Oak Summit Nursery
Freedom Apple Tree
Freedom Apple Tree
Plant orders start at $30.
Compare offered sizes
Couldn't load pickup availability
Freedom is a McIntosh descendant with Malus floribunda 821 in its lineage, released in 1983 for disease resistance. The medium to large mostly red fruit has a mild sweet and subacid flavour and ripens from the middle to late part of the season.
The vigorous trees have a spur bearing habit, immunity to apple scab, and some resistance to powdery mildew and cedar apple rust.
Cold Hardiness Zone: 4
Cold hardinessZone 4 · Canadian maps for this plant
Zone 4 and warmer
The map shows minimum winter hardiness. Soil, moisture and summer warmth also affect how a plant grows.
About these maps
Climate: Natural Resources Canada, 1991–2020. Provincial distribution: VASCAN via retained botanical research. Province outlines: Natural Earth, public domain.
Open Government Licence – CanadaPollination
Apples need pollen from a different apple or crabapple to set fruit. A second variety in your yard will do it, and so will a neighbour's apple or fruiting crabapple. Double flowered ornamental crabapples make no pollen and do not count.