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The skin is red blushed over a deep golden yellow color. In our opinion no finer or lovelier peach tree exists anywhere. It’s as sweet a peach as you could imagine that you could have on the table. It is the best known yellow canning peach. In the spring, rose-red blossoms will fill the air with fragrance. And it grows well in a wide geographic belt, from Zone 5 all the way through the northern portion of Zone 9. This is a high quality eating and canning peach. Elberta peaches has the smallest pit-to-fruit ratio of any peach tree we offer. The Elberta Peach tree has very large fruit. Along with the delicious fruit, it’s a beautiful tree. ... more

 

Prairifire It is probably the most disease resistant of all crabapple selections. The purple-red fruits are first to be noticed in late June and hang through early December. The Prairifire is highly resistant to fireblight, scab, cedar apple rust and powdery mildew. The firm fruits age to a cherry red. The Prairifire™Crimson Crabapple tree, 'Malus 'Prairiefire', produces gorgeous buds followed by long-lasting, single, hot pink blossoms. The new foliage is reddish-maroon, aging to reddish-green. This red leafed tree has very attractive mahogany colored bark and persistent ornamental fruit. The tree form is upright, spreading, and becoming eventually round at maturity.

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