Red Gold NECTERINE
Our longtime favorite for productivity, sweetness and cobblers! Red Gold has pretty solid red skin over the large fruit. A yellow freestone with melting juicy flesh. Trees are very productive, winter hardy, and early bearing. Self-fruitful. Ripens early August. High chill.
Zones 5-8
Height: 20 feet
Spread: 25 feet
Ornamental Attributes:
Red Gold Nectarine is bathed in stunning clusters of fragrant pink flowers along the branches in early spring, which emerge from distinctive rose flower buds before the leaves. It has dark green foliage throughout the season. The narrow leaves turn yellow in fall. The fruits are showy red drupes carried in abundance in mid summer, which are excellent for fresh eating but which can be messy if allowed to drop on the lawn or walkways. While it is considered to be somewhat self-pollinating, it tends to set heavier quantities of fruit with a different variety of the same species growing nearby. The smooth dark red bark is not particularly outstanding.
18 to 24 in. Whips
2-3 ft. Whips, 5/16 in., Cal.
