fruit tree varieties – Gallifrey Forest Farm

I was talking to a friend at work a couple’ve weeks ago, about her garden (she’s recently bought a house, and is madly excited to be planting some dwarf fruit trees in the garden), and she asked me what trees I have in the ground. It made me think, maybe other people might be interested in our choices of trees and varieties too. So, here goes. 🙂

Not all of these are in the ground as yet; I’ve noted which ones are planted, and which are on order. The trees without a status note are on the wishlist.

Apples:

Andre Sauvage (in the ground)
Belle De Boskoop (in the ground)
Braeburn (bare root tree on order from Heritage Fruit Trees, not yet arrived)
Bramley / Bramley’s Seedling (bare root tree on order from Heritage Fruit Trees, not yet arrived)
Calville Blanc D’Hiver cider apple
Campbelltown Russet (in the ground)
Cox’s Orange Pippin
Cripps Pink / Pink Lady
Duke of Clarence
Egremont Russet (in the ground)
Golden Delicious
Golden Harvey
Granny Smith (bare root tree on order from Heritage Fruit Trees, not yet arrived)
Gravenstein
Huonville Crab
Jonathan (bare root tree on order from Heritage Fruit Trees, not yet arrived)
King David cider apple (in the ground)
Lady Williams (bare root tree on order from Heritage Fruit Trees, not yet arrived)
Pine Golden Pippin
Reinette Doree
Saint Edmund’s Pippin
Somerset Redstreak cider apple
Sturmer (in the ground)
Sugarloaf Pippin
White Transparent
plus a few crab apples, to ensure good pollination, and for making crab apple jelly

These are for the cider orchard. Most are table / dessert apples (i.e. for eating), but these can be juiced to make cider too. The cider apple varieties usually aren’t well suited to eating fresh, but the two we’ve chosen are reputed to be reasonable for fresh eating as well as cider-making.

Citrus:

Australian Blood Lime / Australian red Centre Lime
Cumquat – Nordmann Seedless Nagami
Finger Lime (2 in pots, a red and a green variety)
Iyokan, which don’t appear to be available in Australia – so I might have to try growing one from seed.
Grapefruit – Flame (I’ll be getting budwood from Auscitrus to graft some of these)
Grapefruit – Rio Red (I’ll be getting budwood from Auscitrus to graft some of these)
Kabosu, which don’t appear to be available in Australia – so I might have to try growing one from seed.
Lemon – Eureka Allen variegated (I’ll be getting budwood from Auscitrus to graft some of these)
Lemon – Meyer (2 in the ground)
Lemon – Pink
Lemonade (in the ground)
Lime – Kaffir
Lime – Tahitian / Persian (in the ground)
Lime – West Indian / Mexican (in the ground)
Mandarin – Daisy (I’ll be getting budwood from Auscitrus to graft some of these)
Mandarin – Ellendale tangor (I’ll be getting budwood from Auscitrus to graft some of these)
Mandarin – Murcott / Honey Murcott (I’ll be getting budwood from Auscitrus to graft some of these)
Mandarin – Nules clementine (I’ll be getting budwood from Auscitrus to graft some of these)
Orange – Arnold Blood (I’ll be getting budwood from Auscitrus to graft some of these)
Orange – blood, unknown variety (in the ground)
Orange – Cara Cara red or pink fleshed navel (I’ll be getting budwood from Auscitrus to graft some of these)
Orange – Lane Late (I’ll be getting budwood from Auscitrus to graft some of these)
Orange – Navellina navel (I’ll be getting budwood from Auscitrus to graft some of these)
Orange – Tarocco Ippolito blood orange (I’ll be getting budwood from Auscitrus to graft some of these)
Orange – Valencia Seedless (in the ground)
Rangpur Lime / Lemandarin
Tangelo – Minneola
Yuzu, which are actually available in Australia!

I may have a fruit tree collecting issue. Gotta catch ’em all, right?

Dates:

Jarvis male for pollination (in the ground)
Nagal (in the ground)
Khalas (in the ground)
Khadrawy (in the ground)
Barhee (in the ground)

These are an experiment. They should get enough heat to fruit, but we can’t be completely sureuntilt hey do fruit. or at least until they flower.

