Tree Varieties 2010
(Click to see Variety)

Apples
Australian Apples
Crab Apples
Vintage Cider Apples
Apricots
Quinces
Pears
Medlar
Cherries
Sour Cherries
Plums - Japanese
Plums - European
Peaches
Nectarines
Figs
Persimmons
Mulberries
Pomegranates
Citrus
Almonds
Hazelnuts
Walnuts
Macadamias
Pecans
Chestnuts
Pine Nuts
Pistachio
Avocados
Kiwi Fruit
Olives
Sugar Maple
Turkey Oak
Raspberries
Blackberries
Blueberries
Gooseberries
Black Currants
Red Currants

APPLES   $26

The extensive range of apples includes a great many unusual and old-fashioned fruits (we have over 100 varieties in our orchard on the farm). We offer only a selection of these in our catalogue each year.

Most apple varieties this year will come on MM106 rootstocks, which yield a tree of about ½ the size of a full size tree – it may achieve 3 metres in good conditions, often a little less. It is a very versatile tree that is good for espaliering, and also for standard shapes like the vase and central leader trees. 

Apples will give better crops if planted close by at least one other apple that flowers at the same time so that they can cross pollinate. The varieties below have all been given a letter to denote flowering times – (a), (b), (c), (d), (e), (f), or (g), so that if you want, you can choose two varieties which will cross pollinate one another. These flowering times generally overlap each other, so for example: (b) will get pollinated by other (b) trees, and will also receive pollen from (a) and (c) trees.

Some varieties are labelled ‘triploid’, meaning they do not have viable pollen to cross pollinate another tree, so don’t choose one of these with only one other variety, or the triploid will get pollinated, but the other variety won’t – you will need a third variety to do this.

AKANE
Crisp, juicy, sweet apple, slightly chewy flesh, hint of strawberry flavour, good cropper, fruit ripens early – around mid to late January, as a young tree it begins bearing a year earlier than many other varieties

ANDRE SAVAUGE
Large, oblong shaped apple, heavily russeted, greenish crisp, tart but sweet aromatic flesh, a high quality apple which often gets good reports, ripens mid to late season, flowering (c)

BLENHEIM ORANGE
Much liked sweet nutty flavoured apple, with crumbly texture, medium to large sized fruits, skin has orange flush with red striping, considered by many to be one of the best dual purpose apples, harvest late Feb, makes a strong limbed tree with very hard wood – which was once used for making cog wheels for railways, very frost resistant, flowering (c), triploid

BRAMLEY’S SEEDLING
Probably the most well known, and one of the most sought after of the English cooking apples, tart acid flesh with lovely tangy lemon flavour when cooked, large apples, shape varies, ripening late, good keeper, flowering (b) triploid

CALVILLE BLANC D’HIVER
One of the very oldest apples still around, dating from the 1600’s in France, famed for making delicious apple pies, very good cider, noteworthy that this variety contains more Vitamin C than an orange, triploid

COX’S ORANGE PIPPIN
One of the most famous apples – fresh eating, rich spicy nutty flavour, crisp, aromatic, perfect balance of sweetness and acidity, in Australia hasn’t always been an easy apple to grow well, is said to do best in cooler areas but well worth giving it a try to see, flowering (c)

EAGLE POINT STAR 
Unusual apple which when cut open, reveals a red star in the middle of the white flesh, also has a red stained wood in the cross section of the branches, strikingly beautiful purple flowers, nice little fresh eating apple with unique sort of crab apple flavour

FIVE CROWN
Also known as London Pippin, a very popular apple early on in Australia, fresh eater and cooker, fruit green flushed with red, crisp, brisk, good for drying, late harvest, flowering (e)

FUJI
Japanese apple and a modern commercial variety, but with eating qualities that appeal to many – sweet, juicy, one of the latest varieties harvested, flowering (c)

GALA
Very popular little modern apple throughout Australia, widely produced for commerce and successful in many different places, a lovely crisp aromatic and sweet apple with excellent flavour, orange/red striped, flowering (c)

GRAVENSTEIN
An apple remembered fondly by many European people, good fresh eating, cooking and cider,  needs to be left on the tree to develop full flavours, early ripener, large fruit, skin yellow crimson and orange, flesh juicy rich and vinous, crisp and aromatic, flowering (b)

HUBBARTSTON’S NONSUCH
Older American apple with dense flesh and sweet rich flavours, this fruit is useful as an all purpose apple which will cook nicely, eats well fresh, makes good cider, flowering (e)

ISAAC NEWTON
Cooker, large lumpy fruit, green fruit, subacid flesh, late harvest, originating from the same tree which apparently inspired Newton’s discovery of the law of gravity, when an apple fell from it and hit him in the head, flowering (e)

JAMES GRIEVE
Fresh eating, and also makes a sweet delicate stewed apple when picked early, fruit medium size, soft and juicy, subacid to sweet, very well liked for fine flavour, good keeper for an early apple, tree produces well without cross pollination, probably does better in cooler climates

JONAGOLD
A cross between Golden Delicious and Jonathon, one of the most popular modern apples, very white sweet juicy crisp flesh, honey like, large apples, good keepers

KESWICK CODLIN
Culinary use, greenish yellow skin, conical shape, yellow white subacid flesh, tree is a prolific bearer and is very self fertile, one of the earliest and most valuable cookers, harvests before mid season

KIDD’S ORANGE RED
This apple is one of the progeny of the Cox’s Orange Pippin, with splendid flavours, crispness, aroma and colouring, mellows to a wonderful unusual floral flavour, one of the nicest fresh eaters, heavy regular cropper

