(Semi-Dwarf) If you are looking for a slightly earlier Peach that does not skimp on size or taste, Glowingstar® is the Peach for your home edible garden! Maturing in mid to late July, Glowingstar® doesnt skimp on the size producing beefy 2.5 to 3 bright red colored fruit against a yellow backdrop that open to firm, yellow, sweet tasting flesh that will have you eating them right off the tree. This freestone selection makes it easy for you because it is such a forgiving tree with great hardiness, resistance to bacterial spot and great vigor which allows it to produce its easy to store fruit by the bushel load! Glowingstar® is self-pollinating and your family will find it to be a welcome addition to your garden with each pie, preserve and fresh Peach they eat!

For all you small space gardeners, here’s another great Peach that will help bring produce to your small yard, deck or patio. With its tight, dense form, this plant is ideal for growing in a container but it will perform as well as any orchard Peach with an outstanding array or purple-pink flowers in early May followed by big, beefy yellow brushed red Peaches that mature in early to mid-August. ‘Golden Glory’ won’t skimp on the fruit, in fact, you’ll have enough of these sweet, freestone beauties to can, preserve or use in a pie and still have plenty for eating right off the tree! Self-fruitful.

Here’s a peach that will keep you guessing, not because of its taste, productivity or ease of growth but because of its outlandish shape. You will turn some heads when you serve up some Galaxy peaches to your friends, in fact, many will wonder where you got those fuzzy bagels because that is exactly what this fruit looks like! Rest assured that appearance is the only common point with bagels because this late June/early July maturing clingstone peach has a dreamy, sweet, juicy taste that is all you would want from a peach grown in your own backyard. Its sweet white flesh is surrounded by beautifully red blushed skin and its novelty shape does not affect its ability to produce an abundance of fruit that you can use fresh or in baking and preserves. Developed by the USDA, ‘Galaxy’ deserves a place in any backyard edible landscape.

Your mouth is going to water just thinking about this incredible fruiting powerhouse that you can grow in a container right on your deck or patio if you so choose. While its stature is small and dense this stellar selection will fruit in a BIG way with loads of large, juicy, freestone Nectarines that feature sweet yellow flesh surrounded by yellow skin brushed with red. The fruit form this mid August producer will be anticipated by one and all because this fruit is one of the best for eating fresh off the tree but is also perfect for preserving or using baked. And, with its easy to handle size, this miniature Nectarine is one of the easiest plants to care for in your edible garden. Even better, it is self-fruitful meaning it will bear a bumper crop on its own without a pollinator. You’ll also love its brilliant late April flowering show as it jams up with beautiful pinkish-lavender bloom! Self-fruitful

(Semi-Dwarf) Youll never worry about getting enough fruit withFriar in the garden…its a fruiting machine turning out bushel upon bushel of large, oval, firm Plums that will beguile you with their sweet taste. Its fruit is very attractive as it matures in August with deep purple, nearly black skin that contrasts starkly with its juicy, glowing amber flesh. While an older variety of Japanese Plum,Friar still is one of the best for the home edible garden for its easy to grow nature and for its fruit that resists cracking as well as any Plum you can find. Youll love eating it fresh off the tree and youll find that youll have loads of friends around harvest time looking to help you share that luscious fruit that is just as good cooked in a myriad of tasty ways as it is fresh. Friar must be pollinated by another Japanese Plum to set fruit.

(Semi-Dwarf)Elephant Heart may not be the newest variety on the market but it is still a significant selection for your home edible garden with traits that no other Plum can match. Elephant Heart may be the best variety for stretching your harvest season as its late August/early September maturity will make it the last Plum to harvest. Couple that with huge size and flavor and you have a variety you cant pass up. Elephant Heart is one of the largest Plums and very distinctive with its heart shape and blood red flesh that is oh so juicy and sweet. This power packed taste bomb will be one of your favorites fresh off the tree but will have oodles of cooking uses and will shine in each. Elephant Heart is vigorous and one of the heaviest producers of any Plum youll grow. Elephant Heart needs to be pollinated by another Japanese Plum to set fruit.

Coralstar® is a Peach that just seems to keep on giving. It has it all with huge 3 diameter fruit that is so pretty to look at with its bright coral-red skin and flesh that you might not want to take a bite. That would be a mistake because it is a deliciously sweet and firm freestone Peach that will have you salivating from the first scent of its sweet aroma! Adding to this selections great look and taste is its ability to produce…Coralstar® matures in late July and keeps on maturing fruit for the next few weeks giving you a longer period of picking, a great plus for the home edible garden. Even better, Coralstar® is easy to grow, keeps well when cooled, hardy, self-fruitful, resistant to bacterial spot and is one of the heaviest producers youll ever find for you home edible garden!

It’s true. Peach selection can be difficult if you are looking to raise them in a home orchard in the far north. Good thing ‘Contender’ is available to give you a great tasting peach that will shrug off your Zone 4 winters. This late July maturing, freestone peach will thrill you with its big size, its tasty juiciness and its ability to produce loads of these red blushed yellow fruit that are equally good fresh as they are canned or preserved for later use. ‘Contender’ is self-fruitful, easy to grow and a sure way to make your northern backyard feel like it’s a little further south!

(Semi-Dwarf) Burgundy Plum is a great addition to the home edible garden featuring reddish-purple skinned Plums that hang on this tree like glowing ornaments on a Christmas tree. A great eating Plum with a small pit and radiant, deep red flesh and a mellow but sweet flavor, these Plums ripen starting in early July. Don’t worry if you can’t eat a bountiful tree full of Plums in a few weeks because Burgundy will keep well on the tree until September or off the tree even longer when stored in a cool place. Burgundy Plum is self fertile which eliminates the need for another variety for cross pollination making it a dream Plum for those gardeners with a small yard. And, if you like the fruit, you’ll love the spectacular bloom that produces the fruit with late April to early May flowers that will light up the landscape!

(Semi-Dwarf) Get ready all you white Peach lovers! This selection from the acclaimed Stellar series of Peaches will thrill you will its toughness, ease of growth, bountifulness, and its great taste! Blushingstar® is a mid-season bloomer that loads up with perfectly beautiful pinkish-lavender flowers in late April or early May. Copious amounts of fruit develop quickly and mature in midseason (late July) to 2.5 to 3 diameter Peaches that are sweetly colored pink to red. The mature fruit looks tasty and when you cut it open to reveal its white flesh and to unleash its one-of-a-kind sweet aroma, youll be hooked! Blushingstar® is a freestone selection and self-pollinating. Its vigorous nature and hardiness are a home orchard asset along with its excellent resistance to bacterial spot