Dwarf Fruit Trees
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Dwarf Glou Mourceau pear
Dwarf Glou Mourceau pear is a traditional dessert pear from Belgium. A delicate pear, melting buttery flesh, good juice. Dwarf Glou Mourceau pear crops regularly, early harvest, this one grafted to dwarfing rootstock to yield a tree of 2 - 2.5 metres for ease of management, small spaces etc. Ripens: March Pollinates with: Williams, Winter Nelis, Winter Cole, Douyenne Du Comice, Beurre Bosc
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Dwarf Trevatt apricot
Dwarf Trevatt apricot is a brand new 2 metre tall version of the popular Trevatt. Widely planted in both gardens and orchards in the last few decades, large round fruit, flavour very good if left on the tree long enough (which it usually isn’t when coming out of commercial orchards – which is why it is so important to grow your own!) Dwarf Apricot Trevatt has light yellow skin with strong coloured orange flesh, good for canning, drying and eating fresh. Ripens: Mid January Pollinate with: Self fertile
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Dwarf Moorpark apricot
The Dwarf Moorpark apricot has been grafted onto semi dwarfing (2 metre high) rootstock, 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 - and now it comes in a manageably sized tree Ripens: January Pollinate with: Self fertile
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Dwarf Hubbartston’s Nonsuch apple
Dwarf Hubbartston's Nonsuch apple makes a two metre high tree, and produces large fruit, which ripen midseason, good flavour, great cooking. Ripens: April
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Dwarf Orleans Reinette apple
Dwarf Orleans Reinette apple is grafted onto dwarf rootstock, this is a great little apple which crops heavily every year at our place, ripens early - mid, terrific old fashioned apple flavour, Medium flat round apples flushed orange red with red stripes. Flesh is firm, sweet, aromatic and slightly nutty. Great fresh eater, hardy tough tree, this one's like an old friend - always there, year in, year out...
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Dwarf Sturmer Pippin apple
Out of stock
Dwarf Sturmer Pippin apple, one of the latest apples left hanging on the tree - in colder places it has been picked as late as mid August, good cooker/eater and also very good addition to cider brews, flesh yellow, firm, crisp, very juicy, brisk and rich sugary flavour, should be kept on the tree as long as possible to let it reach its peak flavours, heavy bearer
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Dwarf Summer Strawberry apple
Dwarf Summer Strawberry apple is grafted onto a dwarf rootstock, this fresh eating apple has fairly small sized fruits, striped all over with yellow and blood red stripes, flesh soft, tender and juicy, sweet, fairly early harvest, one of the few early apples to really do well here in our hot northern Victorian summer, said to do best in fertile soils, originating in Australia in the late 1800’s
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Dwarf Freyburg apple
Dwarf Freyburg apple is a fresh eating apple comes from an awesome heritage - genetically a cross between Cox's Orange Pippin and Golden Delicious, fruit yellow colour with lovely sweet and spicey flavour, tree smallish, harvests mid season but fruit hangs on well on the tree, winner of blind taste tests
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Dwarf Lady William apple
Out of stock
The Dwarf Lady William apple 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!)
