Topic: Greengage tree

[Marlborough]

After tasting greengages for the first time and loving them, I have decided to boy myself a tree. Can anyone recommend an online supplier or nursery. I have bought a few dud fruit trees in my time, from the likes of Gardenbargains. Thanks for any advice you can offer.

[galina]

I bought most of our fruit trees from Deacon's Nursery.  One grapevine was mislabelled - it happens everywhere, but the trees were excellent and all as ordered.  Whether I should have gone for a geographically closer nursery with more similar soil to ours wasn't something I considered at the time.  They were the one nursery that had what I wanted and on the rootstocks that I wanted.  Despite differences in soil and climate the trees were raised in and ours, everything settled in well here and produced early too.

http://www.deaconsnurseryfruits.co.uk/?s=gage&post_type=product

They have a good choice of greengages.    

[Melbourne12]

As our allotment area expands, we've bought quite a few fruit trees in recent years.  Our favourite supplier is Blackmoor http://www.blackmoor.co.uk/category/100

We have an Oullins Golden Gage from them, which is in its second year after planting.  We have allowed only a modest crop to develop this year, but we hope that next year we'll get a good harvest from what will be a well-established tree.

[chriscross1966]

Second vote for Blackmoor here... my peach and almonds have been very successful and are cropping a couple of years before expected.... if we can get a bit more sun here my peaches should be ripening up soon...... almonds seem to be getting there

[saddad]

We have a wonderful Oullins we got from Deacons... 

[Digeroo]

Many thanks for the link to Deacons. I have wanted a Mirabelle for some time and they have a good choice.

[Marlborough]

Thanks for everyone's advice, all of those mentioned sites look a whole lot better than those on offer in Sunday newspapers!