Fruit Tree Guides

Fruit Tree Orchards - Locating

A few golden rules to help you select the best place for your orchard

Fruit Tree Sizes - Shapes

Fruit Tree Shapes

Fruit Trees - Basic Care

There are some simple chores will make your fruit trees better...

Fruit Trees - Pollination

General Fruit Tree Pollination advice

Growing Cordon Fruit Trees

A Short guide to growing Cordon Fruit Trees

Half Standard Fruit Trees

Biggest delivery size & will grow into a full sized, "proper" tree.

Will reach approx. 4 metres tall.

Gives the biggest crops.

Needs a big, secure ladder to harvest when mature.

Importance of cider apple tannin and acid

Tannin and acid in cider apples have several implications in making good cider

Maiden Fruit Trees

The smallest size.

The reason for buying a maiden is to train it on wires into a fan, espalier etc.

Restricted shapes like fans etc grow fast & crop young.

Growing a maiden into a normal tree can take up 5 years to bear fruit.

Making your own Cider

Making your own Cider is satisfying, easy, good for the environment, saves you money, keeps you happy....

Pear Tree Pollination

Pear trees all need to be cross pollinated to give good yields and most will not fruit at all with a pollination partner. Choose the right trees to grow together here.

Planting Fruit Trees

Planting Fruit Trees - Basic tips

Planting Video - Fruit Trees

Our film shows you how to plant a bush or half-standard sized fruit tree.

Plum Tree Pollination

Most Trees in the Plum family are fully or partially self fertile. Cross pollination will always improve crop size & trees that are not self fertile must be pollinated - choose compatible trees with this handy table.

Plum Trees - Thinning

The thought of a plum tree, bent double under the weight of a huge crop is mouth watering, but....

Pollination of Cherry Trees

Several of our cherry trees are reliably self fertile - the others will need a pollination partner to make fruit. Choose the right ones here.

Rootstocks - Apple Trees

Description of the characteristics of apple rootstocks

Rootstocks - Fruit Trees

Quick guide to fruit tree rootstocks.

Wire Trained Fruit Trees - Espaliers, Fans, Step-Overs

We don't deliver these shapes, you need to train them yourself from a Maiden.

Wire Trained against a wall, fence or between posts.

Flat, compact shape.

Denser yields than a freestanding fruit tree.

Easy and safe to prune & harvest.