Fruit Trees
One of the best things we can do for ourselves and for our garden is to grow some fruit and vegetables.
Home grown fruit is great for eating fresh, for baking with and let’s not forget for making delicious jam! Please refer to our ‘Grow Your Own’ section for further information on the benefits of growing your own fruit and vegetables and how we can assist you with this.
We offer a great selection of quality fruit trees and soft fruit plants for you to choose from, here are a few examples:
Producing bright red, crisp, juicy apples with a sharp fresh flavour, Discovery has good disease resistance and frost tolerance and is ideally suited for the smaller garden.
Planting time: all year round. Picking time: early August
Other very popular varieties of apple we stock include Katy, James Grieves, Bramley and Elstar
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Very popular and easy to grow, Plum Victoria is self pollinating and reliably produces lots of delicious large, pale red fruit, which can be used for cooking, canning, bottling or just eating fresh.
It produces single, white flowers in spring and fruiting picking can start in late August.
Planting time: all year round
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Conference is an ever popular self pollinating pear due to its reliability even in less than favourable conditions. The fruits are long and narrow with juicy but firm flesh.
Planting time all year
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Another firm favourite, Elsanta remains so popular due to the high yields of glossy fruit produced in summer, the flavour of which is outstanding.
Planting time Feb – May
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Malling Jewel is a reliable compact plant, producing great flavoured fruit in summer.
Available: Jan – May
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Blackcurrant Ben Lomond
Excellent for jam and jelly making, Ben Lomand is a heavy cropper, producing lots of large juicy sweet berries. Available from Jan – May. Picking time late July.















