Alpine Fruit Trees (Popular)
Alpine Fruit Trees and the most popular plants Australians buy for mail order. With fruit trees you should consider climate suitability.
Dwarf Persimmon - Fuyu (NA)
$99.00 ($79.00-$99.00 choose a size)
Fuyu is a semi-dwarf variety, well suited to growing in small backyards and can be kept to 2m with pruning. The fruit is large and flat, orange-red in colour with a sweet, mild flavour. Great eaten crunchy but just luscious when left to go soft. Besides producing delicious fruit, Persimmons are highly ornamental with their beautiful autumn foliage. Non astringent, so can be eaten when still hard. When young, protect from hot afternoon sun, and when dormant, from wet conditions. Seedless when grown on their own. If cross pollinating with another variety they can have seeds in the flesh as shown in the display picture.
Dwarf Almond - Self Pollinating Papershell
$69.00 ($69.00-$69.00 choose a size)
A new dwarf selection of this excellent, self-pollinating almond that bears heavy crops of soft-shelled almonds with a good, sweet flavour. The kernals are broad, full and oval in shape, they are mid season. The tree has an upright form and is a self pollinating large Papershell. Almonds require a climate with dry Summer/Autumn and cool winters.
Dwarf Apple - Magnus Summer Surprise PBR
$59.00 ($59.00-$64.00 choose a size)
Bright, shiny, vibrant red apple with deep-pink coloured flesh inside. When left on the tree to ripen they develop a sweet, berry flavour. All parts of the tree including flowers, branches and fruit have red-purple colouring. Growing to a height of 2-3 metres with a spread of 2-3 metres, so it is good for backyards. This variety is subject to Plant Breeder Rights.
Dwarf Lime - Tahitian
$52.95 ($52.95-$99.00 choose a size)
The small to medium fruit is pale lemon-yellow with smooth thin skin. The flesh is a translucent pale green, tender and juicy with a true acid lime flavour. It is best to pick the fruit green as it can suffer from rot if left to ripen on the tree.The dwarf rootstock, flying dragon modifies the top growth making this a dwarf plant that is ideal to use planted out or as a pot specimen.
Hazelnut - Turkish Cosford
$44.00 ($44.00-$49.00 choose a size)
A universal pollinator. Thin shelled nuts harvested late Feb/March Used fresh, and for roasting and cooking, Hazelnuts are very high in protein. Semi erect growing tree to approx 4 5m. Prefers temperate climates.All hazelnuts are self-sterile, requiring pollination from a genetically compatible partner. Pollen release timing and genetic makeup both contribute to variety selection, and commercial orchards often select 3-4 "pollinator" varieties to plant amidst their main harvest cultivar. Hazelnuts are often planted in close spacings as they are wind pollinated.
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