LORD LAMBOURNE
Suggested by some as a good easier growing substitute for the Cox’s Orange Pippin where the Cox’s is difficult to grow, Lambourne has similar eating qualities, a lovely mixture of sweetness and acidity, juicy crisp flesh, self fertile, ripens mid season

PEASGOODS NONSUCH
This apple is a popular and much loved apple from bygone years in Australia. Red striped on yellow green background, fruit grow quite large, coarse flesh, eats well fresh, and also a lovely cooker, useful in pies, dumplings, cider, juice, feed the pigs…

ROME BEAUTY
Fresh eating and cooking apple, large fruit, brilliant red, doesn’t bruise easily, likes hot climate, becomes very sweet if left on the tree long enough, late harvest stretching into winter, very heavy cropper, fruits keep well, self fertile, ‘good flavour of juice’, flowering (e)

SPLENDOUR
Late desert apple from New Zealand, fruit medium to large, attractive, bright red/pink flush, crisp and sweet, becomes honey like if left to mature longer, flowering (c)

STAYMAN’S WINESAP
Favourite older American fresh eating apple, firm flesh, strongly aromatic - and a distinctive vinous (wine sap) flavour, late harvest, good for storing through winter, flowering (f), triploid

SWEETMAN
Origins unknown, a rare apple, small yellow fruits with lovely unique sweet flavour, very heavy cropper, ripens just before mid season, an unusual but endearing little apple

TWENTY OUNCE (right)
One of the very largest sized fruit we know of, as you can see - it barely fits in your hand! Good for drying, a fine cooking apple, and not bad fresh either, coarse flesh, regular heavy bearer of super sized fruits, ripens mid season, flowering (c)

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AUSTRALIAN APPLES

DUNN’S SEEDLING
Also known as Monroe’s Favourite, originating around 1850 in Australia, both fresh eating and cooking, fruit medium size, greenish yellow with a red blush, firm flesh, ripens mid to late season, good keeper, tree vigorous and a good cropper, old Australian favourite, flowering (c)

GRANNY SMITH
Needs no introduction really, green cooking apple with good acid content to retain and enhance flavours in cooking, discovered by Mrs Smith in Ryde, N.S.W. who apparently brought home gin cases from Sydney market and tipped the rotting apples found in them in a nearby creek, later noticing a seedling apple growing in the same spot, now Australia’s most famous cooking apple, flowering (c)

KING COLE
Fresh eater and cooker, fruit medium size, red, firm, juicy, ripening mid to late season, originating in Australia, once grown widely for commerce, flowering (d)

LADY WILLIAMS
An apple that really needs little introduction to Australia by now, a relative of the Pink Lady, with similar crisp subacid qualities, ripening very late season- as late as July, and subsequently keeping a long time, even just stored in a box in the shed; variety is a cross between two Australian varieties – Granny Smith and Rokewood. It’s a very good cropper – our two year old espaliered tree has two smallish horizontal branches and a one metre main trunk which this year have fifty apples crammed on them (after having been thinned!) flowering (c)

MURRAY GEM
Originating near the Murray River in South Australia, this apple was once a very popular fresh eating red fruit, which is late to harvest and keeps its flavour and eating qualities after being stored through winter, medium sized, flowering time (e)

CRAB APPLES

EAGLE POINT STAR
Very unusual apple which when cut open, reveals a red star in the middle of the white flesh, also has a red stained wood in the cross section of the branches, flowers colours are a wonderful striking  purple, nice little fresh eating apple with unique sort of flavour, believed to have been discovered near Eagle Point, Gippsland

JOHN DOWNIE
Grows into a fair sized tree when mature, has a very heavy crop of crabs which are able to be eaten, fruit are quite large for a crab apple, makes a marvelous crab apple jelly, flowering (c)

GOLDEN HORNET
Famous UK crab apple which has small bright yellow fruits absolutely covering it, flowering (c)

GORGEOUS
Coming out of New Zealand, this cultivar makes a nice open shaped tree, with an enormous crop of small one inch deep red fruits, ripens late season, flowering (d)

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VINTAGE CIDER APPLES

These days’ ciders are made using a mixture of different apple varieties blended together. However in times past there were traditional varieties from which cider was pressed using one variety alone. These varieties were generally from particular regions of England where each particular apple made a local drink with its own special qualities.

BLACK TAUNTON
Also known as Kingston Black, skin is very pretty with crimson and streaked darker crimson on yellow background, flesh yellowish and tender, with only a mild acidity, was a popular cider apple in Somersetshire, flowering (c)

BROWN SNOUT
Greenish yellow fruit makes a bittersweet cider, harvests mid to late season, good pollinator, flowering (c)

BULMER’S NORMAN
Coming out of France in the 1800’s, fruit are fairly large, with light green skin, and soft flesh, harvests midseason, makes a bittersweet cider, flowering time (b)

DABINETT
Small to medium fruit producing soft full bodied astringency, smaller tree but heavy bearing, mid to late harvest, full bittersweet / vintage

FREQUIN TARDIVE DE SARTRE
Another of the French types of cider apple makes a very sweet cider on its own, greenish yellow skinned, not much blush, fruit are also able to be eaten fresh, ripens early to mid season

APRICOTS  $26

GLENGARRY
Fruit small and pale with a red blush. Earliest ripener and very early flowering, so needs to be in a frost free spot. Lowest chill requirement of all the apricots, suited to the subtropics, trees vigourous and large

MOORPARK
This is the classic apricot of the last century or so. It has stood the  test of time and for good reason- excellent flavour, performs well across a wide range of locales, useful fruit for fresh eating and for cooking jam – pretty delicate so doesn’t hold its shape in bottling etc.

