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The Red Shed
Incredible edibles
Since 1990
North Hardy Plant
Nursery
Catalogue – May 2015
Garden Cottage
The Lees Stables
Kelso Road
Coldstream
Berwickshire
Scotland
TD12 4LF
01890 88 2448
07989 330 550
http://www.grahambell.org
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Welcome to The Red Shed.
This is our fifth catalogue since re-opening the nursery in Spring 2012. The Red Shed offers a
unique experience developed over twenty five years of growing plants for Northern Forest Gardens
(We were formerly based at St Boswells.) We are a specialist nursery based in an established
forest garden in the Scottish Borders. Our site has been managed organically for twenty five years
and was mostly fallow for many years before that. We live in an area of clean water and clean air
and our nursery is a haven for wildlife. Indeed predator control is largely achieved through the
balance of birds and invertebrates in the grounds and by creating habitat which favours this balance.
We offer a range of stock from trees through shrubs to plants and some specialist equipment. The
content of our catalogue is suited to forest gardening – the creation of abundant gardens designed in
imitation of the structure of native woodland. We use the principles of permaculture in our work.
The choice of what plants and trees are used is skewed to the demands of the household for food,
firewood and a pleasant place to work and relax. Plants grown here will suit any kind of garden, and
are especially chosen and bred to be hardy in Northern conditions. We are the same latitude as
Moscow and Alaska.
The actual Red Shed which sits at the centre of our nursery activity was designed by us and built for
us in red cedar originally by experienced Lincolnshire greenhouse manufacturers Perity’s. At the
centre of our fifth of an acre garden (.1 ha) the Red Shed acts as a propagation centre, teaching
space and workshop. Last year this garden produced over one metric tonne of food as well as
hundreds of plants for sale. Does this level of abundance sound attractive to you? Then maximise
your catalogue choices with time on our courses. We use a range of suppliers to supplement what
we produce ourselves, and these are all selected for the quality of their service and product as well
as their business ethics.
We hope you enjoy this catalogue and more importantly, any plants or other goods or services you
purchase from us. We welcome your feedback both in terms of what you have purchased and what
you would like to see added to the catalogue in future. We are also pleased to receive enquiries for
specialised services including practical course and specific equipment, plant and tree needs.
Graham Bell
CONTENTS:
Rootstocks
Fruit Trees: Apples
Cherries / Cherry Plum / Damsons / Gages
Medlar/ Pears
Plums / Quince
Other Trees & shrubs including nuts
Soft Fruits
Seeds
Herbs
Salads
Other Plants
Forest Garden Packs
Wildlife & Book Reviews
Order Form
2
Managing Director, Author and Teacher
Page 3
Page 4
Page 9
Page 10
Page 11
Page 12
Page 13
Page 15
Page 17
Page 18
Page 19
Page 21
Page 22
Page 25
Have a look at the various descriptions, and note what you want on the order form supplied.
If you’re not sure about the choices you’re making e-mail us or telephone or arrange a visit
and we’ll talk you through any questions you may have.
Rootstocks
Guide to most common Rootstocks
All heights are approximate, depending on cultivar, local conditions and pruning. We currently hold
mostly medium sized trees in stock suitable for the average garden. Miniature and larger trees can
also be supplied to order.
APPLES
M26 - Trees reach about 8-10ft high, crops in the second or third year depending on variety. Also
unlike other dwarfing stocks, we consider M26 needs no staking unless in a very exposed
situation.90% of our cultivars are available on the M26.
MM106 (semi-dwarfing) – Was the most widely planted rootstock for bush apples in commercial
orchards. Attains a height of 12-15 ft if allowed. Quite early fruiting. Suitable for fan trees and
cordons. Plant 12-15 ft (3m) apart. Bush, fans and cordons 3ft.
We also grow on M25 and MM111 (half-standards) - will grow to 15-18ft.
PEAR
QA - Will grow to around 13-16ft depending on the strength of the variety.
PLUM/DAMSON/GAGE
PIXY - Will grow 8-10ft and gives some resistance to silverleaf.
ST. JULIEN A - Will grow 12-15ft.Please note all 2 year + trees on St.Julien A will be young 1/2
standards.
CHERRY
GISELA 5 - Will grow to around 6-8ft.
COLT - Will grow 15-18ft
If you require trees to train for any particular purpose (e.g. cordons, fans, espaliers etc.) we are
happy to advise on suitable purchases, or to train trees to order.
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APPLES
Key: C= Culinary or for ordinary folks Cooking Apples. Many cooking apples are actually perfectly edible raw
especially after you store them and their sugars change!
D= Dessert or as most of us would say, Eating Apples.
Ci= Cider Apples. And really that’s what they’re good for.
Description
C/D
etc
Apple (Malus) Allington Pippin
Bred by Laxtons in
Lincolnshire. Late
cropping (October on)
keeps till April. Crisp
white flesh.
D
Apple (Malus) Ashmeads Kernel
Long esteemed by
connoiseurs for its sweet,
sharp white flesh.
October picking keeps till
March.
Apple (Malus) Beauty of Bath
Product
Form
Size
Lincolnshire 19th
Century
Maiden
2 year
M26
£16.00
D
Gloucester 18th
Century
Maiden
2 year
M26
£17.50
One of the earliest eaters.
Small crisp, best eaten
soon.
D
Bailbrook,
Somerset 1864
Maiden
2 Year
MM106
£17.50
Apple (Malus) Beauty of Moray
Early cukinary – cooks to
sharp puree. Popular N
Scotland
C
Scotland before
1883
Maiden
2 Year
MM111
£16.00
Apple (Malus) Blenheim Orange
Magnificent large apples.
Beautiful baked and keep
till March. Coxey taste.
Blood red, sweet light
crisp when ripe.
Ploghman caught stealing
apples on Megginch
Estate shot by
gamekeeper. Seedling
from one his wife threw in
the compost heap.
Britain’s best known
cooker. Prolific. Does
well in Scotland
Keeps shape well on
cooking. Ideal for
diabetics as needs no
sugar.
CD
1740 Woodstock
Oxfordshire
Maiden
3 year/
2 year
MM106/M26
£17.50
D
Carse of Gowrie <
1883
Maiden
1 year
MM106
£17.50
C
Southwell Notts
by 1813
Maiden
2 year
M26
£17.50
C
James Grieve x
Lanes Prince
Albert
Lincolnshire 2002
Bush
2 year
M26
£17.50
Apple (Malus) Bloody Ploughman
Apple (Malus) Bramleys Seedling
Apple (Malus) Broadholme
Beauty
4
Origin
Rootstock
Price
Apple (Malus) Cambusnethan
Pippin
Apple (Malus) Charles Ross
Dual purpose. More
flavoursome in the North.
A reliable cropper,
particularly valued in
Scotland. Cook young or
keep through to
Christmas as a juicy desert
apple.
