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Apple Norfolk Royal Russet

Apple Norfolk Royal Russet

Attractive fruit with a mottled red and russet effect, really good flavour. This one is my favourite of all apples.

Ripens September. Pollination group 4.
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Grape Strawberry

Grape Strawberry

£10.50

Red to dark-red berries, ripens best on a wall or warm spot, usually October. A good vine for growing up a Pergola, leaves very attractive and disease resistant. Grapes have a distinct 'strawberry flavour' which will carry through to the wine also.
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Apple Red Falstaff.- Rootstock M106

Apple Red Falstaff.- Rootstock M106

Fig White Marseilles

Fig White Marseilles

£14.50

(White Naples. Figue Blanche, etc.) Large almost round fruit, slightly ribbed. Pale green to yellow/white when mature. Translucent flesh which is sweet, one of the best garden varieties
Excellent in pots in any situation, when kept in a greenhouse you can get two crops per year.
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Quince Vranja

Quince Vranja

Large Golden yellow fruit. White flowers, an old favourite, a fairly vigorous tree will grow to 12ft or so depending on soil type.
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Crab Apple Pink Glow.Rootstock mm27

 

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Plums, Damsons and Gages

Plums, Damsons and Gages
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'
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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'
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Japanese plum 'Shiro'


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

Ripens mid-August. Self-fertile.


Price: £21.25

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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 Coes Golden Drop

Plum Coes Golden Drop


Large golden/yellow with red dots. Raised at Bury St Edmunds. Flesh yellow, rich, juicy and sugary. One of the richest flavoured plums. Will keep for a month if picked with stalk and kept in a cool place. Best on a wall.
Ripens mid September. Pollination group 2. Dessert fruit.


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Plum Count Althans Gage

Plum Count Althans Gage


Raised in Bohemia in 1850. Large crimson purple fruit with a good bloom,. Excellent flavour.Very resistant to cold.

Ripening August. Pollination group 3. Dessert fruit.


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Plum Crimson Drop

Plum Crimson Drop


Sport of Coe's Golden Drop raised around 1901 at Reigate, Surrey. Large red fruit, richly flavoured first rate plum.

Ripens mid to late September. Self-fertile. Pollination group 2. Dessert fruit.


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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 Golden Transparent

Plum Golden Transparent


Large yellow fruit with a square, round shape.

Ripening mid August. Self fertile. Pollination group 3. Dessert and Culinary 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 Kirkes Blue

Plum Kirkes Blue


Large, dark purple, firm and juicy a favourite of the experts, best in a protected spot or on a wall. (London 19 c)

Ripening mid September. Pollination group 3. Dessert fruit.


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Plum Marjories Seedling

Plum Marjories Seedling


One of the latest plums to pick, with large good quality fruit.

Ripening late September. Pollination group 5. Dessert and Culinary fruit.
FRESHLY POTTED TREE


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Plum Opal

Plum Opal


A very reliable garden plum, more so than Victoria, red fruits and a superb flavour.

Ripening late July. Pollination group 2. Dessert fruit.

READY IN AUTUMN


Price: £18.95

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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Plum Victoria

Plum Victoria


A chance seedling, about 1940. Oval red fruit of good flavour, juicy and sweet when ripe. Good for pies before fully ripe. Prone to bacterial canker.
Ripening late August. Self fertile. Pollination group 3. Dessert and Culinary fruit.
READY DECEMBER


Price: £12.95

Plum Warwickshire Drooper
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Plum Warwickshire Drooper


A dual purpose plum of medium size with deep yellow fruit and orange flesh. Jams well. For dessert, leave to hang a little while.
Ripening mid September. Self-fertile. Pollination group 2. 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.

Collection from Nursery only.

Very limited availability.


Price: £28.50

Plumcot

Plumcot


A hybrid Apricot / Plum from the USA.Mild yet interesting flavour, medium size fruit on a slightly compact tree.


Price: £23.00

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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
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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.
Small trees only - 3ft approx

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


Price: £12.95

Gage Allgroves Superb

Gage Allgroves Superb


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


Price: £18.95

Gage Oullins Golden
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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.


Price: £12.95

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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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Bullace Shepherds

Bullace Shepherds


Described in 1904 as the newest and best variety. Fruit green and yellow with mottled snowy patches, incredibly sharp flavour. Ripens October.

Ripening late September.


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Bullace Yellow Apricot

Bullace Yellow Apricot


A variety not found in the reference books but worth growing, very late ripening with a heavy crop of well flavoured if small fruits that develop the flavour the longer they are left on the tree, not usually eaten by the birds until late autumn.

Ripening October.


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