Golden Treat™ Fruit Snacks™ Apple Tree

A sweet, snack-sized golden apple from a tree so narrow it fits in a pot on the patio.

Golden Treat™ is part of the Fruit Snacks™ collection of naturally compact, columnar apple trees bred to grow up rather than out. It produces full-flavored yellow-gold apples with crisp, juicy flesh and a honeyed, lightly tart finish — the kind of fruit you pick and eat right off the branch. With a mature size of roughly 10 ft. tall and just 2 ft. wide, the fruit grows tight against a single upright trunk, so a real harvest is possible even where space is tight.

Why growers choose Golden Treat™

• Genuinely small footprint. A columnar habit of about 10 ft. tall and only 2 ft. wide lets you grow apples on a balcony, along a fence, or in a row where a standard tree would never fit.
• Sweet, crisp eating apples. The golden fruit is firm and juicy with a sweet, balanced flavor that suits fresh snacking, lunchboxes, and slicing.
• Cold-hardy and adaptable. Reliable outdoors in USDA zones 4 through 9, it shrugs off cold winters and performs across a wide swath of the country.
• Made for containers. The narrow form is naturally suited to a large pot, so you can place it on a deck or move it to the best sun.
• Spring bloom, late-summer reward. White-pink spring blossoms give way to apples that color up for a September harvest.

Whether you have a sprawling yard or only a sunny corner of a patio, Golden Treat™ delivers homegrown apples without taking over the space — line several up for an edible privacy screen, or keep one in a pot by the back door.