Zone 3 Self-Fertile Fruit Trees

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Fruit trees that set fruit on their own and can take a zone 3 winter. If you only have room for one tree, start here. 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 Self-Fertile Fruit Trees

Most of these are cherries and apricots. Tart cherries like Evan's Bali and Meteor and apricots like Westcot and Debbie's Gold will all fruit with no partner. A second variety still helps the crop.

On this page: Alice Sharp Apricot, Balaton Tart Cherry, Black Gold Sweet Cherry, Corbett Apricot, Debbie's Gold Apricot, Dr 606 Apricot, Evan's Bali Tart Cherry, Hudar Pear, Juliet Dwarf Cherry, Lapins Sweet Cherry, Meteor Tart Cherry, Montmorency Tart Cherry, Morden 604 Apricot, Mount Royal Plum, Precious Apricot, Romeo Dwarf Cherry, Siberian C Peach, Siberian C Peach Seedling, Westcot Apricot 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.