Our recommendation for home gardens:
Compacta
- Fruits: juicy, medium-sized, orange
- Growth: compact, weak
- Special features: resistant to monilia and frost
Harlayne
- Fruits: orange, small to medium-sized
- Growth: upright
- Special features: high-yield, regular harvest, robust
Kuresia
- Fruits: aromatic, sweet and sour
- Growth: strong
- Special features: robust, frost hardy (suitable for cooler regions), sharka-resistant (as the only variety)
Kyoto
- Fruits: medium-sized, firm, orange and red
- Growth: strong (regular thinning necessary)
- Special features: regular harvest, very frost hardy
Other varieties in alphabetical order:
It is helpful to find out more about the variety before choosing. There are apricots from newer cultivars that are not self-fruiting. In this case, attention must be paid to suitable neighbors in the vicinity.
A.
- Ambrosia: very juicy, medium-sized
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G
- Golden Sun (pillar apricot): very sweet and aromatic, a lot of flowers in spring, only consumed fresh or immediate processing, suitable for pot planting
- Gold Rich: late harvest, easy to care for, resistant to all kinds of diseases, frost hardy
H
- Hargrand: slightly sour, high yield
L.
- Luizet: juicy, sweet, ideal for rough areas
M.
- Mino: sweet, juicy, not floury, susceptible to all types of mushrooms, frost hardy
- Mombacher Früh: juicy, medium-sized, high yields, regular harvest
N
- Nancy: large apricots, high and regular yield, frost hardy, frost-sensitive flowers, robust (rain)
O
- Orangered (giant apricot): fine surface, juicy, sweet, firm, harvest throughout July
P
- Prunus armeniaca (dwarf apricot): small stature (maximum 150 centimeters), late harvest (August to September), decorative habit
R.
- Rosina (dwarf apricot): ideal for planting in pots
S.
- Shipley's Blenheim: late variety, juicy, aromatic
T
- Temporao de Villa Franca: juicy, firm, sweet and sour, orange, absolutely protected location, frost-hardy flowers
U
- Uhlhorn's wonder apricot: very juicy and aromatic
- Hungarian best: sweet, slightly sour, ideal for boiling down, prone to rain (fruits burst)
W.
- True early apricot: large fruits, very aromatic, sensitive to frost
Z
- Goldfeuer dwarf column (Pötschke): sweet and juicy, late harvest (end of July to August), minimal space requirement, up to 250 centimeters high
Tips & Tricks
When choosing the right location, keep in mind that every apricot tree is very sensitive to extremely low temperatures. Late spring frosts are particularly insidious.
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