PRUNUS PERSICA (PEACH TREE) FAYETTE

Common name: Fayette Peach

Description: This vigorous and heavy-cropping peach variety produces large fruits that can be compared to modern varieties in quality and size. The fruits display smooth, deep red skin with attractive yellow-orange shades, creating a beautiful colour contrast on the tree. The flesh is yellow, sweet, and flavourful, making it excellent for fresh eating straight from the tree or for preserving. The tree produces attractive pink flowers in spring before the leaves emerge, followed by its prolific fruit crop. With optimum productivity and very colourful fruit, this variety offers reliable harvests year after year.

Other benefits: self-fertile variety requiring no pollination partner, heavy cropping with excellent productivity, vigorous growth habit, attractive spring flowering display

Wildlife attraction: bees, butterflies, and other pollinators visit the attractive pink spring blossoms

Height & spread (approx.) at 10 years: 3-4m x 3-4m

Position: full sun for best fruit production and colour development; benefits from planting in free space to allow cold spring breezes that delay flowering and prevent frost damage

Soil pH: prefers slightly alkaline soil conditions; requires well-drained soil

Moisture: prefers moist but well-drained soil; regular watering during growing season, particularly when fruits are developing

Winter hardiness: cold hardy to approximately -15°C; suitable for most UK growing regions

Fruit details: Large freestone fruits with smooth, deep red skin showing yellow-orange shades; sweet yellow flesh ideal for fresh eating or preserving; ripens late July to end of August through mid-September depending on growing conditions; excellent productivity with very colourful, thick fruit