TILTON
Hardy tree, recommended for cooler areas. Probably one of the better chances of getting decent apricots in the difficult colder areas where stone fruit will sometimes struggle. Smaller fruit with very sweet flavour and nice colour

QUINCES     $26

Quinces are a terrific little home garden tree, which are very hardy – will tolerate a wet soil, and also have some drought tolerance, making them a good tree for difficult areas. With a little bit of looking after (regular watering, pruning, fertilising) they will set a pretty heavy crop of fruit, and when the fruit are ripening they send a very distinctive and tantalising aroma wafting around the garden, not to mention their very pretty ornamental flowers in Spring.

We have the complete collection of 16 different sorts of Quinces which are currently available in Australia. Quinces are primarily used for making jams and jellies, but they are also dried and made into cider, they make a delicious paste (suitable for cheese platters), stewed with custard they’re a terrific desert….need I go on.

SMYRNA
Originally from Smyrna in Turkey, very good bearer, very large yellow aromatic fruit, flesh relatively tender, precocious tree - starts bearing fruit in second year, ripens very late in the season

CHAMPION
Originating before 1868 in USA, smaller rounded variety ripening mid season, very good flavour

ANGERS
French type, with smaller leaves, and a more dwarfed tree overall (grows to about 2 metres), nice fruit with flesh a little harder than other varieties but cooks down nicely, and is said to keep longer   than most other varieties

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PEARS     $26

BAPTISTE DE VIOLETTE
Pretty purple skinned fruits with clean white flesh, smaller sized and lovely flavour, cropping mid season, originating France

BEURRE D’ANJOU
Early winter pear and one of the best from that season, both in terms of appearance and fruit quality. Smooth skin, yellow, marked and dotted with russet, with a faint blush. Yellowish white flesh is firm but tender, very juicy, sweet and spicy, and rich in flavour. An old French Pear, pollinated by Williams.

BEURRE BOSC
Skin completely brown russeted, thin long neck widening to bell shaped pear, flavour rich and aromatic, flesh white melting and buttery, ripening about mid season, good keeper, very good as a baking pear or cooked as a dessert, pretty much foolproof to grow

BEURRE HARDY
Skin a shining yellowish green, flesh white and pink tinted, melting, juicy, sweet and perfumed. Tree is a very good bearer

COCKTAIL  
A very small pear, almost totally covered by a light coloured russet over dull yellow green, sweet and juicy, it gets its name from the use to which it is put – cut up into pieces and served as h'orderves with cocktails, lovely accompaniment to cheese platters, meat dishes etc.

CLAPP’S FAVOURITE
American pear, heavy cropper, very early season, large oval yellow fruit, sweet and juicy, pollinated by Williams, but will set a reasonable crop on its own

DOUYENNE BOUSSUCH
Fruit very large – 3 ½ inches high and wide, round shaped, white flesh melting and juicy, fine brisk vinous juice and delicate perfume, needs eating before over ripe

DOUYENNE DU COMICE
Skin lemon yellow with greenish tinge covered with speckles and patches of brown russet, flesh yellow white, very tender, buttery, melting, with an almost cinnamon flavour coming through. We have had a lot of favourable comments about this pear. The tree tends to be very healthy, a good bearer, and has beautiful shape and form.

JOSEPHINE
Fruit greenish yellow, part russeted, outstanding aroma and soft, sweet, juicy flesh, among the best of the late pears, medium sized tree, pollinated by Williams

L’INCONNUE
Very old heirloom, large yellow fruits with russeting, originating in France, firm, juicy, rich and sugary, one of our favourites, an excellent late harvesting winter pear.

MARIE LOUISE D’UCCLE
Large fruit, skin has small amount of pale cinnamon coloured russeting, fine fleshed, buttery, melting, very juicy and richly flavoured, a very good cropper (pictured right)

PACKHAM’S TRIUMPH
Packham’s Triumph is an Australian pear, descendant of Williams and Uvedale St Germain, bred by Charles Packham from Parramatta, N.S.W. around 1900, it’s pretty similar to the Williams but it keeps longer. Pollinate with Winter Cole, Winter Nelis or Josephine.

WILLIAMS BON CHRETIEN
This has become the standard pear variety grown pretty much worldwide. It is a high quality pear with smooth flesh and lovely aroma. Soft skinned and easily bruised, it ripens early to mid season, very good for bottling – keeps its shape and flavour when cooked, seems to do well in many different climates

WINTER NELIS
Originating in Belgium in the 1800’s, has been called the ‘honey pear’ for the rich flavour of its small pear shaped fruit, green skin with some brown russet, and sweet white juicy flesh

PERRY PEARS   $28
Perry is a similar drink to cider but it is made from pears called snow pears, which are a slightly different species to the European pears. Perry varieties have a high quantity of tannins in the juice. Perry pear trees have been known to live up to 400 years, and in the best situations, to grow to a height of fifty metres. Mature trees can frequently give rise to crops of one tonne

GIN
Medium tree, medium acid, medium tannin, good quality perry. Late midseason harvest. Heavy, conspicuous spur systems on vigorous tree, scab resistant.

GREEN HORSE
Fruits are apple shaped and large, as well as making perry, the fruit is suitable for stewing and pickling.

MOORCROFT
Large tree, medium acid and tannin, good quality strong perry.

YELLOW HUFFCAP
Large, vigourous tree, medium acid, low tannin, excellent quality perry, very productive, and sometimes becomes a biennial bearer.

