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Kiwi - Actinidia arguta Weiki - male
€6.00
Kiwi arguta Weiki - male A male baby kiwi and an excellent pollinator for female varieties, Actinidia arguta Weiki ® is a deciduous, twining climber, an attractive vine in its own right, with the best foliage of the species. Fast-growing, it flowers from April to June. Compact for a baby kiwi, it will reach 12’/3.65m, and will need supporting wi...
Kiwi - Actinidia deliciosa Solissimo - self fertile
€6.00
Kiwi - Actinidia deliciosa Solissimo A large, vigorous climber, Actinidia deliciosa ‘Solissimo’ needs to be trained over a sunny pergola or as an espalier against a south-facing wall. Can be grown outside only in the warmest areas, otherwise in a polytunnel or greenhouse big enough to accommodate it. Unlike other kiwis, ‘Solissimo’ is self-ferti...
Lingonberry Koralle
Lingonberry Koralle
€8.00
Lingonberry Koralle Introduced from Sweden, lingonberries or cowberries (Vaccinium vitis-idaea) are becoming popular for their high antioxidant and vitamin content as well as for their delicious flavour. Lingonberry Koralle is widely grown commercially; a low, creeping, evergreen shrub, with little bell-shaped, deep pink flowers in late spring ...
Lingonberry Little Miss Cherry
€12.00
Lingonberry Little Miss Cherry Introduced from Sweden, lingonberries or cowberries (Vaccinium vitis-idaea) are low, creeping, evergreen shrubs, becoming very popular for their high antioxidant and vitamin content as well as for their delicious flavour. Lingonberry Little Miss Cherry is an attractive, compact variety; it is very productive, with...
Loganberry thornless
Loganberry thornless
€12.00
Loganberry thornless A thornless hybrid between a raspberry and a blackberry, Loganberries were developed in California in the late 19th century, but are well adapted to Irish conditions. Cane fruits, fruiting on 2nd year wood, they must be trained on wires like summer raspberries. The variety LY59 is easy to grow and particularly good for cooki...
Medlar Brabant giant
Medlar Brabant giant
€20.00
Medlar Brabant Giant Medlar (Mespilus) Brabant Giant is a variety with extra large fruit. Popular in classical and Elizabethan times, medlars are once again coming back into favour. Medlar Brabants Giant is a highly ornamental tree with twisting branches and large, deep green leaves, colouring well in autumn; best grown as a standard or half -s...
Medlar Dutch Monstrous
Medlar Dutch Monstrous
€25.00
Medlar Dutch Monstrous With the largest fruit of all medlars, Mespilus germanica Monstrous is a tree with a charmingly erratic, crooked, spreading habit of growth, like trees in Chinese or Japanese paintings. The leaves are long, rather leathery and mid-green, turning yellow in autumn. In June, the, tree bears beautiful blossom, like that of a d...
Medlar Nottingham
Medlar Nottingham
€25.00
Medlar Nottingham Medlar Nottingham is a selected variety with larger leaves, flowers and fruits. Less thorny than the species. Popular in classical and Elizabethan times, medlars are once again coming back into favour. Medlar Nottingham is a particularly good cultivar, not just for its fruit, which is particularly well-flavoured, if rather sma...
Mirabelle de Nancy
Mirabelle de Nancy
€24.00
Mirabelle de Nancy An ancient variety thought to have been brought to France from the Middle East in the 16th century, Mirabelle Mirabelle de Nancy is the most popular mirabelle in France, where it’s used for tarts and preserves. The fruit is very small, round and a rich speckled apricot-yellow in colour; the flesh is golden-yellow, firm and swe...
Mirabelle Ruby®
Mirabelle Ruby®
€24.00
Mirabelle Ruby Mirabelles are very closely related to damsons, but the fruit is smaller, round and sweeter. Prunus insititia Mirabelle Ruby® is a vigorous small tree with a slender, very upright habit, ideal for the smaller garden. Well suited to the Irish climate, and tolerant of cold winters, it’s a regular bearer with with good disease resist...
