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Discover how Cornwall is leading the way with public edible hedges. Advice from Ashridge experts shows how you can create your own productive hedges at home.
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Watering your Hedging and Trees
New hedging and young trees need careful attention to thrive. Follow our planting advice since 1949: soak the soil deeply at the base of each plant, water early or late in the day, and use rainwater wherever possible to encourage deep roots and healthy growth.
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Hedge Plants
Hedges and trees
Hedges and trees are the backbone of the British countryside, offering shelter, food, and beauty for generations of wildlife. Experts in bareroot plants recommend planting from now until March, whether it’s a majestic oak, a flowering cherry, or a protective beech hedge.
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Fruit Trees & Bushes
A guide to fruit tree pollination
Pollination is key to a bumper fruit crop, but it doesn’t have to be complicated. Benefit from Advice from Experts and Guaranteed Plants That Grow to make your orchard thrive.
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Fruit Trees & Bushes
Choose Rootstocks for Fruit Trees
Rootstocks shape how fruit trees grow, and with our expertise, you don’t need to worry. From Bushes and Half Standards to Maidens and Cordons, we provide guaranteed plants that grow and guidance from Plant Experts to ensure every tree thrives in your garden or orchard.
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Fruit Trees & Bushes
Fruit Trees and the Mile High Club
Can you grow apple trees above 500 feet? Absolutely — with the right site and care. Learn how slope, wind, soil, and shelter affect fruit trees in higher altitudes, and how to avoid frost damage while keeping your orchard thriving. Reliable, down-to-earth advice from Professional Plant Suppliers at Ashridge.
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Fruit Trees & Bushes
Which Size, O Starter Fruit Tree?
Choosing the right size fruit tree makes all the difference to your harvest. Whether you’re planting a compact Bush tree for a small garden, a grand Half-Standard for open space, or training a Maiden into an espalier or cordon, we’ll help you pick the perfect fit. Step-by-step guidance from Experts in Bareroot Plants at Ashridge ensures success from the start.
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Hedge Plants
When to clip, trim & prune hedges?
Remove dead or diseased wood as needed, with planting advice since 1949 to guide you, and enjoy healthy, well-shaped plants all year round.
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Fruit Trees & Bushes
How to prune Cordon Fruit Trees
This is just about pruning cordons - there is a much longer piece on growing cordon fruit trees if you would like…
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Fruit Trees & Bushes
Growing Fruit Trees at High Altitude
We get lots of enquiries about growing fruit trees in the UK at altitude, often from people who have seen the magnificent…
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Fruit Trees & Bushes
Cooking with Cider this Christmas?
How about pheasant with caramelised apple and cider sauce!Pheasant cosies up with a fruity double act of apples and cider for a…
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Gardening
Freezing weather & bareroot plants
Most of the damage caused to bareroot plants in cold, freezing conditions is to the delicate roots themselves.The roots are fine, fibrous…
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Fruit Trees & Bushes
What’s the difference between hazelnuts and cobnuts?
What is the difference between a cobnut and a filbert? Are they the same thing, with regional variations of nomenclature? Quick Answers…
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Fruit Trees & Bushes
Apple Orchard Wassailing
Orchard wassailing is an indigenous English ritual with records dating back as far as the 11th century, and is still performed by…
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Fruit Trees & Bushes
Why Steven Edholm’s Fruit Tree Pruning Films are Better Than Ours
As a company, we have invested billions (approximately) in producing nicely edited videos about planting and pruning fruit trees Rodney, local movie…
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Restoring Scottish Montane Flora & Bees for High Altitude Fruit Trees
Montane habitats are at the top of and above the treeline, where the last wind-blasted trees and shrubs grow, below the even…
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Fruit Trees & Bushes
Lazy Sunday Fruit Tree & Rootstock Grafting Videos
Grafting is one of Mankind’s ancient technologies, generally done in Spring onto rootstocks planted a full year ago, or mature trees Grafting…
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Fruit Trees & Bushes
Self-Fertile Apple Trees That Pollinate Themselves
Apple pollination is usually not a concern in the UK, because there are so many orchard and crab apple trees around However,…
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Fruit Trees & Bushes
Plum Fruit Split
Plum Fruit split is a condition, not a disease, where the fruit is damaged by splits in the skin. Although they tend…
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Fruit Trees & Bushes
Apple Scab & Pear Scab Disease
What is Apple Scab and Pear Scab?Apple Scab and Pear Scab are functionally the same, although the specific fungus is different: Apple…
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Fruit Trees & Bushes
Can I Grow A Fruit Tree From Seed?
