Peach & Nectarine
(Prunus persica & Prunus persica nucipersica)
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Flavortop, Nectarine (Semi-Dwarf)
Vigorous and productive, Flavortop is a reliable producer of high quality and wonderfully delicious, sweet and tangy fruit. The yellow flesh has firm and smooth texture with a cling-free stone. In the spring you can look forward to plentiful blossoms which are large and showy making this quite the ornamental tree for your landscape. Those plentiful blossoms often turn into a crop so plentiful the fruit size can suffer. Simply thin the crop early to allow the fruit to grow larger.
Flavortop is susceptible to peach leaf curl and should be sprayed every year with copper to control this fungus.
Self-fertile - can produce fruit on its own.
Hardy Red, Nectarine (Semi-Dwarf)
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An early ripening selection from Ontario, Canada, Hardy Red is productive, reliable and disease-resistant (especially to bacterial spot and brown rot) making it easy to grow. It is very productive and may require some thinning of the bountiful crop to encourage bigger nectarines. The yellow fleshed fruits are very sweet and flavorful with yellow flesh. Semi-freestone. Hardy to USDA zone 5
Self-fertile - can produce it's full potential of fruit on its own.
Morton, Nectarine (Semi-Dwarf)
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A highly disease resistant variety of nectarine, Morton is quite popular in parts of Europe, but is fairly new in USA. The flowers are a showy pink in the spring followed by abundant crops of large dark red fruits with an exceptionally tasty, sweet flavor, and melt-in-your-mouth texture. They are great for fresh eating, or you can use them for making preserves or in your baking. These trees typically have a naturally more compact growth habit and mature at about 10-12 feet tall. Cold hardy to USDA zone 5 or colder.
Self-fertile - can produce fruit on its own.
Pacific Pride, Nectarine (Semi-Dwarf)
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This select seedling of Kreibich bears abundant, large, juicy and sweet red and green striped white-flesh Nectarines. As with Kreibich, Pacific Pride™ is resistant to Peach Leaf Curl making it a little easier to grow. (Please note: resistance is not immunity and this tree can still get peach-leaf curl if the disease pressure is high enough).
Self-fertile - can produce fruit on its own.
Frost, Peach (Semi-Dwarf)
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Frost peach is one of the best all around peach varieties with it's abundant crops of high quality fruit, its disease resistance and it's late blooming habit. Peach trees are often early bloomers, and frequently have issues with their flowers getting destroyed by late frosts, so this late blooming habit allows this variety of peach to be grown further north than many other varieties. The fruits have great flavor and are quite juicy and sweet with yellow flesh. Though not immune to peach leaf curl, Frost is much more resistant than older varieties and does not require as much spraying. Eat these peaches fresh or canned - either way you are in for a real treat! Hardy to USDA zone 5.
Self-fertile (does not need to be planted near a different variety in order to produce fruit).
Reliance, Peach (Semi-Dwarf)
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Discovered in New Hampshire in 1964, Reliance is a very hardy peach variety that produces heavy crops of tasty, medium sized freestone fruit with firm, yellow flesh. While this peach is delicious eaten fresh, it really shines as a canning and baking peach. The fruits feature firm flesh that holds up very well when cooked, cling-free stones that make processing a quick affair and a pleasing flavor that is a nice balance of sweet and tart. A reliable selection for northern orchards, Reliance is one of the hardiest of all peach trees with a late bloom that is unlikely to be hit by late frosts. This variety has shown some resistance to peach leaf curl in our orchard, but will still require regular spraying to keep this nasty disease in check.
Self-fertile (does not need to be planted near a different variety in order to produce fruit).
Galaxy, Peento Peach (Semi-Dwarf)
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Also known as Donut Peaches, Peento peaches have been grown in China for centuries. They feature a beautiful display of snow-white flowers in the spring followed by delectable, sweet and juicy fruit. Peento peach trees ARE susceptible to peach leaf curl and must be cared for accordingly.
This variety of Peento Peach is known as Galaxy. It is prized for its large, creamy orange, juicy and sweet fruit with fine textured, melting flesh.
Self-fertile (can produce fruit on its own).