CD
Apple (Malus) Christmas Pippin
Crisp juicy and sweet.
Late. Quickly produces
heavy crops.
D
Apple (Malus) Clydeside
Cooks to sharp juicy puree
Apple (Malus) Coul Blush
Apple (Malus) Court of Wick
Apple (Malus) Cox Self Fertile
Apple (Malus) Crawley Beauty
Apple ( Malus) Crispin syn Mutsu
Apple (Malus) Discovery
Apple (Malus) Duke of Devonshire
Apple (Malus) East Lothian Pippin
Apple (Malus) Egremont Russet
Apple (Malus) Ellisons Orange
Apple (Malus) Fiesta
Apple (Malus) (Laxton’s) Fortune
Apple (Malus) Galloway Pippin
Apple (Malus x zumi) Golden
Hornet
Apple (Malus) Golden Spire
5
CD
Probably before
1750 Stirlingshire
Newbury
Berkshire 1890
MM106
Out of
Stock
£17.50
Maiden
1 year
M26
2003 seedling
Somerset
Maiden
2 year
MM106
C
Old. Pre 1947.
Maiden
2 year
MM111
Golden flushed delicate
taste small.
Red flushed, russet on
gold. Fruity and very wind
resistant.
The original Cox (perhaps
Britain’s best loved eating
apple) needs two
pollinating partners so
this variant is very
welcome.
CD
Ross-shire 1827
D
Yatton Somerset
1790
Maiden
2 year
M26
D
Maiden
2 year
M26
House favourite- last
flowering apple of the
year. Big fruit which keep
till May. Prolific.
Greenish Yellow popular
light eater
Commercially the first
eating apple of the
season. Great off the
tree. Doesn’t keep.
Late russeted apple. Late.
Great flavour. Keeps till
March
Described as a cooker
actually an attractive
apple also edible as desrt
The Manager’s favourite.
Beautiful autumn colours
and flavours.
Intense strong flavours,
best eaten young.
CD
Raised by Mr
Richard Cox c.
1825 retired
brewer near
Slough
Buckinghamshire
from seed.
Tilgate Sussex
1870
Maiden
2 year
MM111/M26
CD
Japan 1930
Maiden
2 year
MM106
D
C 1949, Essex.
Worcester
Pearmain x
Beauty of Bath
1835 Holker Hall
Cumbria
Bush
2 year
M26
Maiden
1 year
M26 /
MM111
Maiden
1 year
M25/MM111
Bush
2 year
MM106
Maiden
2 year
MM106
A popular mid season
commercial apple
Sweet rich light and
aromatic eater. Pick late
and eat soon.
D
Before 1883
Tyninghame East
Lothian
Probably 1872
Petworth Castle
Sussex
Before 1904
Hartsholme Hall
Lincolnshire
1972 Kent
Maiden
1 year
M26
Bush
2 year
MM106
£17.50
£17.50
Russet freckelled all over,
yellow. Rich flavour,
great keeper.
A bonny golden crab.
Prolific. Great pollinator
Deep creamy flesh, which
cooks to a brisk yellow
puree. Attractive tall
CD
1904 Laxton
Brothers Bedford:
Cox’s Orange
Pippin x Wealthy
Wigtown
Galloway <1871
Maiden
2 year
MM106
£17.50
Japan? England
1949
Found 1850
Lancashire
Maiden
1 year
MM106
£17.50
Maiden
1 year
MM106
£17.50
£16.00
Out of
Stock
£17.50
£17.50
£17.50
£17.50
D
£17.50
£16.00
C
D
D
D
Crab
C/Ci
£16.00
£16.00
£17.50
£17.50
Apple (Malus) Greensleeves
Apple (Malus) Harry Baker
Apple (Malus) Hawthornden
Apple ( Malus) Howgate Wonder
Apple (Malus) Irish Peach
Apple (Malus) James Grieve
Apple (Malus) John Downie
D
1966 EMRS Kent
James Grieve x
Golden Delicious
Bush
2 year
MM106
Crab
Reads Nuresry
Norfolk 1990s?
Maiden
2 Year
MM106
C
Before 1780
Edinburgh
Maiden
1 year
MM111
CD
1915 Bembridge
Isle of Wight
Maiden
1 year
MM106
D
Probably Sligo,
Ireland before
1819
Maiden
1 year
MM106
D
1893 Edinburgh.
Either from Potts
Seedling or Cox’s
Orange Pippin
Whittington,
Lichfield,
Staffordshire
1875
Kent UK. Recent.
By Hugh Emen.
Charles Ross x
Jonathon. Stores
till March.
Sweden 1947
Maiden
2 year
MM106 /
M25
Bush
125cm
2 Year
MM26
Bush
2 year
M26 /
MM106
Maiden
1 year
MM106
CD
Ulverston, Lancs
1793
Bush
4 year
MM106
£17.50
£25.00
D
New Zealand
1924 Cox’s
Orange Pippin x
Delicious
France 1770
(Reinnes de
Reinettes)
Maiden
1 year
MM106
£17.50
Maiden
2 Year
MM106 /
M25 /
MM111
Scotland < 1831
Maiden
2 Year
MM111
£17.50
£17.50
£16.00
£17.50
£17.50
Crab
Apple (Malus) Jumbo
Heavy cropper, strong
grower. Needs a
pollinating partner.
CD
Apple (Malus) Katy syn Katja
A great early apple to eat
straight from the tree.
Small tasty fruits popular
with children.
Mostly used as a very
reliable heavy cropping
cooker which keeps for a
month or so. Noted for
jellies but also a
refreshing eater.
Late enjoys good
sunshine. Established
commercial variety.
Keeps till January
Pick October keeps to
December. Blushes red
when suntanned. Crops
very well here.
Vigorous flushed sub-acid
fruit. Keeps till January.
Triploid.
D
Apple (Malus) Keswick Codling
Apple (Malus) Kidds Orange Red
Apple (Malus) King of the Pippins
Apple (Malus) Lady of Wemyss
6
oblong fruit to be used
young (October)
A modern apple which
doesn’t pander to
supermarket taste. Fine
blend of sweet and sharpas crisp eater.
Exceptionally large pink
flowers, beautiful red
fruit. Named for the
noted fruit expert of that
name.
Primrose yellow flushed
pinky red. Good baker.
Keeps to December
Regrettably not from
Howgate Midlothian, but
the Isle of Wight. Can be
eaten fresh, but as a large
apple generally used for
cooking
Eat from the tree
Aug/Sept. Sought after
dinner apple in
Victorian/Edwardian
times
Early, doesn’t keep. Good
eater which also cooks
well and great universal
pollinator.
Prolific red fruit, not bitter
like most crabs. Excellent
universal pollinator.
