Fruit Trees - H -  Plant Nursery

Hachiya Persimmon
Hachiya Persimmon

The Hachiya persimmon fruit is large and displays a deep orange-red color and is acorn-shaped. A hot summer is required to mature the fruit. It is sweet, flavorful, and astringent till soft-ripe. The mature fruit can be frozen and thawed to ripen. Persimmons offer an excellent source of fiber and contain lots of vitamin A and are a source for vitamin C. The tree can be used as an ornamental tree. In the fall the trees are extremely beautiful as the green leaves begin turning shades of yellow, orange and red.

Hale-Haven
Hale-Haven Peach

The Peach, Hale-Haven, Prunus persica, is a high quality peach that has a deep orange color all over with deep blushes of carmine. The brilliant color of the fruit appears several days before the fruit ripens. The pulp of the Hale Haven peach is firm, juicy, very sweet and richly flavored, being fully ripe in August. The Hale-Haven peach is a freestone peach has an excellent flavor so is good for desserts, canning and freezing. Easy to grow, it needs clear, hot weather during the growing season and requires well-drained soil as well as a regular fertilizing program.

Haralson
Haralson Apple

The Haralson Apple, Malus 'Haralson', is a hardy substitute for Golden Delicious developed especially for cold northern areas. It has the Golden Delicious flavor, but the Haralson hardiness. It has medium to large golden to greenish fruit with a very smooth finish and reddish bronze blush. The Haralson has a round-conic shape. It has a red color and large, moderately conspicuous dots. Haralson apples are crisp and juicy, having a tart flavor. They are good for eating, cooking, and are an excellent choice for pies. The skin is medium-tough, and the stem is medium. Its flavor is sweeter and more bland than Golden Delicious. High quality and superior storage qualities since it can be stored into March. It often bears fruit the first year after planting. Plant about a month after the first killing frost in the fall or about a month before the last killing frost in the spring. Select a planting site that has good air, drainage, full sunlight and deep, well drained soil.

Harken Peach
Harken Peach

Peach - Harken, prunus persica 'Harken', is the best flavored peach! It is hardy and widely adaptable. Harken is very sweet and bears a regular crop of large freestone peaches. For canning, pick fruit before it is table ripe. The peach tree is admired as much for its beauty and fragrant blossoms as it is for its fruit. The peach blossoms appear late winter and early spring along grey branches, before leaves emerge. It is an extremely vigorous tree and requires fertile, well drained soils. Harken ripens in early August. At 3 or 4 years of age it begins to bear large crops and reach peak productivity at 8 to 12 years. Peaches need clear, hot weather during their growing season and require well-drained soil as well as a regular fertilizing program. They also require heavier pruning than any other fruit trees to maintain size and encourage new growth.

Harko Nectarine
Harko Nectarine

Nectarine - Harko, P. persica var. nucipersica 'Harko', a hardy nectarine, with red skinned, yellow fleshed fruit ripening in mid-August. This is a solid red, freestone nectarine with good quality and flavor. It is a consistent producer, with no split pits. It tends to overbear, so it must be thinned hard and early in order to get good fruit size. Most adaptable of all fruit trees for home gardens, Harko is a delightfully decorative tree that will produce frilly pink blossoms in the spring. The tree is vigorous, with a twiggy habit, which makes it more time-consuming to prune than other varieties and produces showy, large, single pink blossoms in the spring.The nectarine fruit is a variety of the peach tree. Nectarines and peaches are similar in appearance and color as they differ only by a single gene, the gene for skin texture. The peach is dull and fuzzy while the nectarine is smooth and shiny. Nectarines contain a good amount of vitamins A and C. This tree can be kept to any height by summer pruning.

Multi-Fruited Pear Tree 2
Harrow Delight and Blake's Pride Pears

WARREN, KIEFFER, HARROW DELIGHT AND BLAKE'S PRIDE PEARS ALL ON THE SAME TREE!!These Multi-Budded pears are on OHxF333 Rootstock. Included are the Warren, Kieffer, Harrow Delight and Blakes Pride Multi-Budded. Always plant the smallest limb to the south/southwest to insure that it gets plenty of sun. Cut back the strongest growing varieties by two thirds. Cut back the weakest variety by one half, or not at all. Do not let one variety takes over, or one of the others may fail. Prune back the more aggressive limbs. Summer-prune when necessary in order to let sunlight get to all the developing varieties. After the third season, maintain the multi-budded tree so that each fruit-type grows in balance with the others. A multi-budded fruit tree will produce more variety and a longer harvest from a limited space.

Hazen
Hazen Apple

The Hazen Apple, Malus 'Hazen', is a variety introduced by North Dakota State University. It is a hardy apple for the northern prairies, and it displays white, fragrant, long lasting blooms in the spring. It produces large dark red fruit which normally matures in late August or early September. The fruit has a milder taste than Haralson and is good for cooking and eating. The tree is a natural semi-dwarf which bears fruit at a young age. Hazen is moderately resistant to fireblight, and it requires rich soil, moderate watering, good drainage and full sun.

Honey Babe Peach
Honey Babe Peach

Rich, firm, sweet, freestone fruit. Honey Babe is a large peach with a deep red over yellow skin. Its flesh is orange, speckled with red, and has a superb flavor. Honey Babe is excellent for fresh eating. This genetic dwarf tree grows very slowly into a wide, ornamental bush. It displays showy, pink blossoms and bears when young, usually the same year it is planted. It ripens in mid July. Light pruning during the summer and winter is required for best quality.Honey Babe is self-fertile, but has better yields if pollinated with Nectar Babe. It requires 500-600 chilling hours and was developed by Floyd Zaiger.

Honeycrisp
Honeycrisp Apple

The Honeycrisp apple is a high quality apple which keeps well for 5-6 months in common storage. The tree is one of the most vigorous and hardy of apple trees, showing little damage at -40 degrees. Needs to be thinned heavily. Honeycrisp fruit is characterized by an exceptionally crisp and juicy texture. Its flesh is cream colored and coarse. The flavor is sub-acid and ranges from mild and well-balanced to strongly aromatic, depending on the degree of maturity. Great eating apple with its subacid flavor. Develops its full aromatic flavor if left on the tree until mid October.Suggested pollinators are Gala, Granny Smith, Empire, McIntosh and Red Delicious. Not pollinated by Gravenstein.