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$42.50 In StockRed Williams Ripens: February - March
An attractive large red pear. Juicy, tasty soft flesh and best eaten off the trees as it stores less well as other varieties. Is partially self fertile, but will crop better if near another variety of our pears. A red form of the well known William Bon Chretien pear.
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$39.50 In 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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$39.50 Out of stockFragar Peach Ripens: February
A white fleshed cling-stone peach from an old tree in a garden in Cygnet, Tasmania. Absolutley amazing tasting peaches, that produces masses of medium sized fruit starting February over about three weeks. Beautiful red skin. Self fertile.
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$18.00 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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$18.00 In StockYoungberry Ripens: February - March
Delicious large roundish berries. Ripe when deep black with a mat (not shiny) surface. Grows as a spreading bramble, with trailing canes reaching up to 3m in length. Fewer Spines than Boysenberry. A blend between a Raspberry, Blackberry, and a Dewberry. Youngberry fruit on second year canes. developed by BM Young in Louisiana USA 1905.
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$18.00 Out of stockGoji berry Ripens: January - February
This Asian berry has become popular as a dried fruit, fashionable for it's vitamin and anti-oxidant properties. Lycium barbarum forms a shrub up to 2.5m high, and fruits late summer, branches often just full of the bright red fruit.
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$18.00 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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$23.00 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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$7.50 In StockRubber Plant Ties 50-pack
A Pack of 50 rubberized plant ties.Ideal for fixing a branch to bamboo or an espalier wire. Soft, flexible rubber so they dont bite into the branch. Easy to apply, easy to remove, UV stable so will last for years. They do have some stretch in them to allow for branch growth, but should be adjusted every year. Way better than inflexible ties such as...
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$45.00 In StockRubber Plant Ties BULK 500-pack
A Pack of 500 rubberized plant ties. BULK amountIdeal for fixing a branch to bamboo or an espalier wire. Soft, flexible rubber so they dont bite into the branch. Easy to apply, easy to remove, UV stable so will last for years. They do have some stretch in them to allow for branch growth, but should be adjusted every year. Way better than inflexible ties...
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$1.15 In StockBamboo garden stakes
Bamboo Stakes 1.5m and 1.8m long. These are indispensible for creating espaliers, used to tie the branches onto before bending and fixing onto bamboo or espalier wire. Prevents branches snapping, and allows for easy sequential bending of the branches over a few months. Bend it down a little, tie off and in a month once the tree has gotten used to it, bend...
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$39.50 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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$39.50 In 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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$15.00 In StockTungsten carbide sharpener
This quick and handy sharpener is ideal for secatuers. Ideal for an occasional quick touch-up, it sharpens by forming a slight burr on the blade. The size of this sharpener allows it to fit easily between the blades of an open by-pass secatuer. Also fine for general knife touch-up sharpening, but not for grafting knives.
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$95.00 In StockBuddy Tape 70mm perforations 60M
Buddy tape is the new standard in bench grafting and budding. It's used for binding up a freshly fitted graft or to tie up a bud. It can stretch up to 6 times it's length, so a 70mm piece can bind up a relatively large stem. It has the advantage over PVC that it doenst need to be tied, as it grips to it'self. It doenst need to be manually cut off as it...
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$17.00 In StockBuddy Tape small roll 5m
Approx 5m of Buddy tape (2.5cm wide), 70mm perforations. Enough for about 70 grafts.Buddy tape is the new standard in bench grafting and budding. It's used for binding up a freshly fitted graft or to tie up a bud. It can stretch up to 6 times it's length, so a 70mm piece can bind up a relatively large stem. It has the advantage over PVC that it doenst...
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$14.50 Out of stockBitumen Rubber graft sealing paint 500mL
This bitumen based sealant is used primarily to paint an exposed pruning cut or to dab the scion after grafting or pruning. Also useful for painting the lower part of a fruit tree trunk (40-50cm) to prevent rabbits nibbling. Handles easier than Tree Stac, and says more visible (black). Apply with a brush or just a stick to dab it on. 500mL tub. It comes...
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$18.00 In StockBoysenberry Ripens: February - March
Amazing tasting large plump black / purple berries. Grows as a spreading bramble, with trailing canes reaching up to 3m in length. A cross between a blackberry, dewberry, raspberry and loganberry. Lots of spines but totally worth it! Boysenberries fruit on second year canes. Probably from 1920 USA.
