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Dwarf Apples
Heritage apple varieties on DWARF rootstock. These apples are ideal for back yards, small orchards, espaliers or anywhere where space is tight. Varieties ripen from Christmas to July providing 6 months of fruit. Wee included some more recent varieties as well as historic ones. There are excellent eating apples, cookers, big, small, common and unusual. Something for every occasion.
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Semi-dwarfing Apples
Heritage apple varieties on SEMI-DWARFING rootstock. These apples are ideal a free-standing tree, rather than espaliering. They are a little more vigorous than our dwarfing trees.
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Stepover Apples
Step-over apple trees on EXTRA-DWARFING rootstocks. These highly sought-after trees can make productive hedges half a metre in height. Ideal for edging garden and vegetable beds, or a striking ornamental hedge. We tend to select later ripening varieties so that the fruit are hanging after the leaves have fallen. See our article on step-overs for more information.
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Cider Apples
Cider apple trees on SEMI-DWARFING rootstocks. These are a selection of specialty cider varieties from the English and French cider traditions. They make superior cider (in the right hands!) and are to the cider world as to the Pinot Noir or Chardonnay are to the world of wine.
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Crab Apples
Crab apple trees on SEMI-DWARFING rootstocks. These are considered as ornamentals, but can be used in juicing to offset the sweeter apple or pear. Highly regarded as pollinators for apple varieties because of their prolific flowering.
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Dwarf Pears
Pear trees on DWARFING rootstocks. Dwarfing forms allow these pears to bear much earlier and make more manageable trees than the huge old pear trees seen on old farms. "Pears for your heirs" was the old adage pointing to their longevity, slowness of growth and bearing, and eventual large sized tree. The French (and Belgians) have been responsible for bringing pear culture to it's peak in the 1700s.
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Perry Pears
Select from our range of Perry pears on Dwarfing rootstocks.
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Cherries
Cherry trees on DWARFING rootstocks. The sweet cherry varieties we grow have been developed from the European bird cherry (Prunus avium), while the sour cherries (which are still tangy as well as sweet) have been developed from Prunus cerasus, a wild cherry from Asia. Cherries definitely need protection from birds and many growing methods have been developed to accommodate this eg. espalier, spanish bush or fans so that they can be netted.
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Plums
Plum trees on NON-DWARFING rootstocks. The so-called European Plums we sell were introduced into Europe from Syria and Persia and are the product of long selection and development over the last 1000 years. Plums have pale greenish yellow flesh and rich sugary flavour, ripening in February. Generally two varieties are needed for cross pollination, although there are some that are self fertile. Esplaiering these shuold be done on a fan shape only.
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Peach
Old style peaches on non-dwarfing rootstock. These are best grown as free-standing trees to 3-4m but can be espaliered in a FAN shape effectively keeping it below 1.8m.
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Quinces
Quince trees on DWARFING rootstocks. Closely related to the pear, quinces are attractive trees, and the fruit wonderfully aromatic - treasured for cooking, tarts, preserves and jellies.
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Nectarine
Old style Nectarines on non-dwarfing rootstock. These are best grown as free-standing trees to 3-4m but can be espaliered in a FAN shape effectively keeping it below 1.8m.
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Apricots
Apricot trees on SEMI-DWARFING rootstocks. These are best grown as free-standing trees to 3-4m but can be espaliered in a FAN shape effectively keeping it below 1.8m. The Moorpark produces a smaller tree, and can be kept smaller on an espalier as well. Medlars produce small trees or can be espaliered easily to 1.5m.
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Figs
Figs on non-dwarfing rootstocks. Knows for their sensuous fruit both fresh and dried. Figs like long hot summers but not too dry, with well drained soils, preferrably out of the wind. They tolerate being potted. -
Rootstocks
Rootstocks are used for grafting and budding onto. If you know or want to learn how to graft or bud, you can propagate yourself. This year we offer a handful of rootstocks, but sorry no quince or pears.
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Berries
A selection of raspberries, blackberries, logans, blueberries, currants and other edible berries for the garden.
