Estimated Date: March/Early April

Plant Details: Most trees will be 4-6 feet tall. Two gallon potted plants and columnar apples will be shorter. All trees will begin producing within a few years though, depending on initial size, may take 3-5 years to begin producing large crops. Trees will be provided rooted in plastic pots or as recent potting from bare root.

Cancellations and Changes: Once plants are ordered, they are reserved for you and can’t be sold to anyone else. We view your order as a commitment you have made with us in good faith. For this reason, cancellations for full refund will only be accepted until February 1st, 2023. After that date you can choose to cancel for a refund minus a 25% restocking fee or cancel for a full store credit. Additions can be made at any time by placing a new order. Notify us when you pick up that you have multiple orders.

Red flesh apples are among the most intriguing and popular cultivars among apple collectors. They are crosses of red fleshed crabapples from Central Asia with white fleshed commercial apples. The resulting cultivars have flesh that ranges from soft pink to bright pink to bright red. Some cultivars have a mix of white and red throughout the flesh. Their blooms are also often pink or dark pink. As with all apples, each red flesh cultivar has its own particular flavour, aroma, and balance of sweetness and tartness. Red flesh apples can be used for fresh eating but they become particularly fun for use in pies, and for apple sauce and ciders!

Heirloom Apples: We are excited to offer a wide range of heritage apples from Europe and North America, many of which are hundreds of years old. These apples connect us with gardeners and apple lovers as far back as the 1600s but also offer us fun and unusual shapes, colours, textures and flavours for fresh eating and to play with in the kitchen.

Dwarf, Mini-Dwarf, and Columnar Apples: These mostly modern cultivars offer sizes and shapes that fit better into our smaller gardens but still provide great production.

Apple Rootstocks: All of our apples are grafted onto different rootstocks which offer a variety of different characteristics to apple trees. The most important is size. Many rootstocks are dwarfing or semi-dwarfing to varying degrees. Some can also confer extra vigour and production as well as cold and drought tolerance.

B.118: Semi-Dwarf, strong roots, vigorous growth, early production, tolerant of drought, extreme cold, heavy soils, and difficult conditions. Trees will reach about 16 feet high and wide.

B.9: A dwarfing rootstock producing trees that are slightly smaller than M.9 rootstock with slightly higher yields and more cold and drought tolerance. Should be grown with a strong stake for extra support.

M.9: The most widely planted dwarf rootstock in North America producing trees about 6-8 feet tall and 4-8 feet wide with excellent vigour and great production, even on young trees. Should be grown with a strong stake for extra support. Summer irrigation may be required during dry spells.

M.27: Mini-Dwarf, perfect for small gardens and containers (which should be about 18 inches wide). Very productive usually producing 30 pounds of fruit per year. Production begins early, even on young plants. Should be grown with a strong stake for extra support. Trees reach about 6 feet tall and 4-6 feet wide.

M.7: A widely planted semi-dwarfing rootstock producing trees about 16 feet high and wide.

M.26: Dwarf trees that are quite vigorous. Very productive even on young trees. Trees will reach about 12-16 feet high and wide.