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nuts & soft fruit


Nuts and Soft Fruit

Please see below for a list of our nut and soft fruit bushes.

We sell a range of traditional nuts and soft fruit, which benefit pollinating insects (and opportunistic birds and small mammals !) as well as humans.Soft fruit flowers are particularly helpful to honeybees, and by buying them you will also help The British Beekeepers' Assocation.

Soft fruit requires different cultivation regimes, which we don't describe here. Please also note that with the exception of Blackberries these plants are bare root and, consequently, only available from the autumn until early spring.



Cobs and Filberts (Corylus avellana and maxima)
Hazels have been bred since classical times, and the Tudors are recorded to have been enthusiastic cultivators of Filberts. Although cobnuts are particularly associated with Kent, they have been grown across the country for as long as records exist. Attractive catkins in winter and, of course, edible nuts.
Soil type: Fertile, moist, well drained
Bare root bush, 1m

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Blackberries (Rubus fruticosus)
Our selection of thornless blackberries produce delicious berries throughout the season. Their flowers attract a number of pollinators, without which no fruit. Of them, Honey Bees are the most efficient.
Soil type: Fertile, moist, well drained
Container grown, 2L pot
Minimum order: 5

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Blackcurrants (Ribes nigrum)
Blackcurrants are scarcer than Redcurrants in the wild, but are also chiefly found in wetter situations in southern England. They are a prolific early nectar source.
Soil type: Fertile, moist, well drained
Bare root bush, 3-5 shoots
Minimum order: 3


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Raspberries (Rubus idaeus)
We sell a range of summer and autumn fruiting varieties, which between them have an extended flowering period and provide fruit from early July until the first frost.
Soil type: Fertile, moist, well drained
Minimum order: 10

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Red Currants and White Currants (Ribes sativum)
Redcurrants are naturally found in wetter situations in southern England. The flowers are a prolific early nectar source for bees and have a number of culinary uses, including jelly.
Soil type: Fertile, moist, well drained
Bare root bush, 20/30cm clear stem
Minimum order: 3

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Walnut Trees (Juglans nigra and regia)
There are no mature walnuts hereabouts as they were felled mercilessly for wood. I'd rather keep the trees.
Soil type: Fertile
Bare root whip, 150 - 175cm

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