Prunus Avium – Early Rivers – Black Cherry produces heavy crops of well-sized, dark-red to black cherries with a delightfully sweet flavour and succulent flesh.
Early Rivers benefits from successional ripening, producing two or three pickings throughout the season, meaning you don’t get swamped with all of the ripe fruits all at the same time, unlike many varieties.
This variety is probably the earliest black cherry variety to ripen.
Prunus Avium – Stella – Sweet Cherry is an RHS award-winning variety that produces large, high-quality fruits with a sweet, deep flavour.
Stella benefits from heavy yields, regular crops throughout late June and is self-fertile.
Produces clusters of sweetly-scented blooms.
It performs best in full sun in a sheltered location.
Height and spread: 2.5-4m
Prunus Cerasifera – Cherry Plum or Myrobalan, produces red, orange-to-yellow, plum-like fruit approximately the size of a cherry with a sweet and tart flavour.
Once you bite through the super thin skin, the cherry plum will reveal golden flesh and a very small stone.
The delightfully soft texture complements the initial burst of sweetness and a tart aftertaste similar to cranberries.
Prunus Cerasifera is an upright, rounded, twiggy, deciduous tree producing delightful, small white flowers in early spring as the leaves open.
The pinkish red fruits only mature in a hot summer.
The cherry plum itself is perfectly round and extremely small in size, measuring only about two or three centimeters wide.
Often confused with the Sloe or Blackthorn, the Cherry Plum, is a deciduous tree introduced into Britain about 300 years ago.
It flowers slightly earlier than the Sloe, but with similar abundant white flowers covering the whole plant in mid-February.
Prunus Domestica – Greengage is an excellent fruit with a sweet, honey-like flavour.
It crops with reasonable regularity in favourable situations.
Partly self-fertile; season of harvest – late summer
Prunus Domestica – Victoria Plum – Half Standard is a classic favourite, reliably fruiting, self-fertile, delightful dessert culinary plum.
Victoria Plum produces gorgeous white flowers and dark-red fruit throughout August to September.
This variety is tolerant of a range of well-drained soils but prefers clay loam in a sunny, sheltered position and is well-suited for all training forms.
Weeds can take hold so maintain a weed-free area of at least 60cm radius around the trunk.
Thin the fruits if necessary and water in dry periods.
This variety may require some form of frost protection due to its early flowering during spring frosts.
The Olive – Olea Europaea, is a species of small tree in the family Oleaceae, found in the Mediterranean Basin and warm climates around the world.
This is a fantastic specimen that needs to be seen!
As we stock various shapes and sizes please get in touch or visit the Garden Centre for full details.
The olive, known by the botanical name Olea Europaea, is a species of small tree in the family Oleaceae, found in the Mediterranean Basin from Portugal to the Levant, the Arabian Peninsula, and southern Asia as far east as China.
As we stock various shapes and sizes please get in touch or visit the Garden Centre for full details.
