to grow, tolerance of heat and most soil types, make mulberry a popular choice in horticulture.
Olive
Peach
Hale Haven Peach
This high quality peach has a deep orange color all over with deep blushes of carmine. The brilliant color of the fruit appears several days before the fruit ripens. The pulp of the Hale Haven peach is firm, juicy, very sweet and richly flavored. Dried Hale Haven peach slices are tasty treats for holiday feasts.
Pear
A bell-shaped pear the Bartlett is probably the most familiar pear. It has long been prized for canning. Regular Bartletts turn from green to yellow, with a pink blush. The flesh is white. Eaten fresh or in salads, canned, baked or as marmalade; Pear Orange Marmalade.
Plum
Plum trees are naturally small and bear heavily.
Santa Rosa Plum
Is a medium large, crimson to purplish red, lightly freckled plum with yellow flesh slightly suffused with pink especially near the pit. The fruit is firm, sweet, juicy, and aromatic. The fruit is firm and of good quality. One of the most frequently planted Japanese plums. It is a self pollinating tree and thus can be planted in locations where pollination is not needed.
Stanley Plum
Produces a medium to large oval shaped, dark blue freestone fruit. Flesh is yellow green. Fruit is sweet, juicy and delicious. Excellent for cooking and fresh eating. Very vigorous, ripening its generous crops in late summer. Self fertile and good pollenizer for other varieties.
Quince
The quince is a deciduous thornless shrub or small tree, 13-20 ft high. Fruits are light golden-yellow, green or orange, usually pear shaped and very fragrant. The fruit pulp is firm, aromatic and always contains gritty cells. Individual fruits can weight up to 1 lb or more, and ripen late in the autumn.