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MEDLAR    $28

DUTCH MEDLAR
This variety has large fruits, and the tree has a spreading habit, with very crooked branches

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CHERRIES     $26   

RON’S SEEDLING
Very large, dark red cherry, probably pollinated by Burgsdorf, firm flesh so it is one of the best for jam, bottling and preserving, also lovely fresh eating, and copes well with warmer climates.

NAPOLEON
This cherry would have to come close to one of our favourites – it is a yellow skinned cherry with top rate flavour and good sized fruit, and its unusual colour means it gets some natural camouflage from the birds, ripens early December

BURGSDORF
A very good cherry which has been around since settlement in Australia, large dark red fruit with soft flesh, heavy crops harvest early, an old favourite

BLACK BOY
Favourite old cherry in Australia, and still a very popular choice, heavy bearer of large dark red fruit, firm and juicy, pollinates with Bing and Napoleon

LAPINS
Large fruit with red firm juicy flesh and very good flavour, self fertile and precocious, late harvest, fruits should be left on the tree until dark red / mahogany colour is reached, has resistance to skin splitting in the rain

RAINIER
Large yellow cherry with prominent pink blush, vigourous and crops well when young, fruit resistant to cracking, very good flavour and slightly disguised by its colour from the birds, very good pollinator for Stella, Napoleon, Van, and others

SUNBURST EARLY
Dark red, very large fruits, luscious and tasty, late December maturity, fair degree of self fertility, more suitability than others for subtropical climates

STELLA
Large, dark red fruit, heavy cropper, maturing early December, self fertile, very popular backyard  and orchard tree, very good pollinator for many other varieties

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SOUR CHERRIES     $26

KENTISH CHERRY
A lovely old cooking cherry coming in much earlier than other cherries. Quite edible fresh, the fruit are a pale red colour and are used for making jam and preserving, tree shows some drought tolerance and seems hardy. A pretty tree, they were selected by the planners to be distributed for planting around Canberra as an ornamental, when establishing the new city.

MORELLO
This is a darker, smaller, sourer fruit, brings out its best flavours in culinary use, the tree is spreading and bears heavy crops (see picture page above)

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ELEPHANT HEART
We get many enquiries for this plum  – it’s a large heart shaped purple/red blood plum with a genuinely distinctive flavour - a bit like a cherry, lovely juicy plum, ripening over a long period, harvest mid season, pollinated by Mariposa

GOLDEN SATSUMA
Rare heritage variety, similar to the Satsuma, but with lighter coloured flesh, lovely flavour and plenty of juice

GULF RUBY
Blood plum which needs very few winter chilling hours, so will also suit warmer northern areas, attractive red plum, and a good producer

MARIPOSA
Popular blood plum, egg shaped, mottled greeny red skin, dark red juicy sweet flesh, semi freestone, makes beautiful jam and plum sauce, and fine flavoured fresh eating, reliable regular cropper, excellent flavour

NARRABEEN
A small willowy growing tree, bearing large red plums with yellow flesh that ripens in February, a slipstone and a very satisfying plum to eat, does well in the heat where we are, and said to have some natural resistance to bacterial blight

SATSUMA
Maybe the most well known of all blood plums, mid season ripening in February, large, rounded dark red, firm juicy spicy flesh, described by one local nurseryman here as having a ‘satisfying clove like depth’ of flavour. It is a good bearer, useful for preserving and bottling, partly self fertile and gives even bigger crops if cross pollinated by Santa Rosa, Queen Rosa or Red Ace

SANTA ROSA
Popular early variety of very good flavour and soft juicy yellow flesh. Vigorous upright tree, which is self fertile but gives even heavier crops when pollinated by Queen Rosa

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PLUMS – EUROPEAN    $26

ANGELINA
Angelina seems to be a plum that everybody likes. It has been around as a commercial variety for over a century, white bloom on purple skin, rich yellow flesh, prized for both eating fresh, and for liqueur making due to its high sugar content

COE’S GOLDEN DROP
Very late season ripener, large oval yellow plum, firm juicy sweet flesh, excellent apricot like flavour, good for drying, bred from two older classic plums – Green Gage and White Magnum Bonum, potentially pollinated by these two, or give D’Agen or President a try

COLES GOLDEN GAGE
This is another member of the ‘gage’ plum family, rounded yellow plum with firm sweet juicy flesh, flavour along the same lines as Coe’s Golden Drop, pollinates with Green Gage, D’Agen, Coes Golden Drop

D’AGEN (French Prune)
Classic granddaddy of the prune plums, rich and sweet, purple skin with yellow flesh, can be dried on the tree or picked off and sat on a plate to dry out, best pollinator for Green Gage

DAMSON
These are once again having a surge in popularity amongst gourmets, who prize them for their high quality when cooked. They make fine sauces and jams, and great meat accompaniments, a very small plum; hardy trees bear very late plums

GREEN GAGE
This plum is an amazing eating experience – sweet and very richly flavoured but balanced with perfect amount of acidity. Singled out by the author of the Australian Fruit Tree book, Louis Glowinski, as his favourite fruit overall (a big rave, given his book covers a fairly significant proportion of the fruit kingdom) but this is a great plum, pollinate with Coe’s Golden Drop or D’Agen

JEFFERSON
One of the few plums classified as being part of the ‘Gage Plum’ family, a large yellow plum with a pink blush on the sunny side, nice sweet flavour, lovely juicy yellow flesh, ripens early

MIRABELLE
Culinary plum coming back into popularity in recent years, with many chefs bringing them back onto the menu, smaller, sweet yellow round fruits, reaching fullness of flavour when cooked, sold in abundance in France and Belgium, a real antique – first recorded in France in 1675 (right)

