The Hall's Hardy Almond Tree features a medium sized hard-shelled almond, with a delicious sweet kernel. The tree that grows to approximately 20 feet and has beautiful, profuse pink blooms and are sometimes sold just for its beauty. Hall's Hardy Almond is a heavy bearer, and very cold hardy. It's also semi-self-fertile, but works better with a pollinizer

It blooms late for an almond, escaping potentially damaging late spring frosts. A heavy bearer, produces large nuts about 2-3 years after planting. Good variety for toasted almonds. Also a treasured ornamental tree with dense green foliage and a profusion of pink flowers in the spring. Requires 600-800 hours of chilling.

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Texas Mission Almond

This tree carries a small round nut with a hard shell.  It is late blooming and safe for late frost areas.  It is a large, upright, and vigorous growing tree that will grow to 15 to 18 feet high.  The tree is partially self-fruitful but will produce better if planted with Halls Hardy.

Almonds were domesticated at least by 3000 BC, and perhaps much earlier since wild almonds have been unearthed in Greek archeological sites dating to 8000 BC. Egyptians, Greeks, and Romans spread the almond along the shores of the Mediterranean in northern Africa and southern Europe. Spanish Padres who settled the Mission at Santa Barbara brought it to California in the 1700s.

Mission (Texas) - The actual Mission variety originated in Texas in 1891 and was initially called the Texas variety. A round, hard-shelled nut with a slightly bitter flavor that is preferred by some. The kernel averages 40 - 45% of the total weight of the nut and is resistant to navel orange worm and bird damage. A good tree for late frost areas because it blooms late. It also ripens late, in late September to October.

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