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1-year
Q. What is the difference between a cordon and a 1-year tree?
Q. Initial pruning and removal of buds
Q. I have a question about pruning my 1-year almond tree
Aerial roots
Q. Aerial rootlets forming
Allotment
Q. Allotment plum tree
Q. Cider and perry orchard on an allotment
Almond
Q. I have a question about pruning my 1-year almond tree
Apricot
Q. Compacta apricot tree not fruiting
Q. Apricot tree winter protection
Q. Apricot tree to grow in a pot
Arch
Q. Training apple trees up a round-top arch
Ballerina
Q. Ballerina apple trees
Bare-root
Q. What is the size of a half-standard apple tree?
Q. Initial pruning and removal of buds
Q. Organic farming practices
Q. I have a question about pruning my 1-year almond tree
Q. Can you dispatch bare root stock now (early November)?
Q. Why do you say fruit trees should be planted in the winter?
Bark
Q. Does the scratch test actually work?
Bees
Q. Can pears be pollinated in windy conditions?
Black Doris
Q. Black Doris plum trees
Blossom
Q. What colour is cherry blossom?
Q. Why does my apple tree have blossom in late summer?
Q. Eating cherry with nice blossom
Q. Do all your fruiting cherry trees have pink blossom?
Bramley apple Tree
Q. Self-pollinating Bramley apple tree
Brexit
Q. Trees for Northern Ireland after Brexit
Q. Fruit trees for France
Q. When is the best time to order a fruit tree?
Buds
Q. Why isn't my new fruit tree showing any signs of life?
Q. Initial pruning and removal of buds
Bullaces
Q. How to distinguish mirabelles from other types of plums
Bush-trained
Q. How should I prune a pear on Pyrodwarf rootstock?
Q. What does 'bush-trained' mean?
Buying
Q. When is the best time to order a fruit tree?
Q. Alert notification for fruit trees
Q. What does out of stock mean?
Cambridge
Q. Small orchard project in Cambridgeshire
Carbon footprint
Q. Are your fruit trees UK-grown?
Cherry plums
Q. How to distinguish mirabelles from other types of plums
Cherry trees
Q. What is the best cherry rootstock for a small garden?
Q. What colour is cherry blossom?
Q. Eating cherry with nice blossom
Q. Do all your fruiting cherry trees have pink blossom?
Q. Will Merton Glory and Korda cherry trees cross-pollinate?
Choosing fruit trees
Q. Fruit tree for a memorial
Cider
Q. Cider and perry orchard on an allotment
Climate
Q. Is Cox's Orange Pippin suitable for growing in south-west France?
Q. I have chosen the wrong varieties for my area
Q. Are your fruit trees UK-grown?
Q. Is it best to buy a fruit tree from a northern nursery?
Codling moth
Q. Codling moth
Columnar
Q. Ballerina apple trees
Container size
Q. Fans and Espaliers growing in pots
Container-growing
Q. Growing a Malus Wedding Bouquet in a pot
Q. Apricot tree to grow in a pot
Container-grown
Q. Can container-grown trees be planted at any time of year?
Q. Do I have to plant a pot-grown tree in a pot?
Q. Planting an apple tree where a cypress tree used to be
Cordon
Q. What is the difference between a cordon and a 1-year tree?
Q. Which way should I plant oblique cordons?
Q. Training apple trees up a round-top arch
Q. What is the size of a cordon-trained tree on delivery?
Cordons
Q. Cider and perry orchard on an allotment
Cornish apple varieties
Q. Will Cornish Aromatic and Cornish Gilliflower apple trees cross-pollinate?
Cox alternatives
Q. Questions about Cox's Orange Pippin
Cox's Orange Pippin
Q. Questions about Cox's Orange Pippin
Crab-apple
Q. Pruning spindlebush crab-apple trees
Culinary Plum
Q. What is the difference between dessert and culinary plums?
Cumbria
Q. Keeping trees in the pots we supply them in
Czar
Q. Fan-trained plum for NE facing wall
Dabinett