SPLENDOUR PRUNE
Prune plum which is the result of breeding the D’Agen and the Hungarian prune, has very high sugar content at 11%, (compared to 8% for the French Prune), long oval shape, sweet yellow flesh

VICTORIA
Larger plum from England, and maybe that country’s most popular and well known cooker. Still sought after by many today, stews well, bottles well, sets a heavy crop

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PEACHES    $26           

BENDIGO BEAUTY
Ripening in the first week of the year, fruit cream and red skinned, white juicy flesh, very good cropper, precocious (potentially a decent crop in the second year, with the proper cultural conditions), fruit gradually ripens over a number of weeks, not coming all at once

BLACKBURN ELBERTA
This peach is the pollinator for J.H.Hale’s Million Dollar Peach – which is about the only peach that really needs a pollinator, larger and earlier than Elberta, flavour excellent, good grower and heavy bearer

ELBERTA
Very old variety and very popular with the general public, yellow melting flesh, flavour superb when grown organically, can be eaten fresh, bottles well, and even dries successfully

GOLDEN QUEEN
The classic clingstone peach, firm yellow flesh, completely yellow skin, very late season ripener, beautiful preserving – a real bottler

VAL (DWARF PEACH)
A dwarf sized peach, reaching a total of 1 – 1.5 metres at maturity, suitable for limited spaces or pots, sweet yellow flesh

LORING
Very large yellow freestone, firm yellow flesh and a scarlet blush covering half of its golden yellow skin. A favourite peach in colder regions, excellent flavour and texture, reliable cropper, also suitable for drying

MILLION DOLLAR PEACH (J.H. HALE)
This peach is an exception to the rule, as it needs pollination to set heavy crops.
Blackburn Elberta will pollinate.
Very good fresh eating and drying, smooth skin, almost fuzz – less, very firm yellow freestone, tender flesh of excellent quality, larger than Elberta, and ripening about the same time

PULLAR
Large clingstone fruits, yellow flesh with red in the centre close to the stone, lovely flavour and very good fruits for bottling, and fresh eating, harvests very late

FLAVORCREST
Large, attractive and firm peach, yellow flesh of excellent flavour, ripening mid season, lower winter chilling requirements than most, so may also have some suitability for subtropical areas

WIGGINS
Lovely old fashioned white fleshed peach, juicy and sweet, good quality, doesn’t have the colour of some modern varieties, but the flavour is all there

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NECTARINES     $26

EARLY RIVERS
Older white fleshed nectarine, tender and juicy, small fruits and a very good bearer. A favourite with many people, but often no longer available for sale in mainstream nurseries

FAIRLANE
Very late season yellow fleshed fruits can grow quite large, clingstone with firm red skin over mottled yellow background, firm sweet flesh with coarse texture and well developed flavour

SUNDOWNER
Good attractive fruits, popular in N.S.W., having low chill characteristics, early ripening, sets very heavy crops

GOLDMINE
Classic old fashioned Australian nectarine, melting white flesh, gorgeous flavour, easy to grow and ripening late, smaller sized fruits, our most sought after nectarine

SUNNY (DWARF NECTARINE)
Suitable for small spaces and little backyards, very good as a potted tree, a genuinely dwarfed specimen which if planted in the ground will grow 1 – 1.5 metres, fruits remain normal sized, good flavour, sweet yellow flesh

YALCA LARGE NECTARINE (JACK’S CHOICE)
Selected from a number of seedling trials on our own farm, very late ripening nectarine, one of the largest and latest grown, extends your season, very firm and crisp white flesh, good red skin colour, lovely flavour

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FIGS $26 
                                                                                                     
The fig is a hardy customer with very good drought tolerance. It really is a tree from out of antiquity, up there with the oldest of known fruits still cultivated, known in Biblical times and well before, along with grapes and olives. The fruit is eaten fresh - delicious, but is difficult to get in the market, as it has such a short shelf life, and it is actually at its best when eaten straight from the tree – hence the need to grow your own! It is cooked in breads, desserts and myriad other dishes, (some of the best cooked figs I ever ate were simply cut in half, sprinkled lightly with brown sugar, grilled and then dolloped with mascarpone cream…divine). To overcome their inability to be transported figs have been dried, which they are suited to with their high sugar content. They also make a uniquely flavoured jam.

BLACK GENOA
Large purple skinned fruit with dark red very rich sweet flesh, very productive and vigorous tree, gives a good crop – enough for you and some for the birds as well

BROWN TURKEY
Early variety of fig, large in size, with a dark brown skin, pink juicy flesh, and a sweet sugary flavour. In Australia this variety does better in the dry inland than in coastal areas, but a very hardy fig which copes well with difficult conditions, crops over a very long time

BLUE PROVINCE
Rare fig, once grown in Australia, offered by Goodman’s nursery in early 1900’s, with a blue / violet skin and blue tinged purplish meat with red seeds, very soft and sweet, ripens mid to late, the tree has very large ornamental leaves

DWARF BROWN
Originally sourced from a home orchard in N.S.W., where it had grown to about 2 metres high and about the same in width. Nice flavoured brown skinned fruits and a genuine dwarf tree suited to smaller spaces and backyards

PRESTON PROLIFIC
Black skinned fruit with orange flesh, good flavour and heavy bearer, harvests late season, tree can grow quite large

WHITE ADRIATIC
This fig is another one of David Arnold’s recommendations - he says that of all the figs he grows, this is the one that seems to impress upon people the most – it is sometimes called the Strawberry Jam fig – in reference to its sweet jelly-like red flesh. A curiosity with this is that the early crop on the tree tends to be fruit with light coloured skin and the later crop is more purple blushed. Tree has very large leaves.

