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$39.50 In StockNapoleon Ripens: January
A white fleshed cherry, with variable coloured skin - yellow / orange / bright red. Very attractive, often heart shaped. Less intensly sugared than the purple fleshed varieties more commonly sold today. Pollinated by Stella.
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$39.50 In StockGreengage Ripens: February
A small round greenish yellow plum with intense flavour (the Cox's Orange of the plums) tends to crop incredibly heavily and then has a year's rest. Great for stewing, eating and bottling. Considered partially self fertile but having another plum (eg Coe's Golden Drop) will increase yield.
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$39.50 In StockPrune Splendour Ripens: February
An American prune with rich aromatic flavour. Luther Burbank in one of his many breeding programmes about 1905 turned his attention to breeding a better prune. Splendour is a cross between d'Agen and a Hungarian prune. It's long in shape, dark purple with a yellow flesh, and sweet to taste. Estimated 11% sugar (parent d'Agen has about 8%).
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$39.50 In StockVictoria Ripens: February
This plum is most fondly remembered by English immigrants. Its skin is pink, the flesh a clear yellow and the stone slips. An amazing producer - needing supports under the ladened branches when almost ripe, to prevent limbs breaking. Considered self-fertile bue will crop better near another European plum.
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$112.00 In StockHazelnut Mixed Pack 4 Plants Ripens: March
Pollination of hazelnuts is complex, and to make it easy, we recommend having all 4 varieities to set fruit. Hazelnuts produce a large bush that suckers, although can be trained / pruned into a low tree with a single stem. This hazelnut pack is 4 advanced suckers, containing a mixture of varieties to afford the best chance of pollination and bearing nuts....
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$39.50 In StockSmyrna Ripens: April
A Turkish quince. Produces a spreading tree, with large leaves. The fruit are large, long and pear-like in shape. Light lemon in colour, very aromatic and firm when cooked, to pale pink. Matures here early April. White flowers with a faint trace of pink.
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$39.50 In StockDe Bourgeaut Ripens: April
A French variety with large pear shaped fruit. The skin is downy and the flesh cooks firmly to a deep pink, with a rich flavour. Beautiful pale pink flowers. Matures late.
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Growing Hazelnuts
The Hazel is an unusual and interesting plant. There are hazel varieties native to all the temperate zones of the northern hemisphere - North America, Europe, Turnkey, China and even the Himalayas but only one (the European hazel) is cultivated for its edible nuts. It appears (from pollen counts in peat bogs) that the hazel was
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Receiving Your trees
When you receive your young trees, it’s a good idea to stand them in a bucket of water overnight. If you’re not ready to plant them you can 'heel them in' a temporary position for a week or two. Just bury the roots in a pile of moist sawdust or loose soil, and keep moist but not wet. At no stage allow the roots to dry out.
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$39.50 In StockGorgeous Crab Ripens: March - April
A small tree to 4m with an amazing crop of 2cm round clusters of crimson red fruits. Great in flower arrangements and jelly. Originating in NZ.
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$21.00 In StockBlueberry Brigitta Ripens: January - February
This late season Australian bred blueberry crops abundantly, and produces firm fruit that resist bruising. The fruit tend to ripen at the same time it's ideal for mass picking - useful for storing / freezing / processing all at once. Keeps well. Blueberries in general produce a shrub with new branches suckering up from the base. They require chill, and...
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$21.00 In StockBlueberry Blue Rose Ripens: December
A blueberry with particularly large fruit, starting to ripen as early as christmas and cropping through until late summer. Blueberries in general produce a shrub with new branches suckering up from the base. They require chill, and leaves turn a lovely crimson colour in Autum. The fruit are prized eaten fresh, and can be stored well frozen or cooked in...
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$21.00 In StockBlueberry Denise Ripens: January - February
A vigorous blueberry with sweet fruit, producing a smaller bush, about 1.5m. Berries often have a pinking hue. Blueberries in general produce a shrub with new branches suckering up from the base. They require chill, and leaves turn a lovely crimson colour in Autum. The fruit are prized eaten fresh, and can be stored well frozen or cooked in pies, jams...
