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Plum Jubilee

Plum Jubilee
€18.00
Plum Jubilee Also known as Jubileum, dual-purpose Plum Jubilee was bred in Sweden in 1985 and is well adapted to colder climates. Often seen as an improved version of Plum Victoria, though they are not near relations. Large, oval, deep red fruit turning purple when ripe, with a free stone and sweet, firm, juicy, yellow flesh with a good balance ...
Plum Marjorie's Seedling

Plum Marjorie's Seedling
€18.00
Plum Marjorie’s Seedling Found as a chance seedling at a Berkshire farm in 1912, late dual-purpose Plum Marjorie’s Seedling is widely grown commercially for all the reasons that make it a good choice for the home grower. The fruit, which can be picked as late as October, is large, with deep blue-black, bloomed skin; the flesh is greenish-yellow ...
Plum Opal

Plum Opal
€18.00
Plum Opal Bred in Sweden in 1925, Plum Opal is probably the best and most popular early dessert plum. The fruit is medium-sized, yellow mottled with purplish red, with very juicy, pale yellow flesh which is sweet when fully ripe, a free stone and excellent, gage-like flavour. Flavour is better if tree is wall-trained. The tree is vigorous, extr...
Plum Oullin's Golden Gage

Plum Oullin's Golden Gage
€18.00
Plum Oullin's Golden Gage Not a true gage but a gage-like plum, and easier to grow, dual purpose Plum Oullins Golden Gage was found as a chance seedling in Oullins, France in the mid-19th century. The fruit is large, round, and pale yellow, freckled with crimson, and with a bloom; the flesh is pale, transparent, fairly dry and and moderately swe...
Plum Rivers' Early Prolific

Plum Rivers' Early Prolific
€18.00
Plum Rivers’ Early Prolific Bred in the famous Rivers’ nursery about 1820, culinary Plum Rivers’ Early Prolific lives up to its name. The fruit is small to medium-sized, blue-black with a bluish bloom; the flesh is golden, juicy, and firm, with a free stone and tart, damson-like flavour. Ideal for cooking and jam but can be eaten as a dessert pl...
Plum Victoria

Plum Victoria
€18.00
Plum Victoria Found as a chance seedling in a Sussex Garden in the first half of the 19th century, dual-purpose Plum Victoria is supremely reliable in Irish conditions, tolerating cold, damp, and partial shade. The fruit is medium-sized to large, orange-pink ripening to a deeper red with a bluish bloom; the flesh is yellow, juicy, and firm, swee...
Plum Yellow Pershore

Plum Yellow Pershore
€18.00
Plum Yellow Pershore Also known as Yellow Egg, culinary Plum Yellow Pershore has been grown commercially in Worcestershire since early Victorian times, and is a good choice for cold conditions. The fruit is medium-sized to large, oval, and ripens to bright yellow with a bloom; the flesh is yellow, dry and firm, with a sharp flavour, perfect for ...
Plumcot

Plumcot
€30.00
Plumcot An interspecific hybrid between a Japanese plum and an apricot, Plumcot is a small (depending on rootstock) slow-growing, deciduous fruit-tree, which can be fan-trained on a warm wall or grown as a bush-tree with a 2’/60cm trunk in mild areas. The fruit has the texture and skin of a plum and the sweet spiciness of an apricot. The leaves ...
Podocarpus hallii kiwi

Podocarpus hallii kiwi
€10.00
Halls totara kiwi A nice little cultivar, which adds an attractive point of interest in a smaller garden. Also known as P. cunninghamii kiwi, it puts on an interesting show of grey green foliage in Spring, ageing to a bright green. Site: Tolerates some exposureSoil: Well drained, prefers acid but lime is good tooPosition: Full sun, young plants...
Podocarpus salignus

Podocarpus salignus
€22.00
Willow-leaved podocarp An unusual conifer Native to Chile. It grows well in most sites, either as an understory tree/shrub, or as a specimen in a garden. Arching or drooping branches with dark, glossy willow-like leaves. It also tolerates damp soils, near a river for example, and can resemble a weeping willow with age. Dioecious, so needs a s...
Polygonatum multiflorum

