Now you can throw away your gardening gloves, because 'Little Black Prince' is thorn-free, it can be grown and harvested simply and without prickly problems in any space - in the garden, on a balcony, decking or terrace.A compact, medium-sized blackberry with glossy, regular shaped black fruits, the berries are sweet and firm and are produced in abundance through much of the year. The compact plants grow no taller than 1m when fully mature and bear fruit directly on this year's canes so they're really easy to grow with no fiddly tying-in of canes or thinning out old ones - everyone can now grow their own delicious blackberries. Effectively an autumn fruiting blackberry, Little Black Prince has the ability to produce a crop in its first year after planting, and will get bushier year on year, giving you even more tasty berries - just make sure that it gets plenty of sun. Supplied as an established plant approx 75cm tall, in a 5L pot, ready for planting out. Use this fabulous blackberry as a specimen plant, in group plantings or as a container plant.
A garden raspberry absolutely ideal for growing in pots, not only is it compact, growing to just 80-100 cm high, but 'Little Red Princess (R)' fruits on this year's canes, so it's really easy to care for. You don't need a huge garden to enjoy the bright red fruits of 'Little Red Princess' raspberry - because its shorter growing, it's happy in a large pot on your balcony or patio, so anyone can now grow this fabulous berry. Even though it's compact, you'll be amazed a the bumper crop of berries that are produced from the first year! The raspberries are sugary sweet, medium-sized and regularly shaped and can be harvested from the middle of June on the side shoots of last year's canes and from the middle of August on this year's canes. Little Red Princess is easy to grow; it has an upright habit, so it does not need extra support and it is also thornless - making picking a breeze! No more nasty prickles! Supplied as an established plant, approx. 75cm high in a 5L pot.
Long Cane Raspberries are your opportunity to benefit from a massive breakthrough in Raspberry fruit production! Raspberries usually produce their fruit on the previous year's growth of canes. However, they are often sold in garden centres cut back as short canes - great value, but you have to wait an extra year for fruit. Now, with Long Canes you will get fruit in the first season, because they have not been cut back - they are harvested at about 1m or taller and will fruit this summer. A great garden variety, not too vigorous, yet fruiting early to mid-season in July and August and producing good bright red sweet fruits. You will get around a pound of fruit or more per cane for 4-5 years. These raspberries will fruit on the full length of the canes you receive so do not prune them down when you plant them! If space is at a premium, grow them in large pots in a wigwam form it will look great and also produce massive amounts or fruit in the minimum of space! Otherwise, plant in rows about 60cm (2ft) apart, using supporting wires for easier fruit picking. Take advantage of new Long Cane Raspberry production techniques for bigger and quicker crops. Supplied as Long-Canes, approx. 85-100cm tall which means you will get fruit this year!
'Ruby Beauty' is a new concept rapsberry patio fruit variety - a unique breeding sensation in that it produces masses of short-branched canes that reach no more than 1m (3ft 3in), with the added bonus of being thornless. Its thick clump of canes produces heavy crops of up to 1.5kg on each established plant in 2 years or so, and starts fruiting in June, so is an early starter. This award-winning variety has an excellent fruit flavour, as demanded by today's consumers, making this the perfect all-rounder. For best results, grow in a large pot about 30cm or so in diamneter, allowing room for growth over many years. Picking is at 80-100cm tall, so easy to net and easy to pick - perfect for children, too. Why not make a raspberry hedge for an unusual garden feature? Just plant them about 70cm apart. Supplied as an established plant in a 2L pot ready for planting.
One of the early so called 'hybridberries' resulting from a raspberry x blackberry cross, Loganberries are a splendid plant to train along a wall or trellis. It produces juicy sweet berries from August to October with an aromatic tang and larger and longer that it's raspberry parent. These are preceded by white summertime blossom which provide a nectar feast for all friendly insects. To enjoy the berries at their sweetest be patient and pick when they are purplish red and perfectly ripe, they're lovely eaten fresh and make lovely preserves too. This is a vigorous plant and needs space to thrive, allow 2-4 metres along wires or trellis and you'll enjoy bounteous yiels every year. Once fruiting is over prume away old canes leving freshnew growth in place as these will give fruit the following summer.
New patio raspberry 'Groovy' is just the thing for growing in a pot on your patio, but its golden-green leaves give a unique twist on the classic fruit plant. Excellent as both a fruit producing and ornamental plant, it will look great mixed in beds and borders but is also absolutely ideal for growing in pots and containers thanks to its naturally dwarf habit.From July it bears a bountiful crop of large sweet juicy red berries which are delicious eaten fresh from the bush and the canes are virtually thorn free making picking much more pleasant. What's more, because of its compact nature it will only grow to just under a metre tall so its easy to pick from but also easy to keep covered up to stop the birds helping themselves.Best of all, 'Groovy' is a primocane variety, bearing fruit on new wood therefore meaning you'll get fruit in the very first year - no need to wait a year for crops! Easy to maintain, it requires just a little prune to simply remove old canes once they are older than 18 months and that's it.An easy to grow, care for and tasty Raspberry plant packed full of healthy nutrition that both tastes and looks great!
