Soft Fruit Plants - Full List

• Large, sweet fruit for eating fresh, not cooking! 
• Self-fertile.
• Thornless
• Upright plant, usually won't need support in sheltered locations
• Crops from August into September 
• To 2 x 2 metres

• Self-fertile.
• Thornless
• Sturdily upright, may not need support
• Excellent fruit and crop size
• Crops from late July
• Tolerates poor soil well
• To 2x2m

• Fruit: Sweet, really big berries.
• Big crops may need support.
• Use: Cooking or raw
• Picking: mid-July
• Height: 1-1.2m x Spread: 1-1.5m
• Spacing: 1.5m
• Self-fertile & Frost resistant

• Height: 1.2 m
• Harvest: end July into August
• Our mid season cropping variety.
• Fruit: Large. Eating & Cooking
• Self fertile, but best grown with a partner
• Spacing: 1.2 m apart
• Soil: Acidic

• Size: 1.2m
• Fruit: large, firm
• Taste: sweet
• Use: cooking/eating fresh
• Picking: Jul-Aug
• Freezes well

• Size: 1.8m
• Fruit: light blue, firm
• Fruit size is one of the biggest
• Heavy cropper
• Taste: tart
• Use: cooking/eating fresh
• Picking: mid-Aug

• Size: 2m+
• Fruit: light blue, firm, quite small
• Well-loved heritage variety
• Heavy cropper
• Taste: sweet
• Use: cooking/eating fresh. Ideal for baking
• Picking: Jul-Aug

• Size: 1.5m
• Fruit: Pink, firm, sweet
• Exciting new variety
• Close to fully self-fertile
• Use: eating fresh
• Picking: Aug-Sept

• Great for beginners
• Super vigorous, hardy, low maintenance
• Full sun, any well drained soil
• Fruit taste best dried
• Precocious: crops the year after planting, if not same year

• Eating. Fruity flavour.
• Big yellow-green fruit.
• Self-fertile.
• Very Hardy and disease resistant.
• Suitable for organic growing.

• Large deciduous climber
• Bunches of black grapes in autumn
• Better for juice / wine than eating
• Dazzling autumn colour
• Fully hardy
• To 8m
• RHS Award of Garden Merit

• Crops Late July-Sept.
• Ideal for cooking.
• Thornless
• RHS Award of Garden Merit

• One of the earliest "Autumn" Raspberries
• Season: Mid-July to August
• Type: Primocane, crops on new stems
• Height: 80cm
• Self fertile
• Sturdy, upright habit, ideal for tight spaces
• Fruit: Dark red, good flavour

• Very early crops.
• Medium yields.
• Naturally tender.
• RHS Award of Garden Merit

• Nearly thornless 
• Self fertile
• Crops all July & August

• Very pale yellow fruit, almost white
• Ornamental yellow flowers in April-May
• Sweet flavour
• Self-fertile
• To 1.5m
• Harvest July

• Self-fertile.
• Thorny
• Sprawling, needs support, good for growing along walls / fences
• Flavour is close to wild fruit, but sweeter
• Crops from late July for a few weeks, weather dependant
• Tolerates poor soil well
• RHS Award of Garden Merit

• Nearly thornless.
• Medium size fruit, sweet.
• Brix level 11.
• Big, vigorous plant.
• Good disease resistance.
• Long harvest period: Early August until winter frosts.

• Slightly Thorny.
• Massive fruit, 10-11g, mild tangy flavour.
• Brix level 11.
• Small plant.
• Crops Mid-July - September.
• Resistant to Grey Mould.

• Thornless.
• Small fruit, sharp, wild flavour.
• Brix level 7.
• Compact, upright plant, good for pots.
• Crops Mid-Aug to Mid-September.
• RHS Award of Garden Merit

• Self-fertile.
• Thornless
• Vigorous, needs support, good for growing along walls / fences
• Big, sweet and tangy fruit, but sweeter
• Crops from late July for a few weeks, weather dependant
• Tolerates poor soil well
• To 2x2m

• Thornless.
• Large firm fruit, sweet flavour - excellent.
• Compact, upright plant, good for pots.
• Crops Mid/Late-July - Mid-September.

• Size: 2m high
• Fruit: large
• Taste: sweet, excellent flavour
• Use: eat fresh or in jams and pies. Freezes well
• Picking: July and August.
• Colour: black
• Spacing: 60cm between plants

• Thorny.
• Medium-large fruit, heavy crops, good flavour.
• Brix level 9/10
• Quite large plant.
• Crops through August.

