Fruit Trees
This year we are encouraging Grow-Your-Own with a large selection of fruit trees from Apples to Cherries to tempt you into your garden. We stock many varieties of Apple, Plum, Pear and Cherry Trees.
Apple Trees
All our Apple Trees are grown on rootstock M26 therefore they are all Dwarf Bush Apple Trees which grow to a height of 6-7ft. These trees are ideal for smaller gardens where space is limtied. Below is a list of all Apple Trees available:
Bramley’s Seedling
Culinary Use, Heavy crop of extra-large juicy fruit. Needs 2 pollination partners, such as James Grieve or Fiesta.
Charles Ross – Desset/Culinary. Large, round juicy fruit. Does well in limey soils
Cox’s Orange Pippin
Dessert, Juicy/Crisp fruit.
Crispin – Dessert/Culinary. Heavy cropper, ideal for eating straight from the tree or storing.
Discovery - Dessert. Disease resistant and frost tolerant. Ideal for small gardens.
Egremont Russet – Dessert. Small fruit with crispy flesh and a nutty/sweet flavour. Frost tolerant.
Ellisons Orange – Dessert. Juicy fruit. Scab and Frost resistant. Pollinate with Howgate Wonder or Gala.
Fiesta - Dessert. Heavy crop of medium-sized nutty fruit
Gala
Dessert. Praised for its shiny, red skin and crisp, sweet flavour. Heavy cropper. Pollinate with Ellisons Orange or Howgate Wonder
Greensleeves - Dessert. Reliable, heavy crops. Hardy.
Howgate Wonder – Culinary. Heavy crop of very large fruit which are ideal for exhibiting. Ideal in a frosty area.
James Grieve
Dessert. Reliable and hardy early variety. Heavy cropper of juicy, tangy fruit. Partially self-fertile, however pollinate with another apple tree to maintain maximum crops.
Jonagold - Dessert. Heavy crop of very large crisp and juicy fruit. Needs 2 pollinating partners such as Gala and Ellisons Orange.
Jupiter – Dessert. Heavy crop. Needs 2 pollinating partners such as Greensleeves and Katy.
Katy – Dessert. Heavy crop of red juicy fruit. Ideal for cold gardens.
Spartan - Dessert. Smooth-skinned crisp and juicy red fruit.
Suntan – Dessert. Produces large fruit. Frost tolerant. Needs 2 pollinators such as Howgate Wonder and Gala.
Pears are closely related to Apples and are therefore grown in the same way and share the same pests/diseases. We stock the following varieties of Pear Trees:
Concorde:
Dessert. Reliabe heavy crop of medium-sized juicy green fruit. Pollinate with Comice.
Comice: Dessert. Requires a warm, sheltered spot for maximum yield. The best Pear for flavour. Pollinate with Concorde.
Conference: Dessert. Reliable crop of medium-sized juicy fruit. Plant in a sheltered spot as it is susceptible to wind damage. Partly self-fertile, however pollinate with Williams to encourage maximum yield.
Williams: Dessert. Hardy, regular cropper of pale yellow fruit.
All our Plum Trees are grown on rootstock St Julien A and are therefore classed as semi-dwarf. They are less vigorous than other rootstocks and ideal where space is limited. Cropping should start when the tree is 5 years old. All our Plum Trees are self-pollinating. Below is a list of the varieties that we stock:
Victoria:
Dessert/Culinary. The most popular Plum with all growers. Reliable cropper of large pale red fruit.
Marjorie’s Seedling: Dessert/Culinary. Picking starts at the end of September therefore is late enough to miss an early frost. Yields large, sweet purple fruit with yellow flesh.
Merryweather: Damson. Culinary. Used for cooking, jam and wine-making. Yields blue-black fruit with yellow flesh and a juicy, acidic flavour.
Cambridge Gage: Gage. Dessert/Culinary. Reliable, heavy crop of small, green, juicy fruit.
Cherry Trees
All our Cherry Trees are grown on rootstock Colt therefore are dwarf, bush trees. We stock the following varieties of Cherry Trees:
Stella: Sweet. Dessert. Good cropper of large, juicy, red fruit. Self-fertile however, Stella is a good pollinator for other cherries.
Morello: Sour. Culinary. Used for cooking, jam and wine-making. Good yield of large, dark red fruit. Self-fertile.
Sunburst: Sweet. Dessert. Similar to Stella but the fruit is much darker. The first self-fertile and black sweet cherry.
All our Fruit Trees are available now for £11.99 each or 3 for £30.00
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- 28 February 2010
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