Mini Orchard Tree Collection
Grow-your-own fruit with this complete mini orchard!
- Pick your own bumper crop of scrumptious mouth-watering fruit from your own ‘home grown’ mini-orchard.
- Grown in your garden, patio or balcony for less than 1p per lb for life!
- A selection of the UK’s most popular, award-winning varieties.
- Self-fertile trees so you’re guaranteed a crop without worrying about pollinating groups!
- Supplied as 6 bare root trees, one of each variety, ready for planting out now.
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6 x Bare Root
Item: 300214
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An absolutely cracking collection of fruit trees to make your own mini orchard!
Now you too can pick crops of premium variety eating apples, cherries, apricots, pears and plums direct from your very own ‘Mini-Orchard’ - from as early as next summer! At just a fraction of normal prices, our “commercial grower” quality trees are supplied bare root and are ready to plant now - quickly establishing and cropping exceedingly well.
Their ‘dwarf’ roots restrict height, so you can pick your crops with no need for ladders! All are self-fertile, so your crops are guaranteed and all they need is a small sunny space in your garden, patio pots, or even a balcony.
In this collection you will receive:
- Braeburn Apple Tree -The UK's most popular eating apple variety by far. Pick fresh from your tree by mid-October each season. 2m (6-7 ft)
- 'Victoria' Plum Tree AGM - Britain's best-loved and most popular award-winning garden plum variety. Sumptuous yellow-fleshed red-skinned fruits in late summer. 3.5-4m (11-12ft)
- 'Conference' Pear Tree AGM - Britain's best-loved and most recognised Pear fruit tree variety, Easy to grow for fresh, juicy pears in September and October. 3-3.5m (10-11ft)
- 'Stella' Cherry Tree AGM - If you only have space to grow one fruit tree, grow this one and get lovely blossom and sweet juicy cherries. The UK's favourite sweet cherry with bumper crops of super sweet, plump, juicy and aromatic fruit. 3m (10ft)
- 'Bramley' Apple tree - Considered the King of Cooking Apples by respected chefs and professional fruit growers! Bramley is a heavy cropper once established with high quality fruits that last well when stored. 2m (6-7 ft).
- Peach 'Redhaven' - A peach tree that will grow and thrive in UK conditions. Self fertile with yellow-fleshed fruits, you'll be delighted with its spring blossom too. 2m (6-7 ft)
Supplied as a collection of 6 bare root trees, ready to plant.
What Is Supplied
Item 300214 supplied as:
Supplied as 6 bare-root trees, 1 each of, Braeburn Apple, Victoria Plum, Conference Pear, Stella Cherry, Bramley Apple, Early Moorpark Apricot. Ready to plant.
Plant Care Information
RHS Garden Merit
Perfect In Pots
Plant In Sunshine
Winter Hardy
Edible
Easy To Grow
Top Tips
Bare-root plants are dormant, with no leaves, and with the roots out of the soil.
On receipt, soak the roots in water for at least two hours (overnight is better). If you can't plant straight away, they should be fine for up to a week if left in a cool, dark, frost-free place - keep the bag around the roots with some water inside. Don't worry if the roots have been cut quite harshly - this is done to encourage the plant to grow.
On receipt, soak the roots in water for at least two hours (overnight is better). If you can't plant straight away, they should be fine for up to a week if left in a cool, dark, frost-free place - keep the bag around the roots with some water inside. Don't worry if the roots have been cut quite harshly - this is done to encourage the plant to grow.
Care Information
- Select an appropriate spot for your plants, making sure that you give them enough space to grow to their full size.
- Dig a hole twice the width of the roots, forking over the bottom to loosen the soil, and add some good quality fertiliser such as Blood Fish & Bone (wash your hands afterwards!).
- Aim to plant at the same depth as the soil mark on the trunk.
- Holding the tree or plant upright in position with one hand, slowly backfill the hole with soil, and gently shake the plant, so the soil falls back around the roots.
- Use your heel to compact the soil around the plant to ensure good contact around the roots.
- If you're planting into pots, place some old rocks, stones or gravel in the bottom of the pot for drainage and ballast.
- Use the best compost you can buy - our Premium Professional Compost mix is particularly good - and some sand or grit to aid drainage.
- You are again aiming to plant to the depth of the soil mark.
- Firm down as you fill and press down hard with your heel when the pot is full.
- Add a tree stake and ties
- Water the plants weekly - especially in dry weather - for the first 8 weeks or so.
- When the soil and air warm up from late March onwards, you should see the plant burst into life.Do not allow plants to dry out in the first four months after planting.
- Once established for one season, they will become much more tolerant to a lack of water, as the root system develops.
- Prune to remove any broken, diseased or crossing branches in late autumn or winter once the plants are well-established to control size.
- Prune established trees in summer using good quality secateurs (we highly recommend our exclusive Fieldhaus ones), removing weak shoots, and cutting out those that cross over each other, to create an evenly spaced bowl shape.
Planting/Flowering Calendar
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Fully Grown Plant Dimensions (approx)
300 cm
200 cm
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