Silver Creek Nursery Ltd.

Discovery Apple Bareroot

History: Discovery is a seedling of Worcester Pearmain and possibly Beauty of Bath that was planted and grown by George Dummer, a worker on a fruit farm, around 1949. This English apple nearly failed to make it since the family accidentally left it out in nothing but sacking where it was exposed to frost for several months. Fortunately, the tree survived and eventually caught the eye of Jack Matthews, a nursery owner from Thurston. He propagated the tree and originally named it Thurston August for its early ripening time, before changing the name to Discovery in 1962. It has had some commercial success in the UK and British Columbia, and remains one of the more popular early apple varieties in England. 
 
Why We Grow It: Discovery is a slightly sweet apple with noticeable acidity, and under optimal conditions it can have a strawberry flavour. Like many early apples, it is great for sauce. The fruit is on the smaller side and has a flatter shape with greenish-yellow skin overlaid with a bright red blush. The red can sometimes stain the cream-coloured flesh inside, providing some visual appeal. The tree boasts some resistance to scab and although it can take a while to start bearing fruit, once it does it bears quite reliably.

$56.50

Rootstock:
Size

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Fruit Traits:

Recommended Use: Fresh eating, sauce

Fruit Size: Medium

Storage: Keeps about a month when stored in cool, humid conditions

Harvest: August - Late

Cider Class (if applicable):

Tree Traits:

Canadian Hardiness Zone: 4

Soil Preferance: Sandy loam, loam, clay loam. Prefers average to moist conditions, avoid planting anywhere that floods for more than two weeks in the spring. Generally quite adaptable to different soil conditions.

Flowering Time: Middle

Bloom Colour:

Pollination Requirements: Requires a pollinator of a different apple variety that blooms around the same time

Sun/Shade Requirements: Full sun (approx. 8-10 hours of sun daily)

General Growth Habit: Moderately vigorous, slow to start producing crops but has large crops once it does, partially tip-bearing. Resistant to scab.

Overall Disease Resistance Rating*: Medium

*this rating is combined with our experience growing in our test orchards combined with already available information on the cultivar.

Shipping: Every year we ship thousands of plants across Canada. We carefully bag roots in damp sawdust, then box them and send them out via courier. CLICK HERE to see our shipping policy.

Pick-up: We also have thousands of trees picked up from our nursery each year. The pick-up options is free, though you must wait until you have been emailed a confirmation that your order is ready to pick up, which will have further information such as hours, locations, etc.

We have simplified our crop inventory for grafted fruit trees into two sizes:

1m+ Grade: this often has some feathering, and is measured including the rootstock.

50-80cm Grade: this is like a 'b-grade' tree, sometimes with minor scaring or bent, these trees are priced accordingly.

Apple Drawing representing Discovery Apple

Discovery Apple Bareroot

$56.50

$56.50

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