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Bougainvillea Glabra Alexandra

Bougainvillea Glabra Alexandra

£14.50

The classic pale purple as seen in the Med' scrambles over walls and into the roof.
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Jasminum sambac 'Maid of Orleans'

Jasminum sambac 'Maid of Orleans'

£14.25

The Arabian jasmine, evergreen climber with large white flowers almost continuously. Highly scented, needs 10c to flower well in winter. Brought over from India in 1655. An essential plant to have. Supplied 2ft high approx
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Clytostoma callistegoides

Clytostoma callistegoides

£14.25

A pale green leaved climber with pink trumpet flowers. Nearly hardy we have grown this outside and in a pot for a while.
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Tahiti Lime

Tahiti Lime

£34.50

The bartenders lime, for slicing into drinks and on pancakes, superb flavour and no seeds.The tree will grow to around 6ft (2m) in a pot ,and produce several pounds of fruit. The trees are 3-4ft tall with a clear stem and branch framework forming. Ideal for growing on a wall to preserve space.
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Passiflora caerulea x racemosa

Passiflora caerulea x racemosa

£10.25

Ideal for a cold conservatory or warm spot. Deep rose pink flowers in abundance from early summer onwards.
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Lemon Grass

Lemon Grass

£8.25

Cymbopogon citratus. Lemon grass is used in many Thai dishes, very easy to grow, keep well watered and try not to disturb the roots. Chop off your own stem from the consrvatory and taste the freshness. NOTE-PLANTS READY IN 4-6 WEEKS TIME .
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Apples

Fruit Trees and Bushes > Apples
Our apple trees are grown on three of the most popular rootstocks.
M106 - the most versatile - semi vigorous
M26 - very popular for cordons and espaliers
M27 - the most dwarf rootstock available

For more advice on choosing rootstocks click on Cultural Advice opposite...
Apple Tree Information

Apple Trees

All our trees are approximately 4-5ft tall. Ministry certified stocks and Fireblight 'buffer zone' status. Many varieties are only available November to March.

Apple Adams Pearmain
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Apple Adams Pearmain


Orange flushed with red stripes; aromatic with a nutty flavour; firm.
(Norfolk c.1826)

Ripens October-November. Pollination group 2.

Apple Ashmeads Kernel

Apple Ashmeads Kernel


Pale green aromatic fruit, firm white flesh with a distinct sharpness to the sweet flavour. (Gloucester c. 1700)

Ripens October. Pollination group 3

Apple Bardsey

Apple Bardsey


Said to be the rarest apple in cultivation. Found growing in a crack in a wall on Bardsey Island. The Yellow waxy fruit have a pink and cream flesh and a 'lemon' flavour, very prolific.

Ripening late September. Pollination group 2.

Apple Blenheim Orange

Apple Blenheim Orange


A good all rounder that can be used as a dessert or for cooking. Yellow fruit with an orange flush and red stripes, nutty taste and sweet crumbly texture. (Oxford c.1740)

Ripens October. Pollination group 3.

Apple Blenheim Orange - Rootstock M106
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Apple Blenheim Orange - Rootstock M26
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Apple Blenheim Orange - Rootstock M27
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Apple Braeburn
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Apple Braeburn


Crisp, firm aromatic fruit. Excellent all round quality. Plant in a sheltered sunny spot. (New Zealand 1950)

Ripens October. Pollination group 4.

Apple Bramley

Apple Bramley


Crisp, firm, aromatic fruit. Excellent all round quality. The most popular cooker, well known for all its attributes. (Nottingham 19th c.)

Ripens October. Triploid - needs 2 pollinators.

Apple Bramley - Rootstock M26
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Apple Chivers Delight

Apple Chivers Delight


Golden, crisp and juicy with a sweet honey flavour. Keeps well, a good garden apple for all areas. (Cambridge 20th c.)

Ripens October. Pollination group 4.

Apple Chivers Delight - Rootstock M106
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Apple Chivers Delight - Rootstock M26
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Apple Cox Orange Pippin - self fertile
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Apple Cox Orange Pippin - self fertile


One of the finest flavoured apples. Orange flush over greenish yellow skin. Deep cream flesh with a sweet aromatic flavour. Very self-fertile. (Bristol 1975)

Ripens October. Pollination group 3.