WHITE GENOA
May be a better performer than others in cooler areas, yellow green skin and orangey flesh, and a milder, flavour not quite as rich for those who don’t like the really intense fig flavour

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PERSIMMONS    $55

These deciduous trees are a lovely ornamental specimen tree, often with a semi weeping form, which gives a beautiful display of deep orange autumn leaves, and retains many of its orange coloured fruit after leaf fall, making it the prettiest fruit tree in the winter garden. The botanical word for persimmon  ‘diospyros’ means ‘food of the gods’, and it’s not far wrong either – the problem with these fruit being that they are often not left to ripen properly before eating, and they are very astringent when unripe. When ripe they are a delicious rich sweet flavour quite unlike any other fruit in the garden. Louis Glowinski suggests flavour is not unlike apricot jam.

NIGHTENGALE
Smaller tree with lovely flavoured big sized fruits, ripening early season, suitable for smaller gardens

FUYU
Semi dwarfing size, reaching maybe 2 – 2.5 metres. Large, slightly flattened fruits, dark orange – red coloured skin, edible when still hard and crisp, and gaining even more flavour as it softens to a soft jam like texture – ripens late in season, about the middle of May, and stores well

DAI DAI MARU
Fairly large tree with pretty weeping form, and beautiful autumn foliage, smaller fruits, ripening early

MULBERRIES
    
HICK’S FANCY      $26
The mulberry is a lovely old shade tree which has small elongated red berries on it, cropping late August and into September, coming in the ‘hungry time’ in the garden when there is not a lot else around, so fills a gap nicely. My children like to stand at the tree and just stuff them into their mouths, but the fruit are more often made into a rich sweet jam which becomes thick like toffee if cooked extra long. Good drought tolerance once established

BLACK ENGLISH      $46
Not as vigorous a tree as Hick’s Fancy, maybe a little more slow to grow, but some people like the mulberries better and think they are richer and sweeter

KING WHITE (SHATOOT)     $32
The largest of the mulberries, sometimes coming in at 10 cm in length!  White in colour, they begin to go sweet when they are still half green, and become honeyed and sweet when fully ripe. 30% sugar content, in some places the fruit is dried and reportedly retains its flavour very well

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POMEGRANATES    $26

Large orange sized fruits with pretty yellow – green to brilliant red skin, surrounding seed sacs of delicious juice, used to make a refreshing drink – grenadine. Very drought resistant, and withstands extremes of heat and cold

WONDERFUL
Standard Californian variety, with excellent flavour and beautiful colouring

ELCHE
Large pink skinned fruit, selected in Elche, Spain, for the quality of the fruit and the ornamental habit of the tree. Large double orange red flowers, needs a warm sunny position

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CITRUS     $32  
* We don’t send citrus through the post, so only order if picking up from a market or the farm

VALENCIA
Classic summer ripening orange, curiosity with this fruit is that in really hot summers around here, it will ripen to an orange colour then with more heat will turn back to a green colour, and can still turn again to orange later on, but the whole time it is still sweet and ripe, holds on the tree in good condition till late season

WASHINGTON NAVEL ORANGE
Well known orange needs no introduction really, - large fruit of deep orange attractive colour, with a flavour that is the richest and sweetest of all the oranges. Useful for cool climate growing because of its relatively low heat requirement

LANE’S LATE NAVEL
Large eating oranges, get their colour very late, holds fruit a long time and very good off the tree late in the season – ripens three months later than the Washington

NAVELINA NAVEL
Sweet flavoured, seedless fruit, slightly oval in shape with a deep orange coloured skin. Navelina is one of the Navel oranges which are the earliest to produce fruit

LEMONADE TREE
Medium sized tree producing heavy crops of medium sized mild flavoured fruit throughout the year. Not as sour as standard lemons and makes a lovely refreshing lemonade drink

MEYER LEMON
Popular home garden lemon tree, grows 4 – 5 metres tall, rounded fruit with thin smooth skin, more frost tolerant and sweeter, juicier fruit that other lemons, grows in humid, tropical climates too

EUREKA LEMON
Originated as a seedling in Los Angeles in 1858 from a box of lemons imported from Italy. Has a heavier summer crop than Lisbon, has the characteristic of being everbearing – pretty much always having at least some lemons ready to pick

LISBON LEMON
Vigourous growing lemon sets a large crop of medium sized fruit, true lemon flavour

ELLENDALE MANDARIN
Late fruiting variety with large flattened fruit, thin bright orange skin and are long keepers. Very good for warmer climates
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EMPEROR MANDARIN
Early maturing, medium to large fruits, long tree life, good flavour, easily peeled

IMPERIAL MANDARIN
Very popular early maturing mandarin, thin skinned, peels easily, great distinctive flavour

HONEY MURCOTT MANDARIN
Late maturing mandarin, coming in between August and October in warm areas, later in cool spots, large sized fruit with thin skin, excellent sweet flavour and high juice content

RIO RED GRAPEFRUIT
Intense red fleshed grapefruit, good rind and flesh colour, cold hardy variety, maturing early June to end of September

TAHITIAN LIME
A lime that turns yellow when fully ripe, but can be used in its green stage also. Very good lime flavour, useful in Thai cooking, refreshing drinks, fish dishes etc. Tree yellows a bit, but copes with our frosty cold winters and then rejuvenates in Spring warmth (like we do)

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NUT TREES

ALMONDS     $28

Californian Papershell
Medium to large sized flattish nuts, papershell, most popular variety, produces consistently good yields, pollinate with Fritz, Ne Plus Ultra, Carmel

Ne Plus Ultra
Large nuts, light chocolate coloured, papershell, spreading habit, heavy cropping, frost sensitive, pollinate with Californian Papershell, Chellaston

Self Pollinating    
Slightly dwarfing tree, precocious cropper, good flavour, soft shell and as the name suggests, sets a reasonable crop without pollination

Carmel
More recent variety, very good yields of high quality nuts, and and excellent pollinating partner for Californian Papershell

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HAZELNUTS     $26

Hazelnuts are a wonderful nut to be able to grow in the home garden, they also make a lovely hedge or useful screening plant. One of the secrets with them is that they are wind pollinated, and we recommend growing at least three different types together in order to get adequate pollination to set good crops.

