Fruit trees
Arkansas Black The Arkansas Black Spur Apple is a large, late season apple fruit tree. It is a very late maturing variety grown primarily in the Southeast. The distinctive dark red skin encases a high quality fruit even where summer nights are warm. Use this apple for dessert and cooking. This is a great variety to add in a cider blend, providing a high acid, spicy flavor. They have an excellent storage life. They keep for many months. Arkansas Black blooms in mid-season and is a great pollinator for early blooming apple varieties, varieties blooming in the middle of the season, and varieties blooming late in the season.
Autumn Sweet The Autumn Sweet plum is a new variety and it produces larger plums than Italian. The fruit is oval, fully purple colored, firm and very sweet. It is late blooming and will need a pollinator. This plum dries well and has an excellent shelf life.
Bartlett The Bartlett Pear tree produces a pear that is bright yellow. Along with its very sweet and juicy flavor for eating, it is widely used for canning and cooking because of its excellent taste. The Bartlett Pear trees are self-pollinating, however a pollinator will help the tree bare better fruit. 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 It produces a very large, delicious cherry that ranges in color from a deep garnet to almost black. The skin is smooth and glossy and the flesh firm and sweet. 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.
Braeburn The Braeburn Apple has a sweet flavor balanced with a moderate tartness that produces a unique blend. The texture is crisp and firm and juicy. 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 The Chestnut Crabapple blooms in early to mid-May. A very hardy plant with a medium storage life. It usually has a partially russeted skin and hangs well on the tree. The fruit quality holds well on the tree, being quite spritely at first and becoming sweeter later on. An excellent pollinator for other fruit apples.
Lapin The Lapin Cherry fruit is large and deep purple in color with lighter red flesh. These are some of the largest, juciest cherries that grow on trees. The Lapin is an excellent pollinator and is a heavy bearer.
Comice The Comice is not self-pollinating and requires a pollinator. It’s also blight-resistant.
Cortland It is sweet with a hint of tartness. The Cortland apple is an attractive large red-striped apple that can be best described as juicy.
D Anjou It is a naturally sweet pear, light green in color with a yellow tinge when ripe. The tree is very hardy, large and highly productive. The D'Anjou does not change color as it ripens.
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Early Italian It is used as fresh, dried or canned prunes.
Elberta Along with the delicious fruit, it’s a beautiful tree.
Fantasia They are self fruitful and very vigorous.
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