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$49.00 In StockMoorpark Apricot DWARFING Ripens: January - February
DWARFING variety makes this tree more suitable for Espaliering that its non dwarfing counterpart. Our favourite well-know old-style apricot with great flavour. Unlike the more modern varieties, the fruit are a little smaller but the flavour more intense. A classic apricot colour - orange with a red blush on the sunny side. Does well in dry summers. Makes...
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$49.00 In StockAnzac Peach DWARFING Ripens: January - February
DWARFING variety makes this tree more suitable for Espaliering that its non dwarfing counterpart. This Australian peach is about 100 years old! White flesh with a ruby red skin. Amazingly sweet, producing abundant fruit in mid January for about a month. Doesnt seem to be to susceptible to curly leaf. Self fertile.
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$39.50 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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$16.00 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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$39.50 In StockMagnus 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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$75.00 Out of stockStainless Steel Garden Spade
This is a great spade for digging and planting in the garden. The durable stainless steel heavy-duty blade is narrow and long - great for digging deeply. The attractive solid ash handle makes it comfortable to hold. The blade measures 27cm long and 14cm wide, the shape being longer and narrower than a standard spade. Total length is 100cm. Very solid but...
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$42.00 In StockDue Buoi curved grafting knife 247L
This is a lovely grafting knife to handle, the wooden handle feeling firm in the hand. The slight curve allows for efficient bench-grafting or field grafting alike. The point is useful for bark (crown) grafting and the carbon steel blade feels sturdy rather than flimsly. Italian made. Carbon blades should be wiped with a lightly oiled rag after use, and...
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$49.00 In StockWhite Gold Peach DWARFING Ripens: January - February
DWARFING variety makes this tree more suitable for Espaliering that its non dwarfing counterpart. This is an early white fleshed cling stone peach with firm but sweet, juicy flesh. Bears well, and self-fertile.
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Codling Moth Control
Colding Moth Control This is a troublesome worm that can affect apples, pears and quinces. The adult moth is 10-15mm long, and tiny pin head eggs are laid in September and hatch into caterpillars after 10 days where it feeds on leaves before moving onto fruit. It feasts on the fruit for 3-5 weeks to fatten up, after which it leaves the fruit looking for...
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$49.00 In StockGoldmine Nectarine DWARFING Ripens: February - March
DWARFING variety makes this tree more suitable for Espaliering that its non dwarfing counterpart. This is the old white-fleshed Nectarine, ripens late February-March here and has intense rich flavour, but most important of all is fairly resistant to leaf curl. In good conditions it will rewards you with a huge amount of fruit, sweet and plump especially...
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$39.50 In StockMalus 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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$19.00 In StockPear Roostock (beurre hardy on Quince C)
A beurre hardy pear grafted onto dwarfing Quince C rootstock for propagating pears that are not compatible with quince. This allows "interstemming" to bridge the gap between the pear scion and the quince rootstock. These have been grown on for two years, so more expensive than other roostocks. Established root system.
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Duo Planting
by Nik Magnus | © 2022 Woodbridge Fruit Trees | www.woodbridgefruittrees.com.au A tree with two or three varieties grafted onto it usually has the problem where one variety commands more energy from the plant and dominates. Unless carefully pruned, the less dominant grafts get taken over by the more vigorous variety. One solution that allows for two...
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$39.50 In StockDemocrat Dwarfing Ripens: June - July
The red form of Democrat. For a long time Tasmania's mainstay export apple up until the 1980's, of a cannonball consistency and excellent keeping qualities. When left to fully ripen on the tree they are a great eating apple. Brilliant red skin and a crunchy flesh. Quite a sight when all the leaves have fallen and the red orbs are still hanging. It's...
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$49.00 In StockAngelina Plum DWARFING Ripens: February - March
DWARFING variety makes this tree more suitable for Espaliering that its non dwarfing counterpart. This is the classic purple highly flavoured European Plum. Originated in France but has been widely spread around the world. It's purple in colour and has a rich flavour that cooks superbly and is great eaten fresh. Ripens February.
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$105.00 In StockGrafting Workshop - via ZOOM Saturday 19th...
Course Content: • Explanation of Espalier technique including Horizontal-T, Fan espalier and Stepover Espaliers. • Construction of various espalier trellises and fences. • Planting the fruit tree, pruning and tying onto a wire. • Different techniques for keeping branches where you want them. • Pruning technique for future...
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Cherry Slug
Cherry Slug is a troublesome pest that eats the leaves of cherry, pear, quince, plum, medlar and hawthorn trees. Its the larvae of the sawfly wasp, which lays its eggs on the leaves in October - November which munch on the leaves. They can skeletonise the leaves on these trees within weeks and stop the tree from making any more food or leaves for the...
