This compact nut tree is well worth growing for the blooms alone33 a showy display of pale pink spring blossom is followed by soft shelled sweet almonds that can be harvested from late august almond 39robijn39 is reassuringly hardy but will need a frost free winter and a warm dry summer in order to produce a crop in such conditions you can look forward to your first harvest just 3 years from planting this modern variety shows good resistance to peach leaf curl grafted onto a sem