Yes, but…Yes, you can grow a fruit tree from a seed or stone obtained from fruit in the supermarket, but you will…
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Fruit Trees & Bushes
Apply Grease to Fruit Trees to Protect them against Moths
Applying fruit tree grease from November onwards is used to trap a wide variety of winter moths before they can lay their…
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Fruit Trees & Bushes
Apply Fruit Tree Grease Bands to Protect them against Moths
Grease Bands are Convenient on Young Fruit TreesIf you apply grease bands to your young fruit trees, it will help prevent winter…
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Fruit Trees & Bushes
Applying Winter Wash Fruit Tree Insecticide
How to Apply Winter Wash to Fruit TreesIt’s good to apply winter wash to your fruit and ornamental trees in the winter…
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Fruit Trees & Bushes
How To Grow ‘Brown Turkey’ Figs
The most popular fig variety in the UK for getting fruit from is the ‘Brown Turkey’ fig.The instructions for ‘Brown Turkey’ apply…
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Fruit Trees & Bushes
Looking After Fruit Trees
Essential Aftercare & Maintenance for Good CropsClean Up Leaves & PruningsWhen the crop is in, and winter is knocking on the door,…
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Fruit Trees & Bushes
Fruit Tree Pollination Group Charts
Two Ways to Find Pollination Partners The main Pollination Checker Tool makes it easy for you to find partners for individual fruit…
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Fruit Trees & Bushes
How to Plant A Fruit Tree
Fruit Tree PlantingWatch our step-by-step video showing you how to plant bush or half-standard sized fruit tree with a small 120cm tree…
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Fruit Trees & Bushes
Trees
What do Bareroot Trees Look Like?
Bareroot trees look like sticks! Compare standard & sapling sizes
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Fruit Trees & Bushes
How to Choose the Right Pear Trees for Your Garden
Grow Conference, then Comice, then Concorde.
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Fruit Trees & Bushes
Growing Cordon Fruit Trees
Cordons are compact wire trained fruit trees, usually apple or pear
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Fruit Trees & Bushes
Pruning Plum Trees In The UK
The Best Plum Tree Pruning VideosPlums are vigorous trees and respond well to pruning. If they are not pruned, they quickly get…
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Fruit Trees & Bushes
Pruning Tip Bearing Apple Trees
Most Apples are spur bearing; partial tips are like spursMost apples and pears are spur bearing: they are pruned “normally”, and are…
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Fruit Trees & Bushes
Pruning New Fruit Trees
Formative pruning of new, freestanding fruit trees, starts with either unbranched Maidens, or young Bushes or Half Standards with a further year’s…
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Fruit Trees & Bushes
Pear Tree Pollination Groups Chart UK
Choosing Pollination Partners for Pear Trees Use our easy pollination checking tool to quickly find pollination partners for a given pear tree,…
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Fruit Trees & Bushes
Plum Tree Pollination Groups Chart UK
Many Plums Are Reliably Self FertileMost plums are either reliably self fertile or partially self fertile, so pollination is much less of…
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Fruit Trees & Bushes
Apple Tree Pollination Groups Chart UK
Pollinating your Apple Trees Increases your crop Size Most apple trees need to be pollinated in order to bear fruit, and even…
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Fruit Trees & Bushes
Fruit Trees & Bushes
Cherry Tree Pollination Groups Chart UK
We grow a good range of self fertile sweet cherry trees that do not need to be pollinated. However, more than half…
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Fruit Trees & Bushes
Making Your Own Cider
Can I make cider from eating and cooking apples?Yes, all apples make cider, but the flavours from cider apples are better: most…
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Fruit Trees & Bushes
Types of Fruit Tree Rootstock
To graft your own fruit trees, you can buy Apple, Pear, Cherry, and Plum rootstocks from us.Grafting is the only way to…
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Fruit Trees & Bushes
Best Apple Tree Varieties to Grow in the UK
The British climate makes for ideal apple territory.They like well drained, fertile soil including clay, and with shelter can grow inland at…
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Gardening
Building Wire Supports To Grow Fruit On Walls, Fences & Posts
This post concentrates on fruiting plants, but the same principles apply to an ornamental “wall shrub”.How to start training fruit trees on…
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Fruit Trees & Bushes
Best Cold Hardy Apple Trees For The North & Scotland
Apple Tree Varieties Suitable for Scotland & the NorthApple trees are incredibly hardy, however, their flowers can be damaged in freezing weather,…
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Fruit Trees & Bushes
Get As Many Fruit Varieties As Possible From A Small Area
Cordon apples & pears are even better suited to grafting than freestanding trees
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Trees
Why We Don’t Sell Isaac Newton’s Apple Tree
It’s not a very good apple tree. Simple as that. Several years ago, we sold “Isaac Newton’s apple tree”, which is already…
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Fruit Trees & Bushes
Partial Self Fertility in Fruit Trees Like Summer Sun
One of our customers, M, got in touch with a fruit tree pollination question, asking about the difference between: Not self-fertile Partially…
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Trees
Backseat Driving: Do I Need To Stake A Tree?
Picking on Huw Richards Inspires Us to Make Better Tree Planting VideosAt Ashridge, we feel a bit responsible for how well people…
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