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Dwarf Cox’s Orange Pippin apple
Dwarf tree version of perhaps the most famous of all the heritage apples – the Dwarf Cox's Orange Pippin apple is a wonderful fresh eating, rich spicy nutty flavour, crisp, aromatic, perfect balance of sweetness and acidity, is said to do best in cooler areas but we have eaten some brilliant fruit from ours here in northern Victoria
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Dwarf Court Pendu Plat apple
Dwarf Court Pendu Plat apple is one of the most ancient apples in our collection, dating back to possibly Roman times but it was definitely grown in fifteenth century England, fruit small in size, russeted but with a purple/pink flush, the flesh is crisp, rich, fruity and perfumed. It mellows to a sweet and fully flavoured apple after being stored, good keeper. Late flowering (thus avoiding frosts) earned it the title of ‘Wise Apple'. Ripens: May/June Pollinate with: Brown Snout, Stoke Red(cider), Isaac Newton, Boswell
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Dwarf Geeveston Fanny apple
Dwarf Geeveston Fanny apple, makes a two metre tree at full maturity.This variety was widely grown in Tasmania for many decades, small reddish-purple apple with a sweetly flavoured white flesh is ideal for both cooking and as a dessert apple, very popular in the 1970s, important commercially in part because of it resistance to disease, one of the favourites of Clive Winmill (who owned the Badgers Keep collection of over two thousand apples) Ripens: March/April Pollinate with: Beauty of Bath, Keswick Codlin, Lord Lambourne, McIntosh, Red Braeburn, Tydeman's Early Worcester, Vista Bella, Egremont Russet, Fenouillet Gris, Forfar Pippin
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Rea’s Mammoth quince
Rea's Mammoth quince is one of the strains of the Orange quince, characterised by very large quinces and a productive tree, foliage quite dark, and the fruit keeps well after maturity
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Dwarf Beurre Diel pear
Dwarf Beurre Diel is grafted to dwarfing rootstock to give a two metre tree, Also know as Beurre Magnifique, and Beurre De Trois Tours,the Beurre Diel pear is a very fine flavoured dessert pear with crisp flesh originating from Belgium in 1800, russeted lemon-yellow skin overlaid with brown, lumpy unusual shape. Late maturity (end march/april) pollinate with Dorondeau, Packhams Triumph
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Dwarf Lemon Bergamot pear
Dwarf version of this very popular pear in South Australia, the Lemon Bergamot pear, in the past has been grown mostly in the south of Italy, it is actually part of the flavour used in Earl Grey tea, mid season ripener, melting flesh, delicious buttery flavour, and a good bearer, manageable dwarf tree grows to around 2 - 2.5 metres Ripens: March Pollinates with: Beurre Hardy, Josephine, Packham's Triumph, Clapp's, Douyenne Boussuch, Ducchess D'Angloueme, Flemish Beauty
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Dwarf Blackboy peach
Dwarf Blackboy peach is a two metre high form of what is currently one of our most sought after peaches, well loved by New Zealanders, this peach, also called Peche de Vigne, or Black peach, has a deeply dark mysterious looking flesh, with terrific peach flavour, a real novelty on genuine dwarfing rootstock Ripens: Late February Pollinate with: Self fertile
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Dwarf Crimson Baby nectarine
Dwarf nectarine Crimson Baby is a two metre high dwarf nectarine - the variety is one of the latest offerings out of Fresno, California. Crimson Baby is one of our earliest ripening nectarines, maturing in late November, flavourful yellow flesh, self fertile and a heavy cropper, tree grows 2 metres high and 2 metres wide, also possible to grow in a pot
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Dwarf Fantasia nectarine
Dwarf Fantasia nectarine, at two metres high, is one of the best garden varieties. Dwarf Fantasia is easy to grow with very good resistance to frost. This mouth-watering nectarine produces an excellent crop of vivid orange-red fruits with juicy yellow flesh and a 'free' stone. Early harvests have a fresh tangy flavour, while later pickings taste rich and sweet. Ripens: February Pollinate with: Self fertile
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Dwarf Golden Queen peach
The most famous of all clingstones, the Golden Queen peach yields big yellow peaches, yellow clingstone flesh, rippers for bottling, we offer it grafted onto dwarf rootstock to make a tree which reaches to 2 - 2.5 metres at full maturity, - great for smaller spaces or large wine barrel type pots Ripens: Late February/March Pollinate with: Self fertile
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Dwarf Donsworth blood plum
Dwarf plum Donsworth blood plum is the earliest of our blood plums, and a very good quality plum too, large, juicy and great flavour, reliable, should do well in a lot of different places, grows to two metres high and two metres wide at maturity Ripens: December Pollinate with: Santa Rosa, Mariposa
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Chilcotin raspberries (pack of five)
Chilcotin raspberries are a heavy cropper, ripening mid season over about four to five weeks, canes can grow quite tall compared to other varieties