Reliance Peach Tree

Backyards all across a wide range of climates can finally grow homegrown peaches. Even way up at higher elevations or in frigid cold winter zones, Reliance Peach tree (Prunus persica 'Reliance') will become a favorite.

These productive trees produce delicious fruit that is freestone and juicy. Enjoy them fresh, or prepare the fine-grained, yellow-fleshed fruit by canning or freezing them.

How nice to know exactly how they were grown! You'll take such pride in your harvest.

People rave about these cold-hardy trees. With their late harvest season, they are a great way to wrap up your fruit season.

Reliance is a pretty tree, with gorgeous pink blossoms in spring. The fruit set is tremendous, with lush golden fruit splashed with a highly colored blush.

It's easy to prep the freestone pit, which pulls away cleanly. You'll love these sweet peaches, even if you never thought you could grow them in your area.

Try Reliance Peach from Nature Hills. It's one of the most reliable producers of tasty fruit for the cold winter zones.

How to Use Reliance Peach Trees in the Landscape

Because this tree is self-pollinating, you'll get a crop from a single tree. Enjoy the showy spring blooms by placing this "front and center" in your garden design as a specimen tree.

You can also use Reliance as a pretty flowering and fruiting backdrop for your vegetable patch. Add fruiting trees to your modern-day Victory Garden.

You'll be so glad you did! Enjoy them fresh, or prep the great-tasting, freestone Reliance peaches for canning or freezing. It tastes like summer sunshine, even if you use them in February.

Give yourself plenty of room to walk all around the tree for easier harvest. In fact, we recommend creating a mulched garden bed rather than growing it in the lawn.

Love Peaches? Create an orchard for yourself, and put your sunshine to work.

Keep the trees under 8 feet for an easier harvest. Simply tip prune in summer to control the size. Decide how large you want to keep your fruit trees, and don't let them grow past that point.

If you have the space, allow a full 20 feet between fruiting varieties. Measure from the center of one to the center of the next.

#ProPlantTips for Care

Plant Peach trees in a location that receives at least 6 hours of direct sunlight a day. The drying rays of morning sun are best to keep your tree in tip-top shape.

Provide plenty of good air circulation is important, too. Don't plant Peach trees too close to structures, or in a low-lying spot where air may be trapped.

Fertile, well-drained soils will give the best results. Use a raised planting bed to improve poor drainage. Bring in additional soil 12 to 18 inches above the soil line and 3 feet wide.

This productive variety needs thinning for best results. Remove the smaller fruit, spacing about every 5 inches. You'll enjoy a better harvest of full-sized fruit if you thin out your early fruit set.

Reliance Peach trees need a medium amount of water regularly.Apply mulch over the top of the root system to a depth of 3 inches; then spread the mulch out 3 feet from the outside of the canopy.

Prune in late winter to open the canopy to sunlight and good air circulation. Remove branches that cross or shade each other out. Select the one you'll keep and remove the other.

If you are in a cold winter zone, give the Reliance Peach tree a try. After all, they'll develop a flavorful harvest all the way up into Canada!

It's a good feeling to provide fresh fruit for your family and friends. Order yours today, we'll sell out quickly!