Q. Cider and perry orchard on an allotment
Damsons
Q. How to distinguish mirabelles from other types of plums
December-ripening
Q. Late fruiting apples
Deliver Trees To The USA
Q. Can you ship trees to the USA from the UK?
Delivery
Q. Can you advise roughly when the tree would be delivered?
Q. Can you dispatch bare root stock now (early November)?
Derogation
Q. Are the trees you sell organic?
Dessert Plum
Q. What is the difference between dessert and culinary plums?
Disease-resistant
Q. Disease resistant Victoria plum tree
Dual-purpose Plums
Q. What is the difference between dessert and culinary plums?
Dwarf
Q. Should I remove small apples forming on my new apple tree?
Q. Allotment plum tree
Espalier
Q. Fans and Espaliers growing in pots
Q. What rootstock to use for a fan-trained apple?
Q. Do you have espalier-trained Concorde pear trees?
Q. Rootstocks for trained trees in the south of England
Q. Espalier apple trees for north-west fence
Q. Conference pear tree for east-facing wall
Q. Specifying maiden whip trees vs feathered maidens
Espalier plum trees
Q. Espalier plum trees
Family fruit tree
Q. Could you propagate a customised family apple tree?
Family fruit trees
Q. Can you have apples and pears on a family fruit tree?
Q. Could you propagate a customised family apple tree?
Fan
Q. Fans and Espaliers growing in pots
Q. What rootstock to use for a fan-trained apple?
Q. Can pears be pollinated in windy conditions?
Q. Rootstocks for trained trees in the south of England
Q. Fan-trained sweet cherries in Devon
Q. Jefferson plum - fan training
Q. Espalier plum trees
Fan Plum Tree
Q. Fan-trained plum for NE facing wall
Feathered
Q. Specifying maiden whip trees vs feathered maidens
Feature tree
Q. Can you send me photos of the trees so I can choose one?
Fence
Q. Espalier apple trees for north-west fence
Flowering group
Q. My new apple tree is not in blossom at the right time
Q. Flowering period vs Flowering group
Flowering period
Q. Flowering period vs Flowering group
France
Q. Fruit trees for France
Fruit trees for a school
Q. What apple trees do you recommend for a school?
Fruit-bearing age
Q. Do you supply mature pot-grown fruit trees?
Fruitlets
Q. Should I remove small apples forming on my new apple tree?
Gift certificates
Q. Do you accept National Garden vouchers?
Gisela 5
Q. What is the best cherry rootstock for a small garden?
Grafting
Q. Can you grow apple trees from seed?
Grow true
Q. Can you grow apple trees from seed?
Half-standard
Q. What is the size of a half-standard apple tree?
Q. Canopy height of standard and half-standard fruit trees
Height
Q. Canopy height of standard and half-standard fruit trees
Hole
Q. Planting an apple tree where a cypress tree used to be
Honeycrisp
Q. Honeycrisp alternatives
Indoors
Q. Should I keep my new patio fruit trees indoors over winter?
Inverness
Q. Late fruiting apples
Juice
Q. Cider and perry orchard on an allotment
June drop
Q. Should I remove small apples forming on my new apple tree?
Late-ripening
Q. Late fruiting apples
M25
Q. Do you sell MM111 and M25 rootstocks?
Q. Pleached fruit trees
M26
Q. Training apple trees up a round-top arch
M27
Q. Could you propagate a customised family apple tree?
M9
Q. What is the difference between a cordon and a 1-year tree?
Q. Should I remove small apples forming on my new apple tree?
Q. Training apple trees up a round-top arch
Q. Cider and perry orchard on an allotment
Maiden
Q. Initial pruning and removal of buds
Q. Specifying maiden whip trees vs feathered maidens
Mature fruit trees
Q. Do you supply mature pot-grown fruit trees?
Q. Conference pear tree for east-facing wall
Q. Buying a mature large apple tree
Mediterranean