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Nut Trees
Hazelnuts and almonds. Hazels are great for mass hedging, but can be trained into a small tree. Almond pollination can be tricky but this self-fertile one allows you to grow plenty with just one tree.
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Dwarf Stone Fruit
Dwarfing Stone fruit - Peaches, Apricots, Plums, Nectarines. Idea for small espaliers or pots.
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$32.00 Out of stockBlack Amber Ripens: February
Black Amber is a large japanese plum, dark almost black in colour, with pale flesh that's amber when ripe. Great memorable flavour, juicy flesh - making it excellent for eating, but also for cooking, sauces etc. Small pip. Pollinated by another Japanese plum e.g. 'santa rosa'.
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$32.00 In StockSanta Rosa Ripens: February
Santa Rosa is the a red fleshed Japanese plum, with medium sized fruit and a deep red skin. A prolific bearer, self fertile and reliably pollinates other japanese plums. Widespread popular variety grown commercially, Bred by Luther Burbank in around 1906 USA. Low Chill.
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$32.00 Out of stockPurple gage Ripens: February - March
A small round greenish purpe plum with intense flavour, similar to the greengage. Also called Rein Claude Violette. Great for stewing, eating and bottling. Free-stone. Considered partially self fertile but having another European plum will increase yield.
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$32.00 Out of stockFlavourtop Nectarine Ripens: February
A large yellow-fleshed nectarine, freestone that ripens in February. Red skin, with excellent flavour and a firm flesh. Self-fertile.
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$32.00 Out of stockGolden Queen Peach Ripens: February - March
A yellow-fleshed, yellow skinned late ripening peach. Firm clingstone flesh, good when eaten fresh, but amazing stewed, preserved, etc when the flavour really comes out. A NZ breed.
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$32.00 Out of stockRedhaven Peach Ripens: February
An early to mid seasoned peach. Yellow fleshed, with excellent flavour. Red skin, reasonably resistant to leaf curl. Self-fertile.
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$32.00 Out of stockBrillianz Ripens: January - February
A self-fertile sweet apricot with good-quality fruit, suitable for eating fresh, preserving, drying, etc. A more modern relative of Moorpark, Brillianz will tend to make a small tree, but with better cold and disease resistance. These can be espaliered in a Fan shape only or be grown on a trellis. See the article on Apricots for details.
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$30.00 In StockRuby Neige Dwarfing Ripens: June - July
A stunning looking glowing red apple, round in shape, with very white flesh. Late ripening, amazing crunch and very good flavour. Low acid.
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$15.00 In StockThornless Blackberry Ripens: March
Long elongated blackberries witout the hassle of thorns, ripening after the Logans and summer raspberries. For best taste and sweetness, leave the fruit until they come off without effort. Vigorous plant, preferring a trellis or wire for best results.
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$15.00 In StockYoungberry Ripens: February - March
Amazing tasting plump black / purple berries. Grows as a spreading bramble, with trailing canes reaching up to 3m in length. A cross between a blackberry and a dewberry, developed by BM Young in Louisiana USA 1905.
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$20.00 Out of stockFrequin Rouge Amer Ripens: March - April
A medium sized apple, flat in shape, with a yellow / green / red stripe. Ripens mid to late season. Bittersweet, high tannin levels. Regarded as a very important in French cider making.
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$30.00 Out of stockBonza Semi-Dwarfing Ripens: March - April
A seedling of Jonathan from Batlow NSW discovered in the 1920's by Ben Atkinson, Bonza is a favourite Australian apple. It's a medium sized, highly flavoured, red apple that ripens mid season. It has a conical shapeand when ripe hangs on the tree in very good condition for over a month. It also stores well. Suitable for low-chill conditions.
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$30.00 Out of stockFuji Semi-Dwarfing Ripens: June - July
A well known variety developed in Japan from it's parent Red Delicious. An attractive red skin, crisp yellowish flesh, uncomplicated deep sweet flavour and is always predictably juicy. Medium to large sized fruit. Fuji stores well - improving in quality and flavour. A thoroughly modern apple, and one of the latest maturing varieties. Suitable for...
