Just a few photos of nice and bright fresh flowers from a few unusual varieties Continue reading
£2.60
A fast climber with tasty, sweet fruit that you can eat with the skin.
£240.00
A phytosanitary certificate is necessary for exporting all plants from the UK to all none UK destinations, including Northern Ireland and Jersey/Guernsey. This price is for a dedicated certificate and not bundled
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Here is a MM106 rootstock with an M9 grafted to it. Giving a self supporting semi dwarfing tree to whatever is grafted to it.
£15.00
Fruits have firm, very juicy flesh with a sweet and refreshing flavour.
£15.00
It's a partially self-fertile variety which produces fruit earlier in the year than most. Well known for its particularly attractive blossom and then large apples.
£15.00
Bakran farmers say not only are the apples red-fleshed, but the seeds and the young leaves, bark and roots of the trees are also red. The trees do not get infested and the juicy sweet-and-sour fruit contains more...
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Elstar is another successful offspring of Golden Delicious, developed in the Netherlands in the 1950s. Fruits are sweet, crisp and juicy. Good disease resistance
£2.20
More suited for the larger garden as it can grow to 4.5m tall. More ideal for cider varieties, than the traditional M25 rootstock.
£2.20
It will produce a dwarf tree up to 3.5m tall. Does well in most soils. It is very hardy and produces fruit in 2-3 years. Can be grown free standing but needs staking on windy sites. It doesn’t sucker much in the orchard.
£2.20
The M9 rootstock is the main stay of the commerical growers here in the UK. It grows to an approx height of 2 - 2.5m, making it easy to harvest the crop.
£2.20
The M25 alternative, they can grow to 4m - 5m. Resistant to most dieases, and tolerates dry conditions and poor soils.
£2.20
This apple rootstock can grow to 2m in height. It is well suited for growing in a container or a small garden. Trees grafted on M27 bear early and heavily. It however needs staking. It is very hardy and suited to the...
£2.20
Most plums and damsons are grown on this rootstock, which can grow to 4.5m tall
£2.20
The M25 rootstock produces a standard apple tree of around 6m height after 10 years or so, and is the best choice for old-fashioned traditional orchards. Can take 5 years to start producing.
£5.50
Pyrodwarf are excellent winter hardiness. There is no need for support. Pyrodwarf has good compatibility with all pear cultivars. Approx 50% more productivity than Quince A or C.
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