Zone 3 Late-Blooming Fruit Trees

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Late-blooming fruit trees that can take a zone 3 winter. In cold country it's usually a late frost that takes the crop, so later bloom gives you better odds. Everything is listed A to Z, and the plants rated only to 3b, the warmer half of the zone (-35°F to -30°F), have a 3b tag on them.

More About Zone 3 Late-Blooming Fruit Trees

Late is relative to the fruit. A late apricot still blooms before most apples, so give apricots your warmest spot. Plant late bloomers with other late bloomers so their bloom overlaps.

On this page: Alice Sharp Apricot, Arkansas Black Apple, Ashmead's Kernel Apple, Binet Rouge Apple, Black Gold Sweet Cherry, Black Oxford Apple, Clara Frijs Pear, Cold Snap Pear, Dr 606 Apricot, Gold Sweet Cherry, Honeycrisp Apple, La Crescent Plum, MN 1628 Apple, Mother Apple, Oriole Apple, Pipestone Plum, Prairie Spy Apple, Precious Apricot, Reinette Simirenko Apple, Sandow Apple, Siberian C Peach, Siberian C Peach Seedling, Spencer Apple, Superior Plum, Sweet Sixteen Apple, Wayne Apricot, Wealthy Apple and White Gold Sweet Cherry.

Questions We Get

What does zone 3 mean on your scale?

On our MFTC scale, zone 3 means the coldest night you should plan for (the 1-in-30-year low) falls between -40°F and -30°F. Zone 3a runs -40°F to -35°F and zone 3b runs -35°F to -30°F. That is colder than a USDA zone 3, which is built on the average yearly low, so run your address through our cold hardiness calculator instead of going off a USDA map.