Fruit Trees

Bundle of 5 Trees $100.00/Each

Gardeners love to talk about the soul soothing value of fruit growing. However, the value of shocking your friends and neighbors with your hobby is too often overlooked in the literature. Imagine one tree that grows Shiro plums, Italian Plums, Frost Peaches, and Harglow Apricots. It is self-fertile, on Lovell Peach rootstock and can be maintained at 15' in height. Because of each cultivar's different growth habit, this tree takes considerable care to maintain! USDA Zones 5-9. (Sorry! Because there are so many possible combinations we cannot choose which variety will be missing from any of our 3x1 combo trees.)

You will receive 6 varieties Fuji/Gala/Gravenstein/Red McIntosh/Yellow Delicious/Yellow Transparent Each branch will be labeled. Espalier is the word for the special training practices used for growing trees on a trellis. There are many ways of doing this to make your trees into a work of art. We offer trees that have already been trained along the same plane in a 3 tier T shaped horizontal cordon. You can train them to many different shapes. These forms are beautiful when placed against a wall, existing fences or wires. An average spacing would be 8 to 10 feet apart. The trees will form a fourth tier next year if you wish. The branches are currently at about 1 1/2, 2 1/2 and 3 1/2 feet. The trees are shipped to you in special protective boxes. The apples are on EMLA 26 rootstock.

The incredible sweet-tart flavor of this superb heirloom apple has made it a connoisseur's favorite. Discovered in Gloucester about 1750, scab resistant trees are easy to grow and are grown commercially in England today. The medium size fruit with brown russetting keeps extremely well.

Discovered as a chance seedling in 1981 in Issaquah WA. by Margaret Proud and soon to be named in honor of her father Donald Croft. The highly flavored, yellow fleshed, semi-freestone fruit is great for canning, pies, poached or eaten fresh. Reliably ripens in mid July. This is a patented variety. Royalties of 75 cents a tree go to support fruit research at the WSU Mt. Vernon station. Self fertile.