Apple Discovery

Apple Discovery


Bright red flush, crisp and juicy. Excellent dessert apple, disease resistant.

Ripens August. Pollination group3.

Apple Dr Harvey

Apple Dr Harvey


Medium fruit green- yellow in colour, a hardy tree and a good bearer of large crops. Holds its shape when baked in the oven and can keep for 10 days thereafter' furnishing for the dessert a highly flavoured sweetmeat'. Reputedly one of the oldest English apples.(Named for Dr Harvey of Cambridge 1629).

Ripens late September. Pollination group 4.

Apple Egremont Russet

Apple Egremont Russet


A sweet, firm aromatic russet. Rich nutty flavour, good pollinator. (Petworth, Sussex 1872.)

Ripens October - December Pollination group 2.

Apple Egremont Russet - Rootstock M106
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Apple Ellisons Orange
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Apple Ellisons Orange


Medium sized with juicy fruit, red striped skin. This has an Aniseed flavour that developes after picking. Scab resistant.(Lincoln 1904)

Ripens September. Pollination group 4.

Apple Emneth Early
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Apple Emneth Early


Medium size with green skin. A codling type, useful as an early cooker, bakes like a soufflé needing little sugar. Ideal for 'Apple Snow'
(Wisbech c. 1899)

Ripens August. Pollination group3.

Apple Golden Noble

Apple Golden Noble


One of the best cookers, golden colour with a good sharp flavour, and it comes from Norfolk !

Ripens October. Pollination group 5.

Apple Golden Noble - Rootstock M106
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Apple Green Roland
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Apple Green Roland


Grass-green skin, firm acid flesh yet quite sugary. (Norfolk 1945)

Ripens October. Pollination group 4.

Apple Hanworth Codling
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Apple Hanworth Codling


Yellow striped with red. Sharp flavour. (Norfolk)

Ripens October. Pollination group 3.

Apple Horsford Prolific
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Apple Horsford Prolific


Large, crisp and juicy, quite sharp. (Norwich c 1913)

Ripens December.

Apple Horsham Russet
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Apple Horsham Russet


Pale green under a red/grey russet, flesh firm and rich. (Norfolk c. 1790)

Ripens November. Pollination group

Apple Jordans Weeping
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Apple Jordans Weeping


A fine midwinter dessert apple, strawberry flavour. (Norfolk)

Ripens December. Pollination group 4.

Apple Katy

Apple Katy


This early variety is a good choice for northern gardens, bright red crisp and juicy heavy cropper.

Ripens September. Pollination group 3.

Apple Irish Peach

Apple Irish Peach


Small yellow fruit with a red flush and a slight perfume, eat fresh from the tree. ( Sligo 1819)

Ripens August. Pollination group 2.

Apple Irish Peach - Rootstock M106
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Apple Irish Peach - Rootstock M26
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Apple Limelight

Apple Limelight


An excellent garden variety, this improved greensleeves type is abundant cropping and has a neat compact shape. The apple has a clean and smooth finish and seems to glow when ripe with the occasional pink flush. Crisp and refreshing. (Kent 2000)

Ripens September. Pollination group 3.

Apple Limelight - Rootstock M106
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Apple Limelight - Rootstock M26
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Apple Newton Wonder
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Apple Newton Wonder


Large yellow and scarlet cooker which can be eaten fresh when kept, stores well.

Ripens October. Pollination group 5.

Apple Norfolk Beauty
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Apple Norfolk Beauty


Large pale yellow with a slight red flush. Cooks to a creamy puree. Sweet. (Gunton Park, Norfolk 1901)

Ripens October. Pollination group 5.

Apple Norfolk Beefing
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Apple Norfolk Beefing


Large, dark green skin with a purple/red flush. Used as a cooker in early season or kept to eat in spring. Famous for making 'Biffins' where they are slow cooked in a bread oven. (Norfolk 18th c.)

Ripens October but will keep to April. Pollination group 5.

Apple Norfolk Coleman
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Apple Norfolk Coleman


A small apple but juicy and aromatic. Skin green flushed crimson. (Norfolk 1977)

Ripens September.

Apple Norfolk Royal
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Apple Norfolk Royal


Skin a striking pale yellow flushed bright red. Sweet and juicy. (Norfolk c. 1908)

Ripens September. Pollination group 2.

