Santa Barbara Peach

Even if you live in a mild climate, you can grow plump, juicy freestone peaches in your own backyard with our Santa Barbara Peach (Prunus persica 'Santa Barbara') Tree. This heat tolerant peach is one of the most popular varieties for zones 7 through 10, and we can easily understand why.

This tree produces fleshy fruit that you'll want to grab right off the tree. A low winter chill time of just 300 hours opens up the possibility of growing peaches to even more home gardeners.

The Santa Barbara peach is everything you think of when peaches come to mind. Superb taste, intense flavor and melt-in-your-mouth goodness, with yellow flesh that has veins of red near the pit. When the skin blushes a pinkish peach color, the Santa Barbara is letting you know it's ready to be enjoyed, straight from the tree or baked into your favorite desserts.

Large peaches hang in masses from this tree's limbs come mid-season, just in time for late summer barbecues and picnics. When it's time to harvest your bounty, you'll appreciate its weeping posture when you want to reach up and grab a few peaches for an afternoon snack.

This self-pollinating peach rewards growers with a showy display of flowers come springtime. Truth be told, it's a tree worth owning just for the colorful element it brings to your landscape. Beautiful, vibrant pink blossoms fill its limbs, ushering in the season and creating a spectacle in your yard or orchard.

Growing this peach variety is simple. A semi-annual pruning is all the maintenance it requires to stay in optimal condition. Just plant it in good soil in full sun, keep it watered regular, and let Mother Nature do the rest.

Santa Barbara peaches are super fleshy and big, making them just the thing for folding into a cobbler, pie, tart or crisp or for canning and preserving or freezing. Slice them for a fresh treat on a hot summer's day, or make them into preserves and jam for enjoying their deliciousness year round.

Order your Santa Barbara peach in time for planting this season!