doux normandie

Doux Normandie (Sweet Normandy) is one of the two last trees in our orchard to leaf out—let alone bloom. It leafs out after nearly every other apple tree has leafed out, bloomed and dropped all its flowers. Every year I think the tree is dead. Doux Normandie fruit is small to almost medium-sized, roundish and slightly oblate or conic, sometimes with a slanted axis. The smooth, McIntosh-like skin is mostly covered with rosy-red stripes and blush, russet in the cavity, basin or both and sometimes with a bit of yellow around the cavity. This is a mild, sweet, cider apple, that is crisp and juicy without much bitterness. It is prone to developing watercore. We obtained our scionwood from Dan Bussey. Currently growing at Super Chilly Farm.