CD
£17.50
£17.50
£17.50
£17.50
C
£16.00
Apple (Malus) Lass of Gowrie
Early fruiting eat by
September. Sharp firm
cooker.
C
Apple (Malus) Laxtons Superb
Popular garden apple.
Was commercial variety in
1920s in Scotland. Keeps
to January
Golden cooker. Keeps till
January
Great for pies. Best eaten
early (i.e. by December)
D
Apple (Malus) Lord Lambourne
Refreshing flavoursome
best before November
D
Apple (Malus) Maggie Sinclair
Large, quite sweet Mid
season keeps till January
Sweet, balanced and
aromatic like a mild Cox.
Sweet crisp and juicy.
Sharp and crisp eaten off
the tree. Keeps till
December.
CD
Apple ( Malus) Oslin syn Arbroath
Pippin
Primrose yellow delicate
flavour
D
Apple (Malus) Pitmaston
Pineapple
Small yellow conical
apples with a distinct
pineapple flavour
Juicy intense flavour
keeps till March
D
Frost hardy large cooker,
keeps its shape when
cooked. Slightly pear like.
Late cooker, keeps till
Christmas. Oblong
ribbed, creamy flesh, does
well in Western sites.
Large frothy cooker late
mid season. Keeps tp
November
Attractive striped fruit.
Good for dessert or apple
wine and cider making.
Pink flesh.
Very underated in the
literature. Here a reliable
heavy cropper with fine
red fruit
Robust and good. Less
intense than Cox. A
bonny eater popular with
kids.
A beautiful green
doughnut shaped apple.
Apple (Malus) Lord Clyde
Apple (Malus) Lord Derby
Apple (Malus) Meridian
Apple (Malus) Norfolk Royal
<1883
Presumably
originally from
Carse of Gowrie
1987
Bedfordshire
Maiden
2 year
MM111 /
M25
Maiden
1 year
MM106
C
Cheshire 1866
Maiden
1 year
M25
C
Stockport,
Cheshire 1862
(maybe seedling
from Catshead)
1907 Bedford
James Grieve x
Worcester
Pearmain
<1949 Clyde
Valley
Cox x Falstaff
1972 EMRS Kent
1908 Norfolk
Bush
2 year
M26
£16.00
£17.50
Maiden
1 year
MM106
£17.50
Maiden
1 year
MM111
Maiden
1 year
M26 / M25
Bush
2 year
MM106
£16.00
£17.50
D
D
£16.00
£16.00
£17.50
Apple (Malus) Orkney
Apple (Malus) Ribston Pippin
Apple (Malus) Royal Jubilee
Apple (Malus) Scotch Bridget
Apple (Malus) Scotch Dumpling
Apple (Malus) Sops of Wine
Apple (Malus) Stobo Castle
Apple (Malus) Sunset
Apple (Malus) Tower of Glamis
7
<1815 possible
from France but
connected with
Arbroath
1785
Herefordshire
Maiden
1 year
MM106
Maiden
1 year
MM106 /
M26
D
1707 Ribston,
Hall, Yorkshire
Maiden
2 year
C
Hounslow Middx
1882
Straight
Lead
2 year
MM106 /
MM111/
M26
M25
C
1851 Scotland
Bush
2 year
MM106
C
Maiden
1 year
M25
C CI
In national
collection 1949.
Scotland.
1832 England
Bush
2 year
MM106
CD
Scotland < 1900
Bush
Maiden
4 Year
2 year
MM111
M25
£17.50
£17.50
£17.50
£22.00
£17.50
£17.50
£17.50
£25.00
£16.00
D
1918 Kent. A
Cox’s Orange
Pippin Seedling
Bush
2 year
M26 &
MM106
CD
Clydeside or Carse
of Gowrie < 1800
Maiden
2 Year
M26
£17.50
£16.00
Apple (Malus) Tydemans Late
Orange
Apple (Malus) White Melrose
Apple (Malus) Winter Banana
Apple (Malus) Winter Gem
Apple (Malus) Worcester
Pearmain
Edible as is of lemony
taste cooked.
Flavoursome, late. Keeps
till April
Another house favourite.
Leave ion the tree until
actually white. Tastes like
champagne in the mouth
when ripe and fresh.
Keeps till early spring.
Sweet scented. Pick late.
Keeps till March.
Handsome and tasty,
keeps till Feb
Universal pollinator. Early
autumn commercial
variety but best left on
tree till red rather than
green.
D
1930 Kent
Maiden
1 year
MM106
CD
Recorded 1831.
Undoubtedly
much older.
Probably brought
by Monks from
France
1876 Indiana USA
Bush
Maiden
3 year
2 year
MM111
MM106/M26
Maiden
2 Year
MM106
1975 Faversham,
Kent
Devonshire
Quarrenden
Seedling.
Worcester before
1873
Maiden
1 year
MM106
Bush
2 year
M26
Orange Pippin x
Golden Pippin
1800
Herefordshire
Yorkshire mid
18thC
Maiden
MM106
1 year
Maiden
MM111
1 year
£17.50
D
£25.00
£17.50
£16.00
£17.50
D
D
Apple (Malus) Yellow Ingestrie
Distinctive yellow fruit,
pleasantly aromatic
D
Apple (Malus) Yorkshire Greening
A tough tree with good
cropping and an acidic
fruit
C
£17.50
Many more apple cultivars are available. We will continue to build our North Hardy stock. Got a request?
Ask us. Coming soon: Cambusnethan Pippin, Coul Blush, Early Julyan, Hood’s Supreme, Lemon Pippin and
more.
APPLE DAY SAMPLES
Apple Day 2015 will be on October 10th. Book your place now!
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£17.50
£17.50
£16.00
CHERRIES
Product
Description
Form
Size
Rootstock
Cherry (Prunus) Black Oliver
Juicy, roundish to heart shaped.
Bush
2 year
Colt
Cherry (Prunus) Early Rivers
Bush
2 year
F.12.1 / Colt
Bush
2 year
Colt
Cherry (Prunus) Merton Glory
Heart-shaped. Soft, melting, very juicy, sweet. Good
flavour and quality when fully ripe. Stone small
A large dark red/black fruit which has become a garden
favorite. Upright and a strong growth. Good for pots and
self fertile.
A mid-season English white cherry.
Bush
2 year
F.12.1/ Colt
Cherry (Prunus) Morello
The classic late summer acid cherry
Maiden
1 year
Colt
Cherry (Prunus) Summer Sun
One of the best cherry varieties for cool-temperate
climates.
Sweet dark fruits midsummer
Bush
2 year
Colt
Maiden
1 year
Colt
£20.00
£20.00
Product
Description
Form
Size
Rootstock
Price
Cherry Plum (Prunus Prunus de
Nancy
Cherry Plum (Prunus) Ruby
Yellow Fruits
Bush
2 year
Pixy / St J A
Red Fruits
Bush
2 year
Pixy
Product
Description
Form
Size
Rootstock
Damson (Prunus) Farleigh
Self Fertile Late dark blue fruits Origin Kent.