Polygonatum multiflorum
€4.50
Common Solomon’s Seal Naturalised in the wild in NE Ireland, and long cultivated in gardens, Polygonatum multiflorum is an elegant plant for a moist, shady border or woodland or bog garden. It’s a rhizomatous, deciduous perennial, whose long, arching stems carry strongly ribbed, green, ovate to lance-shaped leaves, which all turn the same way, u...
Polylepis australis

Polylepis australis
€12.00
Polylepis australis - Tabaquillo Quite unusual in cultivation, Polylepis australis is native to Central Argentina. It fits well into most gardens that have a little elbow room. Generally, its flowers are quite unimpressive but its best attraction is its rolls of loose, paper-like exfoliating brownish bark, which makes a fantastic feature. That,...
Polypodium vulgare

Polypodium vulgare
€4.00
Common Polypody A familiar and charming, native Irish fern, Polypodium vulgare will colonise dry-stone walls, and in wetter areas, trees. It’s an evergreen, slowly spreading, mat-forming fern with rather narrow, pointed, divided, deep green, leathery fronds. These are up to 3”/8cm long, often shorter, and are sometimes not divided all the way do...
Polystichum braunii

Polystichum braunii
€5.00
Braun’s Holly Fern A very attractive fern for shade, Polystichum braunii is an evergreen (semi-evergreen in cold areas) perennial fern with a dense, upright, arching, shuttlecock habit, particularly good in a woodland planting. The narrow, feathery, lance-shaped fronds are very divided, emerging silvery and turning bright green and glossy, with ...
Polystichum munitum

Polystichum munitum
€4.00
Western Sword Fern From the NW United States, Polystichum munitum is a very large, handsome, evergreen clump-forming fern, with a spreading ‘shuttlecock’ habit and narrow, leathery, dark-green fronds with bristly tips. It is very hardy, robust and reliable, tolerating poor soil and retaining its good looks even in hot, dry weather, and will even...
Polystichum polyblepharum

Polystichum polyblepharum
€10.00
Japanese Tassel Fern A wonderful fern for year-round interest in shady, well-drained borders, Polystichum polyblepharum is a clump-forming, evergreen, perennial fern with an upright but wide, ‘shuttle-cock’ habit. The stiff, upright, lance-shaped, finely divided fronds unfurl covered in thick, light-catching, golden hairs, then turn green, and a...
Polystichum setiferum

Polystichum setiferum
€4.00
Soft Shield Fern A hardy native Irish fern, Polystichum setiferum is a clump-forming, semi-evergreen, perennial fern with a spreading, rosette-like habit, ideal for growing under trees or in a shady, well-drained border. The elegant, soft, lance-shaped, finely divided fronds are mid-green, and persist almost until the new, crozier-like fronds un...

Polystichum setiferum Herrenhausen
€4.00
Soft Shield Fern Herrenhausen A beautiful cultivar of the native Irish fern, Polystichum setiferum (Divisilobum Group) Herrenhausen has more finely divided and spreading fronds, forming a pretty, lacy rosette, ideal at the front of a shady border or under trees; it’s also good on steep banks. It’s a clump-forming, semi-evergreen, perennial fern ...

Polystichum setiferum Plumoso-densum
€4.00
Soft Shield Fern Plumoso-densum Also known as Polystichum setiferum Plumosomultilobum Group, Polystichum setiferum Plumodensum differs from the species in having richly overlapping fronds with overlapping ‘leaflets’, giving a densely feathery (hence the name) appearance. It is a small to medium-sized, semi-evergreen, clump-forming fern, with a s...

Polystichum setiferum Proliferum Group
€4.00
Soft Shield Fern Proliferum A light, feathery fern, Polystichum setiferum Proliferum Group is a fairly large, evergreen, perennial fern with an upright, mound-forming, shuttlecock habit and lightly arching, overlapping fronds. The fronds are mid-green, flushed purple on the new growth, and doubly divided, giving a feathery appearance. Tolerates ...