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.

'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

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

'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

Jonagold is a dessert cultivar and a triploid. The large fruit is attractive with red flush and stripes over gold with crisp, honeyed taste. A vigorous cultivar, it has heavy, regular crops that store well and can be used from November through to January/February.

• Harvest: October
• Soil: Moist but Well-Drained
• Hardiness: Fully Hardy
• Position: Full Sun or Partial Shade
• Pollination Group: 3
• 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

'James Grieve' is a culinary or dessert cultivar. Suitable for northerly, colder rainfall areas. Good, regular crops of apples, yellow-green speckled and striped orange-red, but can easily bruise.

Characteristics:

• Fruits: September to October
• Soil: Well-Drained
• Hardiness: Hardy
• Position: Full Sun or Partial Shade
• Pollination Group: 3
• Pot Size: 10 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

'Gala' is a medium- to late- season, dessert apple for picking in mid-autumn and storing to mid-winter. The skin is yellow, flushed and striped with red, and the juicy, cream flesh has a rich flavour. It has attractive pink and white blossom. Not self-fertile.

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

'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