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Apricot Trees

Apricot Trees

Fruit Trees, Nut Trees and Fruit Bushes

If you are going to plant a tree or bush, then it is going to be there for some years. So it's well worth spending some time looking at the different varieties and going for something that will be productive and providing you with a good crop in years to come. Time spent to prepare the ground properly will repay you many times over.

Apricot Flavourcot

This Canadian-bred variety has revolutionised the growing of Apricots in the UK. It's a self-fertile, variety forming a tidy, compact tree and producing very large, juicy, intensely flavoured apricots with a strong red blush on succulent orange flesh. The

Price: £24.95 More Information from Suttons Seeds

Apricot Larquen

An outstanding self-fertile variety from New Zealand which is now giving bumper crops in UK orchards. The trees yield huge crops of large, Victoria plum-sized fruit, which are the biggest, juiciest apricots we have ever tasted (and far superior to shop bought apricots!). Crops mid August. Grown on Torinel rootstock

Price: £26.95 More Information from Dobies

Apricot Petit Muscat

In our opinion, Petit Muscat is perhaps the finest tasting apricot of all! The self-fertile trees are smothered in walnut-sized fruit that is remarkable for its intense juicy sweetness. Ready to pick in late August. Grown on Torinel rootstock - the latest for apricots - which gives a very manageable tree that fruits heavily.

Price: £26.95 More Information from Dobies

Apricot Tomcot

A splendid introduction to our range which is much earlier to crop. Tomcot gives a very heavy crop of large crimson flushed fruits which are ripe for picking from around the middle of July. This great variety has cropped very well in our own gardens over the past few summers. Grown on Torinel rootstock

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