Bellegarde peach trees

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• Picking season: Late
• Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile Unusually for a peach, this variety is not full self-fertile.
• Flesh colour: Golden / Yellow
• Cling-stone: Freestone

A well-regarded late-season traditional yellow-flesh peach.

Bellegarde peach trees for sale

Bellegarde is a traditional late-season yellow-fleshed peach from France, with dark red skin. In English conditions it usually ripens towards the end of September.

Cropping is generally good.

This is a freestone peach - the stone falls cleanly from the flesh.

How to grow

The vast majority of peaches are self-fertile, but Bellegarde appears to need another (different) peach or nectarine variety nearby for best results.

Bellegarde has a reputation for good disease-resistance by peach standards but is still susceptible to peach-leaf curl, so be sure to protect the tree from infection in late winter / early spring - covering the tree with a fleece is a good method

Advice on fruit tree pollination.

History

Bellegarde is a traditional French peach, but has been successfully grown in England since the Victorian era. It is also known as Galande.

Bellegarde characteristics