THE AMAZING APPLE PRE-ORDER 59 Heirloom, Red Flesh, and Dwarf Varieties for Pick-Up in March/April 2022
ORDERING NOW CLOSED: Extra apples are now available for in-person shopping at the nursery. To keep up to date on all things edible, make sure to sign up to our Edible Alert. PLEASE DO NOT MIX PRE-ORDERS: The plants in each pre-order are only available for shipping or pick-up during a specific period each year. Orders for each pre-order must be placed separately from other pre-orders and our Main Catalogue. Please do not place mixed orders*.
We are pleased to launch a brand new pre-order featuring rare heirloom and red flesh apples along with trees for small spaces including modern varieties grafted onto dwarf and mini-dwarf rootstock and columnar cultivars. All of these apples should be hardy to zone 4. Most will require another different apple as a pollenizer so we recommend planting more than one apple in your garden. However, if your neighbours have apple or crabapple trees, these can also act as pollenizers.
We are sorry not to have photos for many of the red flesh and heirloom cultivars. These are very rare cultivars and photos are hard to come by. We do recommend doing a Google search of the cultivars you are interested in as other sites may have photos for you to look at.
Available for:PICK-UP ONLY. Most trees will be 4-6 feet tall. If you live far away and would like to place a large order for yourself or for a group of friends, we can ship your trees on a pallet via freight to most places in Canada. If you would like this option, place your order, choose pick-up, and then contact us for a freight quote.
Estimated Date: March/Early April
Plant Details: Most heirloom varieties will be 3-5 feet tall, though a few could be 2-3 feet tall. Most red flesh varieties will be 4-5 feet tall. Most modern varieties on mini-dwarf and dwarf rootstocks will be at least 4-5 feet tall. Columnar cultivars are usually 2 feet tall. 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 in peat pots.
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 resultant 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.
*Mixed orders will be charged an administrative fee of $5 per pre-order/main catalogue order to cover our costs of separating and organizing your orders. As a rule, all pre-orders ship separately due to timing and different packing requirements. In some cases we may be able to combine some pre-orders to ship together if you send us a detailed email listing all of your orders. While we will do our best, we cannot guarantee that any pre-orders will ship together.