Q. Is Cox's Orange Pippin suitable for growing in south-west France?
Memorial
Q. Fruit tree for a memorial
Mirabelles
Q. How to distinguish mirabelles from other types of plums
MM106
Q. What rootstock to use for a fan-trained apple?
Q. Is Cox's Orange Pippin suitable for growing in south-west France?
Q. Rootstocks for trained trees in the south of England
Q. Pleached fruit trees
Q. What is the size of a half-standard apple tree?
Q. I have just ordered 3 apple trees - how far apart do they need to be planted?
MM111
Q. Do you sell MM111 and M25 rootstocks?
Morello cherry
Q. Fruit trees for partial shade
Morus alba
Q. Mulberry tree not fruiting
Morus nigra
Q. Mulberry tree not fruiting
Mulberry tree
Q. Mulberry tree not fruiting
Mulch
Q. Using a bark chip mulch around young fruit trees
Mycorrhizal fungi
Q. Can I use mycorrhizal fungi when I plant my new crab-apple tree?
National Garden Vouchers
Q. Do you accept National Garden vouchers?
NE Facing Wall
Q. Fan-trained plum for NE facing wall
New fruit tree
Q. Why isn't my new fruit tree showing any signs of life?
North west fence
Q. Espalier apple trees for north-west fence
Northern Ireland
Q. What fruit varieties are suitable for Northern Ireland?
Q. Trees for Northern Ireland after Brexit
Not fruiting
Q. Compacta apricot tree not fruiting
Nursery
Q. Is it best to buy a fruit tree from a northern nursery?
Oblique cordons
Q. Which way should I plant oblique cordons?
Online pollination check
Q. My new apple tree is not in blossom at the right time
Ordering
Q. Can you advise roughly when the tree would be delivered?
Organic nursery
Q. Are the trees you sell organic?
Q. Are any of the fruit trees you offer organically grown?
Q. Organic farming practices
Organic trees
Q. Are the trees you sell organic?
Q. Are any of the fruit trees you offer organically grown?
Q. Organic farming practices
Own-root
Q. Do you sell own-root apple trees?
Partial shade
Q. Fruit trees for partial shade
Patio fruit trees
Q. Should I keep my new patio fruit trees indoors over winter?
Pears
Q. Can pears be pollinated in windy conditions?
Q. Can my apple tree pollinate some new pear trees?
Perry
Q. Cider and perry orchard on an allotment
Perry Trees
Q. Cider and perry orchard on an allotment
Photos
Q. Can you send me photos of the trees so I can choose one?
Pips
Q. Can you grow apple trees from seed?
Planting
Q. Which direction should the scion on the rootstock face when I plant the tree?
Q. Planting new fruit trees in old holes
Q. Do newly-planted fruit trees need watering over the winter?
Q. When is the best time to order a fruit tree?
Q. Planting an apple tree where a cypress tree used to be
Planting time
Q. Why do you say fruit trees should be planted in the winter?
Q. Leaving the tree in its pot
Pleached fruit trees
Q. Pleached fruit trees
Plum tree
Q. Allotment plum tree
Q. Black Doris plum trees
Pollination
Q. Are pollination groups the same in France as the UK?
Q. Can pears be pollinated in windy conditions?
Q. My new apple tree is not in blossom at the right time
Q. Flowering period vs Flowering group
Q. What do I need to polinate a Bramley apple tree?
Q. Will Cornish Aromatic and Cornish Gilliflower apple trees cross-pollinate?
Q. Will Merton Glory and Korda cherry trees cross-pollinate?
Pollinator
Q. My new apple tree is not in blossom at the right time
Polllination
Q. Can my apple tree pollinate some new pear trees?
Pot-grown
Q. Can container-grown trees be planted at any time of year?
Q. Why do you say fruit trees should be planted in the winter?
Q. Leaving the tree in its pot
Pot-grown trees
Q. Do I have to plant a pot-grown tree in a pot?
Q. Keeping trees in the pots we supply them in