Cosford
Medium sized nuts with a light brown thin shell, good quality nuts and a heavy bearer if nearby other varieties, matures along with all hazelnuts around about mid March through to early May

Red Avelline
Also known as Webbs Prize Redskin, it is a nut with a red skin on the nut kernel, taste is excellent, tree is a very good pollinator, and some think it may be partially self fertile so it stands a chance of bearing a crop without other trees nearby

Wandliss Pride
Very similar to the American White

American White
Medium sized nut with light brown skin colouring, very tasty and a heavy bearer

White Avelline
Medium sized nut, light brown skin colour, useful pollinator

Lambert
Prolific cropper, excellent quality large long nuts, with a sweet flavour, moderately vigourous upright grower

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WALNUTS

Black Walnut     $32
Native American nut, widely grown for the high quality of its hardwood for craftsmen, makes a prized specimen tree, but also carries a very highly flavoured nut. They are so rich that usually only a few are eaten at a time. As with other walnuts, they keep flavour well when cooked and are used in ice-cream, cakes, breads, and sweets -   maybe the most famous of which is the Greek Baklava. Also an essential ingredient in the very fine Waldorf salad.

Wilson’s Wonder     $42
Originating in Sunnivale, California, tree is precocious with a very large nut, and medium sized kernel, same culinary uses as mentioned above

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MACADAMIAS     $32  
*We don’t send Macadamias by mail, so only order these if you are going to pick them up at our farm, or are meeting us at a market

Very well liked nut, usually thought to grow only in subtropical areas, but actually does very well in Southern Australia, if given protection from frost in first few years of life. Bushy evergreen tree, attractive red-green new growth, flowers pink or white in bunches of up to one hundred! The varieties we offer here are selected for suitability to the cooler states.  A very easy nut to grow once established.

A4
A very precocious macadamia that can produce big crops in year three. Medium sized tree with open canopy. Does well in N.S.W. and cooler climates. Needs to be well fertilized, due to heavy cropping

H2
A seedling macadamia that has very good vigour and should do well in the more difficult cold climates.

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PECANS      $45

Native nut of USA, large tree, sends down a very deep taproot to find underground water, extremely long lived – some wild trees estimated at over 1000 years old, trees adapt well to most climates. Are less bitter and have more sweetness than the walnut, and can be substituted in most recipes, useful for everything from stews to pies, cakes, fillings, soups, ice cream, candies…Varieties include :

Apache
Vigorous growing tree with a large sized nut, nice thin shell, easy cracking, heavy cropping, pollination group B, will need to be planted with a pecan from pollination group A to achieve heavy crops

Cherokee
Very heavy cropping tree with a medium sized nut, pollination group A, will need a pecan from pollination group B to cross pollinate it for heavy crops

Shoshonii
Precocious variety – starts cropping heavily when still quite young, nuts medium to large size, quite vigourous grower, upright, popular for backyards or smaller spaces. pollination group B, but does have some self fertility, so can be planted on its own

Pawnee
An excellent choice for people with limited space due to its relatively small size – only 30 ft tall and wide when grown in the best conditions. Large nuts, thin shell, precocious heavy bearer, pollination group (A) but also has some self fertility

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CHESTNUTS     $46

Nutritionally very similar to potatoes and cereals, high in carbohydrates, low in fats and proteins, can be roasted, baked, boiled, pureed; very good for taking out in the bush for roasting over the campfire, (the smell of cooked chestnuts is very alluring) can be dried and ground into a useful flour, easy to harvest and prepare, and gives good quantity of meat per nut. Varieties available include:

Marone
Large nut from WA, but originally of Italian origins, fairly upright habit, exhibiting Asian characteristics, such as fine wood and pointy buds, excellent quality

Wandiligong Wonder
Late harvesting variety originating in north east Victoria, good easy peeling and no need to prune the tree

Emerald Gem
From Emerald Lake area of the Dandenong Ranges, beautiful spreading tree – almost weeping in habit, very prolific, tends to bear heavily, distinctive orange tan coloured nut without stripes

April Gold

Red Spanish
Also called Wandenberg, a modest bearer so no pruning needed, makes a very large nut which matures early, and tree has a reasonable drought tolerance.

Seedling $26
This European Chestnut produces large sweet nuts, the kind found sold in fruit markets, seedlings are relatively quick to bear and are generally a little more hardy and quick growing than grafted trees

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STONE PINE (PINE NUTS)    $22

The nut perhaps most famous for being combined with basil to make pesto, but used in various other garnishes, added to salads, roasted and eaten fresh. Tree an evergreen, very hardy, survives without a lot of attention


PISTACHIO   $90 set of two   (for 2012)
Offered as a pollinating pair – a male and female plant - female variety is Sirora. Sold out for next year, but place an order now, for delivery in 2012

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AVOCADOS   $34    

*We don’t send these through the post, so only order them if you are picking them up from the farm or meeting us at a market

Hass
Evergreen large upright tree with black opal shaped fruit, ripening in September to January. These trees are suitable even for cold areas, and with a little shadecloth protection over the top for frosty winters in the first few years, they will grow and fruit just about anywhere in south eastern Australia. Very handy addition to the kitchen garden

Bacon
One of the most cold tolerant avocados, believed to be able to cope with -6 to -8 degree frosts. Still needs covering with hessian or shadecloth to get it through the first few winter times, pale green shiny skin, smooth flavoursome flesh, no fibre, can start bearing in the third year, even in a cool climate, leaves have an anise scent.

