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Apple Widow's Friend
Apple Widow's Friend
€18.00
Apple Widow’s Friend Once widely grown in Co Armagh, Apple Widow’s Friend is an early dessert apple and a prolific cropper, hence, no doubt, the name! Variably sized fruit, round to conical, with a rather irregular shape, pale yellow with a large area of crimson blush and a few flecks of russet. The flesh is white, soft and very juicy, with a go...
Apple Winston
Apple Winston
€18.00
Apple Winston Bred in Berkshire in the first half of the 20th century, late dessert Apple Winston is nevertheless suitable for all areas, and is an excellent garden tree. The fruit is small to medium-sized, yellowish-green, flushed and streaked red. The flesh is light cream, crisp and juicy; the taste eaten from the tree is quite sharp, but it s...
Apple Winter Gem
Apple Winter Gem
€18.00
Apple Winter Gem Bred in Kent in 1975, one parent of late dessert Apple Winter Gem is Apple Cox’s Orange Pippin, although, unlike Cox, it thrives in most areas. Very attractive fruit, medium-sized to large, golden-yellow with extensive orange-red speckling and streaking; the flesh is creamy-yellow, firm, crisp and juicy, with an exceptional, ric...
Apple Worcester Pearmain
Apple Worcester Pearmain
€18.00
Apple Worcester Pearmain This old favourite was bred in Worcestershire at the end of the 19th century, and is thought to be a seedling of Apple Devonshire Quarrenden. An early to mid-season dessert apple, Apple Worcester Pearmain bears very attractive apples, round and slightly lop-sided, yellowish green almost completely covered with a vivid re...
Apple Yarlington Mill
Apple Yarlington Mill
€18.00
Apple Yarlington Mill An excellent variety of late cider apple, Apple Yarlington Mill was discovered in Somerset at the beginning of the 20th century, and is widely grown in commercial orchards. The fruit is medium-sized and green flushed with orange-red; the flesh is firm and good for pressing. The juice is sweet to bitter-sweet, with a lovely ...
Apple Yellow Ingestrie
Apple Yellow Ingestrie
€18.00
Apple Yellow Ingestrie A very old English apple, dating back to the early 19th century, Apple Yellow Ingestrie is a early to mid-season dessert apple which makes a lovely specimen tree for a garden. The fruit is rather small, round and bright yellow; the flesh is also yellow, crisp and fine-textured with a sharp-sweet ‘apple-y’ flavour. The tree...
Apricot Bredase
Apricot Bredase
€28.00
Apricot Bredase One of the oldest apricot varieties, mid-season Apricot Bredase is thought to date back to Roman times, and is still prized as perhaps the finest flavoured of all. Speckled, apricot-orange, scented fruit with orange flesh is ready in late August, and, for the richest flavour, should be allowed to ripen on the tree until it starts...
Apricot Early Moorpark
Apricot Early Moorpark
€28.00
Apricot Early Moorpark A mid-season variety, Apricot Early Moorpark is an earlier-ripening form of the popular 18th century English variety Moorpark. It is well adapted to cooler climates, but more suited to the warmer parts of Ireland. The fruit is golden-yellow, paler than modern apricots but tender and with an excellent flavour, red-flushed w...
Apricot Goldcot
Apricot Goldcot
€24.00
Apricot Goldcot American-bred, and adapted to colder, wetter climates, Prunus armeniaca Goldcot produces fairly large, golden-orange fruit which ripen in early August. Grown on a semi-dwarfing rootstock, it makes a small, deciduous tree which crops reliably and heavily if planted in a warm, sheltered position. Apricots flower early and blossom m...
Aronia melanocarpa
Aronia melanocarpa
€3.00
Black Chokeberry Upright, multi-stemmed, deciduous shrub with alternate, dark green glossy leaves which turn red in autumn. Heads of star shaped white, sometimes pink-flushed, flowers in late spring followed by drooping clusters of black berries in autumn. The fruit is very astringent, rich in pectin so good for making into jam, berries are best...
