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Malus domestica ~ Anna Apple |
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The Anna Apple is our first apple of the season, blooming in early February and
with fruit ripe and ready to eat in early July. The crisp sweet Anna Apple is
green with a red blush on the sunny side of the apple. The apples are often quite
columnar, significantly taller than wide. The Anna Apple is very low chill and
will produce fruit at the coast. The Anna Apple requires a second pollinator,
we use the Dorsett Golden as it has a similar flowering time, typically starting
a few days after the Anna. Apples are produced on spurs and at the tips of untrimmed
branches. The tips of the branches are often too weak to support fruit. Fruiting spurs
can produce fruit for a decade or more so I am careful when picking the fruit not to
yank off the spur too. Apples are fairly easy to prune to shape and espalier. This is
great for fitting in that one more tree into an already "full garden" each season.
Apples can grow up against a wall or fence, or be made into a living fence like this
Belgian fence. I have arched 4 apples into a
living arbor. I am amused when folks describe an apple's flavor in terms of store bought
apples. The flavor of a freshly picked tree ripened apple is so much more complex and
wonderful and seems to bear no resemblance to the flavor of that dented red thing
they called an apple at the store.
High resolution images of the Anna Apple are available. |
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