Top 5 Best Peach Trees | NatureHills.com

Hey everyone, it’s Whitney with Naturehills.com! We are quickly approaching peak peach season and what better way to celebrate than to go over our absolute favorites! While I’m a firm believer that all peach trees are amazing, I polled our horticulturists and peachtree enthusiasts here to come up with a list of 5 that rise above the rest! Without further ado, the top 5 best peach trees.

#5 Indian Free Preach
Indian Free makes this list as a personal and professional recommendation from our lead fruit guy here at Nature Hills. He swears there’s nothing that comes even close to the taste of a fully ripe Indian Free. It’s a freestone variety with exceptional disease resistance and requires around 700 chill hours to fruit so It’s a great variety for those of us with longer winters. Keep in mind, this peach is an exception to the self-pollinating rule and will need a pollinating partner to produce fruit. Pair it with any other variety and extend your peach harvest season. #5 Indian Free Peach - growing zones 5-9, disease-resistant, heirloom freestone variety
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#4 Scarlet Halo Peach
We love a unique fruit that tastes as good as it looks! Scarlet Halo makes this list for the delicious flavor of the red flesh and its delightfully quirky donut shape. It requires fewer chill hours, clocking in at needing only 400-600 to produce fruit. It’s a semi-freestone variety and the tree has strong branches that grow in a nice, upright form. Feel free to prune in order to keep the fruit at a reachable height. Enjoy the peaches as preserves, dehydrated, or fresh off the tree! #4 Scarlet Halo Peach tree - Growing zones 6-9, delicious donut-shaped semi-freestone fruit, and a must-have for peach lovers.
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#3 White Lady Peach
Looks might be deceiving when it comes to this variety. The skin takes on an orange tone with a red blush but once you open it up you’ll find sweet light cream-colored flesh. This free-stone variety is ready to harvest around late July and you’ll find you have enough peaches to eat fresh, bake a couple pies, dry some for trail mix, and still have more than enough to save for later! This variety is pretty adaptable to harsher climates and needs 800-900 chill hours for fruit production. #3 White Lady Peach - Growing zones 5-9, rare & sweet white-fleshed fruit, great for baking and preserves.
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#2 Elberta Peach
Everyone here agreed that this list needed to include Elberta. It’s truly the classic American peach and is probably what you pick up when you go to the grocery store. It's reliable, self-fertile, incredibly productive, and has in our eyes, entirely earned its spot in the mainstream fruit scene. Its large, freestone yellowish-red fruit are fantastic for baking, cooking, canning, freezing, preserving, I mean the list goes on and on. It requires 800-900 chill hours for fruit production and tends to be ready to harvest in August. #2 Elberta Peach Tree - growing zones 5-9, versatile, great all American peach.
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#1 Reliance Peach
Our #1 pick is one of the hardiest peach trees you’ll find, requiring 1000 chill hours and has been known to grow well at up to 6000 feet elevation. That’s one hardy peach! Its juicy yellow freestone fruit has a fantastic texture and yellow pink-blushed skin. It’s self-pollinating so a partner isn’t necessary. However, you’ll always get a bigger harvest if there’s another peach tree close by. Eat these fresh off the tree or can them to enjoy during the winter! #1 Reliance Peach Tree - Growing zones 4-8, very hardy, and amazing for canning.
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