FRUIT TREES AND PLANTS

FRUIT TREES

Honeycrisp Apple
Large red fruit with exceptional flavor and crispness.  Great for fresh eating, cooking and pressing for cider.  Stores well in cool conditions.

CARE:
  • Light Needs: Full Sun 
  • Growth Rate:  Moderate Growth
  • Size:  20’ tall and 10’ wide
               Prune to maintain smaller size
  • Blooms:  Spring Pink Flower ; Fall Color 
  • Special Features:
​             Attracts Butterflies, Bird Friendly, Edible
Melrose Apple
Large flattened fruit.  Yellowish green skin flushed and streaked dark red with russet spots.  Firm, coarse, juicy creamy white flesh.  Slightly acid flavor.  Very good cooking and dessert qualities.

CARE:​
  • Light Needs: Full Sun 
  • Growth Rate:  Moderate Growth
  • Size:  15’ tall and wide
              Prune to maintain smaller size
​Sweetheart Cherry
​Sweetheart Cherry Tree looks spectacular lining your driveway or alone in your yard.  The shiny, bright heart shaped red fruits exterior with meaty and firm interior flesh.

CARE:
  • Light Needs:  Partial Sun
  • Growth Rate:  Moderate; well drained fertile soil
  • Blooms:  Mid-April white flowers followed by producing delicious cherry tree. 
  • Special Feature:  In the autumn the green leaves turn to a shades of orange and red.​
Bartlett Pear
​Excellent eaten fresh or for canning.  Large fruit is sweet and tender.  Easy to grow and adapts to most conditions.

CARE:
  • Light Needs:  Full Sun
  • Growth Rate:  Fast
  • Size:  15 ft. tall, 12 ft. wide                                Smaller size is easlily maintained w/pruning
  • Blooms:  Spring showy white flower
  • Special Feature:  Easy care, edible fruit

FRUIT / VEGETABLES PLANTS

Jersey Knight Asparagus
​Large light blue fruit that ripens mid-season and compact form.  Disease resistant.

CARE:
  • Light Needs: Full sun
  • Growth Rate:  Moderate
  • Size:  5’ tall and 4’ wide
  • Blooms:  Early showy spring flower
  • Special Feature:
             Attract butterflies, bird friendly, compact                    form, easy care, edible, spring showy                     flowers, fall color, and disease resistance. 
Blueray Blueberry
​Blue fruit in early to mid season.  Burgundy foliage in fall, deep red stems in winter.

CARE:
  • Light Needs: Partial to full sun
  • Growth Rate:  Moderate
  • Size:  5’ tall and wide
  • Blooms:  Early spring
  • Special Feature:
             Attract butterflies, bird friendly, compact                    form, easy care, edible, spring showy                     flowers, fall and winter color. 
 Caroline - Raspberries
A excellent eating fruit in June and July.  Water 1” per week from spring to harvest.  Plant crowns 1 or 2 inches above the ground.  Mulch is important to help keep moisture in and weeds out.  Prune after last harvest before growth begins in spring.
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​CARE:
  • Light Needs:  Partial to Full Sun
  • Growth Rate:  Moderate
  • Blooms:  Flowers in spring, followed by summer fruit
  • Special Feature:  Vine that requires support, attracts  butterflies, bird friendly, edible fruit
Jonagold Apple
​Unique flavor makes the fruit luscious enough to serve by itself as dessert.  This crisp apple is a cross between Jonathan and Gold Delicious.

CARE:
  • Light Needs: Full Sun 
  • Growth Rate:  Moderate Growth
  • Size:  20’ tall and 10’ wide
               Prune to maintain smaller size
  • Blooms:  Spring Pink Flower ; Fall Color 
  • Special Features:
​             Attracts Butterflies, Bird Friendly
Northern Spy Apple
Fruit is large, bright red, and exceptionally juicy, with a crisp tender texture. Great for eating and apple pies.
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CARE:
  • Light Needs:  Full Sun
  • Growth Rate: Moderate Growth
  • Size:  20’ tall and 10’ wide,
             prune to maintain smaller size.
  • Blooms: Spring White flower​
Crest Haven Peach
​Excellent eaten fresh or for canning. Large fruit is sweet and tender.  Easy to grow and adapts to most conditions. ​
 
​CARE:
  • Light Needs:  Full sun
  • Growth Rate:  Moderate
  • Size:  20’ tall and wide
              Prune to maintain smaller size
              Pyramidal shape
  • Blooms:  Pink fragment spring flowers
  • Special Feature:
​              ​Bird friendly, edible, fall color
Seckel Pear
​Small dessert pears that are super-sweet with a hint of spice.  Often used in cooking and canning, but also enjoyed fresh.  Tree is disease-resistant to fireblight.

CARE:
  • Light Needs:  Full Sun
  • Growth Rate:  Fast
  • Size 15 ft. tall, 12 ft. wide
  • Blooms:  Spring showy white flower
  • Special Feature:  Easy care, edible fruit
​Triple Crown - Blackberry
A thornless excellent eating BlackBerries that
mature in summer.  Clusters of rose like flowers in spring gives away to firm glossy Blackberries.
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CARE:
  • Light Needs:  Partial to Full Sun
  • Growth Rate:  Moderate
  • Size:  5’ tall and wide
  • Blooms:  Flowers in spring, followed by summer fruit
  • Special Feature:  Vine that requires support, attracts  butterflies, bird friendly, edible fruit
​Concord Grape
​​If you love grape juice you will love Concord Grapes!

CARE:
  • Light Needs: Full sun
  • Growth Rate:  Moderate, well-drained soil
  • Blooms:  White flowers in spring, followed by produce sweet grapes in late September
  • Special Feature:
          Disease resistance, self-pollinating, edible 
           fruit
Nova - ​Raspberries 
One of the highest quality raspberries you can grow.  Nova produces 2 crops of large, attractive, firm berries with excellent flavor.

​CARE:
  • Light Needs:  Partial to Full Sun
  • Growth Rate:  Moderate
  • Blooms:  Flowers in spring, followed by summer fruit
  • Special Feature:  Vine that requires support, attracts  butterflies, bird friendly, edible fruit
McIntosh Apple
A heavy producer of small to medium sized apples that ripen early.  Its brilliant scarlet skin creates the perfect, crisp crunch when bitten into its flesh are both juicy and tart. 

CARE:​
  • Light Needs: Full Sun 
  • Growth Rate:  Moderate Growth
  • Size:  10’ tall and wide
              Prune to maintain smaller size
Montmorency Cherry
Most popular cherry in the USA!  This compact tree bears armloads of ripe, tangy, red cherries, which make mouthwatering, succulent pies and cobblers.

CARE:
  • Light Needs:  Partial Sun
  • Growth Rate:  Moderate; well drained fertile soil
  • Blooms:  Mid-April white flowers followed by producing delicious cherry tree. 
  • Special Feature:  In the autumn the green leaves turn to a shades of orange and red.
New Haven Peach
​Ideal for eating, canning, and freezing.  Pink fragrant flowers in early spring, brings fall edible fruit.  Foliage turns bright gold in full.
  
CARE:
  • Light Needs:  Full sun
  • Growth Rate:  Moderate
  • Size:  20’ tall and wide
              Prune to maintain smaller size
              Pyramidal shape
  • Blooms:  Pink fragment spring flowers
  • Special Feature:
​              ​Bird friendly, edible, fall color
Stanley Plum
Stanley Plum is the golden standard of plum tree.   This variety produces oval-shaped fruit with deep purple skin and sweet golden flesh which ripens in early September.  Taste great when picked fresh or when dried or canned.

CARE:
  • Light Needs: Full sun
  • Growth Rate:  Moderate
  • Size:  15’ tall and 12" wide
  • Blooms:  White flowers in the spring
  • Special Feature:  Easy care, edible fruit
​Bluecrop Blueberry
Large light blue fruit that ripens mid-season and compact form.  Disease resistant. 

CARE:
  • Light Needs: Full sun
  • Growth Rate:  Moderate
  • Size:  5’ tall and 4' wide
  • Blooms:  Early showy spring flower
  • Special Feature:  Attract butterflies, bird friendly, compact form, easy care, edible, spring showy flower, fall color and disease resistance.
Nova Grape
Newest variety of grapes is Nova Grapes! The more water you can give Nova Grapes increase the yield.
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​CARE:
  • Light Needs:  Full Sun
  • Growth Rate:  Moderate, well-drained soil
  • Blooms:  White flowers in spring, followed by producing sweet grapes in late September
  • Special Feature:  Disease resistance, self-pollinating, edible fruit  
Rhubarb
Dig large bushel basket-size holes.  Plant one-year rhubarb crowns in early spring as soon as the ground is workable.  Space rhubarb plants about 4 feet apart and plant the roots 1 to 2 inches below the surface of the soil.

​CARE:
  • Light Needs:  Partial Sun
  • Growth Rate:  Moderate; well drained fertile soil
  • Blooms:  N/A
  • Special Feature:  Use in baking or canning
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