Broadford Fruit Trees (Popular)
Broadford Fruit Trees and the most popular plants Australians buy for mail order. With fruit trees you should consider climate suitability.
Dwarf Persimmon - Fuyu (NA)
$79.00 ($79.00-$79.00 choose a size)
Fuyu is a semi-dwarf variety, well suited to growing in small backyards and can be kept to 2m with pruning. The fruit is large and flat, orange-red in colour with a sweet, mild flavour. Great eaten crunchy but just luscious when left to go soft. Besides producing delicious fruit, Persimmons are highly ornamental with their beautiful autumn foliage. Non astringent, so can be eaten when still hard. When young, protect from hot afternoon sun, and when dormant, from wet conditions. Seedless when grown on their own. If cross pollinating with another variety they can have seeds in the flesh as shown in the display picture.
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Walnut - English
$49.00 ($19.75-$49.00 choose a size)
From Lara variety parentage. Also known as the Persian walnut, it is the most widely grown walnut with delicious large nuts falling in Autumn. Prefers cold climate with well drained soil Walnuts are very large, spreading trees and are self pollinating
Grafting Tape - Buddy Tape
$89.00
Buddy Grafting Tape is a superior tape for all your grafting needs. Perforated at 7cm lengths, it can be stretched to 8 times its length, providing a firm grip on the graft that will stretch as the plant grows. It is permeable to allow air to reach the bud so covering them is not harmful but also has a waxy content that will prevent dehydration. When stretched, it adheres to itself allowing quick and reliable application. The tape biodegrades in sunlight so your plants are not cut into as they grow. Rolls measure 25mm x 60m, providing more than 850 grafts working out at 10c per graft.
Orange - Lanes Late
$39.00
Seedless variety, maturing later than all other navels, usually mid July through to October. Thin smooth rind. The fruits are similar to the Washington but they are picked a couple of months later in the season. They are therefore a great companion tree to plant with a Washington navel or a Navelina for an extended fruiting season of navel oranges.
Kumquat - Meiwa
$46.95
A round, brightly coloured, sweet citrus fruit that can be eaten straight from the tree. Both the skin and the flesh are very sweet and low in seed. Semi dormant in winter lending it cold hardiness.Hybrid of Nagami and Marumi, to which it is most similar. A naturally small tree.