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$37.00 In StockRaspberry Lloyd George Pack Ripens: March - April
An Autumn fruiting variety, very old. Red, plump very flavoursome fruit, high yielding. Used for eating fresh, jams, frozen. 10 Canes per bundle. Regarded as one plant for shipping purposes
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Fondante De Boris Ripens: March - April
A good early to midseason pear, beautiful looking fruit, tender, juicy and light flavoured. Can be picked early. Also called Fondante des Bois
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Price Differential in Apples or How the...
Humans have long ago worked out how to produce apples very efficiently. So much so that we can produce as many apples per hectare as potatoes – and we reached that curious point where you can buy apples even cheaper than potatoes.... Orchardists are leaving the industry in large numbers and the agricultural department keeps telling th
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Pruning - the grape story
The grape vine is probably the plant most dependent on rigorous and hard pruning to maintain it in a vigorous cropping cycle. Have you ever seen an abandoned vineyard? It’s not very nice. In order to produce grapes we resort to very 'un - natural' techniques. If left to their own device grapes being natural climbers weave their way
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Rabbits and Apple Trees
It seems rabbits (and sometimes hares) have a definite taste for apple trees - often particularly newly planted ones during winter. We’re regularly receiving calls from people (gardeners) who have gone out one morning to find their trees stripped of bark up to a height of 30cm (rabbit height) - so watch out! The best way to avoid this
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Rootstocks explained
A rootstock is an simply a variety selected especially for it’s disease resistance, health and vigour. These characteristics are passed onto the whole tree once the desired variety is grafted on top. Rootstocks are usually grown in stool beds where they are layered down and the vertical shoots harvested along with a few roots
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$45.00 Out of stockEspalier Workshop - Saturday 29th July...
Course Content: • Explanation of Espalier technique including Horizontal-T, Fan espalier and Stepover Espaliers. • Construction of various espalier trellises and fences. • Planting the fruit tree, pruning and tying onto a wire. • Different techniques for keeping branches where you want them. • Pruning technique for future...
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$45.00 Out of stockEspalier Workshop - Saturday 19th August...
Espalier Workshop at Cygnet, Southern Tasmania.Course Content: • Explanation of Espalier technique including Horizontal-T, Fan espalier, step-over. • Construction of various espalier trellises and fences. • Planting the fruit tree, pruning and tying onto a wire. • Different techniques for keeping branches where you want them....
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$105.00 Out of stockGrafting Workshop - Saturday 22nd July...
Grafting Workshop at Cygnet, TASMANIAYou will learn winter grafting techniques suitable for grafting hardwood fruit trees - apples, pears, quinces, plums, cherries, etc. Course Content: • How to harvest and store scion wood. • How to prepare the root-stock. • Whip and tongue grafting - the gold standard for grafting a variety (scion) onto a rootstock of...
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$105.00 Out of stockGrafting Workshop - Saturday 29th July...
Course Content: • How to harvest and store scion wood. • How to prepare the root-stock. • Whip and tongue grafting - the gold standard for grafting a variety (scion) onto a rootstock of similar or larger diameter. • Bark (Crown) grafting - reworking an old tree • Grafting knife sharpening and maintenance • Secateurs sharpening and maintenance • Cutting...
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The story of Magnus Summer Surprise
If nobody has any idea about cross pollination and the sexual habits of our fruit trees, just about everyone has an opinion - even people who’ve never got their hands dirty - about how to prune them. Now pruning is the process whereby we shape and train a young tree and prepare it for a life of producing fruit for us. Pruning is
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Leaf Curl
From the amount of inquiries I receive about cross pollination I’m convinced that this is a very misunderstood part of apple culture. Apples have a very large and rich genetic background just as we humans have, and this has enabled them to adapt to and be grown in just about all climate zones
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$105.00 Out of stockGrafting Workshop (face to face) Saturday...
Grafting Workshop at Cygnet, TASMANIAYou will learn winter grafting techniques suitable for grafting hardwood fruit trees - apples, pears, quinces, plums, cherries, etc. Course Content: • How to harvest and store scion wood. • How to prepare the root-stock. • Whip and tongue grafting - the gold standard for grafting a variety (scion) onto a rootstock of...
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$45.00 Out of stockEspalier Workshop - via ZOOM Saturday 22nd...
Course Content: • Explanation of Espalier technique including Horizontal-T, Fan espalier and Stepover Espaliers. • Construction of various espalier trellises and fences. • Planting the fruit tree, pruning and tying onto a wire. • Different techniques for keeping branches where you want them. • Pruning technique for future...
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