Bush
2 year
St J A
Damson (Prunus) King of the
Damsons
Damson (Prunus) Merryweather
Self fertile. Large blue fruit September. Les astringent
than some damsons. Nottinghamshire < 1949
Nottinghamshire 1907. Largest damson fruits.
Bush
2 year
St J A
Bush
2 year
St J A
Damson (Prunus) Shepherds
Bullace
Damson (Prunus) Shropshire
Prune
October ripening green / yellow fruit native Kent / Essex
Bush
2 year
St J A
Small self fertile, hardy. The definitive damson.
Common in Lyth Valley Cumbria.
Bush
2 year
St J A
Product
Description
Form
Size
Rootstock
Gage (Prunus) Cambridge
Reliable Green Gage ready August / September in the
North. Cambridgeshire 1927.
The skin is thin and if the fruit is held up to the light it is
sometimes possible to see the flesh and stone inside.
Not as fussy as the Old Green Gage. Heavy Cropping. It
has the rich sweet gage-like flavour and aroma of a
genuine gage, but it is also an excellent culinary variety
producing a well-flavoured straw-coloured jam.
Maiden
1 year
St Julian A
Bush
2 year
St. Julian A
Cherry (Prunus) Lapins Cherokee
Cherry (Prunus) Sunburst
Price
£20.00
£20.00
£20.00
£20.00
£20.00
CHERRY PLUM
£20.00
£20.00
DAMSONS
Price
£20.00
£20.00
£20.00
£20.00
£20.00
GAGES
Gage (Prunus) Early Transparent
9
Price
£20.00
£20.00
Gage (Prunus) Old Green Gage
Gage (Prunus) Oullin’s Golden
Gage
Old Green Gage is the definitive "gage", and often
considered the best flavoured of any plum variety. .
Common in France since the Middle Ages introduced to
England in the 18th century by Sir William Gage, who
lived at Bury St. Edmunds and obtained a tree from his
brother who was a priest living in Paris.
Borders fruit writer Hogg noted its exquisite flavour and
handsome appearance. Most north hardy of the gages.
Self fertile, mid season
Bush
2 year
St. Julian A
Bush
2 year
St. Julian A
£20.00
£20.00
MEDLAR
Medlar (Mespilus
germanica) Flanders Giant
Medlar (Mespilus
germanica) Nottingham
A spreading tree producing large yellow astringent fruit. Boil
and filter juice for jelly, sieve pulp to make the original
‘marmelade’ – quince jam. Only additive needed is sugar.
A spreading tree producing large yellow astringent fruit. Boil
and filter juice for jelly, sieve pulp to make the original
‘marmelade’ – quince jam. Only additive needed is sugar.
Bush 7L
pot
2 year
Quince A
£25.00
Bush 7L
pot
2 year
Quince A
£25.00
PEARS
Product
Description
C/D
etc
Form
Size
Rootstock
Pear (Pyrus) Beurre Hardy
Has a fragrant, faintly rosy scent and a world class
taste. The soft flesh is delicate and melting, full of juice.
The trees are upright, resistant to scab and have hardy
flowers that cope with late spring frosts.
The sweet, soft fruit are good quality and store well.
The crop size on a mature tree is excellent. Ideal for
growing on wires as an espalier or cordon etc. They
have very flexible side shoots.
A delicious pear and one of the best choices for shadier
and colder spots, Conference is the UK's most widely
grown garden variety. Ideal for training on wires as a
cordon or espalier and can be grown on North facing
walls.
Arguably the best flavoured pear. Self sterile.
Introduced from France 1849.
Self sterile. Early. First recorded 1629.
D
Bush
2 year
Quince A
D
Bush
2 year
Krichensaller
/ QA
£20.00
D
Bush
2 year
Quince A /
Krichensaller
£20.00
D
Bush
2 year
Quince A
£20.00
D
Maiden
1 year
Krichensaller
A red version of Williams Bon Chretien that crops a
little earlier. Like its parent, it is a sublime eating pear,
with almost more juice in it than flesh and a flavour to
match any other pear. It also brightens up the garden
in spring, when its young leaves have a reddish colour.
The tree is naturally quite narrow and upright, so it's a
good choice if you're worried about fitting a full sized
tree into your garden.
D
Bush
2 year
Quince A
£20.00
£20.00
Pear (Pyrus) Concorde ®
Pear (Pyrus) Conference
Pear (Pyrus) Doyenne du
Comice
Pear (Pyrus) Jargonelle
Pear (Pyrus) Sensation
10
Price
£20.00
PLUMS
Product
Description
Form
Size
Rootstock
Price
Plum (Prunus) Czar
Self fertile culinary plum. Compact habit. UK < 1899.
Bush
2 year
St. Julian A
Plum (Prunus) Herman
Very vigorous with large dark fruit. Sweden 1972
Bush
2 year
St Julian A
Plum (Prunus) Jubilee
Red Plum Mid Season Sweden 1985. Similar to Victoria but
larger.
One of the most reliable of all the garden plums. This tree will
produce a medium sized, reddish-purple fruit with superb
flavour. Also self fertile.
Large bluish-purple fruit. Has a good enough flavour to make it
a dual purpose plum and the tree is very easy to manage.
Sussex 19th Century. Very reliable heavy cropper but prone to
biennialism
Robert Hogg "an excellent baking and preserving plum".
Attractive yellow fruit. Worcestershire 1827.
Bush
2 year
St Julian A
£25.00
£20.00
£30.00
Maiden
Bush
Bush
1 year
2 year
2 year
St. Julian A /
Brompton
St. Julian A
£20.00
£30.00
£20.00
Maiden
1 year
St Julian A
£25.00
Maiden
1 year
St Julian A
£20.00
Half
Standard
2 year
Quince A
£25.00
Half
Standard
2 year
Quince A
£25.00
Plum (Prunus) Opal
Plum (Prunus) Sanctus
Hubertus
Plum (Prunus) Victoria
Plum (Prunus) Yellow
Pershore
QUINCE
Quince (Cydonia) Meech’s
Prolific
Quince (Cydonia) Vranja
A spreading tree producing large yellow astringent fruit. Boil
and filter juice for jelly, sieve pulp to make the original
‘marmelade’ – quince jam. Only additive needed is sugar.
An American variety c 1850 Conneticut
As above. A large pear shaped fruit originally from Serbia c
1800
QUINCE BLOSSOM
OTHER TREES & SHRUBSWe keep a small but growing range of other trees. Some of the fruiting trees
are non-specific cultivars grown from seed. We are able to source a wide range of native trees locally and are
happy to supply to order.
