fan-trained peach tree

[bigpepperplant]

I've been scouring my usual nursery websites for a fan-trained peach tree to no avail. Would anyone have any suggestions as to where I could get one - ideally a two or three year old container tree.

[Tigger]

You could try F.P.Matthews. They will have fulfilled autumn orders first, but they may have something suitable left. You won't get better quality or service.

[Jenny Green]

I think Chris Bowers do them.

[Alison]

It actually grows quite quickly, if it establishes properly in the first place, and it is reasonably easy to train it as a fan. You could get an ordinary first-year tree (which would establish better, being younger) and train it yourself to the wall? We did this, and it worked very well, with big crops after a couple of years.
Alison.

[bigpepperplant]

I agree they train quickly - I bought a maiden last year and it's already looking pretty fan-like – this one is for someone impatient who would want it to look established. Thanks for the suggestions, really helpful.

[Allan]

Don't forget to keep the rain off in the winter as the effective means of stopping peach leaf curl.

[bigpepperplant]

I do, it's so ugly though having a huge plastic sheet outside the back door. Might just spray with Bordeaux this year. Do you think this would work?