Fruit Trees & Bushes

Malus d. 'Laxton's Superb'

Beth pear trees grow vigorously, reaching maturity before most of their cousins. They have a tight growth habit which suits smaller gardens. Beth pears are usually quiye small but are very abundant and are some of the earliest to ripen each season

Characteristics:

• Harvest: August (Store for 4-8 weeks)
• Soil: Moist, Well-drained soil
• Hardiness: Fully Hardy
• Position: Full Sun
• Pollination group: Group 3
• Height & Spread: H 4-8m x S 4-8m

'Prune Damson' is a vigorous, but neat growing, cultivar that has larger fruits than 'Farleigh Damson'. A regular and good cropper with a picking time of late August. A late flowering cultivar, so should escape spring frosts. Self-fertile

Characteristics:

• Max Height: 5 metres
• Self fertile, meaning these plants will pollinate themselves
• Small, firm plum like fruits, oval or oblong in shape
• Skin Colour: Dark Blues
• Flavour: Dry, Sour taste
• Growth Rate: Fast growing & with big yields
• Flowering: Spring flowering
• Harvest: September
• Size when supplied: 5ft approx.

Malus d. 'Elstar'

Common Name: Plum 'Victoria'

'Victoria' is a reliably fruiting, self-fertile dessert and culinary plum to 2.5-4m in height depending upon the rootstock. Flowers white, dark red fruit in August-September

Pot Size: 7.5ltr
Fully Grown Size: 2.5m - 4m
Time to ultimate height: 5-10 Years

'Brown Turkey' is a large deciduous shrub with bold, deeply lobed leaves and insignificant flowers followed by edible fruit to 10cm in length, at first green, but purplish when ripe. Usually one crop of fruit per year, but sometimes two in a hot summer or under protection

This variety of gooseberry is a very vigorous, spreading bush with large, pale green berries which are good for both culinary and dessert use. One of the most popular Gooseberries grown due to heavy yields and resistance to gooseberry milldew.

Gooseberries are easy to grow shrubs for any size gardens and are usually the first bush fruit to be picked. Can be grown as bushes, fans, espaliers, cordons or even standards.

Characteristics:

• Pick: Late July
• Soil: Any well-drained soil
• Hardiness: Fully Hardy
• Position: Full Sun, but needs some shade in very hot weather.
• Size: 3 Litre

'Whitecurrant White Versailles' is a vigorous, upright, deciduous, fruiting shrub with arching stems and serrated, 3-lobed green leaves from spring to autumn. Pale green flowers in spring are followed by heavy crops of pale yellow-white, sweet fruit that are ripe in mid to late summer.

Characteristics:

• Pick: Mid to Late Summer
• Soil: Any well-drained soil
• Hardiness: Fully Hardy
• Position: Full Sun or Partial Shade
• Size: 3 Litre

The thornless boysenberry is a vigorous hybrid berry with thornless canes spreading up to 2m wide. Small white flowers are borne in spring and the purple-black fruits, tasting like sweet blackberries, ripen in late summer

Characteristics:

• Pick: Late Summer
• Soil: Moist but well-drained soil
• Hardiness: Hardy
• Position: Full Sun
• Size: 2 Litre, 3 Canes

Tayberry is a cultivated shrub in the genus Rubus of the family Rosaceae and is a cross between a blackberry and a red raspberry. The fruit is much larger and more aromatic than that of the loganberry (cross between a blackberry and a red raspberry).

Characteristics:

• Pick: July - August
• Soil: Well-drained soil
• Hardiness: Hardy
• Position: Partial Shade
• Size: 2 Litre, 3 Canes

Very popular, large, red and succulent soft fruit with a sharp taste. This is a thornless variety which needs similar conditions to blackberries but requires more heat and sunlight. Loganberries are perfect for jams, jellies and pies but not so great for eating.

Characteristics:

• Type: Soft Fruit
• Height & Spread: H 2m x S 1.5m
• Hardiness: Fully Hardy
• Position: Full Sun
• Pot Size: 2 Litre

'Black Satin' is a deciduous shrub with upright, thornless canes bearing pinnate, lobed, dark green leaves and white flowers in summer followed by dark black fruit ready for harvest in midsummer.

Characteristics:

• Type: Deciduous Soft Fruit
• Colour: Black
• Height & Spread: H 3m x S 3m
• Hardiness: Hardy
• Harvest: Mid-Summer
• Position: Full Sun
• Pot Size: 2 Litre

Rubus fruticosus 'Thornfree' is a compact, upright to arching, deciduous shrub with thornless canes bearing lobed, pinnate, dark green leaves and pink-flushed, white flowers in summer followed by large, glossy, conical, edible black fruit ready for harvest from late summer into autumn.

Characteristics:

• Harvest: Late Summer
• Soil: Moist but Well-Drained
• Hardiness: Half-Hardy
• Position: Full Sun
• Size: 2 Litre

Bramley's Seedling is the most famous and definitive cooking apple. A variety used mainly for cooking purposes (although many customers like to eat them fresh as well).

Apple Bramley’s Seedling produces huge crops of very large green apples, lightly striped red; the flesh is cream-coloured, juicy and of excellent flavour, with high acidity. Very big, vigorous tree. Partial tip-bearer, so not suitable for trained forms.

Characteristics Soil: Any resonable well drained soil.Position: Full Sun
Picking Time: Mid-October
Pollination: Triploid, Group 3 (pollinates with Groups 2, 3 and 4)
Hardiness: Fully Hardy
Uses: Cooking Apple

Pot size suplied: 7.5ltr
Height when supplied: 150cm approx.
Irish grown fruit trees

Actinidia deliciosa 'Jenny' is a tender, vigorous, deciduous climber with hairy, red-brown shoots, heart-shaped, red-tipped, mid-green leaves and clusters of creamy-white flowers in summer followed by oblong, bristly-skinned, green-brown fruit with edible, green flesh.

Characteristics:

• Height & Spread: H - 6m x S - 4m
• Soil: Fertile, well-drained soil
• Hardiness: Frost Hardy (May need Winter Protection)
• Position: Full Sun
• Size: 2 Litre

Citrus sinensis 'Orangin' is known for its sweet fruits bearing oblong to elliptic, glossy leathery dark green foilage with clusters of white flowers that bloom in spring. Plant orange trees in a full sun position or also in partial shade.

Leave oranges on the tree until you are ready to use them, as they do not continue ripening after picking.

Characteristics:

• Height & Spread: H - 6m x S - 1.2m
• Soil: Fertile, well-drained soil
• Hardiness: Semi-Frost Hardy
• Position: Full Sun or Partial Shade
• Size: 2 Litre

'Kentish Cob' is a large, upright, deciduous shrub with large broadly heart-shaped, deeply veined, dark green leaves turning yellow in autumn. Pale yellow flower catkins in spring are followed by edible nuts enclosed in a tubular husk, ready for harvest in autumn.

Characteristics:

• Height & Spread: H 4m x S 4m
• Soil: Moist but well-drained
• Hardiness: Fully Hardy
• Position: Full Sun or Partial Shade
• Size: 3 Litres

Common name: Common Hazel

Semi-evergreen small tree which develops a weeping habit. It has shiny green leaves, covered in masses of red berries from autumn through winter. It grows to about 3m in 10 years.

Characteristics:

• Pick: September
• Soil: Any reasonable soil which is not waterlogged or over-rich; light, neutral soils preferred
• Hardiness: Hardy
• Position: Full Sun or Light Shade
• Size: 3 Litre