Now you can pick this brand new and delicious summer superfruit from your own garden! This amazing Honeyberry is a type of sweet honeysuckle produces some of the healthiest fruits around, and best of all they taste great! The sweet, juicy fruits have a melt-in-the-mouth flavour that is similar to blackberries, with a hint of kiwi! They are rich in super-healthy vitamins and minerals, and contain even more antioxidants than blueberries! Simply wonderful in sauces, puddings, jams, jellies and desserts, you can even pick them straight from the bush for a yummy, healthy snack. These unusual and interesting additions to your fruit garden are self-fertile, and will produce their dark-blue, strange-looking, elongated fruits in abundance from this summer onwards, giving you bigger crops each year! Whats more, they have gorgeous berries and elegant, mid-green foliage, and they will look great in patio pots!
'Buddy' is recent introduction to everbearing strawberries and is taking the supermarket world by storm. Now we are delighted to be able to offer it to the home gardener to grow themselves. Everbearing Strawberries are great for spreading strawberry fruit production out. Starting slightly later than the Wimbledon peak, they have a big yield in mid to late July, but then keep going through August - peaking again in September and continuing to crop until first frosts! This makes eating and using the crops easier, not one huge glut! Everbearers have historically not been quite as good on the taste scores as traditional 'June bearers', but 'Buddy' breaks the mould here. It produces big fruit with great taste, and is the sweetest of any everbearer to date (winning many taste-tests), hence its popularity with supermarkets. And it is a great cropper too - commercial trials showed almost 1Kg per plant in year 2 and 3 (just over 2 pounds per plant). 'Buddy' also has good mildew resistance too, so suits home garden production, where none of want to use chemicals if not needed. Let Buddy become your best friend in strawberries this year.
Pick pounds of deliciously sweet and juicy strawberries from your own garden with this collection of three top quality proven varieties. Each one has been expertly selected to ensure that they will crop, one after the other, from early June right through until autumn so ensuring a plentiful supply of irresistably juicy berries the whole summer long! The varieties are easy to grow, proven to thrive in UK gardens and all have a wonderful taste Plants are offered as bare root 'runners' which are delivered in a dormant state having been held in cold storage. They are fully hardy and ready to be planted out straight away. Grow in the garden or in large containers - a 12in pot will hold around three runners. Full instructions will be sent with your order. Collection contains 10 each of the following varieties: Honeoye. Early Variety. Starts cropping in late May or early June and crops for 3-4 weeks. Gives a good crop of orange red soft juicy berries with a wonderful taste. Florence. Late midseason variety. Following Honeoye, Florence will be ready to pick in late June and crops for several weeks. Expect a bountiful crop of dark red firm beriies with an outstanding sweet strawberry taste. Easy to grow too with excellent resistance to disease. Calypso. Everbearing variety. Crops on a little and often basis from the middle of July so is the perfect follow on from Florence. Although lacking the flush of fruit of the other two Calypso will produce sweet juicy strawberries over many weeks from July right through to autumn. A perfect variety for containers too.
Create an eye-catching and productive feature for your garden with this stylish 'wheat bundle' planter set with three established Elsanta strawberry plants. 'Elsanta' is one of the tastiest and most popular varieties of strawberry that you can grow at home and one of the leading commercial varieties, favoured for their juicy fruit and earlier, heavy cropping. Perfect for growing in patio pots and containers when you're short of space, the plants are in flower with fruit already setting and will be ready for picking in just a few short weeks - continuing up until around the middle of July - weeks-worth of mouth-watering fruit! Not only does 'Elsanta' produce bright and shiny orange-red fruits, but it produces pretty little flowers in the spring and rich deep-green foliage creating a very pretty ornamental plant in between fruiting seasons. The reproduction silver effect planter, is lightweight polypropylene and made with gardeners in mind, so you'll find that they combine good looks with functionality, having raised drainage holes and an internal reservoir to keep moisture in your pots for longer. Plus, as they're UV and frost resistant, they'll last for years, meaning that you can use them over and over again. The stylish wheat design has been brush painted to give an aged metallic look, creating the impression that you have a much more expensive planter, and is a decorative feature in its own right which you can use for many years to come. They're the perfect planting companion for Elsanta, where both pot and plant can bring out the best in each other, creating a fruitful, designer-style effect in no time at all.
Own something brand new and unusual the worlds first ever Pinkberry and pick your own crop of delicious fruit each year from next season! From the blueberry family, these lovely fuchsia-pink coloured Superfruits are packed with healthy antioxidants and, best of all they are sweeter and juicier than regular blueberries. Put them into your summer puddings or eat them fresh from the bush with some ice cream scrumptious! Pink Blueberry 'Pink Sapphire' reliably bears fruit and which is ready to eat in late-August each year. These incredible plants will even provide an explosion of fiery-orange coloured autumn foliage. Theyll grow into a bush of about 90cm (3ft), and grow best in acidic or ericaceous soils, like all members of this family.
Introducing Blueberry 'Cabernet Splash' a spectacular new soft fruit and one sure to hit the mark with grow your own enthusiasts and flower gardeners alike. A superb performer at all levels, the leaves of this ornamental blueberry emerge beep burgundy, the colour of a well matured red wine, and mature to a mottled green before turning fiery red in the autumn. Compact, low maintenance and easy to grow, striking edible ornamental, its white blossom is followed by an abundance of large sweet summer blueberries. Grow in ericaceous soil in beds and borders or in a container for the patio, where its delicious berries are just a stretch away from your sun lounger! Supplied as an established plant in a 9cm pot, ready to plant straight out.