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Without doubt one of sweetest apples you'll ever taste. 'Fuji Kiku' is renowned for its flavour and almost complete lack of acidity, which only serves to enhance the sweetness more! The large, ruby red apples have thin, lighter coloured stripes and look stunning when hanging ripe on the tree. Perfect for eating fresh from the branch, juicy and firm with a good crunch, they also retain their shape well when cooked, so they're ideal for pies and tarts, and make a particularly good, naturally sweet applesauce. Ready to harvest from late October, these late season apples keep well, so you can enjoy your harvest into the next year. 'Fuli Kiku' requires another apple tree nearby to pollinate it, but given the popularity for growing-your-own fruit and vegetables, you can be sure that there will be one close by. Supplied as an established tree, 150cm (5ft) tall grown on an M9 dwarfing rootstock in a 24cm pot, growing to a height and spread of 2.5m (8ft).
'Idared' is a good looking, versatile dessert apple producing crunchy, crisp and juicy white fleshed fruit. The medium sized red streaked green fruit has mild and pleasant, refreshing flavour. They also retain their shape well when cooked, so they're ideal for pies and tarts. Ready to pick from late October, these apples keep amazingly keep well for six months, so you can enjoy your home grown harvest well into the following spring. They have a tougher skin than most apples, which makes them harder to damage and adds further to their longevity. 'Idared' requires another apple tree nearby to pollinate it, but given the popularity for growing-your-own fruit and vegetables, you can be sure that there will be one close by. Supplied as an established tree, 150cm (5ft) tall grown on an M9 dwarfing rootstock in a 24cm pot, growing to a height and spread of 2.5m (8ft).
This excellent and very popular garden variety will produce its mouth-wateringly juicy, super-sweet fruit each year in early autumn. It is very similar to Cox's Orange Pippin with its rich, complex flavour. It is simply wonderful eaten fresh, but will also keep well too in a cool place. 'Gala' is very easy to grow, and is one of the most widely grown apples in Europe. It gives good crops almost everywhere in the UK from October, so is unsurprisingly very popular with gardeners of all abilities. Supplied as an established tree, 150cm (5ft) tall grown on an M9 dwarfing rootstock in a 24cm pot, growing to a height and spread of 2.5m (8ft).
With it's glorious, large fruit, wonderful red colour and great flavour, 'Champion' is certainly appropriately named! High yielding and reliable, you'll get dumper harvests from this wonderful all-rounder, especially if you have another apple tree nearby to help pollinate the delicate spring blossom. Juicy and sweet with a refreshing, tangy taste from its firm, crunchy flesh makes this an ideal eating apple, and it stores extremely well, maintaining its crisp freshness for up to 6 months, which is why this is such a popular commercial variety. There's no surprise that 'Champion' is so popular, and it's even good for cooking and juicing! Supplied as an established tree, 150cm (5ft) tall grown on an M9 dwarfing rootstock in a 24cm pot, growing to a height and spread of 2.5m (8ft).
The justifiably popular 'Golden Delicious' is brilliant for growing in your garden. Its fruits have exceptionally sweet, rich flavour and a distinctive golden-green colour. They will look wonderful as they ripen on your tree. It is heavy-cropping and easy to grow - what more could you want? This highly versatile variety will store really well. Use your abundant crops to make delightful desserts and yummy puddings as well as keeping them to eat as they are, and of course, nothing tastes better than your own home-grown harvest. The key is to let them mature on the tree and pick them once they have turned a rich, golden colour. Supplied as an established tree, 150cm (5ft) tall grown on an M9 dwarfing rootstock in a 24cm pot, growing to a height and spread of 2.5m (8ft).
A wonderful new variety of apple, 'Elshard' is an offspring of the venerable Golden Delicious, so you know for sure that is has excellent heritage! This versatile variety is deliciously juicy and crunchy eaten straight from the tree, and has a tasty, honeyed sweetness balanced against noticeably acidic notes making it a great choice for cooking - superb in cakes, crumbles and desserts. Although self-fertile, cross-pollination from a nearby tree will increase the already bumper crop. Producing small, intensely red fruit 'Elshard' apples are satisfying to bite into, their white flesh being crisp and crunchy. And best of all, they are absolutely bursting with juicy, tangy flavour and ready to harvest from October to December, and they store very well too! Supplied as an established tree, 150cm (5ft) tall in a 24cm pot. growing to a height and spread of 2.5m (8ft).
The Nandina Domestica Firepower offers year round colour. A hardy shrub that bears deep red to luscious green foliage. With its long season of interest, colour changing foliage and compact habit, it’s perfect for container growing on a sunny patio or balcony. #html-body [data-pb-style="60599B213FBEE"]{justify-content: flex-start; display: flex; flex-direction: column; background-position: left top; background-size: cover; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-attachment: scroll; border-style: none; border-width: 1px; border-radius: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 10px;}#html-body [data-pb-style="60599B213FBFF"]{border-style: none; border-width: 1px; border-radius: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;}
The Nandina domestica Obsessed offers year round colour. A hardy shrub that bears deep red to luscious green foliage. A brilliant shrub that will arrive in a 9cm Jiffy pot that can planted straight into your garden.
The only flowering bamboo! This beautiful, airy plant gradually forms a central trunk with arching branches of maroon green foliage. Panicles of white buds open in July and form red berries from autumn. Plants slowly multiply and can be divided easily. Height 2m, spread 1.5m.
'Gloster' is a delicious variety of dessert apple that produces abundant crops of medium sized sweet and aromatic autumn fruit with a hint of tartness. In spring the tree is covered in a profusion of delicate pink blossoms that fade to white before the fruit begins to form. Producing good sized, deep red fruit 'Gloster' apples have a satisfying crunch to their texture when eaten. Although self-fertile, cross-pollination from a nearby tree will result in a much larger crop. A consistently reliable performer and a great asset to any garden combining an impressive flower display during May and scrumptious juicy fruit in October. Supplied as an established tree, 150cm (5ft) tall grown on an M9 dwarfing rootstock in a 24cm pot, growing to a height and spread of 2.5m (8ft).
'Rubinstar' apples are a lovely, rich maroon colour, occasionally splashed of with yellow, and being related to 'Jonagold' they are big and fabulously juicy with a deliciously sweet flavour and a crisp crunch. A versatile apple, they are gorgeously tasty picked straight from the tree and also ideal for cooking, making tasty desserts. 'Rubinstar' is a mutation of 'Jonagold' and is a 'triploid' variety, meaning that it has three sets of chromosomes instead of the usual two. Triploid varieties are sterile, so they can't pollinate themselves or other apple trees. They need other trees nearby to pollinate them, not an issue if you grow more than one apple in your garden, or if a nearby neighbour does! Supplied as an established tree, 150cm (5ft) tall grown on an M9 dwarfing rootstock in a 24cm pot, growing to a height, and spread of 2.5m (8ft).