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Fruit Trees |
Apple, Golden Delicious
Excellent all purpose cooking apple. This apple has firm,
white flesh. Rich mellow flavor sweet and crisp. The tree is
spreading, productive, and easy to manage. Fruit thinning is
required to maintain annual bearing. Blooms mid-April. Harvest
mid -Sept. Produces in 3-5 years.
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Exposure |
Full Sun
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| Soil Type |
Any, well
drained |
| Height |
12 - 14
feet |
| Width |
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| Drought
Tolerance |
High |
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Apple,
Jonathan
Moderate grower, bears young. Fruit
medium, highly colored in sunny climates, striped red in cooler climates.
Skin thin and tough; flesh fine, juicy. Flavor sprightly sub-acid.
One of the best dessert and pie apples.
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Exposure |
Full Sun
/ Part Shade |
| Soil
Type |
Any, well
drained |
| Height |
10 - 25
feet |
| Width |
10 -
25feet |
| Drought
Tolerance |
Moderate |
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Cherry, Canada Red
Canada Red Cherry is a small tree.
Foliage is a medium green in the spring turning to dark purple as the
weather warms, then intensifies to reddish in the fall. Has white flowers
in long clusters in late April.
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Exposure |
Full Sun
/ Part Shade |
| Soil
Type |
Moist,
well drained |
| Height |
20 - 25
feet |
| Width |
20 feet |
| Drought
Tolerance |
Moderate |
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Crab Apple, Hopa Rose
A very hardy crabapple growing upright. This tree puts
our a spectacular display of fragrant, rose colored blooms in Spring.
Produces a profusion of orange-red fruit in fall. Ideal for making fine
jelly.
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Exposure |
Full Sun
/ Part Shade |
| Soil
Type |
Any, well
drained |
| Height |
23 feet |
| Width |
23 feet |
| Drought
Tolerance |
Moderate |
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Crab Apple, Royalty
A beautiful small tree with glistening rich purple
foliage which retains its superb color until leaf drop in autumn. Large
deep pink flowers in spring followed by exceptionally bright red-purple
fruits in autumn.
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Exposure |
Full Sun |
| Soil
Type |
Any, well
drained |
| Height |
18 feet |
| Width |
15 feet |
| Drought
Tolerance |
Moderate |
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Pear,
Bradford
Bradford Pear Tree is hard to beat for early Spring flowers and
spectacular Autumn color. Fast growing, easy to maintain and
transplant. Great for a quick screen or ornamental tree along
driveway or street.
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Exposure |
Full Sun / Part
Shade |
| Soil Type |
Any, well
drained |
| Height |
25 - 30
feet |
| Width |
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| Drought
Tolerance |
High |
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Pear, Callery
Redspire
Callery Pear
cultivars are excellent flowering trees. The flowers are white and appear
in early spring. The fall color starts as a deep purple and then becomes
red.
|
Exposure |
Full Sun
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| Soil
Type |
Any, well
drained |
| Height |
40 - 50
feet |
| Width |
15
- 20 feet |
| Drought
Tolerance |
High | |
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Plum, Newport
The
hardiest of the Purple Plums noted for its purple-red foliage when
mature and displaying light bronze-purple leaves when young. Bears
dull purple fruit. Pale pink to white blooms on the rounded crown.
This deciduous tree is useful in all areas of landscaping.
|
Exposure |
Full Sun
/ Part shade |
| Soil
Type |
Any, well
drained |
| Height |
20
feet |
| Width |
16
feet |
| Drought
Tolerance |
Moderate |
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Plum,
Purpleleaf
Branches droop from the sheer weight of the flowers! All
the purple leaf plums require full sun to maintain the deepest purple
color. This is a nice small plum with the deepest purple foliage on
upright growth. Single pink flowers in early spring. Little or no fruit.
Excellent for bonsai.
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Exposure |
Full Sun
/ Part shade |
| Soil
Type |
Any, well
drained |
| Height |
10 to 15 feet |
| Width |
15 to 25 feet |
| Drought
Tolerance |
High |
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Plum, Santa
Rosa
This
tree produces plums that have a delicious flavor. The fruit is
large, dark reddish purple color with red flesh. It is self
pollinating. Will produce fruit in 3-5 years. Blooms late
May. Harvest late July.
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Exposure |
Full Sun
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| Soil
Type |
Any, well
drained |
| Height |
12 - 14
feet |
| Width |
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| Drought
Tolerance |
Medium |
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