• Large fruit.
• Upright growth, ideal for dense planting.
• The first primocane blackberry!
• Crops on the current year's growth.
• Greedy plant, needs ideal soil & sun.

Rubus fruticosus

• Native bramble, thorny.
• Blackberries in late summer.
• Self fertile.
• Excellent ground cover for wildlife.
• Suitable for wild country hedge mixes, in moderation.
• Bareroot Delivery Only: Nov-Mar.

• A mid-season stalwart
• Flawless overall
• Big crops of big, split resistant fruit
• Sturdy, upright, relatively wind resistant
• Higher than average vitamin C
• Crops July into August
• Height: 1.2m
• Self fertile
• Fruit: Big and glossy, freeze well

• Fruit: Sweet. Heavy crops to 3.5kg
• Uses: Ideal for Cooking, Fresh
• Picking: July-August
• Height x Spread: 1-1.5m x 1-1.5m
• Spacing: 1.5m
• Self-fertile & Frost resistant
• RHS Award of Garden Merit

• Fruit: Sweet. Good cropper when mature.
• Use: Cooking or raw
• Picking: July-August
• Height: 1-1.2m x Spread: 1-1.5m
• Spacing: 1.5m
• Self-fertile & Frost resistant

• Fruit: Sweet, huge berries up to 3g, crops to 4.5kg
• Use: Excellent fresh off the bush, Cooking.
• Picking: late June
• Height: 1-1.6m x Spread: 1-1.5m
• Spacing: 1.5m
• Self-fertile & Disease resistant
• RHS Award of Garden Merit

• Fruit: The Sweetest! Also large berries.
• Use: Best for eating fresh.
• Picking: early July-August
• Height: 1-1.5m x Spread: 1-1.5m
• Spacing: 1.5m
• Self-fertile & Frost resistant

• Height: 1.5 m
• Harvest: end July into September
• Our latest cropping variety.
• Fruit: Large, up to 2g. Juicy yet firm, best eaten fresh
• Self fertile, but best grown with a partner
• Spacing: 1.2 m apart
• Soil: Acidic

• Height: 1.8 m
• Harvest: July
• Crops a little after Earliblue in July.
• Fruit: Large and sweet, Eating or Cooking
• Self fertile, but best grown with a partner
• Spacing: 1.2 m apart
• Soil: Acidic
• RHS Award of Garden Merit

• Height: 1.8 m
• Harvest: Early July
• Our earliest cropping variety.
• Fruit: Large and sweet, Eaten or Cooking
• Self fertile, but best grown with a partner
• Spacing: 1.2 m apart
• Soil: Acidic

• Size: 1.5m
• Fruit: large, purple
• Taste: sweet
• Use: cooking/eating fresh
• Picking: Aug-Sep
• Our latest cropping variety.
• Freezes well
• Colour: purple
• Spacing 1.5m

• Tastes like wild blackberries
• Drought resistant when established
• Self fertile

• Trailing habit, ideal for the edge of containers of blueberries
• Requires acidic soil
• Tolerates partial shade well
• Ornamental & nutritious berries 
• Leaves turn bronze in winter
• Harvest Sept-Oct

• Main Season, Crops July.
• Mildew resistant.
• Almost thornless.
• Good resistance to mildew & leaf spot

• Size: 1.6m
• Fruit: large, green
• Taste: aromatic and sweet when fully ripe
• Use: eat fresh or cooked in jams, pies and desserts
• Picking: mid July. Freezes well
• Colour: olive green
• Spacing: 1.5m between plants

• Colour - Red fruit
• Type - Dessert/cooking
• Health - Mildew resistant
• Cropping - July.
• Planting - 1.5 metres apart
• Self-fertile
• Yield 2 - 3kgs per bush.

• Size: 1m
• Fruit: Large, green. Best for Cooking.
• Taste: aromatic and sweet when fully ripe
• One of our earliest cropping varieties.
• Picking: Late May-June. Freezes well
• Spacing: 1.5m between plants
• RHS Award of Garden Merit

• Nearly thornless
• Self-fertile.
• Ruby red, sweet
• Crops from mid June onwards.
• Mildew resistant.
• Yield 1.5 - 2kgs per bush.

