Apple and other fruit tree links
These are just a few links, MAINLY SOURCES OF TREES AND BOOKS I am putting up
urgently as a service to regular readers and customers who may be thinking about
planting some fruit trees this coming winter. I hope many more links will be added later.
http://www.thornhayes-nursery.co.uk/ Devon based nursery, many rare varieties
including cider. Nice downloadable catalogue.
http://www.blackmoor.co.uk/ highly recommended Hampshire nursery, their annual apple
exhibition, an established fixture well before Apple Day was initiated, is probably the
biggest and best such event anywhere. We bought our primary stock from them in 1992
and we suggest you try them first. There is a lot of information on this really good web site
http://www.deaconsnurseryfruits.co.uk/ I got some vines from them once, good service,
recommended by friends who have used them. Heritage and cider trees.
http://www.keepers-nursery.co.uk/ largest collection of fruit varieties. I ordered a rare
pear, Seckle, from them 2 years ago, as far as I could tell nobody else had this variety.
Expensive, but please support them-if they go, it could all but signal the end for many
rare fruit varieties. A very educational site.
http://www.bernwodeplants.co.uk/ I've not used this small specialist nursery yet, friends
who have speak highly of them. Great web site, specialise in less common varieties.
http://www.hedging.co.uk/ Buckingham nurseries. We got all our hedging and woodland
plants from them, good service always, and they are THE people to go to if you want to
plant a mixed native hedge, or pretty much anything else. If you look at the videos of our
orchard on YouTube, the hedgerows and poplar shelter belts all came from plants
supplied by Buckinghams. They also do apple trees including come cider and heritage.
http://www.vigoltd.com/. This is the place to go for everything to do with making cider,
they also have some books which you won't find elsewhere, perry pears for example.
http://www.commonground.org.uk/ the Apple Day people. Lots of thoughtful and pleasant
material and links. Click on this and see if there is an Apple Day event near you
VERY SAD NEWS
I am VERY sorry to say that Scott's nurseries of Merriot in Somerset are finally closing.
They had been losing money to 'big name' plant salesmen whose outlets are easier to
find, and the final blow came when a key member of the team sadly died of brain cancer
aged 49. Obviously one feels very sad for him and his loved ones and the folks losing
their jobs, but also for a priceless piece of English fruit heritage now apparently gone for
ever. We got our original cider apples from them 20 years ago, plus perry pears (which
are even harder to find) more recently. No longer available-they have had a couple of
closing down sales and unless a buyer comes forwards for what's left in the next few
days, according to a report I found in an online version of a local paper, the remaining
stuff will be auctioned off.
Please support England's remaining heritage fruit nurseries even if they are
sometimes a bit more expensive. The loss of our heritage of apples would be more than
we can bear. If you plant and care for JUST ONE tree you will be doing something
REALLY important.
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