Here's some helpfull tips when Planting your Trees: Soak the roots before planting : Avoid planting if there's a frost : Place your tree in a sunny/sheltered position. Help the roots to stimulate and establish more quickly by mixing in some farmyard manure.
Aftercare: Protect your fruit tree from moths that will destroy the fruit and leaves - apply a Glue Band to the stake and trunk 2-3ft above the soil level. (A Glue Band is a sticky paper or glue that will stop wingless female moths being able to reach the branches of the tree to mate, from which its caterpillars will eat the leaves and fruit). Glue bands should be applied late October and reapplied as necessary. Additionally, apply fruit tree grease in December or January to kill off any overwintering pests.
A dessert cultivar in pollination group 4. Suitable for northerly, colder, higher rainfall areas. Apples are greenish-yellow flushed red; aromatic and rich. Good, regular crops are produced but the fruit can be rather small. Keeps very well with a season of use from December to April.
Dessert apple. An old favourite - hardy, reliable, produces small, round apples with a yellow-green skin, strawberry flavour. Fruit has distinct sweet smell. Mid-season flowering. Pollination Group B.
Large dark red fruits, sweet and crisp, the harvest takes place in July, auto-fertile and very productive. Produces the last sweet cherries of the year, the harvest is carried out according to the years weather until the end of July.
Very large bright red fruits with tasty, firm, perfumed flesh. Very fertile. Ripening end of May beginning of June.
A self-fertile sweet cherry ready in late July producing large, dark red fruits. Resistant to bacterial canker. Flavour is good and the flesh in juicy. Good pollinator for other cherries.
An outstanding yellow flushed red, early cherry. Firm white flesh and a sweet taste. Pick in late June.
A popular cooking cherry producing dark purple, large glossy cherries that are too tart to eat raw. Large crops of fruit are ready in August. Compact spreading habit. Self-fertile.
Cherry. A self-fertile sweet cherry ready in late July producing large dark red fruits. Resistant to bacterial canker. Flavour is good and the flesh is juicy.
A self-fertile sweet cherry ready in early July producing large, crack-resistant black fruits. Gorgeous flavour.
A new self-fertile sweet, white cherry ready in late July producing large white fruits. Something different!
Hazelnut. An upright tree-like shrub with heart-shaped mid-green leaves. Bears yellow catkins late winter early spring. Produces edible hazelnuts in tubular husks ripening in autumn. Height 6m. Spread 5m. Deciduous.
An attractive tree with beautiful rounded silver leaves and pretty green-pink flowers in spring. The large fragrant pear shaped fruits that follow ripen to a lovely shade of yellow and can be harvested from October. Freshly picked quinces are bitter and inedible, but once cooked they soften to make excellent jams and jellies and enhance the flavour of apple pies when a few slices are added before cooking.
Common Fig. A deciduous shrub with handsome foliage of large deeply lobed deep green leaves. Minute petal-less flowers are contained in a hollowed-out receptacle, which enlarges to form edible fruit. Height 3m. Spread 4m. Fruits from August to September. Restrict root growth for increased fruiting.
Reliably weather tolerant within the UK. An excellent and hardy, self-fertile fig. Moderately vigorous without taking over, the large three to five lobed green, scented leaves surround prolific sweet, tasty, late summer fruit ripening to a lustrous purple, light red inside with an aromatic flavour.
A naturally compact fig, bred specifically for its dwarfing habit, 'Miss Figgy' is ideal for smaller spaces. Its foliage looks just the same as the larger species, but it forms on smaller, well-balanced plants, which are perfect for the patio.
Easy to maintain this compact tree will produce large fruit between July and August. Grow against a south or west-facing wall to prevent the top-growth from being killed off in strong, cold winds. Restricting the spread of the roots in the ground or growing in a pot helps to encourage a plentiful display of fruit. A prolific, reliable cropper that can be trained as an espalier and becomes drought tolerant once established.
Medlar. A spreading tree with dark green leaves turning yellow-brown in autumn. White flowers followed by edible brown fruit. ripening after the first frosts in late autumn. Height 6m. Spread 8m. Flowers from May to June. Fruits from November. Self fertile.
Burgundy red and orange fruit with yellow aromatic flesh. Has freestone (flesh not attached to stone). Excellent flavour. Heavy cropper. Harvest late August. Grows well outside. Self-fertile.
Orange fleshed fruit, large with a golden yellow skin. Pick in August. Fine as an orchard tree and even better against a south wall where the crop will be huge.
A self-fertile, firm aromatic red fruit ready in August. Fine outside, best against a south wall. Spectacular in flower. Spray with Dithane 945 to avoid leaf curl.
The Amsden June peach is a hardy tree and a reliable cropper. Fruit are medium to large, with a greenish white skin flushed with red. Amsden June is the earliest of any variety, and the yellow flesh is very juicy.
Heavy cropping, yellow fleshed early peach. Self-fertile. Ripens in mid July. Fruit is yellow flushed red. Deciduous. Hardy. Spray with Dithane 945 to avoid leaf curl. Fine outdoors, better on a south wall. Beautiful in flower.
An excellent choice for pears as this is a strong growing pear. The conical fruit are juicy and flavour some. The leaves turn red in autumn making it an attractive tree. Pick mid Sept. to eat in October.
Early fruiting pear. Dwarf tree with glossy, dark green leaves. Heavy cropper of medium sized yellow/green fruit with a red blush suitable for dessert or cooking. Flowers from March to April.
A dessert pear with pale green fruits tinged a golden russet. The flesh is creamy white, firm and sweet. Ready in late October and November. Heavy cropper. Deciduous.
The most popular pear. Conference is partly self-fertile and produces long, narrow juicy though quite hard pears. Excellent for the north of England. Dessert pear. Pick late September, use by December.
The most popular pear. Conference is partly self-fertile and produces long, narrow juicy though quite hard pears. Excellent for the north of England. Dessert pear. Pick late September, use by December.
The Queen of pears as regards to flavour. It requires a sheltered sunny site preferably with a wall behind with a pollination partner close by. Late pollination. Pick in October, use by December.
A desert pear with pale green fruits with a coating of russet. The flesh is white and good flavoured. Ready in late October and November. Deciduous. Foliage colour Green.
A medium sized, soft, juicy, sweet pear that grows well all over England. Tree growth is compact and upright, Mid-season pollinating.
The most popular dessert pear. Conference is partially self-fertile and produces long narrow juicy though quite hard pears. Excellent for the north of England. Harvest late September. Mid season flowering. Pollination Group B.
The Queen of pears as regards flavour. It requires a sheltered sunny site preferably with a pollination partner close by. Late pollination. Pick in October use by December.
A strong growing pear. Red skin with creamy white juicy flesh. Sweet flavour. Harvest early September. Mid-late season flowering. Pollination Group C.
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