Bare root fruit trees
Bare root fruit tree season has finished for 2024, but we’ll be back soon to take preorders for winter 2025. Meanwhile, we’ve still got a great selection of fruit trees available in pots, priced from $69.95 each.
What varieties are available bare root?
Download our Pollination Guide & Pricing List below to see what varieties were available in winter 2024.
How do I prune, plant and care for bare root trees?
If you need any advice with pruning, planting or caring for your bare root fruit trees, please call us on (03) 6239 6850.
What do I need to know about pollination?
Although some types of fruit trees can produce fruit with their own pollen (eg. most apricots, nectarines and peaches), many types (especially apples and pears) need to be cross-pollinated with another variety or they won’t set fruit.
An example of this is the Granny Smith apple – by itself it won’t produce fruit so we recommend planting it alongside compatible apple varieties that flower at a similar time such as Golden Delicious, Gala, Jonathon and Cox’s Orange Pippin.
Cross-pollination can be complex, but as a general rule for best results, simply plant two or more different (and compatible) varieties of the same type of tree. If you’re limited for space, we’ve also got double grafted varieties, or you can plant two or three varieties in the same hole and prune appropriately (known as duo or trio planting).
You’ll also find information about compatible varieties for pollination in our order form.
My bare root trees aren’t developing leaves. What should I do?
Provided you’ve adequately cared for your bare root trees, in most cases they’ll break dormancy in spring, but it’s not uncommon that they’ll show few signs of life until as late as December and sometimes into January. If you think a tree you’ve purchased from us has died, please don’t remove it from the ground and instead call us on (03) 6239 6850.
What’s your refund, return and exchange policy for bare root trees?
Greenhill Nursery and its suppliers take great care to ensure we supply you with healthy and hardy bare root trees. In fact, each season we use the same trees in our nursery for our potting stock and our failure rates are less than 1%! However, once bare root trees leave the nursery there are many factors outside of our control that determine their chances of survival such as: the drying out of roots; delays in planting; incorrect pruning; under and over watering; amount and type of fertilisers used; soil type and condition; pests including insects and animals; air, soil and waterborne diseases; and other environmental and climatic conditions. For this reason we don’t offer refunds, returns or exchanges, except where we’ve determined stock to be defective, or in accordance with Australian consumer law. If you experience any issues with your bare root trees, please phone us on (03) 6239 6850.