Birdwood (sa) Fruit Trees (Popular)
Birdwood (sa) 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.
Dwarf Apricot - Fireball TM
$59.00 ($59.00-$64.00 choose a size)
A traditional tasting mid season apricot with deep orange coloured skin and very sweet flesh. Suitable for temperate regions with 450 hours chilling. Partially self pollinating but will benefit from pollination with other apricots.
Cherry - Royal Rainier
$59.00 ($59.00-$84.00 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.
Peach - Double Jewel ® cv. Zaiwel
$54.00 ($54.00-$69.00 choose a size)
Pink double blossom and red coloured skin over yellow fleshed fruit. A mid-season variety with good quality, tasty fruit. Good for fresh eating, drying, juicing and cooking. Suited to areas that have a medium amount of chilling, around 400 hours. A quality Fleming's 'Pick of the Crop' Peach cultivar
