Choose Your Perfect Orchard Ready Apple Tree
Ambrosia Apple | Lives up to its heavenly name with a honeyed sweetness, low acidity, and a mellow, floral flavor that feels like sunshine in every bite. The medium sized fruit is blushed red over a creamy yellow background and is known for staying slow to brown after cutting, which makes it perfect for salads, fruit trays, and kid snacks.
Ripens mid-fall • Cross-pollinator • Great for fresh eating
Fuji Apple | Fuji is the heavyweight champion of sweetness. These apples are very crisp, very juicy, and intensely sweet, with a bicolor red blush over yellow skin that makes them as pretty as they are delicious. The flavor holds up beautifully in fresh eating, but Fuji also shines in baking and drying thanks to its firm texture and excellent storage life.
Ripens late season • Cross-pollinator • Great for baking
Gala Apple | A real crowd pleaser and one of the most popular dessert apples in the world. The fruit is small to medium in size, striped and blushed red over gold, with a sweet, aromatic flavor and crisp but not overly hard texture. It is a gentle, approachable apple that kids and adults both love for fresh snacking and salads.
Ripens early season • Cold-hardy • Excellent for fresh eating
Honeycrisp Apple | The modern icon. One bite and you get a loud crunch, a rush of juice, and a sweet yet tangy flavor that keeps people hooked. Fruit is large, mottled red over yellow, with a texture that stays crisp in storage and a flavor often compared to honey and sparkling cider.
Ripens late season • Extremely cold-hardy • Consistent producer
Kinderkrisp Apple | Kinderkrisp brings Honeycrisp crunch to a smaller, snack sized apple. Fruit is bright red, very crisp, and very sweet, with a refreshing bite that kids adore and adults quietly steal from their lunchboxes. It ripens early, often in late August, which makes it a fantastic season opener for dessert apples.
Ripens early • Extremely cold-hardy • Delicious dessert treat
Minnewashta ‘Zestar!’ Apple | Your bright, early season dessert apple with a little zing. The medium sized fruit is mostly red over yellow or green, with crisp, juicy flesh and a sweet tart flavor that often carries a hint of brown sugar or caramel. It ripens in late August to early September, starting the apple season in style.
Ripens early • Well-known classic • Consistent producer
Red Delicious Apple | A classic sweet apple, famous for its deep red color and iconic shape. The flavor is mild and sweet, with low acidity and a tender, fine grained texture that makes it a nostalgic fresh eating apple for many families.
Ripens late season• Extremely cold-hardy • Consistent producer
Royal Red Honeycrisp Apple | A redder strain of Honeycrisp that keeps all the things people love about the original. Expect explosively crisp flesh, a balanced sweet tart flavor, and highly colored fruit that looks stunning in the bowl and on the tree.
Ripens late season• Extremely cold-hardy • Consistent producer
Yellow Golden Delicious Apple | A versatile kitchen workhorse with a gentle, honeyed sweetness and tender, fine–grained flesh. It holds its shape beautifully when baked, making it a favorite for pies, crisps, tarts, and roasted apple dishes, while also shining as a fresh–eating apple right off the tree.
Ripens mid-late season • Soft white blossoms • Consistent producer
Choose Your Perfect Orchard Ready Apple Tree
Ambrosia Apple | Lives up to its heavenly name with a honeyed sweetness, low acidity, and a mellow, floral flavor that feels like sunshine in every bite. The medium sized fruit is blushed red over a creamy yellow background and is known for staying slow to brown after cutting, which makes it perfect for salads, fruit trays, and kid snacks.
Ripens mid-fall • Cross-pollinator • Great for fresh eating
Fuji Apple | Fuji is the heavyweight champion of sweetness. These apples are very crisp, very juicy, and intensely sweet, with a bicolor red blush over yellow skin that makes them as pretty as they are delicious. The flavor holds up beautifully in fresh eating, but Fuji also shines in baking and drying thanks to its firm texture and excellent storage life.
Ripens late season • Cross-pollinator • Great for baking
Gala Apple | A real crowd pleaser and one of the most popular dessert apples in the world. The fruit is small to medium in size, striped and blushed red over gold, with a sweet, aromatic flavor and crisp but not overly hard texture. It is a gentle, approachable apple that kids and adults both love for fresh snacking and salads.
