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Fig Peter's Honey

Fig Peter's Honey

£14.50

syn Italian Honey. A very tasty fruit, sweet crimson flesh, golden skin. One of the favourites at our last tasting session. Greenhouse or conservatory. Plants now 2ft approx in 4 ltr pots.
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Blackcurrant Ebony

£6.25

A new superbly flavoured selection ,setting new standards for flavour as a dessert variety.

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Crab Apple Butterball

Crab Apple Butterball

Small compact tree. Heavily laden with butter yellow fruit each Autumn.
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How to Store your Garden Produce. Piers Warren

How to Store your Garden Produce. Piers Warren

£7.95

A helpfull guide on how to store and preserve your hard won harvest.
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Rhubarb Timperley Early

Rhubarb Timperley Early

£4.95

The first for forcing, excellent early crops of thin sweet stalks
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Horseradish

Horseradish

£2.75

An uninspiring plant until you eat it, makes a very hot sauce or flavouring, perfect addition to pumpkin soup. Slowly invasive unless harvested, it always seems to come back.

Sold as a pack of 'roots' usually 3 per pack.
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Plums, Damsons and Gages

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Japanese Plum Trees

Japanese Plum Trees

Prunus salicina. These hybrid plum trees are widely grown in Japan for their delicious flavoured fruit which are tender and meaty. Compact trees which ripen very early, a distinctive flavour and very juicy.

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Japanese plum 'Beauty'

Japanese plum 'Beauty'


A very rich blend of flavours, bright red fruit with amber streaked flesh.

Ripens early August.


Price: £21.25

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Japanese plum 'Methley'

Japanese plum 'Methley'


Reddish purple fruits ideal poached for breakfast. Self fertile.

Ripening in July, fruits ripen in succesion over 10-14 days,


Price: £21.25

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Japanese plum 'Satsuma'

Japanese plum 'Satsuma'


The 'Blood Plum'. A Japanese cross plum introduced by Luther Burbank in California, and growing from a local Royal English garden early 20th Century. Small to medium fruits, dark red skin and red flesh. A very distinct flavour, sweet and very juicy. The fruits will keep for a few days in the fridge but must be eaten as they ripen, pleasant meaty texture .

Ripens mid August. Partially self fertile.


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Japanese plum 'Shiro'

Japanese plum 'Shiro'


A large yellow fruit with an excellent sweet flavour, translucent flesh very, very juicy.

Ripens mid-August. Self-fertile.


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Plum Trees

Plum Trees

Plum trees and Gages are grown on St Julian rootstock which will grow to 10ft in as many years , getting larger if the soil conditions are good.These fruits prefer a free draining fertile soil with lime, potash and nitrogen and do not like being exposed to cold winds.
Pot culture is fine but do not leave any stone fruit outside in winter if pot grown , they are very susceptble to Bacterial canker in this situation.

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Plum Delikya

Plum Delikya


Yellow with a red bloom ,large round fruit, freestone. Very good dessert flavour. Limited availability.

Ripening from the end of July. Pollination group 3. Dessert fruit.


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Plum Early Laxton

Plum Early Laxton


Laxton raised in 1902. Medium sized fruit, yellow with dots of rosy red. Sweet and juicy with gage flavour. Excellent very early plum.

Ripening ate July-August. Partially self-fertile. Pollination group 3. Dessert fruit.


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Plum Hay

Plum Hay


Smallish yellow fruit, oblong shape. Leave to sweeten properly on the tree.

Ripening early August. Pollination group 3. Dessert and Culinary fruit.
2 yr old trees.


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Plum Reine Claude Violette

Plum Reine Claude Violette


A purple ‘greengage’ with a heavy bloom, medium size fruit round to square shape. (1780)

Ripens late August. Partialy self fertile. Pollination group . Dessert fruit.
2 yr old trees.


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Plum Early Rivers

Plum Early Rivers


Small, violet/purple fruit. A choice early culinary plum, cooks well and left to ripen is excellent as a dessert, ripens before the wasps arrive, yellow flesh.

Ripening late July-August. Partially self-fertile. Pollination group 3. Dessert and Culinary fruit.


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Prunus x blireana Saling Hall

Prunus x blireana Saling Hall


'Saling Hall' A new introduction this year, raised by Hugh Johnson. A beautiful tree with a tall upright habit and leaves of the most intense metallic coppery-purple. Flowers a delicate white with a flush of pink in clusters followed by deep red fruit which can be used in preserves or eaten fresh when properly ripe.

Very limited availability.


Price: £28.50

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Damson Trees

Damson Trees

Treat as for plums. Damsons are renowned for making Damson Gin and Damson Cheese.

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Early Rivers

Early Rivers


Raised by Rivers of Sawbridgeworth in 1871, small blue black fruit with a bloom, intense flavour.
Small-3ft.
Ripening in mid August. Culinary fruit.


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Gages

Gages

These fruits prefer a good fertile soil with lime, potash and nitrogen and do not like being exposed to cold winds.

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Fan Trained Old Greengage.
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Fan Trained Old Greengage.


Large fan trained tree, container grown in 6 litre pots. Approx 3-4 ft tall and wide.


Price: £34.50

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Gage Old Greengage

Gage Old Greengage


Of great antiquity, named for the wife of Francois I of France (1494-1547). Called Great Gage after Sir William Gage who introduced it prior to 1724. Medium sized yellow/green fruit. Regarded as the richest flavoured of all plums, rich sweet and luscious. Heavy crops must be thinned.

Ripening mid-late August. Pollination group 3. Dessert fruit.


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Gage Allgroves  Superb

Gage Allgroves Superb


A late August to September gage, dark purple with sweet yellow flesh, a large plum sized gage.


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Gage Oullins Golden

Gage Oullins Golden


Large golden yellow fruit, delicious flavour. Can be picked early for cooking. (France 1860)
Ripening mid August. Self fertile. Poliination group 4. Dessert fruit.
Small 3-4 ft trees.


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Gage Early Transparent

Gage Early Transparent


A small golden but melting flesh, sweet and reliable.

Ripening early August. Pollination group 3. Dessert fruit.

Small trees 3-4ft


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Bullaces

Bullaces

Can be planted in hedges but need careful attention to ensure they become established successfully.

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Bullace Langley

Bullace Langley


Black fruit with greenish-yellow flesh, large for a bullace. Can carry huge crops. The best bullace, bottles well and is splendid for jam.

Ripens late September - October. Self-fertile.


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