Our Variety Assessment

Its strengths, growing requirements and the conditions in which it performs best.

Pêche de Nancy suits cooler and continental regions when planted in well-drained soil and full sun. It is an excellent home-orchard variety for anyone seeking a self-fertile tree with large, high-quality apricots. The fruit is melting, very juicy, sweet and fragrant. Its late harvest requires a sufficiently warm late summer for the fruit to reach full maturity.

Pêche de Nancy

Price range: 29,75 € through 64,50 €

A traditional self-fertile apricot variety producing large juicy fruit with fine flesh and excellent flavour.

Choose your tree form

1 year old grafted tree – approx. 1–2 m

Half-standard – 1 to 1.5 m stem

Standard tree – 1.8 m stem and over

Prunus rootstock options

Montclar - mature height : 4 à 6m, suitable for very dry soil.

Myrobolan - mature height : 4 à 6m.

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SKU: 21356 Category: Apricot trees

Description

Pêche de Nancy Apricot Tree is a classic old apricot variety appreciated for its large attractive fruit and excellent eating quality. The flesh is fine, juicy and aromatic, making it a very pleasant apricot for fresh consumption.

The fruit generally ripens during the second half of August, providing a late summer harvest of good-quality apricots. Pêche de Nancy is a well-known traditional variety that has remained popular thanks to its reliable fruit quality and generous size.

The tree flowers during the normal apricot flowering season and is self-fertile, meaning it can produce fruit without requiring another apricot variety nearby. Its disease sensitivity is generally considered average for apricot trees.

Our Pêche de Nancy apricot trees are grafted onto different rootstocks and offered in several forms, allowing you to choose the vigour and tree shape best suited to your garden or orchard.

Variety characteristics

Variety origin

Very old French variety associated with Nancy and Lorraine, said to have been introduced into France by Stanislas Leszczynski in 1709 and cited as early as 1755, with an account of its discovery in Pézenas in 1745.

Origin

Period of origin

USDA zone

Flowering

Harvest period

Eating / keeping period

1 week