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Whatever the occasion and whoever the recipient, a fruit plant is guaranteed to plant a smile every time. These gifts are a joy to give and receive as they offer a bounty of delicious fruit every year. Friends and family who love cooking will cherish these culinary fruit trees. What other gifts are fulfilling for both stomach and mind?
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Berry Collection
A berry berry berry nice collection of Summer fruits.
1 Blackberry Bigandearly Thornfree
1 Loganberry Thornless LY654
1 Buckingham Thornless Tayberry
All grown in a 3 litre containers.
£38.28 £34.48
Blueberry Bluecrop
Mid Season Variety Bluecrop - This popular Blueberry variety should always be chosen for planting either by itself or in a collection of varieties. Vigorous upright habit. Bell shaped flowers in spring followed by heavy crops of good flavoured fruit. Bluecrop has excellent autumn foliage. Considered the best all around variety for consistent yields with large, high quality fruit, and disease resistance. Bluecrop is an upright, open growing bush.
£14.48
Blueberry Sunshine Blue
Mid Season Sunshine Blue - This Blueberry has so many excellent qualities that it is almost a new kind of plant. Has dense, rounded, semi dwarf form only 2-3 feet high and wide making it a great choice for containers. Self fertile. Semi evergreen. The only variety to be truly self fertile, which means that you only need 1 plant. The other beauty is that it's perfect for tub growing on patios, highly ornamental, with shocking pink flowers in the spring. Highly recommended.
Blueberry Sunshine Blue: Picking time mid July.
£15.98
Dwarf Quince Leskovacz
Quince Leskovacz fruit trees - A highly productive variety from Serbia used for all culinary purposes including quince liqueur. Leskovacz produces large pale green felted foliage producing large rounded shaped green/yellow quinces in October from very fragrant pale pink blossom in the spring. Leskovacz is a self fertile Quince variety. Leskovacz is a great Quince tree to grow in a large pot on the patio.
from £33.90
Family Tree Concorde/Conference/Comice - 2 Year Bush 12 Litre
Conference - Dessert Pear-Remains the number 1 choice because of its reliability under less than favourable conditions. Fruits are long and narrow with juicy but firm flesh. Pick late September. Stores well.
Doyenne du Comice - Dessert Pear-The Queen of Pears if you are looking for flavour. The texture and taste are truly outstanding. It does require a warm sheltered site. Pick mid October.
Dessert Pear Concorde fruit trees - A new Pear from East Malling Research Station. Concorde is a perfect garden variety as the growth is quite compact. Concorde is also self fertile. Received the Award of Merit from the Royal Horticultural Society. Concorde is a reliable and heavy cropper. Ideal for the small garden. Has Conference and Doyenne du Comice as parents. Very good flavour with melting juicy flesh. Picking time late October. Pollination group C.
£80
Family Tree Cox/Fiesta/Hereford Russet - 2 Year Bush 12 Litre
Cox's Orange Pippin Dessert Apple - Regarded by many as the best of all eating apples. Aromatic, juicy, crisp with superb flavour. This variety is now self fertile. Fruits are golden, flushed with orange to red medium size fruits.
Fiesta Dessert Apple - An outstanding new apple variety for people who would like to grow Cox's Orange Pippin but can't. Received the Award of Merit from the Royal Horticultural Society in 1987. Cox is one of the parents and all of the aroma and nuttiness are present. Fiesta is a heavy cropping variety. Fruits are brightly coloured with a yellow background. Size is medium to large and the shape is rather flat to round. Picking time early October.
Hereford Russet Dessert Apple - A modern variety that is the russet with a Cox-like flavour. Fruits are deep golden amber russetted. Exceptional eating quality with a rich, aromatic flavour and a winner in ‘taste testings’ around the country. The tree is well spurred, well shaped and moderately vigorous. The fruit set is heavy with small to medium sized fruit. A genuine resemblance to Cox but much easier to grow, far less troublesome and disease resistant. A very hardy variety that can be grown succesfully in any part of the UK. History: Bred by Hugh Ermen in 2002 in Kent, England. Picking time late October and the fruit stores until January.
£80
Loganberry Thornless LY654
Loganberry Thornless LY654 - The loganberry is a cross between a raspberry and a blackberry. The fruit is dark red in colour and longer than a raspberry. It is juicier but has a sharper flavour than raspberry. The fruit ripens over a long period from July to August. For best flavour it should be allowed to fully ripen to a dark red colour before picking. Loganberries are best used for jams and summer puddings but can also be eaten fresh. Ideal for planting against a wall or a fence or growing in a container.
£12