Fruit Trees & Bushes

'Glaskin's Perputual' is a vigorous, upright perennial with large, glossy, wrinkled, lobed, dark green leaves and thick, upright, edible, red, sometimes pink or green stems harvested from late spring into autumn.

Characteristics:

• Harvest: Late Spring into Autumn
• Soil: Moist, well-drained soils
• Hardiness: Hardy
• Position: Full Sun
• Pot Size: 3 Litre
• Max. Height & Spread: H-0.6m x S-1m

As the name suggests, 'Timperley Early' is a very early variety of Rhubarb, with harvests as early as February. It is also suitable for forcing if you want to produce an even earlier crop and will provide you with succulent, red-based pink stems with a delicious flavour.

Characteristics:

• Harvest: Very early variety, can be ready to harvest as early as February
• Soil: Moist but well-drained
• Hardiness: Hardy
• Position: Full
• Pot Size: 3 Litre
• Max. Height & Spread: H-1.5m x S-2m

'Champagne' is an early variety Rhubarb that produces long,slender, pink-tinged stalks. For a deeper, red-coloured stem, leave the stems unforced - they will still be just as sweet and delicious! This old variety is particularly reliable and easy to grow.

Characteristics:

• Harvest: Typically around July or August
• Soil: Well-drained soils
• Hardiness: Hardy
• Position: Full Sun
• Pot Size: 3 Litre
• Max. Height & Spread: H-60cm x S-120cm

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

The young skin is dappled green and brown, yellowing as it ripens fully in August. The succulent, pale flesh almost melts in the mouth and the flavour is the equal of any other sweet dessert pear.

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

A late season Blueberry, which produces large crops of sweet dark blue berries. Self fertile, it is reliable and consistant. Beautiful orange and gold foliage in autumn adds sesonal interest.

'Hinnonmaki Red' is a superb variety, very hardy and vigorous mid-season red Gooseberry. Reliably produces heavy crops of large, sweet, red berries of excellent quality. The berries are medium-sized to large and are very juicy.

Characteristics:

• Pick: Mid-July
• Soil: Any well-drained soil
• Hardiness: Very Hardy
• Position: Full Sun or Partial Shade
• Size: 3 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

• Fruits: Mid-October
• Soil: Any resonable well drained soil
• Supplied Height: 150cm approx.
• Max. Height & Spread: H-8m x S-8m
• Hardiness: Fully Hardy
• Position: Full Sun
• Pot Size: 7.5 Litre
• Pollination: Triploid, Group 3

Discovery is probably the most well-known early apple variety, ripening in late August. It is very easy to grow, and has excellent natural disease resistance.

Covered in white flowers throughout spring, followed by crisp, juicy dessert apples in autumn. These apples do not store well so should be eaten as fresh as possible.

'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.

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

Pyrus c. 'Conference'

'Malling Promise' is an early fruiting raspberry with thorny stems and firm, red fruit with medium flavour ready for harvest in early summer. This cultivar is heavy cropping, virus resistant and tolerant of poor soils.

Characteristics:

• Pick: Early Summer
• Soil: Moist but well-drained soil
• Hardiness: Hardy
• Position: Full Sun
• Pot Size: 2 Litre

Fragaria 'Senga Sengana' is a low-growing, stoloniferous perennial with palmate, toothed, wrinkled, dark green leaves and white flowers in spring followed by glossy, firm, bright red fruit ready to harvest in mid-to late summer.

Characteristics:

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

'Elsanta' is mid-season, widely-grown commercial cultivar. It has superb flavour and large yields of glossy, red fruit. Grow in fertile, moist but well-drained soil in full sun. Can be successfully grown in a container, including growbags.

Characteristics:

• Pick: June & July
• Soil: Moist, but well-drained soil
• Hardiness: Hardy
• Position: Full Sun
• Size: P9

Alpine strawberries are usually grown in shade in ornamental gardens. They have small, sweetly-flavoured, aromatic fruits and tolerate cooler conditions than most other strawberries. They need no special care and can be left to fend for themselves after planting

Characteristics:

• Type: Semi-Evergreen
• Height & Spread: H 0.3m x S 1.5m
• Hardiness: Fully Hardy
• Flowering Period: May
• Position: Full Sun or Partial Shade
• Size: 9cm

'Tulameen' bears very large, dark pink fruits with a distinctive, conical shape and a deliciously sweet taste and appear in abundance on the vigorous canes which have long lateral shoots making them very easy to pick.

Characteristics:

• Harvest: Midsummer
• Soil: Moist, well-drained soils
• Hardiness: Hardy
• Position: Full Sun
• Pot Size: 3 Litre
• Max. Height & Spread: H-2.5m x S-0.5m

'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: 12 Litre

Malus domestica 'James Grieve' 12 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. Savoury, crisp to melting flesh; when cooked keeps shape, with juicy, delicate flavour. Season of use is from September to October, and longer.

Characteristics:

• Fruits: September - October
• Soil: Well-drained clay, loam or sand or soil, keep a free area around the trunk of 60cm
• Max. Height & Spread: H-4 to 8m x S-4 to 8m
• Hardiness: Hardy
• Position: Full Sun or Partial Shade
• Pot Size: 12 Litre