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Sunbob Nectarine
Prunus persica var. nucipersica
Everything is included in this price: the plant, free delivery and professional installation
The price you see is the whole job: the plant supplied, delivered free and professionally installed. Done for you.
Supplied in 400mmtypically 1.5 to 2.5m tall on delivery
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Sizes shown are the sizes we currently source in this species. If you need larger specimens, project quantities or a size not listed, our sourcing team can look for it through our national supplier network. We confirm your exact stock with you on the booking call before anything ships.
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After checkout, our team contacts you to confirm site access and book a day that suits. Most orders are delivered and planted within 2 to 4 weeks of your booking call. Nothing else for you to organise.
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Product Details
Overview & Specifications
Price includes everything: the plant, free delivery and professional installation by our planting team. One price, whole job done.
Sunbob Nectarine - Prunus persica var. nucipersica
Sunbob is a low chill nectarine, which matters enormously in Australia because most stone fruit refuses to crop where winters are mild. This selection of Prunus persica var. nucipersica needs only a short cold period to break dormancy, so it sets fruit in coastal and warm temperate districts that cannot satisfy older varieties, ripening smooth-skinned yellow fruit in early summer. Grown on a single leader and kept open, it stays a genuinely small tree that fits a suburban backyard.
Why Sunbob Nectarine
Low Chill Requirement: Crops in mild winter districts where high chill nectarines flower poorly or not at all.
Self Fertile: A single tree will set a full crop with no second variety required for pollination.
Early Harvest: Fruit ripens ahead of the main commercial stone fruit season, extending the home picking window.
Compact With Pruning: Responds well to summer pruning, so it can be held at picking height indefinitely.
Spring Blossom: Pink flowers cover the bare wood in late winter to early spring, making it ornamental before it is productive.
Ideal Applications
Backyard Orchard: Fits a standard suburban orchard row alongside other low chill stone fruit.
Espalier: Trains readily to a fan or palmette against a north or west facing wall, which also advances ripening.
Productive Courtyard Tree: Gives blossom, summer shade and a crop from a footprint of three metres or less.
Edible Hedge Row: Planted tight in a row and summer pruned, it forms a productive fruiting screen.
Specimen & Installation
Spacing (screening/hedge): 2 to 2.5m in an orchard row
Spacing (feature/avenue): 3 to 4m
Best Planting Season: Winter to early spring, while dormant
Soil & Drainage: Free draining loam at pH 6 to 7. Nectarines will not tolerate wet feet, so mound or raise the planting position on clay soils.
Establishment Care: Keep water up while fruit is sizing, because moisture stress in late spring drops fruit and shrinks what is left. Mulch generously but keep it 100mm clear of the trunk, and do the main pruning immediately after harvest in summer rather than in winter.
Plant Details
Height: 3 to 4m unpruned, easily held at 2 to 2.5m
Width: 2.5 to 3.5m
Growth Rate: Fast
Foliage: Deciduous
Light: Full sun, a minimum of six hours direct
Native to: Garden variety. The species originates in China
Flower Colour: Pink
Delivery & Installation
Delivery and installation are included in your price
No freight calculators and no separate installation quote for a standard installation. Your price covers specialist plant transport, positioning and professional planting by our installation team. The whole job, handled.
- Wrapped, secured and transported by specialist plant freight.
- Professionally planted, staked and finished by our install team.
- Our team confirms site access and schedules a time that suits you.
Installation
Professional installation included, never extra
Every plant we sell is planted by our professional installation team, and it's already in the price. We coordinate the delivery, the machinery and the planting for standard site access, so your only job is choosing the tree. Unusual access or engineering requirements? We'll confirm everything with you after checkout before any work begins.
Questions? Send An EnquiryWhy Nursery Direct
Every price includes supply, delivery and installation
Buying a mature tree often means three separate jobs: the plant, the freight and finding someone to plant it. We price the whole job as one: the tree, the delivery and the professional install.
- One price: supplied, delivered and installed
- Mature trees and specimen palms at every scale
- National sourcing for hard-to-find stock
- Residential, estate and commercial projects
How It Works
Place your order. We do the rest.
We Supply
Premium advanced stock, selected from a national network of wholesale growers.
We Deliver
Specialist plant freight brings your order to your door. Free, anywhere in Australia.
We Install
Our professional team plants, stakes, mulches and finishes the job on site.