• Eating / Cooking (Sweet)
• Few thorns.
• Fruit: Large, red. Best for eating.
• Taste: very sweet when fully ripe
• Crops mid-season.
• Picking: Late June.
• Overall better variety than Pax
• Spacing: 1.5m between plants

• Blackcurrant x Gooseberry hybrid
• Shade tolerant
• Thornless
• Vigorous & very disease resistant
• Young fruit are ideal for jams and other cooked delights
• Fully ripe fruit are sweet, great with cream
• Freezes well
• Hardy, but flowers may need cover from late spring frost
• Yields up to 5kg
• To 2m

• Small but delicious fruit
• Hardier & more compact than Jenny
• Self fertile
• Lovely foliage
• To 4m

Actinidia deliciosa

• Eating.
• Self Fertile.
• Crops in Late Aug/Sept
• Ripens off the tree.
• Year Round Delivery

• Season: Autumn (Aug-Oct).
• Type: Primocane, crops on new stems
• Bushy, good vigour
• Height: 2m
• Self fertile
• Fruit: Yellow, sweet
• Spacing: 50cm apart, 1.5m between rows

• Group: Autumn fruiting
• Fruits on current year's growth
• Picking: Crops from late August - October
• RHS Award of Garden Merit

• Group: Mid Season fruiting raspberry
• Fruits on last year's growth
• Cropping: Pick in July
• Use on less well drained soils (root rot resistant)

• Group: Mid-Season Fruiting
• Nearly Thornless. Upright
• Crops through July
• RHS Award of Garden Merit
• UK's most popular raspberry

• Season: Summer (mid-July into August).
• Type: Floricane, crops on old stems
• Height: 1.2m
• Self fertile
• Sturdy, upright habit & heavy crops
• Fruit: Dark red, excellent flavour
• Spacing: 50cm apart, 1.5m between rows

• Group: Mid Season Raspberry
• Crops in July
• Near Thornless
• Excellent keeper

• Season: Autumn (Aug-Oct).
• Type: Primocane, crops on new stems
• Bushy, good vigour
• Height: 2m
• Self fertile
• Fruit: Red, juicy, firm.
• Popular commercial variety
• Spacing: 50cm apart, 1.5m between rows

• Season: Mid-late Summer (July into August).
• Type: Floricane, crops on old stems
• Tidy, moderate vigour
• Height: 2m
• Flowers: May
• Fruit: Firm, dark red, sweet
• Spacing: 40-50cm apart, 1.5m between rows
• RHS Award of Garden Merit

• Group: Early Season Raspberry
• Height: 1.5 m
• Flowering: May
• Fruit: dark red, sweet
• Picking: July
• Spacing: 40-50 cm apart and 1.5m between rows
• RHS Award of Garden Merit

• Season: Early Summer (Early July, perhaps Late June in the South).
• Type: Floricane, crops on old stems
• Bushy habit, spreads briskly
• Has thorns
• Height: 2m
• Self fertile
• Fruit: Firm, good sized, rich fruity flavour
• Spacing: 50cm apart, 1.5m between rows

• Group: Mid/Late Season Fruiting
• Thorny.
• Upright plant & heavy cropper.
• Crops through August.

• Group: Primocane, early autumn fruiting.
• Fruits on current year's growth
• Best tasting autumn raspberry
• Excellent crop size
• RHS Award of Garden Merit

• Group: Compact Summer Fruiting
• Intended for containers
• Height: 1 m
• Flowering: April/May
• Fruit: red, firm, sweet
• Taste: dessert/culinary
• Picking: June-July
• Spacing: 1 plant per 10L of compost

• Group: Double Crop
• Height: 1 .5 m
• Spread: 50 cm
• Flowering: April/May
• Fruit: large, red, firm, sweet
• Taste: dessert/culinary
• Picking: June-October
• Spacing: 70 cm to 1 m

• Size: 2m high
• Fruit: large, conical
• Taste: very sweet
• Use: eat fresh or in jams
• Picking: July to August. Freezes well
• Colour: deep pink
• Spacing: 45cm between plants
• Awards: RHS Award for Garden Merit

• World's 1st Bonbonberry
• Dwarf, thornless, primocane Raspberry
• One of the earliest "Autumn" Raspberries
• Season: July
• Type: Primocane, crops on new stems
• Height: 50cm
• Self fertile
• Sturdy, upright habit, ideal for patio pots
• Fruit: Large and sweet

• Season: Autumn (Aug-Oct).
• Type: Primocane, crops on new stems
• Height: 1.5m
• Self fertile
• Precocious and heavy crops
• Fruit: Dark red, excellent flavour
• Great for freezing & jam
• Spacing: 50cm apart, 1.5m between rows