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Product
Amelanchier canadensis
Amelanchier lamarkii
Aronia ‘Chokeberry’
Bay Tree
Broom (Cytisus scoparius)
Chaenomeles japonica
(Ornamental Quince)
Cherry
Cherry Plum (Prunus
cerasifera)
Black elder (Sambuca nigra
‘Black Lace)
Description
One of the juneberries. Magnificent early spring
blossom, copious black berries and stunning autumn
foliage. Edible fruit or leave them for the birds.
Similar to Canadensis above
North American attractive blossom edible berries
One of the great culinary gifts.
7L pots
Price
£20.00
7L Pots
7L
2L pots
£20.00
£20.00
£7.50
11cm
pots
7L pots
£3.00
2L pots
£4.00
2L pots
£2.50
11cm
pots
7L
£3.00
12L
11cm
Pots
3L Pots
3L pots
£15.00
£3.00
2L pots
2L pots
£4.00
£4.00
Striking yellow blossom, attractive foliage
7L pots
£24.00
Great habitat for nesting birds, windbreak and
boundary species.
Stunning colour all year round. Spring blossom and
flaming autumn foliage
Grown from choice stones so fruiting qualities
unpredictable but likely to be better than wild plums.
Large cob sized nuts with magnificent purple foliage
2L pots
£4.00
7L pots
£25.00
2L pots
£4.00
7L pot
£25.00
Large cob sized nuts with magnificent purple foliage
Spreading pink flowered perennial shrub to 2m great
for insects and birds
Hybrid of two Chinese viburnums. Stunning pink
blossom through the darkest months of winter.
Snowball sized bunches of snowy white spring
blossom with autumn red berries for the birds
7L Pot
2L pots
£25.00
£4.00
11cm
pots
11cm
pots
7L pots
2L pots
£3.00
6L pots
£15.00
10L
Pots
10L
Pots
From
£40.00
Nitrogen fixing evergreen shrub. Good bird habitat
and ideal blossom for insects.
Bright pink flowers in the spring and fantastic scented
fruits for pot pourri or jelly making
We only grow from cherry stones from the most prolific
trees. So these might do as well as top end cultivars
(but cheaper!)
Small hedgerow plums which may be red or yellow
Striking dark cut leafed foliage. Pink flowers, purple
berries and bright red autumn foliage
Variegated elder
Hazel
Attractive green/white foliage
Native- plenty of nuts in the autumn.
Hazel ‘Nottingham’
Hazel ‘Webbs Prize Cob’
Named varieties have larger nuts
English variety larger nuts than Kentish Cob
See also Red Filberts below
A tree that all children love.
Berries and an attractive light coloured shrubby tree.
Horse Chestnut
Juniperus x media
‘Pfizeriana’
Lilac (Syringa pekinensis
‘Beijing Gold’)
Lonicera nitida ‘Baggesens
Gold’
Liquidamber styraciflua
‘Sweet Gum’
Plum
Red Filbert (Corylus) ‘Red
Majestic’
Red Filbert ‘Purpurea’
Spiraea
Viburnum x bodnantense
‘Dawn’
Viburnum opulus ‘Guelder
rose’
Willow
Walnut (Juglans regia)
Walnut (juglans regia)
‘Broadview’
Walnut (juglans regia)
‘Bucaneer’
Native trees
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For windbreak basketry and great bird habitat. Also
plentiful supply of green manure.
Sometimes called the English or Persian Walnut
125cm
Grafted named varieties fruit more reliably and more
quickly
Grafted named varieties fruit more reliably and more
quickly
A full range is available on request
£7.50
£39.00
£15.00
£15.00
£3.00
£7.50
£4.00
£50.00
£1.50
SOFT FRUITS
Product
Form
Size
Gooseberry (Ribes) Captivator
Bush
2 Year
Gooseberry (Ribes) Careless
Bush
2L
Gooseberry (Ribes) Hinonmaki Red Hardy Finnish variety
Bush
2 Year
Gooseberry (Ribes) Invicta ®
Bush
2 Year
Gooseberry (Ribes) Leveller
Bush
2L
Gooseberry (Ribes) Whinhams Industry Red Gooseberry very shade tolerant
Bush
2L
Hardy Shrub
3L container
£12.50
Bush
2 Year
Kiwi (Actinidia arguta) sometimes called Siberian Kiwi- smaller fruit to eat whole.
One male plant will pollinate up to five females. Both M and F needed for fruiting
Blackberry (Rubus) Coldstream Colossal
Trained upright
7L pots
£10.00
£27.00
Bush
2L container
Blackberry (Rubus) Oregon Thornless
Bush
3L container
Blackberry (Rubus) Thornfree
Bush
3L container
Blackcurrant (Ribes) Baldwin
Bush
3L container
Blackcurrant (Ribes) Ben Sarek ®
Bush
3L container
Blackcurrant (Ribes) Big Ben
Bush
3L container
Blackcurrant (Ribes) Titania
Bush
3L container
Loganberry (Rubus) Thornfree
Bush
3L container
Loganberry (Rubus) Thornless
Bush
3L container
Leycesteria Formosa (Himalayan Honeysuckle) Edible Berries. Attractive burgundy
flowers
Raspberry (Rubus) All Gold
Climber
2L
Root Wrapped
Pack of 10
Raspberry (Rubus) Fall Gold
Root Wrapped
Pack of 10
Raspberry (Rubus) Glen Ample ®
Root Wrapped
Pack of 10
Raspberry (Rubus) Glen Clova
Root Wrapped
Pack of 10
Redcurrant (Ribes) Laxton’s No.1
Bush
3L container
Redcurrant (Ribes) Laxton's No1
Young Bush
2L container
For anyone who has never enjoyed gooseberries the secret is don’t pick them till they’re
completely ripe and sweet enough to eat raw off the bush….
