Fruit Tree Trio

Imagine an orchard on your own patio! Enjoy freshly picked home grown fruit for years to come! Create an orchard in your own garden with our wonderful selection of fruit trees.

• Collection comprises:
• Apple ‘Braeburn’ - Pollination Group 4 - Cooking and Eating Apple – produces huge crops of bi-coloured, smooth skinned, crisp and juicy fruits. This well known variety earns its popularity by being easy to grow, early to crop from a young age, and having excellent storage potential. The heavy crops of flavoursome apples can be harvested in October and will store for up to 4 months. Rootstock: Apple M9.
• Apple 'Golden Delicious' - Pollination Group 4 - Cooking and Eating Apple - This is a versatile garden variety for the warmer parts of the UK, which can be used both as a dessert and cooking apple. This easy to grow variety produces good yields of attractive golden-green apples that store well over a long period after harvesting. Rootstock: Apple M9 “Excellent choice for small gardens and one of the most widely used rootstocks in commercial apple orchards.
• Pear 'Conference' Pollination Group 3/Self-Fertile - Eating pear  - The best known of all pears, ‘Conference’ is excellent eaten as a dessert pear but also exceptional when cooked. The long bell shaped fruits with firm flesh can be eaten hard or fully ripe with a smooth juicy flavour. Rootstock: Quince A

Estimated time to cropping once planted: 2 years.
Estimated time to best yields: 5 years.

Apple rootstocks:

• M27 - Extreme dwarf reaching a mature height of up to 1.5m (5')
• M9/ Pajam 9/ P9 - Dwarf reaching a mature height of up to 2.5m (8')
• M26 - Dwarf reaching a mature height of 2.5-3m (8-10')
• M6 - Semi dwarf reaching a mature height of up to 3m (10')
• MM106 - Semi dwarf reaching a mature height of up to 4m (13')

Pear and Quince rootstocks:

• Quince C / Quince Eline / Quince Adams - Dwarf reaching a mature height of up to 2.5-3m (8-10')
• Quince A - Semi vigorous reaching a mature height of up to 3m (10') to 4m (13')

Useful links:

How to grow fruit trees Fruit rootstock guide