Precocious
Q. Should I remove small apples forming on my new apple tree?
Protection
Q. Apricot tree winter protection
Pruning
Q. What is the best time of year to prune a cherry tree?
Q. Initial pruning and removal of buds
Q. Jefferson plum - fan training
Q. I have a question about pruning my 1-year almond tree
Q. Pruning spindlebush crab-apple trees
Pruning cherry trees
Q. What is the best time of year to prune a cherry tree?
Prunus salicina
Q. Black Doris plum trees
Pyrodwarf
Q. How should I prune a pear on Pyrodwarf rootstock?
Queen Cox
Q. Questions about Cox's Orange Pippin
Quince A
Q. How should I prune a pear on Pyrodwarf rootstock?
Q. Rootstocks for trained trees in the south of England
Re-plant disease
Q. Fruit trees for Aviemore, Scotland
Re-potting
Q. When is the best time to re-pot a pear tree?
Reeves
Q. Disease resistant Victoria plum tree
Replant syndrome
Q. Planting new fruit trees in old holes
Rootstock
Q. Do you sell MM111 and M25 rootstocks?
Q. What is the best cherry rootstock for a small garden?
Q. How should I prune a pear on Pyrodwarf rootstock?
Q. Should I remove small apples forming on my new apple tree?
Q. Which direction should the scion on the rootstock face when I plant the tree?
Q. Aerial rootlets forming
Q. Allotment plum tree
Russet
Q. Espalier apple trees for north-west fence
Samba
Q. Ballerina apple trees
Saturn
Q. Honeycrisp alternatives
Scion
Q. Which direction should the scion on the rootstock face when I plant the tree?
Scionwood
Q. Can you supply scionwood?
Scotland
Q. Fruit trees for Aviemore, Scotland
Scratch test
Q. Does the scratch test actually work?
Seeds
Q. Can you grow apple trees from seed?
Self Pollinating
Q. Self-pollinating Bramley apple tree
Self-Fertile
Q. Can pears be pollinated in windy conditions?
Q. Ballerina apple trees
Shade
Q. Fruit trees for partial shade
Shoots
Q. White downy substance on apple tree shoots
Soil
Q. Planting an apple tree where a cypress tree used to be
South-west France
Q. Is Cox's Orange Pippin suitable for growing in south-west France?
Q. Are pollination groups the same in France as the UK?
Spacing
Q. I have just ordered 3 apple trees - how far apart do they need to be planted?
Specimen tree
Q. Can you send me photos of the trees so I can choose one?
Spindlebush
Q. Pruning spindlebush crab-apple trees
Sport
Q. Your site often mentions "sports" - what exactly are they?
Q. Red Jonaprince sport vs Jonagold
Spring
Q. Why isn't my new fruit tree showing any signs of life?
St. Julien
Q. Fruit trees for Aviemore, Scotland
Standard
Q. Canopy height of standard and half-standard fruit trees
Standard rootstock
Q. Buying a mature large apple tree
Tipping
Q. The main trunk has been topped
Topping
Q. The main trunk has been topped
Transplanting
Q. Transplanting an apple tree
Q. Buying a mature large apple tree
Q. Why do you say fruit trees should be planted in the winter?
Tree size
Q. What is the size of a cordon-trained tree on delivery?
Trellis
Q. Fruit trees for Aviemore, Scotland
Q. Can pears be pollinated in windy conditions?
Triploid
Q. What do I need to polinate a Bramley apple tree?
UK-grown trees
Q. Are your fruit trees UK-grown?
Victoria
Q. Disease resistant Victoria plum tree
Vigorous rootstock
Q. Buying a mature large apple tree
VVA-1
Q. Allotment plum tree
Wall-trained
Q. What rootstock to use for a fan-trained apple?
Watering
Q. Do newly-planted fruit trees need watering over the winter?
White down
Q. White downy substance on apple tree shoots
Windbreak
Q. Fruit trees for Aviemore, Scotland
Winter
Q. Apricot tree winter protection
Q. Can you dispatch bare root stock now (early November)?
Yellow leaves
Q. Mulberry tree