Fruit Trees & Bushes

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

'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

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

'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

'Opal' is a compact, deciduous fruit tree with white flowers in spring followed by small, red-flushed, yellow to deep purple fruit with yellow flesh ready for harvest in mid- to late summer.

Characteristics:

• Pick: Autumn
• Soil: Tolerates most soils with exception to very chalky or badly drained soils
• Hardiness: Fully Hardy
• Position: Full Sun
• Size: 10 Litre

'Beauty of Bath' is a compact, early-fruiting, dessert apple tree with pale pink flowers in spring and medium-sized, edible, red-mottled, sharp, crisp fruit ready to harvest in late summer.

The flesh has a good flavour for such an early variety. As with all early-season apples, the timing of picking has quite an influence on the flavour, which can go from a mildly sharp to sweeter as it ripens.

Irish grown fruit trees!

Characteristics

• Soil: Any resonable well drained soil.
• Position: Full Sun
• Picking Time: August
• Pollination: Group 2 (pollinates with Groups 1, 2 and 3)
• Hardiness: Fully Hardy
• Uses: Eating Apple
• Pot Size: 10 Litre

Apple 'Braeburn' produces huge crops of bi-coloured, smooth skinned, crisp and juicy fruits. This well known variety earns its popularity by being easy to grow, early to crop from a young age, and having excellent storage potential.

Characteristics:

• Harvest: October
• Soil: Moist but Well-Drained soil
• Hardiness: Fully Hardy
• Position: Full Sun or Partial Shade
• Size: 10 Litre

'Golden Delicious' is a dessert cultivar and a good pollinator for other apple trees. Bearing greenish-yellow fruit which becomes yellow with age and is honeyed and very sweet when well-ripened.

Characteristics:

• Harvest: Autumn
• Soil: Moist but Well-Drained
• Hardiness: Hardy
• Position: Full Sun or Partial Shade
• Pollination Group: 4
• Pot Size: 10 Litre

Prunus domestica '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

Characteristics:

• Fruits: August - September
• Soil: Moist but well-drained soils
• Hardiness: Hardy
• Position: Full Sun
• Pot Size: 7.5 Litre

The pear Triomph de Vienne is a fast-growing pear tree with an upright growth habit. The productivity of the Triumph de vienne is moderate to good and irregular. Fruits can be picked from mid-august and stored until the end of october.

Characteristics:

• Pick: Mid-August
• Flowers: White flowers in early May
• Soil: Moist but well-drained soils
• Hardiness: Hardy
• Position: Full Sun or Partial Shade
• Pot Size: 7.5 Litre

'Stella' is a black cherry with large, rich, high quality fruits. Heavy, regular crops; self-fertile, but the fruit is prone to splitting in wet weather.

Characteristics:

• Soil: Moist but Well-Drained
• Hardiness: Hardy
• Position: Full Sun
• Pollinatio Group: 4
• Height & Spread: H 2.5 - 4m x S 2.5 - 4m

'Damson' is a deciduoous tree with a low canopy clothed in elliptic, finely serrated, green leaves. In mid spring, it bursts into a profusion of white 5-petaled blossoms, creating a spectacular display.

Characteristics:

• Soil: Moist but Well-Drained
• Hardiness: Hardy
• Position: Full Sun
• Height & Spread: H 2.5-4m x S 2.5-4m
• Pot Size: 10 Litre

'Ellison's Orange' is a dessert cultivar that produces good, regular crops of apples; skin yellowish-green flushed red. Rich, aniseed flavour. Season of use is from late September to late October

Characteristics:

• Fruits: September - Late October
• Soil: Moist but Well-Drained Soil
• Hardiness: Hardy
• Position: Full Sun or Partial Shade
• Pollination Group: 4
• Height & Spread: H 4-8m x S 4-8m
• Pot Size: 7.5 Litre

Pyrus communis 'Conference' is a dessert pear which ranges from 2.5 - 8m in height depending on the rootstock. Flowers white in colour and green fruit. Pollination Group 3, can set fruit without being pollinated. Season of Use: October - November.

Characteristics:

• Type: Top Fruit
• Height & Spread: H-8m x S-8m
• Hardiness: Fully Hardy
• Position: Full Sun
• Pot Size: 5 Litre

The ultimate miniature apple tree with two delicious varirties on one tree. A unique and easy way to grow your own healthy apples. Fruits in its first year and remains miniature.

Characteristics:

• Soil: Moist, well-drained soils
• Hardiness: Hardy
• Position: Full Sun
• Fruits: In the first year

Rubus idaeus 'Heritage' is an upright, deciduous shrub with thorny canes bearing lobed, palmate, dark green leaves and white flowers in spring followed by globular to conical, edible, sweet, red fruit ready for harvest in autumn and again the following summer.

Characteristics:

• Harvest: Autumn & Following Summer
• Soil: Moist but Well-Drained
• Hardiness: Hardy
• Position: Full Sun
• Size: 2 Litre

Fragaria 'Ostara' is a compact, stoloniferous perennial with palmate, toothed or scalloped, wrinkled, mid- to dark green leaves and white flowers from mid-spring into autumn followed by glossy, conical, edible, bright red fruit ready for harvest in early summer.

Characteristics:

• Fruits: Early Summer
• Soil: Moist, well-drained
• Hardiness: Hardy
• Position: Full Sun
• Pot Size: P9

'Ben Nevis' is an upright, vigorous, deciduous shrub grown for culinary or dessert use. Heavy crops of black fruit form from insignificant flowers in mid to late summer.

Characteristics:

• Pick: Mid to Late Summer
• Soil: Moist but well-drained soil
• Hardiness: Hardy
• Position: Full Sun or Partial Shade
• Size: 2 Litre, Single Cane