The highlights
- Bold apricot flavour and juicy flesh
- Produces large fruits (and is reliable)
- Bake a chocolate and apricot cheesecake
- Harvest in August
Description
- Part of the “Cot” series, Tomcot fruits well and in the right conditions will produce large crops of several hundred apricots when mature
- Large, red-blushed yellow fruit with a sweet flavour
- Slender tree, good for fan training
- Ready to harvest in August
- Apricots perform best in the warmer part of the UK. They prefer warmer weather, and their early spring flowers are susceptible to frost. You can protect them somewhat by growing in a sheltered spot, perhaps up against a south facing wall. Even then, in cold springs few flowers may set and so there won’t be a big crop. If your fruit seems not to be ripening, pick and ripen indoors on a sunny windowsillMORE
- Self fertile Apricots don’t require pollination by another tree to produce fruit, unlike many other fruit speciesMORE
- Myrobalan Rootstock: Max size H4.5m x W4m Rootstocks restrict the size of a tree to make it more suited for an average gardenMORE
- Patio trained: Very compact max size H1.5m x W1m, perfect for pots Patio trees are pruned and trained to be suitable for growing in pots, on patios. This means they will be fine with their growth being restricted and produce a productive little treeMORE
- Our potted trees are supplied in EcoPots™. Eco pots use 70% less plastic and are fully recyclable, unlike normal single use pots. They flex and so produce less root spiralling and travel better in the post.MORE
- Our trees are usually between 18 and 36 months old at the time of dispatch.
- Our trees are professionally pruned before dispatching. This formative pruning can involve cutting the main leader, if the expert tree growers decide this will produce a better shaped tree. This can stop the tree becoming “leggy”, and promote stronger, bushier growth.MORE