Honey Berry Lonicera caerulea var. kamtschatica Honeysuckle with edible fruits from
Siberia
Jostaberry (Ribes)
Rhubarb Red Champagne
2L
Rhubarb Victoria
3L
Grape Isabella
Young vines
1.5L pots
Grape Muscat Bleu
Grafted vines
3L pots
Grape Red Globe
Young vines
1.5L pots
Alpine Strawberry
White Alpine Strawberry
9cm pots
2L pots
9cm pots
A range of strawberry plants, varieties include Honeyoe, Elsanta, Ostara
2L pots
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Price
£10.00
£9.00
£10.00
£10.00
£9.00
£9.00
£5.00
£10.00
£10.00
£9.00
£9.00
£9.00
£9.00
£9.00
£9.00
£5.00
£15.00
£15.00
£16.00
£15.00
£9.00
£5.00
£4.00
£6.00
£3.00
£12.00
£3.00
£2.00
£4.00
£2.00
£4.00
White Currant (Ribes) White Versailles
Young Bush
Wild Raspberry
Worcesterberry
JULY HARVEST
AND LATER IN THE SUMMER…
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2L container
2L container
Young Bush
2 L container
£5.00
£2.50
£5.00
VEGETABLE SEEDS
We can supply a very wide range of seeds. The selection below covers some trusty favourites. Ask for full list
if needed. Seeds are best supplied Winter / Spring
Product
£
Beetroot Boltardy
1.55
Cabbage F1 Kilaxy
2.99
Carrot Rondo
1.75
Lettuce Lobjoits Green (Cos)
1.55
Marrow Long Green Bush
1.75
Pea Early Onward
2.65
Pea Kelvedon Wonder
Broad Bean Aquadulce
Claudia
Broad Bean Giant Exhibition
Longpod
2.65
Runner Bean Enorma
2.75
Runner Bean Armstrong
3.65
Broad Bean Karmazyn
Runner Bean Enorma Elite
Leaf Beet Rainbow Chard
Beetroot Detroit Globe
Cabbage Golden Acre
Carrot Amsterdam Organic
Carrot Fly Away
Carrot Chantenay Red Cored
Corn Salad North Holland
Courgette All Green Bush
Cucumber Marketmore
Florence Fennel Finale
Garlic Iberian Wight
Kohl Rabi Noriko
Kale Jersey Walking Stick
Kale Nero di Toscano
Leek Musselburgh
Lettuce Webbs Wonderful
Lettuce Paris Island Cos
Marrow Long Green Trailing
Pak Choi China Choi
Chopsuey Greens Shungiku
Mustard Purple Frills
Pumpkin Yellow
Hundredweight
Spring Onion Ramrod
Radish Minowase
1.98
2.93
1.54
1.54
1.89
1.54
1.89
1.40
1.54
1.24
1.54
1.89
4.95
1.54
1.24
1.76
1.76
1.24
1.54
1.24
1.76
1.98
1.40
15
2.65
2.65
1.98
1.10
1.54
Radish Giant of Sicily
Seakale Lillywhite
Rocket Esmee
Spinach Strawberry
Pumpkin Cinderella
Squash Golden Hubbard
Angelica
Basil Greek
Caraway
Coriander
Fennel Bronze
Evening Primrose
Valerian
Tarragon
Nicotiniana Mixed
Mesembryanthemum
Pyrethrum Single Mixed
Pansy Winter Flowering
Mixed
Sunflower Tall Single
Tagetes Minuta
Field Beans
1.54
1.98
1.76
2.93
1.89
2.93
1.59
1.59
1.59
1.59
1.79
1.59
1.59
1.29
1.79
1.59
1.59
1.59
1.79
1.79
1.99
New to gardening? Try our Forest Gardening and Pruning
courses. See http://grahambell.org for details
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HERBS
Most of our herbs and other plants come in 9cm pots at £2.00 each, 2L pots @ £4.00. Larger plants (in
larger containers) will cost more but be more hardy and travel friendly.
Product
Alchemilla ‘Ladies
Mantle’
Angelica
Bay Tree
Bugle
Catmint Nepeta cataria
Chamomile
Chives
Curry Plant
Echinacia purpurea
Bronze Fennel
Feverfew
Garlic Chives
Horse radish
Hyssop ‘Rosa’
Lavendula x intermedia
‘Grappenhall’
Lavendula Princess Blue
Meadowsweet
(Filipendula ulmaria)
Milkweed (Asclepias
syriaca)
Mint
Black Peppermint
Gingermint
Parsley, curled leaf
Parsley, flat leaved
Pot Marjoram
Rosemary Blue Lagoon
Sage
Solidago ‘Golden Rod’
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Description
A bushy perennial which dies back in the winter. Edible as a
salad, attractive cream/yellow flowers. Traditional cure for
women’s complaints.
Tall scented biannual. All parts edible, great in salads or candied
for baking.
Aromatic Leaves for Cooking Two year old bushes
Woodland understorey ground cover. Beautiful summer flower
spikes. Traditionally a wound herb.
Silvery foliage and deep blue flowers
Spreading ground cover. This species produces copious daisylike flowers. Great for calmative tea.
The miniature prince of the onion family. A perennial you can cut
back with scissors and enjoy as a sprinkled relish or a staple input
to salads.
Abundant silver foliage and bright yellow flowers
Traditionally a medicinal plant, thought to boost the immune
system. 1m+ tall flowering head resembling pink daisies. Enjoys a
sunny spot.
For cooking or salads. Tall feathery foliage and yellow flowers in
abundance
Traditional cottage garden daisy type flowers. Cure for migraine.
Well just yummy really. Like chives but garlicky
Very deep rooting. Dig up the roots and grate them for mouthwateringly real Horse radish. Tangy and perfect with all sorts of
main dishes.
Herbaceous companion to your cabbage patch, deterring the
Cabbage White butterfly while producing tall elegant pink flowerheads which attract other pollinating insects. Can also be useful
companion to grapevines, and is an ingredient in Chartreuse.
Lavender is always a great insect plant- and dried is perfect for
slipping in a clothes drawer…
A deep blue variety
Creamy white flowers with a strong sweet smell June-Sept.
Native to damp meadows. Traditionally a strewing herb, a
stomachic and a flavouring for preserves.
Price
£4.00
£4.00
£7.50
£4.00
£2/4.00
£2.00
£2.00
£4.00
£2.00 /
£4.00
£2.00
£2/4.00
£2.00
£3.00
£4.00
£4.00
£4.00
£3.00
£2.00
Native to Southern Canada. Young shoots edible raw
The good old garden stalwart- great with potatoes and main
dishes, or for fresh mint tea
Strong spearmint flavours, dark leaves
Attractive variegated leaves and the best taste for mint tea
Attractive raw or in cookery
Antidote for garlic, and great for sprinkling on dishes
One of the herbs we use most often in cooking. Warm flavours of
the Mediterranean – which grow fine in Scotland
Another staple herb. Tastes even better coming from your own
back doorstep!
A specially flavoursome herb. Essential with pork and has lots of
other applications.
A pretty yellow flower with multiple uses including making
goldenrod honey, in cooking, great late bee fodder.
£4.00
2L pots
£4.00
£4.00
£2.00
£2.00/£4.00
£2.00
£4.00
£4.00
£4.00
Tansy
Tarragon French
Thyme, Common
Garden (Thymus
vulgaris)
Thyme Creeping Red
Thymus x citrodendrus
variegata
Valerian (Valeriana
officinalis)
‘Yellowbuttons’ distinctive flowers and attractive cut leaf. A bitter
herb can be eaten sparingly, but mostly has medicinal uses.
Ingredient in Easter Ledge Pudding
Marvellous in salad and French Dressing. Great with Chicken
and fish.
Vigourous and excellent in the kitchen
£4.00
Excellent hardy groundcover, useful in cooking and produces
pretty purple flowers.