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KIWI FRUIT    $40 set of two
Also known as Chinese Gooseberry, this fruit comes on a vigorous deciduous twining vine. They need to grow on some sort of support – either a trellis or pergola or fence. These are grafted onto a hardy lime and salt tolerant rootstock. Two vines are needed for pollination – a male and a female. We sell them as the set of two.

OLIVES    $16 
 
Frantoio
A variety with very high oil content, used for extracting olive oil

Manzanillo
Multipurpose variety, medium sized fruits, heaviest bearer of the main varieties, tree is spreading and low and easily harvested, makes very good table fruit and also useful for oil production

UC13A6
From the University of California, large fruits, almost round in shape, plenty of flesh, heavy and regular bearer, originally came from a seedling of an Egyptian cultivar, so should do well in warm areas

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SUGAR MAPLE   $28

Tall growing Canadian tree, used to tap the sap for Maple Syrup, will come into its own once all the bees have become extinct due to colony collapse disorder. Sugar maple will grow best in cooler climates, and deep soils with plenty of moisture

TURKEY OAK     $26

Not often thought of in terms of human food in our country, but once a subsistence crop for many people in Europe. Acorns can be boiled and baked, and the best varieties can actually be quite sweet and acceptable as a dish. Otherwise, pigs absolutely love acorns and are fattened on them with great success. The Turkey Oak comes from the Mediterranean area and was used for food in Spain, Portugal and Algeria. Its acorns are considered the most edible of all acorns.

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RASPBERRIES  $20 (bundle of 5)

Each of the raspberry varieties is supplied as a bundle of 5 canes, i.e. 5 x Williamette, 5 x Heritage etc.

WILLIAMETTE
Crops in summer and then another crop in autumn, good quality berries, very popular variety

GOLDEN RASPBERRY
Canes smaller in height than average, have a good tasting yellow berry

HERITAGE
Starts cropping in late summer and continues right through to the end of autumn. Fruit comes on the new current season growth, and pruning is easy – just cut out all canes, or mow straight over the top of them. Does well in different localities, also recommended as the best variety for subtropical / low chill areas

NOOTKA
Fruits mid summer and again in autumn, probably best in cool climate and good soils. In our long hot summers it tends to be average in size of its summer crop, but in autumn, gets bigger.

SKEENA
Rot resistant variety that is nearly thornless and has little tendency to sucker, strong canes and good coloured berry

CHILCOTIN
Heavy cropper ripening mid season over about four to five weeks, canes can grow quite tall compared to other varieties

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BLACKBERRIES   $9 per cane

These are supplied as dormant canes

SILVANBERRY
Out of about eight different blackberry and blackberry hybrids we have trialled on the farm in the last few years, this one was our personal favourite. It starts to ripen a little before Christmas, and the berries are much easier to catch at peak ripening time than any of the others. Flavour is excellent, and in the hotter climate they keep their shape and resist going to jam on the bush

BOYSENBERRY
Lovely tasting, plump purple berries, strong growing plants, flavour is excellent, crops late December and into January

LOGANBERRY
Looks a bit like a raspberry but with a unique pink purple colouring, many people consider this to be the best tasting of all the brambles, with a unique sharp taste, harvest through December

YOUNGBERRY
Tasty, dark purple fruit, two weeks earlier than Boysenberry, easy to grow

BLACKBERRY ‘THORNFREE’
This is an extraordinarily prolific cropper, excellent flavour if left to ripen properly on the bush, keep picking them and more keep ripening each day or two, harvest around February and into March; from two bushes we picked nearly a ten litre bucket full two weeks running one year – that’s a darned lot of berries – they are very good preserved, in cakes and muffins, stewed in a syrup, combined with apples, make beautiful jam…

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BLUEBERRIES     $18

DENISE
Large dark berries, very nice flavour, small spreading bush, needs to be pruned heavily to stay productive

NORTHLAND
Very heavy cropping bushes start harvesting in mid December, very good home garden variety

Heavy yields of medium to large fruit, cropping late December and into January

BLUECROP
Mid season variety giving heavy yields of large berries, bright coloured, hold their size throughout the season, open upright bush with lovely burgundy leaves in the autumn

BRIGITTA
Australian variety now grown worldwide for its great flavour and yield – which can potentially reach 9 kg in the best conditions! Berries are large and store well. Very large bushes sometimes grow to 2.4 metres high

DARROW
A late upright vigorous bush, very large, firm, quality fruit, some degree of self fertility, heavy crops

ELLIOTT
Continues to produce fruit late into the season, berries are medium sized, distinctive and well flavoured, need to be left hanging until fully ripe, a tough tall bush

CAROLINE
Late variety, distinctive aromatic flavoured fruit, developed in Australia, moderate vigour and good bush shape

CENTURION and BRITEWELL (the pair for $36)
A pair of evergreen blueberries, need each other for pollination, will cope better with warmer hotter climates, probably the best choices for subtropical areas, they keep a more compact bushy shape, sold together

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GOOSEBERRIES   $9

Older English berry, not grown much anymore, but a home grown gooseberry can be a wonderful eating experience, and one that is remembered fondly by many older Australians, berries are transparent in their skin tone, also useful for jams, jellies, pies, etc.

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