Kandos Fruit Trees (Popular)
Kandos Fruit Trees and the most popular plants Australians buy for mail order. With fruit trees you should consider climate suitability.
Pistachio - Sirora - Female
$89.00 ($79.00-$89.00 choose a size)
High yielding female tree, pair with a male for pollination. Grows to be a small tree or shrub. Best suited to areas with cold winters and hot dry summers, requiring 1000 hours below 7.5 degrees in the winter. Summer and autumn need to be dry to prevent fungal problems. Pistachios are dioecious meaning male and females flowers are produced on separate trees, one of each will be required for fruit set. Spreading habit, wider than it is tall. Pistachios tend toward biennial cropping, meaning they alternately bear lots of nuts one year, then very little the following year
Pistachio - Blue Male
$89.00 ($79.00-$89.00 choose a size)
Male pistachio, pollinator for Females. Blue will come into production as a pollen producer at an earlier age than other males. One male will pollinate up to 8 females.
Cherry - Royal Rainier
$59.00 ($59.00-$69.00 choose a size)
An excellent, sweet, white-fleshed cherry with very good flavour. A new blush-style cherry, recently released to Australia. Medium fruit size. Upright tree habit. Early to mid season, it benefits from being planted with Stella or Lapins.
Apple - Flamenco Ballerina®
$59.00 ($54.00-$59.00 choose a size)
Compact columnar tree. A late dessert apple with a crisp texture. Skin colour is flushed red over a green ground cover. Can grow tall if left unpruned but will always be narrow. Perfect for walkways, fences and pots Crisp and juicy. Excellent flavour with a slight tang. White spring flowers, with splashes of pale pink.
Avocado - Hass (A)
$54.00 ($54.00-$79.00 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.