Figs:

I don’t actually even really like fresh figs – but I very much like dried figs, and fig paste, and fig jam. And caramelised fig sauce stirred through ice-cream. Thus: figs.

Olives:

Kalamata table olive (in the ground)
Koroneiki oil olive
Manzanillo oil olive (in the ground)
Moraiolo oil olive
New Norcia Mission dual purpose / oil olive (4 in the ground, but we’d like to plant more); note this is an Australian climate-adapted variation of the Frantoio

Yes, olives are fruit. Even if you have to pickle them before they’re edible, or just use them for oil production.

Pears:

Chojuro nashi (Asian) pear (bare root tree on order from Heritage Fruit Trees, not yet arrived)
Nijiseiki / 20th Century nashi (Asian) pear (bare root tree on order from Heritage Fruit Trees, not yet arrived)
Beurre Bosc (bare root tree on order from Heritage Fruit Trees, not yet arrived)
Beurre d’Anjou
Beurre Superfin
Corella (bare root tree on order from Heritage Fruit Trees, not yet arrived)
Doyenne du Comice
Durondeau (bare root tree on order from Heritage Fruit Trees, not yet arrived)
Red Williams (bare root tree on order from Heritage Fruit Trees, not yet arrived)
Williams / Bartlett (bare root tree on order from Heritage Fruit Trees, not yet arrived)

Pears are K’s favourite fruit. So we had to have a variety.

Stone fruit:

Apricot – Hunter / Late Moorpark
Apricot – Moorpark (bare root tree on order from Heritage Fruit Trees, not yet arrived)
Apricot – Storeys / Early Moorpark (in the ground)
Apricot – Trevatt (bare root tree on order from Heritage Fruit Trees, not yet arrived)
Cherry – Kentish sour cherry
Cherry – Morello sour cherry
Cherry – Bing sweet cherry
Cherry – Early Burlat sweet cherry
Cherry – Kordia sweet cherry
Cherry – Lapin sweet cherry
Cherry –Napoleon sweet (yellow) cherry
Cherry – Stella sweet cherry
Peach – Blackboy (in the ground, ordered from Guildford Garden Centre)
Peach – China Flat
Peach – Golden Queen (bare root tree on order from Heritage Fruit Trees, not yet arrived)
Plum – D’Agen prune (in the ground)
Plum – Damson
Plum – Elephant Heart
Plum – Greengage
Plum – Mariposa
Plum – Ruby Blood (in the ground)
Plum – Santa Rosa
Plum – Satsuma
Plum – Splendour prune
Plum – Wickson
Nectarine – Fairlane (bare root tree on order from Heritage Fruit Trees, not yet arrived)
Nectarine – Fantasia (in the ground)
Nectarine – Flavortop (bare root tree on order from Heritage Fruit Trees, not yet arrived)
Sloe (the plan is to plant several of these, to make sloe gin and similar liqueurs)
Ume / Japanese Apricot / Flowering Apricot (2 in the ground, from Guildford Garden Centre)

In case it wasn’t abundantly clear, I adore stone fruit. The smell of peaches and nectarines in summer is one of my happy things, and the sweet-sharp taste of an apricot or plum fresh off the tree is.. well, my mouth waters thinking about it. I also love jams made with stone fruit; apricot jam is endlessly useful, and plum jam is actually my favourite of all the jams I’ve ever tried (actually my favourite jam in the world is the plum jam my mum makes, with ruby blood plums from her tree and a touch of fresh orange juice for the pectin content).

Miscellaneous:

Banana – Dwarf Red Dacca
Banana – Dwarf Ladyfinger, Dwarf Cavenidsh, or Dwarf Ducasse
Guava – Indian Guava (1 purchased tree and several seedlings in the ground)
Guava – Strawberry Guava (in the ground)
Mango – Kensington Pride (seedling tree in the ground; we want to plant more)
Mulberry – Hick’s Fancy black mulberry (in the ground)
Mulberry – Black (a bunch of cuttings from a friend’s tree are in the groud, we’ll see how we go)
Persimmon – Fuyu (in the ground)
Quince – Pineapple (in the ground)
Quince – Powell’s Prize (2 in the ground)
Quince – Van de Man (in the ground)

And then of course there are the nut trees. But I’ll leave those for another post.