Fruit Trees & Citrus

Apricot

Wants a dry spring — wet flowering weather ruins the crop.

Prunus armeniaca · Fruit Trees & Citrus · Perennial

When to plant Apricot in Australia

Sourced timing by broad climate zone. Zones with no sourced timing for an action are left out rather than estimated.

Plant out seedlings: Cool, Temperate — Jun, Jul, Aug

Australian planting guide by climate zone

Sourced guidance by broad climate zone, shown as fixed months, timing relative to sowing or planting, or written growing advice. Your GrowCal calendar applies your regional growing profile, so its dates may sit earlier or later than the months below.

Apricot planting timing by Australian climate zone
Action	Cool	Temperate	Subtropical	Tropical	Arid
Plant out	Jun, Jul, Aug Details Winter is the best time to plant bare-rooted fruit trees; the bare-root season lasts from June to August.	Jun, Jul, Aug Details Winter is the best time to plant bare-rooted fruit trees; the bare-root season lasts from June to August.	Climate guidance Details Apricots prefer cool winters. In the subtropics they only crop from a low-chill variety on a well-drained, open site, and cropping is less reliable than in temperate gardens.	Climate guidance Details No Australian source recommends apricots for the tropical lowlands; the chill they need is not available there. Treat this as marginal and unproven rather than a normal backyard fruit tree.	Climate guidance Details Apricots are named directly among the stone fruit grown in arid Central Australia. They need irrigation and protection from frost at flowering.
Feed	No sourced timing currently shown	No sourced timing currently shown	No sourced timing currently shown	No sourced timing currently shown	No sourced timing currently shown
Prune	No sourced timing currently shown	No sourced timing currently shown	No sourced timing currently shown	No sourced timing currently shown	No sourced timing currently shown
Pest check	No sourced timing currently shown	No sourced timing currently shown	No sourced timing currently shown	No sourced timing currently shown	No sourced timing currently shown
Harvest	Fruits in summer and autumn Details The ABC Gardening Australia Fruit Guide states that apricot fruits in summer and autumn. The guide gives a season, not months, and picking time varies with variety and season, so GrowCal does not publish harvest months from it.	No sourced timing currently shown	No sourced timing currently shown	No sourced timing currently shown	No sourced timing currently shown

Only sourced growing and timing guidance is shown.

Zone notes

Subtropical: Apricots prefer cool winters. In the subtropics they only crop from a low-chill variety on a well-drained, open site, and cropping is less reliable than in temperate gardens.
Tropical: No Australian source recommends apricots for the tropical lowlands; the chill they need is not available there. Treat this as marginal and unproven rather than a normal backyard fruit tree.
Arid: Apricots are named directly among the stone fruit grown in arid Central Australia. They need irrigation and protection from frost at flowering.

About this data

This schedule is part of GrowCal's preview horticultural dataset — useful as general guidance, and still being validated. Conditions vary with your soil, aspect, frost and variety. Read more on the data & methodology page, or send us a correction.

Other plants in the GrowCal dataset, mostly from the same category.

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