Garnet Beauty Peaches

Learn all about the Garnet Beauty peach and find out what National Park it is growing in.

What is a Garnet Beauty Peach? Closely related to the Red Haven peach, the Garnet Beauty is an early to middle season yellow flesh peach variety that is juicy and has a good flavor.

While Red Haven peaches definitely rule the Michigan peach market, I try to ignore them as I search for other varieties. One of my recent discoveries has a tie to the Red Haven. Garnet Beauty are a peach that is actually a sport variety of the Red Haven.

A sport variety is whenever a new variety of fruit develops from an already existing tree. This could happen from damage to the tree or from a number of other things. The fruit is different enough from it's "parent" to be considered a new variety. The Garnet Beauty was discovered at an orchard owned by Garnet Bruner in Ontario.

This peach is considered a semi-freestone. That means it depends on the year and the ripeness of the peach to determine whether the pit easily comes off the flesh. The ones I had the flesh came mostly off the pit, but there was a little bit left on. They ripen about 10-14 days before Red Havens.

⭐ Review

Here is what I think of this peach variety on a scale of 1-10.

Acidity	7
Peach Flavor	6
Sweetness	6
Juiciness	7

An overall good peach. It was acidic with a decent flavor. Not my favorite peach, but not a bad one. I would buy them again.

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🚜 Where to Buy

Here are some orchards that grow Garnet Beauty peaches.

• Champlain Orchards (Shoreham, VT)
• Linvilla Orchards (Media, PA)
• King Orchards (Central Lake, MI)
• Branstool Orchards (Utica, OH)
• Apex Orchards (Shelburne, MA)
• Eckert's (Belleville, IL)
• Soons Orchard (New Hampton, NY)
• Orchard at Capital Reef National Park (Torrey, UT)
  

Have you had this peach before? Leave a comment below sharing where you got yours.