Raintree Nursery specializes in offering superior, disease resistant apples for the backyard grower. We select varieties from around the world for their exceptional flavor and ease of growing, each with unique qualities to recommend it.
Gardeners can have apples off their trees from August through November, and they can enjoy the harvest until March or April, since many apple varieties keep for long periods without refrigeration.
Ever since early American settlers took their favorite varieties of apples to their new homesteads, apples have been important in family meals. The harvest from apple trees provides fresh and hard cider, classic American apple pies, stores of sauces, butters and other delicacies.
Even if varieties are not scab resistant, many are still acceptable for the organic grower who doesn’t demand picture perfect fruit for cider or other uses. Also, even though some great selections might require more care, the result is worth the effort.
We offer sturdy, well-rooted, 4-6' grafted trees on the best dwarfing root stocks.
A glossy red apple with an excellent spritely flavor that improves with storage. The tree is productive, vigorous and spreading. Fruit ripens late October. It is an excellent keeper and is immune to scab and resistant to fire blight, cedar apple rust and mildew. Already a proven winner at the Mt. Vernon station.
Varieties are subject to change. Sorry! Because there are so many possible combinations, we cannot choose which varieties will be missing from any of our 3x1 or 2x1 combo trees!
Enjoy the best tasting disease resistant apples on one amazing self-fertile semi-dwarf tree. Queen Cox self-fertile, Belmac, Rubinette and Pristine. Enjoy yellow and red apples from August through October.
Varieties are subject to change. Sorry! Because there are so many possible combinations, we cannot choose which varieties will be missing from any of our 3x1 or 2x1 combo trees!
Enjoy the best tasting disease resistant apples on one amazing self-fertile semi-dwarf tree. Queen Cox Self-fertile, Belmac, Rubinette and Pristine. Enjoy yellow and red apples from August through October. Can be maintained at 12-15'.
Enjoy the best tasting disease resistant apples on one amazing self-fertile semi-dwarf tree. Queen Cox Self-fertile, Belmac, Rubinette and Pristine. Enjoy yellow and red apples from August through October.
Can be maintained at 12-15'. Pictured is a Belmac apple.
This wonderful new productive all purpose Canadian cultivar combines flavor and keeping ability with cold and disease resistance. The sweet, medium to large deep red apples ripen in late September/early October and keep three months or more. Like its parent Spartan, it has a delicious sweet/tart McIntosh flavor.
It resists scab, mildew, and cedar apple rust. It thrives in eastern Canada and has also proven a winner in Western Washington.
Bred by Dr. Shahrokh Khanizadeh in Quebec and introduced in 1996. Offered by Raintree under agreement with Ag Canada, Quebec.
Includes $1 royalty per tree. (We can custom grow commercial quantities!) USDA Zones 4-9. Patented by Ag. Canada
In England, where selecting cooking apples is important, Bramley is the most widely used. It is a spreading tree and a heavy and regular bearer. It is scab and mildew resistant.
The flesh is firm and juicy, and it cooks to perfection. When ripe, it's good for fresh eating too.
This large, round green-yellow apple with red stripes ripens in early October.
This heritage variety is scab and mildew resistant and a great choice for the organic grower. The fruit, which ripens in October, is a pleasing brown color and has an excellent, sweet flavor. Enjoy it fresh, made into a wonderful cider, or kept in a box until spring.
Be prepared for heavy crops of 1 1/2-inch oval fruit with a sweet flavor. Use the crisp, juicy white fleshed fruit for canning, making jelly or just popping in your mouth.
The fruit is a bright orange-red. It ripens in mid-August. Compact and great as a child's tree, it produces an abundance of red flower buds that open to a showy white.
The tree is highly scab resistant. Its mid-season bloom makes it an excellent pollinizer for all other apple varieties. A natural dwarf, it grows to 10' tall.
Resembles Golden Delicious in looks and flavor but the fruit is larger and crisper. Highly scab- and somewhat mildew-resistant, it was discovered north of Chehalis, Washington, near Oakville in 1937.
Excellent for organic growers who like a very large sweet yellow apple. It is always reliable and highly productive, ripening late in September. 4-5' trees.
Resembles Golden Delicious in looks and flavor but the fruit is larger and crisper. Highly scab- and somewhat mildew-resistant, it was discovered north of Chehalis, Washington, near Oakville in 1937.
Excellent for organic growers who like a very large sweet yellow apple. It is always reliable and highly productive, ripening late in September. On mini-dwarf EMLA 27 rootstock.
Raintree Nursery specializes in offering superior, disease resistant apples for the backyard grower. We select varieties from around the world for their exceptional flavor and ease of growing, each with unique qualities to recommend it.
