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Marlborough
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Greengage tree
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September 11, 2015, 07:21:23 »
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.
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galina
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Johanniskirchen
Re: Greengage tree
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September 11, 2015, 08:39:42 »
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.
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Melbourne12
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Hectare
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Harrow, Middx
Re: Greengage tree
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September 11, 2015, 15:02:09 »
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.
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chriscross1966
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Visionhairy
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September 11, 2015, 16:05:08 »
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
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saddad
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Derby, Derbyshire (Strange, but true!)
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September 11, 2015, 23:54:35 »
We have a wonderful Oullins we got from Deacons...
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Digeroo
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Cotswolds - Gravel - Alkaline
Re: Greengage tree
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September 12, 2015, 12:32:43 »
Many thanks for the link to Deacons. I have wanted a Mirabelle for some time and they have a good choice.
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Marlborough
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September 12, 2015, 19:24:32 »
Thanks for everyone's advice, all of those mentioned sites look a whole lot better than those on offer in Sunday newspapers!
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