• Fruit: Tart & Sweet. Reliable big crops.
• Use: Ideal for cooking
• Picking: late June - earlyJuly
• To 1.5m X 1.5m
• Spacing: 1.5m
• Self-fertile & Frost resistant
• RHS Award of Garden Merit

• Fruit: Tart & Sweet. Reliable big crops.
• Use: Cooking or raw
• Picking: late June
• Height: 1-1.2m x Spread: 1-1.2m
• Spacing: 1.5m
• Self-fertile & Frost resistant

• Fruit: Tart & Sweet, best flavour. Reliable crops.
• Easy to pick & stay fresh longer.
• Use: Cooking or raw
• Picking: July-Aug
• Height: 1-1.8m x Spread: 1-1.2m
• Spacing: 1.5m
• Self-fertile & Frost resistant
• RHS Award of Garden Merit

• Height: 1m
• Spread: 1m
• Thick, non-stringy stems
• Taste: full flavour, tart
• Use: cooking/forcing
• Picking: May-June
• Colour: Rich red
• Spacing: 75cm
• Up to 5kg per crown when established
• RHS Award of Garden Merit

• World's 1st Autumn Cropper
• Height: 60cm
• Spread: 1.2m
• Succulent, non-stringy stems
• Taste: full flavour, tart
• Use: cooking
• Picking: May-First Frosts
• Colour: Rich red

• Early summer crops.
• Large yields.
• Superb red colour when forced.

• Slightly later crops than Stockbridge Arrow.
• AKA Suttons Seedless
• Very large yields.

• Height: 60 cm
• Spread: 1 m
• Fruit: non-stringy stems
• Taste: full flavour, tart
• Use: cooking/forcing
• Picking: May-July
• Colour: pink/green
• Spacing: 1.2 m

Everbearing

• Decent crop size
• Great texture and sweet flavour.
• Very disease resistant.
• Crops all summer.

Everbearing

• Good crop size.
• Firm texture, good for storage.
• Very disease resistant.
• Crops all summer.

Early - Main Season

• Medium sized fruit, large crops.
• Superb flavour, great for jam & freezing.
• Disease resistant.
• Crops from Mid June when grown in the open.
• Great for not-so-sunny sites
• RHS Award of Garden Merit

Very Early Season

• Very sweet, large fruit.
• Modest crop size.
• Firm fruit are hard to bruise.
• Very disease resistant (apart from crown rot).
• Crops from Early May under cover, Early June in the open.

Late Season

• Crops late June - late July
• Large fruit with an orange hue.
• Extremely disease resistant.
• Firm, stores well

Mid-Late Season

• Crops June-July
• Huge fruit.
• Good disease resistance.

Mid Season

• Mid June-July
• Common supermarket variety
• Medium sized fruit, great flavour.
• Doesn't bruise easily.

Late Season

• Crops from mid-July
• Very sweet flavour. Firm skin.
• Tough, disease resistant plants.

Everbearing

• Crops from Mid July to Sept/Oct.
• Disease resistant.
• Firm, juicy fruit.

Late Season

• Big crops of large, delicious fruit.
• Disease resistant.
• Good for freezing & jam.
• Crops in late July-August.
• RHS Award of Garden Merit

Mid Season

• More tolerant of dry soil
• Good for containers
• Reliable heavy cropper
• Nice, sweet flavour. Big & glossy
• Disease resistant & late flowering
• Large flowers are good for bees
• RHS Award of Garden Merit

Early Season

• Firm fruit are good for freezing.
• Good size fruit in large crops.
• Mildew & grey mould resistant.
• RHS Award of Garden Merit
• Crops from Mid-June to July.

Late Season

• White alpine strawberry.
• Modest yields of small, distinctive fruit.
• Everbearing in sunny sites.
• Tolerates shade well

Early Season

• Sweet - best eaten fresh.
• Good size fruit, large crops.
• Not disease resistant.
• Crops from Mid-May under cover, in June in the open.

Main Season

• From July when grown in the open.
• Great flavour, average size crops.
• Good in pots.

Mid Season

• Summer / June Bearer: Late Season
• Old strawberry flavour
• Glossy, bright red fruit
• Heavy cropper
• Masses of runners
• Tolerates damp conditions
• RHS Award of Garden Merit

Main Season

• Fruits in July when grown in the open.
• Very good for freezing