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$30.00 Out of stockIda Red Semi-Dwarfing Ripens: May - June
A very handsome late ripening, deep red apple - a cross between Jonathan and Wagener from Idaho USA in 1942. Crisp flesh and an uncomplicated sweet / acid tasting flesh. Great cooked as well as eaten fresh and stores exceptionally well.
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$24.00 Out of stockGin Ripens: February - March
Quite small pears, green / yellow with orange blush, heavy cropping. Used to make perry, with good acid and tannins. Ripens mid season.
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$34.00 Product available with different optionsYellow Huffcap Ripens: March - April
A small green pear with a destinct shape. Prized for making perry, with moderate acid and low tannins. Mid season.
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$24.00 Product available with different optionsMoorcroft Ripens: March - April
A medium sized green pear with a little russet. Good for making perry, with medium acid and medium tannin. Mid-late season.
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$15.00 In StockGooseberry "captivator" Ripens: January - February
This gooseberry forms a thornless bush up to 1.5m, with good quality tasting fruit that ripen to a orangy-red papery veined skin.
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$9.50 In StockApple Rootstocks (Extra Dwarfing M27)
An extra-dwarfing rootstock for growing and propagating apples and crabapples onto. Suitable for stepovers. These have been grown on for one year after harvesting from a stoolbed, so have established root systems.
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$21.00 In StockTasmanian Pepperberry - FEMALE Ripens: March
A native to Tasmania (Tasmannia lanceolata) forming a shrub or small tree 1-3m. Grown for it's edible pepper corns, which when dried are a great substitute for black pepper. Form an attractive tree, with red stem and small ovate dark green peppery leaves. Small white flowers in summer, forming berries in Autumn. The female forms the berries, but needs a...
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$21.00 In StockTasmanian Pepperberry - MALE
A native to Tasmania (Tasmannia lanceolata) forming a shrub or small tree 1-3m. This is the male required for pollination. See the female listing for more information. NO DELIVERY TO WA as these are sent in pots with soil.
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$30.00 In StockRoyal Gala Semi-dwarfing Ripens: February - March
A medium sized red striped yellow apple with a terrific crunch and reliably pleasant sweet flavour. It's become quiet well known in Australia, being for sale in many of our shops and supermarkets. It's actually about 90 years old, developed by New Zealander John Kidd in the 1930's as a cross between a Golden Delicious and another one of his selections,...
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$30.00 In StockGolden Delicious Semi-dwarfing Ripens: March - April
Allowed to ripen on the tree, the Golden Delicious develops into a large yellow coloured apple bursting with crunch, juice and sweetness. Often a splash of russet near the stem, tiny specks over the skin and an orange blush on the sunny side. Stores well. Discovered in USA at the end of the 1800's. An entirely better experience when left to ripen on the...
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$30.00 Out of stockJonagold Semi-dwarfing Ripens: May - June
A cross between Golden Delicious and Jonathan, Jonagold grows medium to large red fruit of intense flavour. The creamy yellow flesh is light, terrifically crunchy and memorably juicy. Solid Red skin with some yellow tones, and maybe a little stripe. Creamy The flavour has the tantalising taste of both parents. Ripens quite late and excellent keeper. If...
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$30.00 Out of stockPomme De Neige Semi-dwarfing Ripens: March - April
Also known as Snow apple, Lady in the Snow, Fameuse, Chimney Apple and about 20 other names which reflects its popularity and how widely distributed this variety is. Originated around 1730 in Quebec, Canada an offspring of McIntosh. The attractive smallish fruit have red sometimes striped skin on a background of pale red and green. The flesh is very white
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$30.00 In StockPreston Prolific Fig Ripens: February
A vigorous and heavy cropping variety. Skin is creamy yellow with and amber, sweet flesh. Harvested February to March. Use for fresh fruit, drying and jam. Figs prefer dry hot summers but need water when fruiting. Prefer well drained but fertile soil. Full-sun. Self-Pollinating.
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$32.00 In StockSatsuma Ripens: February
Satsuma is a well known red fleshed Japanese plum, with medium-large sized fruit and a deep red skin. A prolific bearer, partially self-fertile and pollinates is is pollinated by other japanese plums.
