You don’t need a separate fruit garden to be able to enjoy the pleasure of picking your own home-grown fruit. The new dwarf varieties of Apple will grow happily in the lawn or shrub border, and soft fruit will be quite at home in a vegetable plot.

Growing fruit in the garden is both decorative and rewarding and has been an ongoing love affair for gardeners since gardens first took shape in the 16^th century. The introduction of dwarfing rootstocks has meant that Apple, Pear, Plum and Cherry can be grown as trees in small gardens. This has led to an upsurge in interest in fruit growing over the past few years and consequently there are many new types of fruit, such as Kiwi Fruit, that can be grown, and also new forms such as ‘Coronet’ Apple trees.

Fruit plants come in all shape and sizes:
From gnarly Mulberry trees to fresh-leafed strawberry plants...

Tree Fruit:

Apples:

Varieties available include:

Beauty of Bath
James Grieve
Bramley’s Seedling
Jonagold
Cox’s Orange Pippin
Katja
Discovery
Queen Cox self-fertile
Egremont Russet
Winston
Elstar
Family tree - 3 different varieties grafted on one tree
Fiesta
‘Coronet’ Apples
Golden Delicious
Granny Smith

All apple trees are on M27 (5-6ft in 10yrs) or M26 (10ft in 10yrs) except Bramley’s which are grown on MM111 (18ft in 10yrs).

Pears:

Varieties include:

Beurre Hardy
Concorde
Conference
Doyenne du Comice
Williams Bon Chretain

All pears are grown on quince A rootstock (10-15ft in 10 yrs).

Plums:

Varieties include:

Czar
Opal
Victoria
Damson
Cambridge Gage

Plums are grown on St. Julien A rootstock (mature height 10-15ft).

Other Tree Fruit:

Cherries
- Morello
- Stella
- Napoleon Bigarreau
Peach Peregrine
Nectarine Lord Napier
Apricot Moorpark
Fig Brown Turkey
Black Mulberry Morus Nigra
Quince Vranja
Medlar

Soft Fruit:

Varieties available: