Description
Sweet Sixteen Apple
One of the best for fresh-off-the-tree eating, Sweet Sixteen is super sweet with a richly complex flavor—similar to vanilla with just a hint of molasses and fine bourbon. A taste treat like no other! Extra hardy and long-lived even in harsh conditions. Ripens mid Sept.
Height: Standard: 22 feet
Spacing: Standard: 20 – 30 feet — Reachables: 6 – 10 feet
Spread: Standard: 20 feet
Light Required: Full Sun
Pollinator: Prairie Spy, Yellow Delicious, Honeycrisp.
Yield Standard: Approximately 5 – 10 bushels at maturity
Color: White.
Foliage: Green foliage.
Blooms: Late Spring
Fruit: Mostly red, large, conical shaped and wonderfull complex vanilla
flavor.
Zone: 3 – 6 (-30° F.)
Sweet Sixteen Apple
One of the best for fresh-off-the-tree eating, Sweet Sixteen is super sweet with a richly complex flavor—similar to vanilla with just a hint of molasses and fine bourbon. A taste treat like no other! Extra hardy and long-lived even in harsh conditions. Ripens mid Sept.
Height: Standard: 22 feet
Spacing: Standard: 20 - 30 feet -- Reachables: 6 - 10 feet
Spread: Standard: 20 feet
Light Required: Full Sun
Pollinator: Prairie Spy, Yellow Delicious, Honeycrisp.
Yield Standard: Approximately 5 - 10 bushels at maturity
Color: White.
Foliage: Green foliage.
Blooms: Late Spring
Fruit: Mostly red, large, conical shaped and wonderfull complex vanilla
flavor.
Zone: 3 - 6 (-30° F.)
Prunus 'Alderman'
Alderman Plum
Burgundy red - Introduced in 1986 by the University of Minnesota. Excellent fresh or for preserves, soft and sweet. Bears fruit the second season after planting. Fruit is of large size and named after Professor W. H. Alderman. Very attractive and valued as an ornamental. 'Superior', 'Toka' or 'Compass' make good pollinators. MNRC.
Height: 10-15'
Spread: 12'
Exposure: Full Sun
Zone: 4-8
Malus 'McIntosh' - Apple, McIntosh
McIntosh Apple is not only a lovely tree but provides delicious apples early in the season. One would look enticing anywhere in your landscape where you’re able to watch the daily developing of your bright red apple harvest. Your McIntosh Apple Tree is best known for its sumptuous fruit. Its brilliant scarlet skin, thin and smooth to the touch, creates the perfect, crisp crunch when bitten into. The pink-streaked, white flesh is both juicy and tart, prized for a variety of culinary uses.
As if the exceptional harvest weren’t enough, your McIntosh Apple Tree is also sure to be a decorative addition to your yard. No landscape is complete without a spring infusion of delicate apple blossoms in mid-April. The scent and sight of the dainty flowers is sure to create a strong lure to pollinators, who will flock to your yard to enjoy the display. As the apples begin to develop, you’ll enjoy watching as your fruit transitions into red, decorative balls amid the vibrant green leaves.
The McIntosh apple tree is a heavy producer of small to medium sized apples that ripen early, In fact, your apples will be ready for harvest in mid-September and persist into early winter. The tree is cold hardy and party self-fruitful. If a pollinator is desired however, Red Delicious, Gala or any other apple tree will do well. It’s quite simply a hardy tree that will require little care from you but provide an early harvest of wonderful fruit every year.
* Outstanding, early fruit
* Heavy producing
* Hardy tree
Botanical Name: Malus 'McIntosh'
Mature Height: Semi-Dwarf: 15-20'
Mature Spread: 5 - 8 feet
Soil Type: Well Drained
Moisture: Moderate
Sun Exposure: Full Sun
Growth Rate: Medium
Flower Color: White
Fruiting Time: 3 - 5 years
Prunus 'Superior'
Superior Plum
The Superior Plum's fruit is large with a dark red skin. The flesh is yellow, firm, meaty and of the finest quality. This fruit tree is a good pollinator for several other varieties. This juice fruit works great when used for jam or fresh eating. White blooms in May. Mature size is around 15-20' high and wide. Ripens over a long period of time. This plum tree is a clingstone meaning they have flesh that clings to the stone.
USDA Zone: 4-8
Height Range: 12-15'
Space Range: 12-15'
Plant Light: Full Sun
Flower Color: White
Bloom Time: Spring
Growth Rate: Rapid
Shape: Rounded Vase
Fall Color: Yellow
Malus domestica 'KinderKrisp'
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