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$39.50 In StockFantasia Nectarine Ripens: February
A yellow fleshed nectarine, freestone that ripens in February. Good flavour and a firm flesh. Lovely orange to red skin, if these are looked after and fed and watered during summer, the fruit can grow quite large - bigger than a tennis ball. Self-fertile.
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$39.50 In StockFenouillet Gris Dwarfing Ripens: March - April
This is the most unusual apple we grow - it's as far from the supermarket stereotype as you can get. Originating in France as far back in the 1600's, a small reddish orange blocky apple almost totally russetted. The flesh is deep yellow and has a distinctly delicious anise flavour. No apple collection is complete without this one.
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$39.50 In StockMichelin Ripens: March
A medium sized yellow-green fruit ripening mid-season (March). A bitter-sweet variety, originating in Yvetot, France. Produces medium cider, and often used for blending. Partially self-fertile.
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$39.50 In StockBaldwin Dwarfing Ripens: April - May
A large handsome red apple with yellow flesh – crisp, crunchy, juicy with a hint of spice. Originating as a seedling from Massachusetts around 1750’s, it rose temporarily to commercial success in the early 1900’s in the USA. This apple always attracts keen interest at our apple tastings.
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$42.50 In StockDearbourne's Seedling Ripens: February - March
A smallish pear with a classic pear shape, light green to pale yellow with tiny russet dots when ripe. Tends to bear early and quite prolificly. Flesh is high quality, smooth sweet and juicy. Unknown origin. Also called Dearborn Seedling. Pollination by any other variety of our pears.
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$39.50 In StockGreensleeves Dwarfing Ripens: February - March
This apple is a cross between James Greives and Golden Delicious, developed in 1966 in Kent, UK. Sweet, juicy and crisp, with a warm yet slighly sharp taste make it a very good eating apple.Inherited from the Golden Delicious is the golden yellow skin with little russet spots, but a slightly squatter in shape.
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$42.50 In StockPackham's Triumph Ripens: March
An Australian bred pear from NSW 1896, the Packham has been grown widely accross Australia as an all-purpose pear - good eaten, cooked and stored. Green skin turning yellowish after picking, the shape sometimes a little bumpy. Flesh excellent, sweet juicy. It handles well and keeps on the shelf and in storage.
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$41.00 In StockWhite Adriatic Fig Ripens: February
Spherical fruit with greenish skin tinged with amber when ripe. Light strawberry to deep red pulp with excellent flavour. Crops once a year. Medium vigor tree, low and spreading. Fruits around January - February. Use for fresh fruit, drying and jam. Figs prefer dry hot summers but need water when fruiting. Prefer well drained but fertile soil....
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$39.50 In StockFlavourtop Nectarine Ripens: February
A large yellow-fleshed nectarine, freestone that ripens in February. Red skin, with excellent flavour and a firm flesh. Self-fertile.
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$39.50 In StockRed Gold Nectarine Ripens: February - March
A red-skinned, yellow fleshed nectarine, freestone that ripens later in the season. Good flavour and a firm flesh. Self-fertile.
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$39.50 In StockRedhaven Peach Ripens: February
An early to mid seasoned peach. Yellow fleshed, with excellent flavour. Red skin, reasonably resistant to leaf curl. Self-fertile.
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$29.50 Product available with different optionsPortugal Ripens: March - April
Medium sized fruit, with good flavoured pulp that cooks down to pink. Attractive pale pink flowers.
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$39.50 In StockJuly Elberta Ripens: January - February
A peach bred in the 1930's by Luther Burbank. An early peach, freestone with sweet juicy yellow flesh. A Good bearer. Orangy skin. Self-fertile.
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$39.50 In StockFrequin Rouge Amer Ripens: March - April
A medium sized apple, flat in shape, with a yellow / green / red stripe. Ripens mid to late season. Bittersweet, high tannin levels. Regarded as a very important in French cider making.
