When to plant apricot in Rookwood
- Plant seedlings: late May to early JulRookwood area, tropical savanna
Worked out from 30 years of climate records for Rookwood. Microclimates vary: frost hollows and hills run later.
A fast-growing stone fruit that crops heavily in Adelaide's warm, dry summers, with fruit from late spring into early summer. Most common varieties are self-fertile, so one tree is enough. The one thing to get right: prune only in late summer or autumn in dry weather, as winter pruning invites gummosis and silver leaf.