Lemon scented and variegated. An attractive herb in the garden
and the kitchen
Herb with sedative effects so to be used with caution.
£4.00
£4.00
£2.00
£4.00
£2.00
SALADS
Product
Garlic Mustard
Land Cress
Leaf Celery
Lemon Balm
Salad Burnet
Wild Rocket (diplotaxis
tenuifolia)
French Sorrel
Lemon Sorrel
Ruby Sorrel
Red Valerian
(Centranthus ruber)
Description
Hedgerow plant of the brassica family. Flavourful leaves are
good in salad or to make sauces such as pesto.
Landcress is similar to watercress but requiring less water can
be easier to grow. A good hot salad leaf.
AKA Chinese or cutting celery, easier to grow than the stalk
variety with a similar flavour. Great in salads and soups.
Aromatic herb good in salads, as tea or as a cooking herb. Has
a light lemony scent, attractive to bees. A relative of mint.
Native to chalk uplands actually does well on most garden soils.
Edible in salads and has delightful dark carmine flowers.
Sometimes called perennial wall-rocket. Flavoursome aromatic
salad leaf.
Traditional in French cookery also good in mixed salads
Brilliant tangy addition to salads- an explosion of taste in the
mouth.
Also known as Wood dock or Bloody Dock. Enjoys damp or wet
soils. Edible salad leaf with an attractive red vein.
Pretty pink flowers. Edible in Salads
Price
£2/4.00
£2/4.00
£2/4.00
£2/4.00
£2/4.00
£2.00
£2/4.00
£2/4.00
£2/4.00
£4
All salads are £2.00 for 9cm pots and £4.00 for 2L pots. Twelve for the price of ten- any combination.
Spring 2013 we counted 64 edible salad species in the
garden in one hour. Are you growing all you could?
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OTHER PLANTS
Our understanding of an abundant healthy garden means a mix of food plants, flowers and herbs creating a
healthy habitat for birds and insects. You can’t eat all of these plants (but other creatures can!) and they will
give you a beautiful garden and a healthy environment. Again depending on pot size some may cost more than
stated. These are nearly all perennials.
Product
Achillea filipenduline ‘Cloth of
Gold’
Aquilegia
Aquilegia vulgaris plena ‘Ruby
Port’
Artemisia
Bergenia cordifolia
Campanula pyrimidalis
Comfrey; Chinese AKA Oriental
borage
Comfrey, Creeping
Comfrey; Russian
Delphinium Blue Bird
Delphinium ‘Black Knight’
Digitalis purpurea ‘Apricot'
Eryngium planum
Eryngium varifolium ‘Miss
Marble’
Feverfew
Common Foxglove (Digitalis)
Foxglove Apricot
Green Alkanet
Helianthemum ‘Sunbeam’
Hellebore ‘Christmas Rose’
Hollyhock ‘Mars Magic’ (Alcea
rosea hybrid)
Hypericum ‘Tutsan’
Jasione laevis ‘Blue Light’
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Description
Aromatic, full-flowering with golden umbels. Can spread
vigourously.
Popular garden flower with spurred petals. Attractive to
butterflies and other insects.
Selected variety with stunning architectural blossoms
Aromatic. Also known as Wormwood (Traditionally used to
make absinthe). A vermifuge – helps keep poultry healthy.
Also known as ‘Elephant ears’ and ‘Pigsqeak’. Large waxy
leaves and very early spring pink flowers
The chimney bellflower. Range from white to dark blue tall
attractive blossom spikes attractive to insects and reasonably
shade tolerant.
A larger leaved variety. Eaten in Turkey. We are investigating
how!
Low growing, masses of pink flowers
Useful as fertilizer and had purported medicinal benefits owing
to high mineral content. Edible. Fast growing, can be cut
several times in a growing season as green manure.
Large showy stem flowers, a popular garden plant. Attracts
bees and insects.
A darker variant
A less oft-seen variety of foxglove with beautiful creamy
flowers, dotted with deep red flecks.
A Mediterranean form of the native species ‘maritimum’ which
had medicinal uses and was traditionally dug to candy its roots
as ‘eryngoes’. Attractive blue flowers often mistaken for
thistles.
Form with an attractive veined leaf
Useful ground-covering plant with pretty daisy-like flowers.
Another traditional healing plant for reducing fever and
headaches, even migraine, hence its name.
Attractive to bees & insects. Multiple purple/pink flowers grow
on a spike which can reach 1m in height. Has medicinal
derivatives, but is poisonous eaten. Variants are white
flowered.
Selected for delicately coloured flower spikes
Same family as comfrey and borage. Pirecing blue flowers
and another great green manure plant.
The Rockrose is an important butterly plant, attractive low
ground cover with striking yellow flowers.
A welcome flower in midwinter
Towering cottage garden favourite with edible leaves and
flowers
Attractive yellow flowers, black berries in winter and great
autumn colours. Related to St John’s Wort.
A perennial with stunning blue flowers, favoured by insects
Price
£4.00
£4.00
£2.00
£2.00
£2.00/£4.00
£2.00
£4.00
£4.00
£4.00
£4.00
£4.00
£2.00
£4.00
£2.00
£2.00/£4.00
£2.00/£4.00
£4.00
£2.00
£4.00
£2.00
£4.00
£2.00
Leycesteria Formosa
‘Himalayan honeysuckle’
London Pride
Lupinus ‘Dwarf Lulu mixed’
Mullein
Nepata x fasserrii
Papaver ‘Allegro’
Passiflora caerulea
Penstemon ‘digitalis ‘Husker
Red’
Periwinkle, variegated (Vinca)
Potentilla nepalensis ‘Miss
Wilmott’
Primula chungensis
Primula veris (cowslip)
Siberian Iris (Iris sibirica)
Teazel
Toadflax, Creeping
Red Valerian (Centranthus
ruber)
Verbascum phoenicium
‘Rosetta’
Veronica longifolia ‘Blue shades’
White clover
Wood Sedge
Wild Rose
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An attractive flower which produces abundant berries, popular
with birds. A favourite in Victorian gardens.
Named because of its rapid colonisation of bombsites in WWII
London. Ground-covering plant. Pretty pink flowers grow on
long stems. Attractive to birds and insects.
Herbaceous flowering plant with mixed colour flowers, similar
in size to delphiniums. Delightful in any garden. Also a useful
nitrogen fixer aiding soil fertility.
Low leaf coverage accompanied by tall flowering stems.
Purported to have medicinal benefits for asthma or respiratory
afflictions. Traditionally used to make tallow candles.
Catmint likes partial shade. Lavender blue flowers June/July.
Oriental Poppy. Large red flowers with ruffled edge, attractive
& prolific.
Passion fruit. Very attractive flowers on this vigorous climber.
Overwinter indoors. Who knows it may even fruit!
