Semi-dwarf. A blue plum, excellent for fresh eating, jams and preserves. Tender, juicy flesh. Considered by many the best blue cultivar. Ripens late August. A freestone variety that is self-fertile.

(Semi-Dwarf) Many beginning gardeners are interested in growing their own fruits but are a bit timid trying fruit trees worrying they might fail. ‘Hardired’ is one fruit tree that is perfect for the beginner backyard orchardist because it’s productive, reliable and virtually carefree: it’s one tree that makes it easy to succeed! This sturdy, self-pollinating Nectarine was developed in Canada so you know it’s tough and hardy enough to stand up to some winter cold. Its medium sized fruits are firm with a delicious, sweet flavor, yellow flesh and 90% red skin. Fruit is harvested early to mid August and can be used for canning, baking or eating right off the tree. Thin early and aggressively in the fruit maturing process for the largest sized fruits at harvest. ‘Hardired’ is not only a great producer of fruit, its handsome foliage and fragrant pink flowers in the spring make for a great landscape tree as well. Plant it in full sun and on higher ground to avoid late blossom killing frosts.

(Semi-Dwarf) ‘Madison’ is a medium sized, bright red freestone Peach that, like ‘Reliance’, is recommended for northern climates for its excellent late frost tolerance and great cold hardiness as well as its wonderful taste. ‘Madison’ is self pollinating and will set a heavy crop of fruit, in fact, it may set so many that you’ll want to thin them during the early part of their maturing season for the best and largest fruit at harvest. This high quality fruit has slightly fibrous, firm, orange-yellow flesh that tastes great and is very juicy! Because of its fruit is so tender you rarely see it in grocery stores making it all the better for picking off your own tree in mid-August! The fruit are excellent for slicing and having with a bit of cream or for any of your baking and canning recipes. It’s bacterial spot tolerant and will thrive in sunny areas with well-drained soil! ‘Madison’ is vigorous and needs a little extra pruning yearly to maintain its vigor and productivity.

(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

French Prune Plum is a mid season, self-fertile, deep reddish-black free-stone plum that is perfect for canning or drying. A vigorous, classic variety with unsurpassed sweetness and longevity.

(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.