Apple 'Granny Smith'

Granny Smith Apple

Malus 'Granny Smith'

Height: 20 feet

Spread: 20 feet

Sunlight: full sun

Hardiness Zone: 6a

Description:

A tart apple with bright green skin, considered among the best for cooking; eating apples are high maintenance and need a second pollinator; the perfect combination of accent and fruit tree, needs well-drained soil and full sun

Edible Qualities

Granny Smith Apple is a small tree that is commonly grown for its edible qualities. It produces large light green round apples (which are botanically known as 'pomes') with white flesh which are usually ready for picking from early to mid fall. The apples have a sweet taste and a crisp texture.

The apples are most often used in the following ways:

Cooking
Baking
Features & Attributes

Granny Smith Apple features showy clusters of lightly-scented white flowers with shell pink overtones along the branches in mid spring, which emerge from distinctive pink flower buds. It has forest green deciduous foliage. The pointy leaves turn yellow in fall. The fruits are showy light green apples carried in abundance in early fall. The fruit can be messy if allowed to drop on the lawn or walkways, and may require occasional clean-up.

This is a deciduous tree with a more or less rounded form. Its average texture blends into the landscape, but can be balanced by one or two finer or coarser trees or shrubs for an effective composition. This is a high maintenance plant that will require regular care and upkeep, and is best pruned in late winter once the threat of extreme cold has passed. Gardeners should be aware of the following characteristic(s) that may warrant special consideration;

Messy
Disease
Aside from its primary use as an edible, Granny Smith Apple is sutiable for the following landscape applications;

Accent
Shade
Orchard/Edible Landscaping