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$23.00 In StockTasmanian Pepperberry - FEMALE Ripens: March
A native to Tasmania (Tasmannia lanceolata) forming a shrub or small tree 1-3m. Grown for it's edible pepper corns, which when dried are a great substitute for black pepper. Form an attractive tree, with red stem and small ovate dark green peppery leaves. Small white flowers in summer, forming berries in Autumn. The female forms the berries, but needs a...
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$41.00 In StockPreston Prolific Fig Ripens: February
A vigorous and heavy cropping variety. Skin is creamy yellow with and amber, sweet flesh. Harvested February to March. Use for fresh fruit, drying and jam. Figs prefer dry hot summers but need water when fruiting. Prefer well drained but fertile soil. Full-sun. Self-Pollinating.
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$39.50 In StockSatsuma Ripens: February
Satsuma is a well known red fleshed Japanese plum, with medium-large sized fruit and a deep red skin. A prolific bearer, partially self-fertile and pollinates is is pollinated by other japanese plums.
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$49.00 Out of stockPrunus Mume "Bungo" Ripens: mid December - January
NOTE: Maximum 1 per customer please. Prunus mume or ume is a japanese "plum" (probably more of an apricot) used in making japanese plum wine and preserves. This variety was sourced from Rob Bester in Taroona, Tasmania. Vigorous tree, high quality fruit almost like a small apricot. This variety hasnt been tested elsewhere, although we're pretty sure like...
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$39.50 In StockLodi Dwarfing Ripens: January
Lodi is one of the early apples, a medium sized apple light green to greeny-yellow when ripe. Like all early apples, they just dont keep, but their sprightly flavour signifies the beginning of the apple season, and make them worth growing. Thought to be an offspring of white transparent (and Montgomery), and has probably superior in both flavour and shelf...
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$49.00 In StockBahco Pruning Saw 14" curved
This is our favourite pruning saw. Very sharp, and the curved design allows it to be used easily above head-height. The length of it allows for a good amount of drawer compared to a smaller folding saw. Cuts on the pull stroke, and clears the sawdust well preventing clogging up. Hard point. Hard plastic handle with room for a pole extension. The scabbard...
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$39.50 In StockElstar Dwarfing Ripens: March
A very attractive almost perfectly round apple, mostly red, with an occasional stripe but a destinctive collar of russeted yellow around the stem. Very good eating apple with good flavour and crunch. Originated in the Netherlands, in the town of Elst in the 1950's. It's a Golden Delicious crossed with on otherwise hardly known apple called Ingrid Marie.
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$39.50 In StockTegan Blue Ripens: February
Another Japanese plum - Sweet, juicy and soft with yellow flesh and a bluey purple skin. Needs to be pollinated by another Japanese plum e.g. 'santa rosa'.
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$39.50 In StockRattling Cox's Orange Pippin Dwarfing Ripens: February - March
This must be the world's most revered apple, originating in Buckinghamshire England in 1825, thought to be an offspring of Ribston Pippin. There are many different cultivars of this apple, and this one is one of the oldest - very tasty but smaller fruit with russeted yellow/orange skin. Crisp juicy flesh when ripe, with a richness that is difficult to...
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$49.00 In StockFantasia Nectarine DWARFING Ripens: February
DWARFING variety makes this tree more suitable for Espaliering that its non dwarfing counterpart. A yellow fleshed nectarine, freestone that ripens in February. Good flavour and a firm flesh. Lovely orange to red skin, if these are looked after and fed and watered during summer, the fruit can grow quite large - bigger than a tennis ball. Self-fertile.
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$39.50 In StockGoldengage Ripens: February - March
About the size of a green gage, but golden yellow, with sweet golden flesh. Excellent eaten fresh but also great for bottling and preserving. Thought to be originally French late discovered around 1856. Self fertile but will do better with another English plum nearby eg. Damson, Angelina, Green gage. Ripens February.
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$49.00 In StockFlavourtop Nectarine DWARFING Ripens: February
DWARFING variety makes this tree more suitable for Espaliering that its non dwarfing counterpart. A large yellow-fleshed nectarine, freestone that ripens in February. Red skin, with excellent flavour and a firm flesh. Self-fertile.
