Fruit trees and soft fruit bushes are cheap in the long run, easy to care for, and after a bit of patience, fun to harvest.
Fruit from your garden always tastes better than the irradiated, cold-stored stuff sold in supermarkets!
- Grown on the best soils for each group, developing strong root systems that will establish rapidly.
- Virus-free rootstocks & scion or budwood
Fruit trees and bushes are zero-rated for VAT.
What should I know about buying potted fruit trees?
The majority of fruit trees in the UK are planted bareroot in winter, but with a little extra effort, pot-grown fruit trees are equally good and can be planted year round as long as you can water them!
The thing to know about buying a potted fruit tree is that it should be planted out ASAP, either to open soil, or a larger container.
It could live in the pot it comes in, with irrigation in dry summer weather, for almost a year before it urgently needed repotting, but the pot is a really a "lifeboat for plants".
This pot has one job: to transfer a growing tree with soil around its roots. It is not intended for the tree to grow in for longer than a growing season.
Which fruit trees can I buy in pots?
The most popular fruit tree varieties are both grown in pots, and sold bareroot.
Other wonderful varieties are only available bareroot, during the winter bareroot planting season (November to March).
To add colour to a new orchard while you wait for it to become productive, a cheerful range of garden bulbs planted between your trees in Autumn is a sure bet: a few clumps will transform the Spring display, but you could grow alleys of cut and wild flowers between rows of fruit trees.
All our mail-order fruit trees come with our Replacement Guarantee, so you can give them a whirl with complete confidence.
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