Morus rotundiloba BonBonBerry® Mojo Berry
€10.00
Dwarf Mulberry Mojo Berry A dwarf mulberry which can be grown in any garden, unlike the usual mulberry tree, Morus rotundiloba BonBonBerry® Mojo Berry is a small (5’/1.5m) fruiting shrub with a compact, bushy habit and small, heart-shaped, green leaves. It fruits on new and old wood, meaning that it can fruit in its first year; it is self-ferti...
Myrtus ugni - Chilean guava
Myrtus ugni - Chilean guava
€15.00
Chilean Guava, Ugniberry Also known as Ugni molinae, this is a plant with many common names, ranging from Strawberry myrtle due to its strawberry-flavoured fruit, to Tazziberry which it is known as in Australia and New Zealand. Myrtus ugni is native to the Valdivian rain forest in southern Chile, where it grows as a short understory shrub. It wa...
Peach Amsden
Peach Amsden
€30.00
Peach Amsden An American-bred white dessert peach variety, Peach Amsden has the great advantage in Ireland of ripening very early. Best in warmer areas, trained against a warm wall outside or in a cold greenhouse, or in a container in a polytunnel. The freestone fruit is medium-sized and greenish-white, flushed red, and the creamy-white, sweet f...
Peach Peregrine
Peach Peregrine
€30.00
Peach Peregrine Possibly the No.1 choice by gardeners, and also the best choice according to some experts. The juicy, white fleshed peaches have a light green and crimson skin and an excellent flavour. To get good results growing peaches in Ireland, they really need to be fan-trained against a warm wall or grown under cover. Protect outdoor, wal...
Peach Rochester
Peach Rochester
€30.00
Peach Rochester Bred in America in the early 20th century, dessert Peach Rochester is perhaps the best and most reliable yellow peach for conditions in these islands, but in Ireland really needs to be fan-trained against a warm wall or grown under cover. Large, golden fruit with a red blush, with juicy, yellow flesh, a free stone and a good flav...
Pear Beth
Pear Beth
€18.00
Pear Beth An early to mid-season dessert pear, Pyrus communis Beth is a cross between pears Beurre Surfin and William’s Bon Chretien. The fruit is small with a rather irregular conical shape, with yellowish-green skin, sometimes tinged pink on the side facing the sun. The white flesh is sweet, melting and juicy, with a wonderful rich flavour, re...
Pear Beurre Hardy
Pear Beurre Hardy
€18.00
Pear Beurre Hardy A really delicious, old French, late dessert pear, Pyrus communis Beurre Hardy is a hardy, vigorous, deciduous tree with a rounded crown , which does best in drier parts of south-east Ireland in a warm, fertile, sheltered site, and whose leaves turn a characteristic rusty-red in autumn. The fruit is large and rounded, with a ye...
Pear Black Worcester
Pear Black Worcester
€18.00
Pear Black Worcester A late season culinary pear, Pyrus communis Black Worcester is a very ancient pear, possibly brought to Worcestershire by the Romans. The fruit is large and oval, the green skin darkening to mahogany, and it’s a very good keeper. The hard, yellowish, slightly gritty flesh softens and sweetens in store after the New Year, tho...
Pear Catillac
Pear Catillac
€18.00
Pear Catillac An ancient variety of late culinary pear from 17th century Versailles, Pear Catillac has stood the test of time for its lovely flavour and very long keeping qualities. Large, hard, greenish-yellow fruit with a red flush; slightly coarse-textured flesh turns pink with a gorgeous flavour after the very long, slow cooking it requires....
Pear Concorde
Pear Concorde
€18.00
Pear Concorde One of the best dessert pears for Irish conditions, dessert Pear Concorde has the best characteristics of its parents, having the hardiness and reliability of Pear Conference and much of the succulence and delicious flavour of Pear Doyenne du Comice. The fruit is large, yellowish-brown with some russeting and sometimes a pink flus...