Well, what we thought was a simple green apple tree that my husband rehabilitated from sad splayed mess into a healthy upright producer? Turns out it's a combo apple tree! When we lifted if off the ground and staked it, I found a 'Braeburn' label on it, and as it bloomed, I thought, hmm, most fruit trees only have tags like this if there are more than one variety on them, like the pear we'd planted last fall. Turns out I was right...we just don't know for certain what variety they all are!
We originally thought the Braeburn label was for the multitude of green apples, and guessed this was a Gravenstein (as for me, I'm a Granny Smith kinda gal, so my apple ID-ing abilities are shite), but after making the genius decision to actually LOOK UP what a Braeburn looks like (how did it take me a year to do that?! oy!) I realized this is it and the green ones are actually the unknown varieties. Hmm. But hey, when it's baked on some phyllo with cinnamon, nutmeg and honey like my sweetheart did with this along with one of our first pears off our new tree? Variety, schmiety...
"An apple a day keeps anyone away, if you throw it hard enough." ~ Stephen Colbert
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