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Apple Tree 'Honeycrisp' (PLU 47111)
Apple Tree 'Honeycrisp' (PLU 47111)
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Honeycrisp is now the number one apple variety in the world. It's crisp, tender flavour and great storing qualities make it more popular than any other. This delicious variety is so popular they even command a premium price at the grocery store. Their sweet, and delectable taste means they're ideal for eating fresh, and there's no need to add sugar (and calories) when cooking them.
You can use them as small landscape feature plants, shade trees for small gardens, or even a hedge row or wind barrier. Clothed with intense white blooms each spring that provide bees with essential pollen, and will attract birds and other wildlife.
Suitable pollinators include Royal Gala, Red Delicious, Golden Delicious (a.k.a. Yellow Delicious), McIntosh, Spartan, and Yellow Transparent apple varieties.
Height: 10 - 12 ft. (semi-dwarf)
Spread: 10 - 12 ft. (semi-dwarf)
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Hardiness Zone: 3b
Description:
An exceedingly crisp hardy red apple with a sweet and juicy flavor, keeps extremely well; eating apples need a second pollinator; the perfect combination of accent and fruit tree, needs well-drained soil and full sun
Edible Qualities
Honeycrisp Apple is a small tree that is commonly grown for its edible qualities. It produces large red round apples (which are botanically known as 'pomes') with creamy white flesh which are usually ready for picking from early to mid fall. The apples have a sweet taste and a crisp texture.
The apples are most often used in the following ways:
- Fresh Eating
- Cooking
Features & Attributes
Honeycrisp Apple features showy clusters of lightly-scented white flowers with shell pink overtones along the branches in mid-spring, which emerge from distinctive pink flower buds. It has forest green foliage throughout the season. The pointy leaves turn yellow in fall. The fruits are showy red apples carried in abundance from early to mid-fall. The fruit can be messy if allowed to drop on the lawn or walkways, and may require occasional clean-up.
This is a deciduous tree with a more or less rounded form. Its average texture blends into the landscape, but can be balanced by one or two finer or coarser trees or shrubs for an effective composition. This is a high-maintenance plant that will require regular care and upkeep, and is best pruned in late winter once the threat of extreme cold has passed.
Aside from its primary use as an edible, Honeycrisp Apple is suitable for the following landscape applications;
- Accent
- Shade
- Orchard/Edible Landscaping
- Attracting Wildlife
- Spring Flowering Tree
- Privacy hedging and wind-screens
Planting & Growing
Semi Dwarf Honeycrisp Apple will grow to be about 10 feet tall at maturity, with a spread of 12 feet. It has a low canopy with a typical clearance of 4 feet from the ground, and is suitable for planting under power lines. It grows at a medium rate, and under ideal conditions can be expected to live for 50 years or more. This variety requires a different selection of the same species growing nearby in order to set fruit. (See suitable pollinators listed above).
It should only be grown in full sunlight. It prefers to grow in average to moist conditions, and shouldn't be allowed to dry out. It is not particular as to soil type or pH. It is highly tolerant of urban pollution and will even thrive in inner city environments. This particular variety is an interspecific hybrid.
