Nut Trees | Alden Lane

	ALMOND
	All In One No.1 almond for home orchards. Heavy crops of soft-shell nuts with sweet, flavorful kernels. Hot summer required to ripen. 15 ft. tree, very winter & frost hardy. Self-fruitful.
	Garden Prince Compact, lushly foliated 10-12ft. tree. Soft shell, kernels especially sweet and tasty. Bears young and heavy. Large, light pink blossoms. Self-fruitful.
	PISTACHIO NUT
	Kerman Kerman pistachio trees, which bear the rich, crunchy nuts that make it this country's most popular commercial pistachio, share orchard space with wild, rare and uncultivated relatives. Long hot summers are required to ripen. Do not disturb root ball when handling. Very slow-growing to 20-30ft. Drought-resistant. Must have a Peters Pistachio tree for a pollenizer.
	Peters The Peters Pistachio is needed as a pollenizer for Kerman. This is a non-bearing tree and does not bear fruit. One Peters pollenizes up to eleven females such as Kerman. Drought-resistant once established.
	WALNUT
	Chandler This large, smooth, oval nut is harvested mid-season. These nuts are found on a moderately vigorous, semi-upright, medium-sized tree. Heavy bearing (bears on lateral buds, not just terminals like Hartley). High quality light-colored nuts. Smaller tree than Hartley, good choice for backyard walnut. Fall harvest. Self-fruitful.
	Franquette The Franquette walnut (Scharsch strain) is a late-leafing variety that offers low susceptibility to spring frost damage, walnut blight and codling moth. The Franquette walnut features fair production of well sealed, thin-shelled, quality nuts and a light-colored kernel. The Franquette tree is a very large, upright tree comes into production late and requires little pruning.
	Hartley The Hartley Walnut Tree is an English-style walnut with light cream colored kernels of very high quality. The nuts of the Hartley Walnut Tree are large, slightly pointed and delicious. The Hartley Walnut Trees bear at a very young age. They bloom late which avoids late Spring frosts and the nuts ripen in late September. Hartley Walnut Trees are a good choice due to its relatively low chill requirement of 500-700 hours.A medium to large tree, it leafs out mid to late season and requires a fertile soil for optimal growth. Requires a late blooming pollenizer, such as 'Amigo' or 'Franquette'.
	Pedro Very small tree, less than 2/3 the size of other varieties. Well-sealed nut and has perhaps the finest-flavored kernel-winner of consumer taste tests. Widely adapted, excellent choice for home planting. Self-fruitful.
	Placentia Medium sized nut that is fairly well-sealed with a smooth, thin shell. Tree is heavy bearing with good quality nuts. Light-colored, plump kernel has mild flavor. This grafted variety has a lower chill than most walnut varieties. Adapted to mild-winter coastal climates. Ripens late Sept./early Oct. Estimated chilling requirement is less than 300 hrs. Self-fruitful.

Nut Trees

The almond tree is in a family with peaches, apricots and plums. You might notice that an almond (the pit) looks very much like the pit of a peach. The almond tree grows to a 20' shapely tree that will offer lovely light pink flowers in the late winter or early spring and healthy, tasty almonds in the summer.

Open 8:30 am - 6:00 pm Daily

Alden Lane Nursery - 981 Alden Lane - Livermore, CA 94550 - (925) 447-0280 ph - (925) 443-8512 fax
8:30 am - 6:00 pm Daily
www.aldenlane.com - Contact Alden Lane

981 Alden Lane, Livermore, CA 94550 | (925) 447-0280 | www.aldenlane.com