FRUIT TREES
Malus – Crabapples
Dolgo
| Eating: | Good |
| Cooking: | Very good |
| Storage: | Fair |
| This attractive pyramidal form tree has an abundance of showy white blossoms. Fruit is bright red and makes a flavourful jelly. | |
Prairiefire
| Height: | 5m/16ft |
| Spread: | 5m/16ft |
| Foliage: | Reddish maroon, turning to dark green |
| Flowers: | Dark pinkish red |
| Prairiefire will bloom slightly later than other varieties. A highly disease resistant tree with good summer foliage retention during hot summers. Fruit produced is ½” size and tends to hang on the tree throughout winter. Interesting dark, glossy bark with upright form is quite distinctive. | |
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Prairie Magic
| Eating: | Very good |
| Cooking: | Very good |
| Storage: | Good |
| A medium to large fruit is green with a red overlay and has a sharp crisp flesh. | |
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Radiant (Ornamental)
| Height: | 5m/16ft |
| Spread: | 5m/16ft |
| Foliage: | Red changing to dark green |
| Flowers: | Single, deep pink |
| Fruit: | Small, bright red |
| The Radiant Flowering Crabapple Tree is very disease–resistant to scab, cedar–apple rust, mildew and fire blight. In early spring, the tree becomes covered with dense clusters of red–purple flowers and red fruit. New purple foliage in the spring matures to green. | |
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Red Jade
| Height: | 3m/10ft |
| Spread: | 4m/12ft |
| Foliage: | Green |
| Flowers: | White |
| Fruit: | Orange to Red |
| Hardiness: | Zone 3 |
| Graceful small tree with strong pendulous form. Commonly used as an accent tree in an oriental theme garden. Pink flower buds open to a clean white bloom, followed by glossy orange to red fruits in the fall. | |
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Thunderchild
| Height: | 6m/20ft |
| Spread: | 4m/13ft |
| Foliage: | Deep purple |
| Flowers: | Delicate single pink |
| Fruit: | Dark red |
| Upright, spreading form with controlled growth. Flowers appear in spring before foliage of deep purple. Excellent resistance to firebright. | |
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Malus – Dwarf Apples
Early Season:
Harvest mid–to–late August
Dexter Jackson
| Eating: | Very good |
| Cooking: | Good |
| Storage: | Good |
| Apples are average size and are amber in colour with red streaking, similar in size and taste to the Norland but with a high resistance to fire blight and scab. | |
Heyer #12
| Eating: | Good |
| Cooking: | Very good |
| Storage: | Fair |
| Produces a thin–skinned medium sized yellow apple with white flesh. Heyer is a very reliable northern variety. A juicy selection recommended for pies and sauces. | |
Mid Season Variety:
Harvest fruit by mid September
Battleford
| Eating: | Good |
| Cooking: | Very good |
| Storage: | Fair |
| Medium sized apple is greenish yellow with red markings and a juicy white flesh. | |
Late Season:
Harvest by late September
Carlos Queen
| Eating: | Good |
| Cooking: | Good |
| Storage: | Good |
| A large apple that is green with a dull red blush and white flesh. | |
Goodland
| Eating: | Very good |
| Cooking: | Very good |
| Storage: | Good |
| Produces a large apple, light green in colour with a red overlay. | |
Pyrus–Pear
Golden Spice Pear
| Height: | 6m/20ft |
| Spread: | 5m/16ft |
| Fruit: | Yellow with red blush |
| Ripens: | Late September |
| Uses: | Canning, fresh eating |
| Produces small fruits with a juicy yellow flesh with good flavour. A very hardy pear for the prairies. | |
Ussurian Pear
| Height: | 6m/20ft |
| Spread: | 5m/16.5ft |
| Fruit: | Small yellow |
| Ripens: | September |
| Uses: | Jams and desserts |
| White spring flowers, long thorns and glossy green foliage which turns orange in the fall. Best fruit production with cross pollination. | |
Prunus – Plums
Brook Red Plum
| Height: | 5m/16ft |
| Spread: | 4m/12ft |
| Fruit: | Dark red |
| Ripens: | Early August/early September |
| Uses: | Eating, cooking |
| This is a vigorous grower and heavy producer of high quality fruit. | |
Evans Cherry
| Height: | 4m/13ft |
| Spread: | 3m/10ft |
| Flowers: | White |
| Fruit colour: | Large glossy red |
| Ripens: | Late summer |
| Hardiness: | Zone 3 |
| One of the better ornamental and fruit shrubs because of the show, flowers in spring and fine flavoured fruit in July. The fruit makes wonderful jelly or can be eaten fresh. | |
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Nanking Cherry
| Height: | 2.5m/6–8ft |
| Fruit size: | 1.5cm |
| Fruit colour: | Bright Red |
| Hardiness: | Zone 2 |
| One of the better ornamental and fruit shrubs because of the show, flowers in spring and fine flavoured fruit in July. The fruit makes wonderful jelly or can be eaten fresh. | |
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Pembina Plum
| Height: | 5m/16ft |
| Spread: | 4m/12ft |
| Fruit: | Reddish blue |
| Ripens: | Mid to late August |
| Uses: | Eating, cooking, canning |
| A large thick–skinned fruit, juicy with a yellow flesh (requires another variety for pollination) | |
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Westcott Apricot
| Height: | 5m/15ft |
| Spread: | 4m/13ft |
| Fruit: | Golden yellow, with a reddish tinge |
| Ripens: | August |
| Eating: | Good |
| Hardiness: | Zone 3 |
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