Aronia melanocarpa Professor Ed
€5.00
Black Chokeberry Professor Ed A deciduous shrub with small white flowers Aronia Melanocarpa bears plentiful, very nutrient-rich, black berries. The berries are very astringent which gives it the name Black Chokeberry. 'Professor Ed' is a compact version more suitable for smaller spaces, but remove suckers to prevent unwanted spreading. Best fr...
Aronia mitschurini Amit
Aronia mitschurini Amit
€6.00
Chokeberry Amit A large deciduous shrub that is also known as x Sorbaronia Mitschurinii, this attractive Aronia produces large black berries in September. In the Autumn, the foliage acquires a crimson-red color. Chokeberries are cultivated as ornamental plants and food. Grow in full sun if you want high yields of berries, but it will also grow f...
Aronia x prunifolia Brilliant
€6.00
Chokeberry Brilliant A medium-sized, upright, deciduous shrub with oval shiny leaves. Aronia x prunifolia Brilliant bears small white fragrant flowers in May which are followed by glossy bright, red berries from September which are very attractive to birds. These berries are edible but extremely astringent when raw and best made into jam. Except...
Aronia x prunifolia Viking
€6.00
Purple Chokeberry Viking Despite their rather unappetising name, chokeberries are delicious cooked or in jam, one of the richest sources of antioxidants known, and very high in Vitamin C. Aronia x prunifolia Viking is an upright, suckering, deciduous shrub to 6’6”/2m high and wide, with deep green leaves which turn a beautiful purple in autumn. ...
Asparagus Connover’s Colossal
€3.00
Asparagus Connover’s Colossal A perennial vegetable grown for its delicious shoots or spears, asparagus is a revelation when home-grown. Asparagus Connover’s Colossal is an old, open-pollinated variety which is particularly reliable in the Irish climate, and has a very good flavour. Planted as 2 year-old crowns, they can start to be harvested af...
Balloon Berry - Rubus illecebrosus
€12.00
Balloon Berry - Rubus illecebrosus Also known as the strawberry-raspberry for its strawberry-like creeping habit, the Balloon Berry is a woodland plant from Japan. Unlike most Rubus species, is not a cane fruit, but a low, ground-cover perennial or sub-shrub. The berries are very large (3cm across), brilliant, shiny red, and reminiscent of mul...
Black Mulberry
Black Mulberry
€18.00
Black Mulberry - Morus nigra Medium-sized, spreading tree which makes a beautiful specimen, year-round, with its gnarled branches in winter, and handsome leaves in summer. The Mulberry produces berries when the tree is seven years old and they look rather like a loganberry. Purplish to black, sweet, tangy and juicy, they are a great treat, very ...
Blackberry Black Satin
Blackberry Black Satin
€5.00
Blackberry Black Satin A thornless, American-bred blackberry, Rubus fruticosus Black Satin produces medium to large, rounded, black very juicy berries with a delicious, rather sharp flavour from late July, earlier than most thornless blackberries. Beautiful pale pink flowers and fruit are borne on two-year-old wood; yields are high and reliable....
Blackberry Himalayan Giant
€5.00
Blackberry Himalayan Giant A hugely productive, late-fruiting blackberry, Rubus armeniacus Himalayan Giant is a monster of a plant, and suitable for only the largest gardens. It’s a rambling, very thorny, exceptionally vigorous, deciduous shrub, producing very long canes which need strong supports, but is ideal for making a fruiting windbreak or...
Blackberry Loch Ness
Blackberry Loch Ness
€5.00
Blackberry Loch Ness Bred by the Scottish Crop Research Institute, Blackberry Loch Ness is completely different from the rampant, thorny blackberries, wild and cultivated, that we know and battle with. The canes of Blackberry Loch Ness are semi-erect, allowing the bush to be trained up a single post or in a row of summer raspberries, or even lef...