Cherry – Morello
The popular cooking cherry. Acid flavour. Very hardy and very reliable cropping. Ideal for north walls and makes the most delicious cherry pie, just add ice cream! ‘Nabella’ is often available which is another good sour cherry with slightly larger … Read More
Cherry – Stella
Lambert x J.I.2420. This was the first self fertile sweet cherry to appear that set a standard for modern high yielding varieties for garden and orchard. A large, dark red, reliable, sweet, juicy cherry with good flavour. (Canada 1968)
Chestnut – Maraval (12l)
A mid-season hybrid variety, upright with moderate vigour, producing shiny, dark mahogany-red nuts.
Gage – Oullins Golden
Large, golden yellow fruit of good gage-like flavour. Can be picked early for cooking. Excellent for bottling and freezing. (France 1860)
Mirabelle – Golden Sphere ®
Large, yellow almost translucent fruit with golden flesh and a sweet plummy flavour. Partially self fertile.
Plum – Avalon
Big round oval, red fruits. Strong tree ,shy cropping in its early years. Partially self fertile (Bristol circa 1980)
Plum – Czar
Prince Englebert x Early Rivers. So named, as the first year it fruited was 1874, the year Tsar Alexander II visited Britain, the last Russian head of state to visit before President Putin in 2003. A medium, dark purple plum with a … Read More
Plum – Haganta ®
Large blue plum, disease resistant. Strong scented with excellent flavour. Keeps well. Partially self fertile. Freestone. (Germany)
Plum – Marjorie’s Seedling
One of the latest picking plums for mid to late September. Large and good quality purple fruit. Dual purpose. Good cropper. (Berks. 1912)
Plum – Warwickshire Drooper
An old favourite. Always crops well and regularly. Large yellow fruit, very juicy and good for eating and cooking. The tree has a spreading, drooping habit from which it was named. In its county of origin this variety was fermented into an alcoholic drink … Read More