Apple Norfolk Royal Russet
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Apple Norfolk Royal Russet


Attractive fruit with a mottled red and russet effect, really good flavour, as we all are in Norfolk.

Ripens September. Pollination group 2.

Apple Peasegood Nonsuch
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Apple Peasegood Nonsuch


A huge dessert apple, pale green withred stripes and an orange flush, cooks to a lovely puree, or can be eaten as a juicy fresh apple. (Grantham Lincs 1850)

Ripens September. Pollination group 3.

Apple Pitmaston Pineapple

Apple Pitmaston Pineapple


A golden fruit with a distinctive hint of pineapple and honey, small fruit ,benefits from thinning to prevent biennial fruiting. ( Hereford 1785)

Ripens September. Pollination group 3.

Apple Red Ellison

Apple Red Ellison


A sport from 'Orange'. At its best it can be intensly aromatic with crisp yet soft juicy flesh. After picking an aromatic flavour of aniseed developes. (Cambridge 1948)

Ripens September. Pollination group 4.

Apple Red Falstaff
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Apple Red Falstaff


One of the best garden apples, self fertile and a good pollinator. The fruit is aromatic and juicy. Raised in Norfolk 1983. Rootstock mm27, very dwarf at around 6ft.

Picked in early October the fruit will keep until March. Pollination group 3.


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Apple Ribston Pippin

Apple Ribston Pippin


Intense aromatic flavour, more acidity than Cox. Yellow/red skin with a little russet. Flesh deep cream (Yorkshire 1707)

Ripens October. Pollination group 2.

Apple Ribston Pippin - Rootstock M26
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Apple Saint Edmund's Pippin
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Apple Saint Edmund's Pippin


Pale cream flesh. Sweet, juicy and rich. Ambrosial when properly ripe. (1875)

Ripens September to October. Pollination group 2.

Apple St Magdalene
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Apple St Magdalene


Pale yellow with a reddish flush. Flesh cream, firm and sweet. (Norfolk c 1890)

Ripens November. Pollination group 3.

Apple Sandringham

Apple Sandringham


A large apple with yellow flushed pink-red skin. Soft flesh, cooks to a sweet puree. (Norfolk c.1883.)

Ripens October. Pollination group 3.

Apple Sandringham - Rootstock M106
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Apple Scrumptious
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Apple Scrumptious


A new variety. Carefully bred and selected for our garden conditions. Suitable for all areas of the UK. Self-fertile, frost hardy and disease resistant. Thin skinned, descriptions of the flavour include; fragrant and honeyed, liquorice and wine, fresh, aromatic, crisp and sweet. (Kent 1998)

Ripens on the tree in September. Pollination group 3.

Apple Striped Beefing

Apple Striped Beefing


Skin bright green striped purplish red. Firm, acid flesh.

Ripens October. Pollination group 3.

Apple Striped Beefing - Rootstock M106
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Apple Tydemans Late
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Apple Tydemans Late


Orange red fruit with some russet. Firm and sweet, a trouble free, reliable fruit. As rich and aromatic as Cox before Christmas. (HRI E Malling 1930)

Ripens October. Pollination group 3

Apple Vicar of Beighton
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Apple Vicar of Beighton


Large and sweet with soft crumbling flesh. Skin russet. Sub acid. (Norfolk c. 1984)

Ripens December. Pollination group 4.

Apple Winter Gem
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Apple Winter Gem


A recent introduction, this heavy cropping, pink flushed apple is rich and aromatic, exceptional quality. (Kent c.1985)

Ripens October through to March. Pollination group 3.

Apple Winter Majestin
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Apple Winter Majestin


Greenish yellow flushed red. Strong flavour. Cooks for puree. (Norfolk c. 1820)

Ripens December.

Crab Apples

Crab Apple Harry Baker
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Crab Apple Harry Baker


A new introduction, raised here on our Nursery. Exceptionally large deep pink flowers, dark ruby-red fruits with a deep pink flesh lasting into mid-October, an excellent specimen tree. The fruit makes a delightful jelly.

Crab Apple John Downie

Crab Apple John Downie


White flowers with large bright orange fruits.

Crab Apple John Downie - Rootstock M27
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