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Mini-orchards

I work at sea 8 months of a year and my back garden consists of grey stone slate chips and decking. I have troughs and tubs of veg and herbs along the back frence I would like to have a row of mini-fruit tress that grow no more than 2.5m high by rovarch

24/09/2012 17:52:24

by rovarch

Best dwarf pear or apple?

tree" trees. Pear trees usually take longer to fruit so you would need to be patient. Cox's are notoriously temperamental - I'd rather grow a James Grieve - delicious multi-purpose apple http://www.ashridgetrees.co.uk/James-Grieve-Apple-Trees . We don by Jess is in the Garden

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01/04/2013 13:13:10

by peter privett

Weeping Pear - how and when to prune?

very precise mushroom shape. The tree is about 3m high and 2.5m across I've since let it grow out a bit (I don't like really precise shaping...!) and the new foliage is a much prettier colour plus the tree now has tiny little pears in the summer by LizB62

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12/06/2012 22:54:49

by LizB62

PEAR TREE

HI PLEASE CAN YOU HELP MY COMICE PEAR TREE HAS A LOT OF BLACK EDGES ON THE LEAFS ALSO THE SMALL BUDS HAVE BEEN BLOWN OFF WITH THE STRONG WINDS WE HAVE HAD THE TREE IS IN A POT ON A SUN BALCONY ITS 3 YEARS OLD THANKS GEORGE hi george, my 2 year by GEORGE FRENCH

13/06/2013 20:05:30

by GEORGE FRENCH

No apples and few crab apples.... :(

but we used them to provide pectin in jam along with the crabs. This year, there are NO FRUITS at all! Could this be weather-related? Very close to it, we have unwisely allowed a wild cherry to grow rather large this year. We will cut it down this autumn by wisehedgecrone

11/08/2012 09:49:01

by Green Magpie

Has anyone got buds on there apple tree yet

Has anyone got any buds on there apple trees yet due to us not seeing a single one yet? I've not got an apple but I do have a pear - just tiny little leaf-type buds at the moment - just looked over the fence and next door's appletree - just by Nicholas Hollingshead

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14/04/2013 21:50:30

by goldfinch2

cordoned fruit trees

be better. Don't grow a tip bearing apple as these aren't suited to being grown this way. I would also suggest pears grown as cordons rather than plum or cherry which are probably too vigorous and not ideal for cordons (free standing, ie standard, or fans by hawk and rose

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22/02/2013 16:11:23

by Verdun

Paul's Himalayan musk rambler/ Mme Alfred Carriere

, I mean it - it will do it - so look at your fence - unless you live in a tennis court it's not the rose for your fence. It would be glorious growing up through a tall and venerable old apple or pear tree, past it's best fruiting years. If you by Rose lady

15/11/2012 09:28:25

by Dovefromabove

Rabbits have eaten my bark!!

Please help, my rabbits have gotten into the area where I keep an apple and a pear tree - they are very young saplings at the minute but the bunnies have stripped the top layer off. It is all fresh and vulnerable looking - is there anything I can by jenni carys

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21/05/2012 17:02:56

by paull2

Best feed for fruit

and bushes? The cordon trees are apple, pear, and there is a plum (oldest fruit in garden) Then I have redcurrants and blackcurrants planted last year, Now I am planting rhubarb, and gooseberry and last autumn I planted by Rosa carriola

04/03/2013 13:10:52

by marshmello

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