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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

£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

£16.25

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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

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

£16.50

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Peach Dymond

Prunus persica. Dymond

The Peach Tree can be grown in the garden or in pots or in the greenhouse they will produce superb quality fruit when looked after with a minimal care. Lime is important and a well drained soil is essential.

To prevent peach leaf curl (it only usually occurs out of doors) spray with a liquid copper fungicide at LEAF-FALL, the END of January to MID February. Some varieties have a good resistance to the disease.Regular feeding and topping up with lime when needed will help promote the health of your tree.

Peaches ,Nectarines and Apricots are stone fruit that should have a larger place in our gardens. All peaches ,nectarines and apricots are much hardier than usually admitted. The average Peach has blossom that is as hardy as the Victoria plum and it is a fallacy that these fruit trees will not grow well in the UK.

Peaches and Nectarines can suffer from Peach leaf curl if not treated but this should not be a severe problem. Simple spraying with copper fungicide will usually prevent it if started early in the year-usually January before any Peach buds burst into life. Apricots do not suffer from this.
Peaches Nectarines and Apricots can also be protected with a simple rain cover which will also ensure against frost protection although many young peach fruitlets will survive a frost, and as peach trees flower in succession there are usually enough peach blossoms to come after the frost which will provide more fruit.

Most gardening books tell us that Apricots can only be grown on walls facing south (Peaches and Nectarines also suffer this slanderous fate). Whereas common logic dictates that these trees will be overly protected by a wall and in fact ,this very protection will cause the fruit buds to open even earlier, thus exposing the blossom to even earlier frost. Our stone fruit orchard, containing a full collection of Peaches Nectarines and Apricots , flowers regularly and even in the exposed site its in ,we noted early on that the eastern side of the trees would always have more fruit, especially with the Apricots.
Research done by ourselves and many other more esteemed bodies has shown that a protected site for these fruit trees is not such a good thing. Justin Brooke, a pioneering fruit tree grower had orchards extending to 850 acres in the 1930’s including over 60 acres of Peaches, Nectarines, Apricots and Figs, these were all grown in the open with no walls and the crops of succulent fruit sent to the London markets by train, even in the severe winters of ’47-48 the crops were not lost.
Pruning Peaches is not a difficult task and full instructions and a training video will soon appear on our ‘Tips and Advice’ page.

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