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Fruit Trees Methley
Methley The Methley Plum Tree produces juicy, sweet, red flesh with a mild flavor. This early variety has reddish-purple skin and blood red flesh. The Methley plum tree is very attractive in appearance and vigorous. The Methley is self-fruitful so no pollinator is needed. This early variety has red-purple skin and soft, juicy, blood-red flesh. This plant is attractive to bees, butterflies and birds and the flowers are fragrant. It is drought-tolerant and is a regular bearer.

Autumn Sweet The Autumn Sweet plum is a new variety and it produces larger plums than Italian. The fruit is oval, fully purple colored, firm and very sweet. It is late blooming and will need a pollinator. This plum dries well and has an excellent shelf life.
Bartlett The Bartlett Pear tree produces a pear that is bright yellow. They tend to bear fruit for up to 50 to 75 years on a good site. Along with its very sweet and juicy flavor for eating, it is widely used for canning and cooking because of its excellent taste. They do require bees to help pollinate. Bartlett Pears do not ripen properly on the tree, so growers pick the fruit when it is mature but green.
Bing The Bing Cherry is one of the finest commercial sweet cherries and it is the most famous sweet cherry variety. It produces a very large, delicious cherry that ranges in color from a deep garnet to almost black. The skin is smooth and glossy and the flesh firm and sweet. The flesh is very solid, reddish-purple in color, and is flavorful and juicy. The Bing Cherry tree requires cross-pollination to produce fruit.
Braeburn The Braeburn Apple has a sweet flavor balanced with a moderate tartness that produces a unique blend. The texture is crisp and firm and juicy. The under color is yellowish green and is shaded by a broadly red-striped color pattern. Braeburn apples are an old-fashioned sweet apple with a smooth and crisp texture. It's great for snacks and salads. It is a late season apple with a long storage life.
Chestnut The Chestnut Crabapple blooms in early to mid-May. It has a pleasant nut-like flavor. Outstanding flavor and good texture for fresh eating as well as being a pollinator. The fruit quality holds well on the tree, being quite spritely at first and becoming sweeter later on. An excellent pollinator for other fruit apples.
Lapin The Lapin Cherry fruit is large and deep purple in color with lighter red flesh. These are some of the largest, juciest cherries that grow on trees. They are great for snacking, and so big, one cherry is a mouthful! The skin is bright in appearance and it is split resistant due to flexible skin.
Comice The Comice Pear produces a large pear with a very juicy, melting flesh. The giant, juicy, rich-flavored pears are golden with a trace of red. It’s also blight-resistant.
Cortland It is sweet with a hint of tartness. It has a tender snow white flesh. The Cortland apple is an attractive large red-striped apple that can be best described as juicy.
D Anjou The tree is very hardy, large and highly productive. The D'Anjou does not change color as it ripens. Requires cross pollination with Bartlett or any other pear with the same bloom date.
Damson Damsons are used for cooking, jam & wine making.
Early Italian It separates freely from pit.
Elberta Along with the delicious fruit, it’s a beautiful tree.
Fantasia The Fantasia Nectarine is a popular, large, yellow, freestone nectarine.

 

Fruit trees