Guildford West Fruit Trees (Popular)
Guildford West Fruit Trees and the most popular plants Australians buy for mail order. With fruit trees you should consider climate suitability.
Lemonade Tree
$39.00 ($39.00-$39.00 choose a size)
This delicious, sweet, juicy fruit tastes like lemonade and can be eaten as a fresh fruit straight off the tree. The tree often has thorns and bears several heavy crops each year.
Avocado - Hass (A)
$54.00 ($54.00-$129.00 choose a size)
Most popular variety due to both its superior taste and excellent keeping qualities. Medium sized, pear-shaped fruit has an excellent creamy, flesh. The leathery rough dark-purple skin turns to black when ripe. H Aug-Dec. Hass is an A type variety and for good fruit set a B type variety is needed for cross pollination. Suggested varieties to grow alongside a Hass are Shepard, Sharwill, Fuerte, Bacon (if you're in a cooler climate)and Linda. Happy fresh avocado smashing.
Orange - Arnold Blood
$54.00 ($54.00-$79.00 choose a size)
Sweet variety requiring hot dry conditions for best colour and cool winter nights. Blood oranges have their own distinctive flavour reminiscent of strawberries. This is the best colouring variety in the sub tropics.
Chestnut - Marone
$99.00 ($84.00-$99.00 choose a size)
This large-nut was sourced from WA but is originally of Italian origin. Fairly upright habit exhibiting Asian characteristics such as fine wood and pointy buds. Excellent quality.
Quince - Smyrna
$59.00 ($49.00-$59.00 choose a size)
Add some gourmet to your garden! The quince is valued for its high pectin content and is used frequently in jams, jellies and cosmetics. This fruit is one of the few that must be cooked as it is too tart, hard and unpalatable to eat raw. The quince tree has been cultivated by people for thousands of years. Originating from Turkey and Iran this is a fruit with a fascinating history, it features strongly in the history and mythology of both Greece and Rome. Trees are very long lived and have a beautiful, gnarly twisted appearance, they are exceptionally hardy and can withstand both periods of dry and severe cold. 'Smyrna' is a Turkish variety of Quince with extremely large fruit, light yellow flesh and bright yellow skin. It can be grown as an attractive tree (or multi-stemmed shrub) and has dark green foliage and a very showy bloom