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$49.00 In StockGreengage Plum DWARFING Ripens: February
DWARFING variety makes this tree more suitable for Espaliering that its non dwarfing counterpart. A small round greenish yellow plum with intense flavour (the Cox's Orange of the plums) tends to crop incredibly heavily and then has a year's rest. Great for stewing, eating and bottling. Considered partially self fertile but having another plum (eg Coe's...
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$39.50 In StockRed Delicious (Hi Early) Dwarfing Ripens: March
A very famous apple - a classic red apple with a distinctive shape. Red, with a yellow stripe, with a mild sweet flavour, and firm flesh. Discovered as a chance seedling in Iowa 1880 where it was called Hawkeye, and later sold to Starks Brothers who renamed it Delicious. It has enjoyed huge success as a commercial apple, up to as recently as 10-20 years...
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$39.50 In StockTrevatt Ripens: January - February
A self-fertile sweet apricot with good-quality fruit, suitable for eating fresh, preserving, drying, etc. A orange/yellow skinned apricot with good flavour. These can be espaliered in a Fan shape only or be grown on a trellis. See the article on Apricots for details.
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$42.50 In StockFreyberg Step-Over Ripens: April
An amazing apple, drawing qualities from both it's parents - Golden Delicious and Cox's Orange Pippin. So it's easy to see why is so widely enjoyed. Medium sized fruit, the skin a lovely greenish yellow and has the tiny russet fleck similar to a Golden. It ripens midseason and hangs well on the tree. The taste is almost spicy and there is just a hint of...
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$49.00 In StockRobe de Sergeant Plum DWARFING Ripens: February - March
A European prune with elongated purple fruit yellow flesh, freestone. Ripens mid season. Prunes are good eaten fresh but come into their own when cooked in pies, stewed or preserved. Pollinated by other European plums.
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$21.00 In StockBlueberry Northland Ripens: December
A blueberry with particularly large fruit, starting to ripen as early as christmas and cropping through until late summer. Blueberries in general produce a shrub with new branches suckering up from the base. They require chill, and leaves turn a lovely crimson colour in Autum. The fruit are prized eaten fresh, and can be stored well frozen or cooked in...
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$39.50 In StockHuonville Crab Dwarfing Ripens: April - May
This quite a remarkable apple, with scarlet red flesh, covered by a scarlet red skin that shines up when polished. Small, palm-sized fruit, and a sweetness offset by a faint crab-apple tartness. The leaves are purple-green and the sap is red too. Quite amazing! The tree is quite vigorous and bears heavily. We discovered this tree as a seedling - a huge...
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$39.50 In StockHuonville Crab Semi-dwarfing Ripens: April - May
This quite a remarkable apple, with scarlet red flesh, covered by a scarlet red skin that shines up when pollished. Small, palm-sized fruit, and a sweetnes offset by a faint crab-apple tartness. The leaves are purple-green and the sap is red too. Quite amazing! The tree is quite vigorous and bears heavily.We discovered this tree as a seedling - a huge old...
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$42.50 In StockHuonville Crab Step-Over Ripens: April - May
This quite a remarkable apple, with scarlet red flesh, covered by a scarlet red skin that shines up when pollished. Small, palm-sized fruit, and a sweetnes offset by a faint crab-apple tartness. The leaves are purple-green and the sap is red too. Quite amazing! The tree is quite vigorous and bears heavily. We discovered this tree as a seedling - a huge...
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$39.50 In StockGoldmine Nectarine Ripens: February - March
This is the old white-fleshed Nectarine, ripens late February-March here and has intense rich flavour, but most important of all is fairly resistant to leaf curl. In good conditions it will rewards you with a huge amount of fruit,
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What are dwarfing fruit trees? How to make...
The Greek historian Theophrastus writing in about 350 BC recorded that Alexander the great sent home to Greece from Asia minor plant material of the 'Spring apple', a dwarf, self rooting form of malus. This message from almost 2500 years ago is the first reference to what became known as the paradise apple. From the many subsequent