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$30.00 Out of stockPrunus Mume "Bungo" Ripens: mid December - January
Prunus mume or ume is a japanese "plum" (probably more of an apricot) used in making japanese plum wine and preserves. This variety was sourced from Rob Bester in Taroona, Tasmania. Vigorous tree, high quality fruit almost like a small apricot. This variety hasnt been tested elsewhere, although we're pretty sure like most mume, they are self-fertile or at...
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$30.00 Out of stockCox's Orange Pippin RED Semi-dwarfing Ripens: February - March
This must be the world's most revered apple, originating in Buckinghamshire England in 1825, thought to be an offspring of Ribston Pippin. An attractive red variation with with the characteristic cox's russet around the collar. Crisp juicy flesh when ripe, with a richness that is difficult to describe except it has all the qualities that make it amazing...
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$30.00 In StockEmpire Dwarfing Ripens: March
Empire is a cross between Mcintosh and Red Delicious, a result of an extensive breeding program in Geneva, New York in 1945. It's a medium to large apple, very red and regular in shape, almost perfectly round. It has an uncomplicated flavour, sweet cruncy slightly creamy flesh. Interestingly, it's sibling "Spartan" which has the same parentage is quite...
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$30.00 Out of stockGoldsmith Dwarfing Ripens: June - July
Goldsmith is a cross between Granny Smith and Golden Delicious. Completely green in colour, the shape is destincly less round than a Granny and more that of a golden delicious. The flavour is also a remarkable mix of the two - one can appreciate the acid of the Granny, but the sweet of the Golden.
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$30.00 In StockLodi Dwarfing Ripens: January
Lodi is one of the early apples, a medium sized apple light green to greeny-yellow when ripe. Like all early apples, they just dont keep, but their sprightly flavour signifies the beginning of the apple season, and make them worth growing. Thought to be an offspring of white transparent (and Montgomery), and has probably superior in both flavour and shelf...
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$30.00 Out of stockGeeveston Fanny semi-dwarfing Ripens: March - April
A small attractive bright reddish purple apple with white sweet flesh. Ideal for lunchboxes. Heavy and regular bearer. This variety was popular as a commercial apple during the 1970's in Tasmania. The story goes like this: about 1870 Mr Hawkins, the storekeeper at Shipwrights Point near Huonville imported 6 apple trees of unknown variety and sold them to...
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$9.50 In StockQuince Rootstocks (Dwarfing C)
A dwarfing Quince C rootstock for propagating quinces and compatible pears. These have been grown on for one year after harvesting from a stoolbed, so have established root systems.
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$30.00 Out of stockDiscovery Semi-Dwarfing Ripens: January - February
An early apple popular in the UK. Found in Essex in the 1940's it's a seedling of Worcester Pearmain. Like other early apples, the flavour is light and an on the acid side, but crisp and juicy. An attractive round shape if a little squat. It develops a bright red cheek over a light greenish yellow background. Well worth considering as an early eating apple.
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$30.00 In StockElstar Dwarfing Ripens: March
A very attractive almost perfectly round apple, mostly red, with an occasional stripe but a destinctive collar of russeted yellow around the stem. Very good eating apple with good flavour and crunch. Originated in the Netherlands, in the town of Elst in the 1950's. It's a Golden Delicious crossed with on otherwise hardly known apple called Ingrid Marie.
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$35.00 Out of stockCox's Orange Pippin Step-over Ripens: February - March
This must be the world's most revered apple, originating in Buckinghamshire England in 1825, thought to be an offspring of Ribston Pippin. An attractive strip yellow/orange skin on a yellow background with the characteristic cox's russet around the collar. Crisp juicy flesh when ripe, with a richness that is difficult to describe except it has all the...
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$24.00 Out of stockAmerican White Hazelnut Ripens: March
American white is an excellent tasting nut with a squat shape, and is a reliable heavy cropper. Pollination of hazelnuts is complex, and to make it easy, we recommend having 3 other varieties to set fruit. Hazelnuts produce a large bush that suckers, although can be trained / pruned into a low tree with a single stem.