Makes two-three feet tall and flowers attractively early
summer. Deer and drought resistant- attracts birds and
butterflies
Vigorous ground cover with attractive deep blue flowers in late
spring
Originally from Nepal a hardy perennial with attractive
Magenta flowers. Makes eighteen inches tall.
Yellow to orange Spring flowers on tall spikes. Hardy.
This delightful welcomer of Spring has edible flowers to
brighten early salads. Native as far North as Orkney.
Very hardy with typical iris flowers, mid to purple blue
Often accused of being a weed, teazels are very useful in a
forest garden. Leave the heads on in Winter to feed birdsespecially finches. Can grow to 2m+. Very spiky! Still used in
fulling cloth.
Hedgerow plant with straight, slender stems and blue-violet
flowers. Root-creeping rather than stem. Very prolific. Good for
bees.
Whilst some sources claim it is edible, it’s not thought to be
sought after as human food although butterflies, bees and
other insects go wild for its sprays of red flowers. Not to be
confused with the herbal uses offered by true Valerian.
Purple mullein likes good drainage and full sun which it
rewards with spectacular columns of purple flowers.
The speedwell family but selected for attractive spikes of
lavender blue flowers.
Nitrogen fixing spreading ground cover with great honey in
those clusters of blossoms (which are edible)
Enjoys bright shade, great for forest floor. Grows well in most
soils to a height of around 25cm. Traditionally used to insulate
footwear!
Also known as Dog Rose, Scotch Briar. Has a pretty open
flower and scent. A favourite British meadow or cottage garden
plant. Bush or Climber. Flowers are an attractive addition to
salads. Rose hips a fantastic source of vitamin C for teas and
jellies.
£2.00
£2.00/£4.00
£4.00
£2.00/£4.00
£2.00
£2.00
£4.00
£4.00
£4.00
£4.00
£2.00
£2.00
£2300
£4.00
£2.00/£4.00
£4.00
£2.00
£2.00
£2.00
£2.00
£2.00
PERENNIAL & SEASONAL VEGETABLES
At different times of the year we have for sale potted up young plants, including:
Jerusalem Artichoke (five tubers to a 2L pot or bare root in early season) ‘Fuseau’ a smooth
skinned variety
Beans of various kinds
Curly Kale
Leeks
Ragged Jack Kale
Rhubarb
Tomato plants (various varieties)
Squashes (May/June)
We are constantly adding to our range and will endeavour to keep this online catalogue
updated, but do ask if there is something you particularly want as we are often able to
source plants very reasonably, or grow to order.
FOREST GARDEN PACKS
Our highly successful mixture of trees, shrubs, climbers and herbaceous plants come in small (£50), medium
(£75) or large (£125). You can have a surprise selection (we choose for you) on one of our themes, or madeto-order.
Small would be one fruit tree, two native trees/shrubs, two fruit bushes and two herbs with a packet of seeds,
A medium pack may contain for instance, 1 apple tree, a plum or cherry, 2 soft fruit bushes and a selection of
6 easy-to-grow herbs and flowers, with two packets of seeds. Large would add another apple, a hazel and
another two herbs.
We recommend these selections:
Granny’s Kitchen – tasty fruits for the traditional kitchen.
Young People’s Favourite’s – easy to grow easy to eat, and popular with youngsters.
Heritage Varieties – a range of old varieties with fuller flavour.
Raw Energy – just fruits salads and vegetables to eat raw - a very healthy addition to your garden.
Please ask for more information. We are happy to give free advice on all serious enquiries so that you get the
garden you really want, and the knowledge to maintain it.
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An afternoon’s harvest in our Forest Garden.
ENCOURAGING WILDLIFE
Whilst we are not currently a registered organic holding all our management methods avoid
chemical inputs, and minimise external inputs wherever possible. We largely create the
fertility of the garden internally, save our own seeds and manage and control ‘pests’ and
diseases through building habitat. So our methods of production are about positive action
rather than withholding nasties…
This relies on high populations of birds and invertebrates. For example we believe you
have a problem if you have no aphids- what would the bluetits eat? The trick is to keep
these things in balance. So trees, flowers and perennials shrubs are key to making homes
for wildlife. Understand the value of plants for other species helps (e.g. teasels for
goldfinches, nettle for butterflies and moths). We also stock a small range of constructed
housing:
Robin & Tit boxes
£ 10 each
Bumble Bee Housing
£ 15 each
We also stock fat balls and wild bird seed.
All the photographs in this catalogue are genuine pictures from our nursery/forest garden in
Coldstream in the Scottish Borders
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Excerpt from review by Annie Casey inthe3rdimagazine
This is an immediately impressive book, written by Graham Bell. The cover tells us that the
foreword is written by David Bellamy and the introduction by Bill Mollinson, who with David
Holmgren, coined the word permaculture and gave the world a vision for ‘rebuilding sustainable
and ecologically benign human settlements’ in 1974.
This book, more than any other I have read, did not leave me feeling overwhelmed and
wondering where to start. Rather, it provided the necessary impetus that we all need, to take
charge of our lives so that we can provide for our basic needs without
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I first came across the word 'Permaculture' in an article in 'Peace News' way
back in 1981. The word intrigued me, and I filed it away in some back cupboard
of my brain for the next few years. In the meantime I'd acquired an allotment
and become a reasonably competent vegetable grower, able to supply my
family with plentiful supplies of potatoes, onions, cabbages and beans. I'd also
learned much from the books of organic pioneers such as HDRA founder
Lawrence D Hills and the late, great Geoff Hamilton. I'd even borrowed David
Holmgren and Bill Mollison's 'Permaculture One' from the library a couple of
times, but found it rather dense and difficult to get my head around. I did
however grasp that permaculture had something to do with herb spirals, and
decided I'd like one of these in the garden of the house we bought in 1994, after
7 years of being cooped up in a tiny first floor flat. So as I liked the pictures in
Graham's book I picked it up in the hope of gaining a few tips. It had nothing
about herb spirals, but instead was one of the most eye-opening books I've ever
read, changing my whole attitude to gardening, growing and ultimately, life.
Giving insights into topics such as soil ecology, water management, composting
and energy conservation, Graham gently explains that permaculture is a design
system, based around ethics of caring for the earth and each other, and
principles of using minimum effort for maximum results, seeing solutions
instead of problems and above all, working with nature rather than against, as
has been the pattern of most agricultural systems for the last few hundred
years. Moreover, these ethics and principles can be applied to almost any other
field of human activity beyond simply growing food; architecture and building to
economic systems, forestry management to healthcare, energy production to
community building. Somebody once described permaculture as 'revolution
disguised as organic gardening', but I think it’s more important than that.
Climate change and peak oil are the earth's way of telling us that we need to
alter our behaviours. With permaculture we can not only make those changes
but learn to thrive as well. Book Review from Amazon
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