FRUIT TREES

Plum (Prunus) Malling ElizabethForm: BushRoostock: St. Julian (semi vigorous)This plum is Victoria like in appearance and heavy cropping but appearing much earlier in late July. Sweet and juicy, with the inside flesh yellow-orange.Small, white flowers are produced in spring around one week before Victoria. Uses: Eating & CookingPicking month: Mid JulyStoring: AugustPollination group 2 Self-fertileRelatively trouble-freePicture image courtesy of Frank P MatthewsSold in a 12 litre pot.

Form: Bush / St. Julian A RootstockMirabelle trees are a type of plum. Countess is a new dual-purpose variety, superb, round, dark red-purple plummy fruit with a lovely flavour. The flesh is red to yellow with a wonderful melting texture, juicy, sweet and rich in flavour. Excellent eating quality but can also be used in cooking. Freestone, the stone comes away from the flesh when fully ripe. Stunning white blossom in the spring.Picking month: Early AugustUses: Cooking & EatingSelf Fertile. (although self fertile produce more fruit with the following fruit tree partners)Pollination Partners:Mirabelle Golden Sphere, Mirabelle Gypsy, Plum Avalon, Plum Herman, Plum Rivers Early Prolific Gage Jefferson Gage Dennistons Superb Gage Golden Sphere.This plant is deciduous so it will lose all its leaves in autumn, then fresh new foliage appears again each spring.Fruit trees like sun and fertile well drained soil.Sold in a 12 litre pot.

Form: Bush / 2 Year, St. Julien A rootstockMerryweather is an unusually large plum sized damson, both for dessert and culinary use. Reliable heavy crops of blue-black fruits that can be eaten fresh when fully ripe, but are usually used for cooking. Yellow-greenish firm flesh, juicy and acidic flavour. A clingstone fruit, the stone tends to stick to the flesh. The tree itself is very vigorous and has a spreading habit. Good resistance to silver leaf disease.Picture image courtesy of Frank P Matthews.Sold in a 12 litre pot.

Ellison's Orange is a traditional English mid-season dessert apple, somewhat like Cox's Orange Pippin. Features;-- Form: Bush, MM106 Rootstock- Flushed orange red with broad, broken red stripes. - Creamy white flesh with an aniseed flavour which develops after picking, retaining its melting juicy flesh. - A healthy tree being resistant to scab and mildew.- Uses: Eating and Juicing- Pollination Group 4- Self Fertile- Storing October- Picking month: Mid September- Award-winning- Relatively trouble-freePicture image courtesy of Frank P MatthewsSold in a 12 litre pot.