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Polonais is a late apricot tree variety from Provence in France. It produces rounded to oval fruit of golden yellow skin with orange cheeks and some red freckles. The flesh is sweet and juicy, mildly aromatic and medium firm which makes it ideal for making preserves apart from eating fresh. Maturity ...
3 - 5m
2 - 4m
full sun
5b (down to -27°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
San Castrese is an Italian, vigorously growing apricot variety producing fruit from about early August in CE climate. The fruit is golden yellow to pale orange, only slightly red flushed, almost rounded, sweet, aromatic, less intense in flavour, and freestone. Fruit is great for fresh consumption an ...
4 - 6m
2 - 4m
full sun
5b (down to -27°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Burlat is an early variety of sweet cherries. The fruit is vivid to dark red, mid-sized or large, very sweet and juicy, with medium firm flesh. As it is very precocious it is not vermicular.
It is partly self-fertile but benefits from being pollinated by another early cherry. It likes slightly acid ...
IV - V
3 - 7m
full sun
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Dönissens Gelbe is a super sweet and aromatic variety of yellow sweet cherries from Germany. It produces masses of medium-sized, juicy fruit in July. Its colour brings one advantage – it is usually untouched by birds who relish on red-coloured cherries.
It is self-sterile and needs a pollina ...
IV - IV
3 - 5m
3 - 4m
full sun
5 (down to -29°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
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3 - 6m
2 - 4m
full sun
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Hedelfingen is a very good variety of sweet cherry. It bears medium-sized fruit in early summer. Fruit is sweet and crunchy and partly resistant to cracking. It gains its colour about a week before it is truly mature. It needs protection from cherry-worms.
It is not self-fertile and needs a pollina ...
IV - IV
3 - 6m
3 - 4m
full sun
5 (down to -29°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Napoleon is a mid-season variety of sweet bigarreau cherry. Its fruit ripens in early July. Fruit is large, heart-shaped, yellow and red, getting deeper red as it matures on the tree. The flesh is aromatic, sweet, and has excellent taste. It needs protection from cherry-worms.
It belongs to the ha ...
IV - V
3 - 6m
full sun
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Stella is one the best modern self-fertile varieties of sweet cherries. It comes from Canada and produces reliable crop of large, sweet, very dark red, juicy fruit from end July. Self-fertile means it does not need a pollinating partner and you can have just one tree in the garden and there will alw ...
IV - IV
2 - 2,5m
1,5 - 2m
full sun
5 (down to -29°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Büttners Rote Knorpelkirsche is a great and unique sweet cherry variety from German Halle found already in 1795. In early 2000‘ it was renamed to ALTENBURGER MELONENKIRSCHE which truly does no make its pronunciation any easier.
This cherry produces excellent fruit of unique taste and beautif ...
4 - 6m
3 - 5m
full sun
5 (down to -29°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
MAXIMA is a modern, medium early, self-fertile cherry variety from Italy. It starts blooming only about 2 days later than Burlat (another medium-early variety) which helps the flowers escape cherry fruit flies that damage late hard-fleshed cherries by laying eggs inside from which are borne worms. M ...
IV
3 - 5m
2 - 4m
full sun
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Reine Claude d´Oullins is another French variety out of Reine Claude range. It is a greengage with large, spherical fruit of greeny-yellow fruit. It is delicious, sweet and juicy taste, the flesh is attached to the core. It is an early variety that ripens from mid to end of August.
It flowers in Ma ...
V - V
3 - 4m
2 - 4m
full sun
5b (down to -27°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Stanley is one of the most tasteful and reliable varieties of plums. The fruit is sweet and juicy, though firm. Flesh is orange-yellow, skin is smooth, deep violet-blue. The fruit is excellent fresh as well as canned, high sugar content makes them ideal for drying.
It blooms late in the spring and ...
V - V
2,5 - 6m
2 - 4m
full sun
4 (down to -34°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Quetsche d’Alsace is one of the oldest European plum varieties that was first described in German Alsace in 1914, hence its name. Still, it is so old and of unclear origin that most producing countries gave it its own name in their own language. We call it Švestka domácí (‘house plumR ...
V - V
3 - 5m
2 - 3,5m
full sun
5 (down to -29°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Mirabelle de Nancy is a cherry plum which is believed to be present and popular in France since the 15th century. Cherry plum is specific fruit, something between damson and plum. This variety produces rich yellow or golden-flushed, spherical, free-stone fruit that is juicy and sweet, not particular ...
IV - IV
3 - 6m
2 - 4m
full sun
5 (down to -29°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
If you like peaches and are looking for a heavy cropper try Fayette. This freestone variety bears large fruit that can be compared to the modern varieties. It has smooth, deep red skin with some yellow-orange shades, yellow flesh, and sweet taste. It matures from end August until mid September. Frui ...
IV - IV
3 - 4m
2 - 3m
full sun
5b (down to -27°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Ice Peach is a dwarf peach tree variety and the first white-skin peach in history. It produces medium-sized fruit with very pale yellow to almost white skin as well as the flesh which is sweet, low in acidity, aromatic, and juicy. It matures in first half August and makes small, slightly spreading t ...
1 - 1,5m
1 - 1,5m
full sun
5b (down to -27°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Redhaven is one of the most successful commercial varieties of peach in the world. It comes from the USA, and was registered in 1973.
It flowers profusely, is self-fertile and very productive. The fruit is mid-sized, with yellow and red hairy skin and yellow flesh and ripens from mid to end summer. ...
IV - V
3 - 4m
full sun
5a (down to -29°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Clapps Favourite is an early pear tree variety that was first introduced in the USA before 1860. It bears medium-sized pears with greeny-yellow skin, red flushed. The flesh is sweet, soft and juicy, “melt in the mouth”. It is ideal snack fruit eaten just as picked from the tree.
It cro ...
IV - V
3 - 5m
2 - 4m
full sun
4 (down to -34°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Conference is a famous pear tree from the 19th century. It was first introduced at the National British Pear Conference in 1885, hence its name. It has medium-sized fruit that is pyriform if cross-pollinated, or banana-shaped if self-pollinated.
The fruit is pale green with golden brown russet pat ...
IV - IV
3 - 5m
2 - 4m
full sun
4 (down to -34°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Williams is probably the most known and spread out pear in the world. Its complete name is Williams bon Chretien and comes from the UK, 18th century.
It is an early variety bearing mid-sized or large fruit with light green or yellow skin. The flesh is very juicy, aromatic, and sweet, it quickly sof ...
IV - V
3 - 5m
full sun
4 (down to -34°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Dwarf pears
are short and slender mini trees, usually with erect branches and plenty of fruit on a small tree. They are commonly at least partially or fully self-fertile so that they don’t need a pollinator which might be a problem to find if located on a city balcony. Leaves ma suffer from ...
1 - 1,5m
0,5 - 1m
full sun
4 (down to -34°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