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$24.00 Out of stockLewis Hazelnut Ripens: March
Lewis is an excellent tasting nut with an elongated shape. Pollination of hazelnuts is complex, and to make it easy, we recommend having 3 other varieties to set fruit. Hazelnuts produce a large bush that suckers, although can be trained / pruned into a low tree with a single stem.
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$24.00 Out of stockBarcelona Hazelnut Ripens: March
Cosford is an excellent tasting nut with an elongated shape. Pollination of hazelnuts is complex, and to make it easy, we recommend having 3 other varieties to set fruit. Hazelnuts produce a large bush that suckers, although can be trained / pruned into a low tree with a single stem.
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$15.00 In StockBoysenberry Ripens: February - March
Amazing tasting plump black / purple berries. Grows as a spreading bramble, with trailing canes reaching up to 3m in length. A cross between a blackberry and a dewberry, developed by BM Young in Louisiana USA 1905.
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$35.00 In StockMagnus Summer Surprise Dwarfing Ripens: February - March
The fruit are quite attractive - bright red and medium in size, but that is the red flesh and white core are quite remarkable when bitten into. The flavour is sweet and the tree crops heavily. Like its parent, the Huonville Crab, it has purple/ green leaves and stem. Quite remarkable. This apple is the result of my fathers' efforts into apple breeding....
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$15.00 In StockWhitecurrant Ripens: February - March
A white version of a redcurrant. Large translucent white berries ripen on bunches and can be easily tickled off when ripe. Crop heavily and over a long season. Currnats have a balance of acid and sweet, can be eaten fresh and used in drinks, jams, pies. Birds dont attack these as strongly as the red currants.
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$35.00 Product available with different optionsMagnus Summer Surprise Semi-Dwarfing Ripens: February - March
The fruit are quite attractive - bright red and medium in size, but that is the red flesh and white core are quite remarkable when bitten into. The flavour is sweet and the tree crops heavily. Like its parent, the Huonville Crab, it has purple/ green leaves and stem. Quite remarkable. This apple is the result of my fathers' efforts into apple breeding....
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$32.00 Out of stockGoldengage Ripens: February - March
About the size of a green gage, but golden yellow, with sweet golden flesh. Excellent eaten fresh but also great for bottling and preserving. Thought to be originally French late discovered around 1856. Self fertile but will do better with another English plum nearby eg. Damson, Angelina, Green gage. Ripens February.
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Sloe "Blackthorn" - Seedling Ripens: March
The sloe (prunus spinosa or Blackthorn) is the wild tiny plum from Europe, very acid and with only a couple of mm of flesh around the seed, the sloe comes into it's own making sloe gin. The ripe fruit is packed into a large jar after each being pricked with a needle several times - then sugar added and covered with Gin. Let it stand for 3 months, take out...
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Pinot Noir grape Ripens: March
A grape famous for producing a red wine with rich and complex flavours. Suitable for growing in cold climates - does well especially in Victoria and Tasmania. Grapes prefer full sun, a well drained sandy soil and dont need a lot of water once established. A trellis system is essential - a simple 1.5-1.8m high by 3m should do per plant. They require heavy...
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Pinot Grigio grape Ripens: March
A grape famous for producing a white wine with rich but light flavour. Suitable for growing in cold climates - does well especially in Victoria and Tasmania. Grapes prefer full sun, a well drained sandy soil and dont need a lot of water once established. A trellis system is essential - a simple 1.5-1.8m high by 3m should do per plant. They require heavy...
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Robe de Sergeant Ripens: February - March
A European prune with elongated purple fruit yellow flesh, freestone. Ripens mid season. Prunes are good eaten fresh but come into their own when cooked in pies, stewed or preserved. Pollinated by other European plums.
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Malus x purpurea
Forms a spreading densly branched tree, producing amazing masses of reddish purple blossom in Spring. During Autumn, produces a lot of small red fruit, that are like little cherries. This crab apple is planted as a focal point for its blossom rather than the fruit which arent really usable.
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