Ripens early season • Cold-hardy • Excellent for fresh eating
Honeycrisp Apple | The modern icon. One bite and you get a loud crunch, a rush of juice, and a sweet yet tangy flavor that keeps people hooked. Fruit is large, mottled red over yellow, with a texture that stays crisp in storage and a flavor often compared to honey and sparkling cider.
Ripens late season • Extremely cold-hardy • Consistent producer
Kinderkrisp Apple | Kinderkrisp brings Honeycrisp crunch to a smaller, snack sized apple. Fruit is bright red, very crisp, and very sweet, with a refreshing bite that kids adore and adults quietly steal from their lunchboxes. It ripens early, often in late August, which makes it a fantastic season opener for dessert apples.
Ripens early • Extremely cold-hardy • Delicious dessert treat
Minnewashta ‘Zestar!’ Apple | Your bright, early season dessert apple with a little zing. The medium sized fruit is mostly red over yellow or green, with crisp, juicy flesh and a sweet tart flavor that often carries a hint of brown sugar or caramel. It ripens in late August to early September, starting the apple season in style.
Ripens early • Well-known classic • Consistent producer
Red Delicious Apple | A classic sweet apple, famous for its deep red color and iconic shape. The flavor is mild and sweet, with low acidity and a tender, fine grained texture that makes it a nostalgic fresh eating apple for many families.
Ripens late season• Extremely cold-hardy • Consistent producer
Royal Red Honeycrisp Apple | A redder strain of Honeycrisp that keeps all the things people love about the original. Expect explosively crisp flesh, a balanced sweet tart flavor, and highly colored fruit that looks stunning in the bowl and on the tree.
Ripens late season• Extremely cold-hardy • Consistent producer
Yellow Golden Delicious Apple | A versatile kitchen workhorse with a gentle, honeyed sweetness and tender, fine–grained flesh. It holds its shape beautifully when baked, making it a favorite for pies, crisps, tarts, and roasted apple dishes, while also shining as a fresh–eating apple right off the tree.
Ripens mid-late season • Soft white blossoms • Consistent producer
Why plant Orchard Ready - Dessert Apple Trees?
Premium, Mature Trees for a Head Start on Homegrown Fruit
Bring the orchard home faster with Bower & Branch Orchard Ready Sweet & Dessert Apple Trees. These carefully cultivated, landscape-ready trees deliver blossom beauty, lush green foliage, and crisp, candy-sweet apples sooner than you would expect. They are selected for reliable performance in home landscapes and thrive across a wide range of climates, with varieties suited for USDA Zones 3 through 8.
Each variety in this collection is chosen for exceptional sweetness, crunch, and fresh-eating pleasure, with many also shining in salads, desserts, and lunchbox slices that do not last long on the table.
Ambrosia Apple: Hardiness Zone: 4-8
Fuji Apple: Hardiness Zone: 4-8
Gala Apple: Hardiness Zone: 4-8
Honeycrisp Apple: Hardiness Zone: 3-8
Kinderkrisp Apple: Hardiness Zone: 4-7
Minnewashta 'Zestar!' Apple: Hardiness Zone: 3-8
Red Delicious Apple: Hardiness Zone: 5-8
Golden Delicious Apple: Hardiness Zone: 4-8
Royal Red Honeycrisp Apple: Hardiness Zone: 3-9
Yellow Golden Delicious Apple: Hardiness Zone: 4-8
How to use Orchard Ready - Dessert Apple Trees in the landscape?
Plant your Orchard Ready Sweet & Dessert Apple Trees where you can really live with them. They make wonderful focal points near patios, play spaces, and outdoor dining areas, where spring blossoms perfume the air and summer shade feels like a gift. Group several varieties together to create a small home orchard that stretches your harvest from early apples like Kinderkrisp and Zestar! into later picks like Fuji and Ambrosia.
These trees pair beautifully with pollinator friendly perennials, flowering crabapples, and other Orchard Ready fruits. The result is a landscape that is not just pretty, but generous, turning everyday walks through the yard into quick snack runs.
