Two years ago we had a couple of stretches of weather that was 22 below zero. It took out my Contender peach tree, but this one survived. All of the new growth was killed, but this tree survived it. The peaches are larger and sweeter then the Contender, but I miss that tree a lot. It was a producing fool until it died. I have to prune it to make it easy to pick, I'm not too good on high ladders anymore!