Day's Cottage Apple Juice (Dave Kaspar/Helen Brent-Smith)
Upton Lane , Brookthorpe, Gloucester GL4 0UT. 01452 813602 Wide range of Gloucestershire fruit trees for sale. We specialise in unusual and local varieties. Our juices, ciders and perrys are pressed from fruit grown in local, unsprayed traditional orchards. We have planted over 400 fruit trees, 160 of which form the Gloucestershire Museum Orchard, and all are managed organically. Also home to the GOG Orchard & Rural Skills Centre. Taste the varieties at Stroud and Bristol farmers markets or at our Apple/juicing day.
www.dayscottage.co.uk
applejuice@care4free.net
Lodge Farm Trees (Rob Watkins)
Lodge Farm, Rockhampton, Berkeley, Glos, GL13 9DY. 01454 260310
Lodge Farm Trees is a small nursery growing and supplying a range of fruit trees, and soft fruit bushes, especially old traditional Gloucestershire varieties. My aim is to promote and grow even more Gloucestershire varieties in the near future. I can propagate, by budding, almost any Gloucestershire variety of apple and plum, plus any perry pear to order.
www.lodgefarmtrees.co.uk
rob@lodgefarmtrees.co.uk
Plum Trees (some Gloucestershire)
Ben Swinley owns 12 acres of historic traditional organic plum, apple & pear orchards at Haylings Farm, near Westbury on Severn, Gloucestershire. Haven for wildlife. Also seasonal PYO plums. 07880 823 004.
Thornhayes Nursery
St Andrews Wood, Dulford, Collumpton, Devon, EX15 2DF Stocks a considerable range of Gloucestershire varieties as well as heritage varieties from throughout the UK. Good planting advice on website/in catalogue. Good size trees available, mail order.
www.thornhayes-nursery.co.uk
Bernwode Plants Nursery
Kingswood Lane, Ludgershall, Buckingham HP18 9RB. 01844 237415 Fax. 01844 238920 Includes mail order and potted trees all year round. Specifically ask for Gloucestershire apple range.
Small amounts of Gloucestershire varieties of trees are available from the following:
The Apple Factor (Sarah Juniper)
Dursley, Gloucestershire. Grafting courses & grafting service from extensive range of heritage apples. Also apple identification and apple day events. Listing of apples gives useful key of "pretty blossom", "pollination group" and date first known.
www.sarahjuniper.co.uk/applefactor
Highfield Nurseries
School Lane, Whitminster, Gloucestershire GL2 7PL. 01452 740266/741309 Sells many fruit trees, including one or two Gloucestershire varieties. Holds Apple Day each year.
info@highfield-nurseries.co.uk
Walcot Organic Nursery
Lower Walcot Farm, Walcot lane, Drakes Broughton, Pershore, Worcestershire WR10 2AL. 01386 553697 Fax. 01905 841587. Certified organic fruit trees. A nursery producing a wide range of traditional and modern fruit trees - apples, plums, pears, quinces on a variety of rootstocks. Trees are available bear rooted as maidens and bushes between November and March. Delivered or collected. Viewing by appointment welcome. Affiliated with Pershore Plum Day. Trees also sold at Malvern Autumn Show.
www.walcotnursery.co.uk
Shapes and Sizes (David Leigh)
Pond Cottage, Lemington, Moreton-in-Marsh, Gloucestershire. 01608 650991.
Paul Jasper Nursery
The Lighthouse, Bridge Street, Leominster HR6 8DX.
Keepers Nursery
Gallants Court, East Farleigh, Maidstone, Kent ME15 0LE. 01622 726465
Sells some Gloucestershire varieties with useful information about pollination etc.
Buckingham Nurseries & Garden Centre
Tingewick Road, Buckingham MK18 4AE. 01280 827902/01280 822133 Sells some Gloucestershire varieties in containers, possibly all year round.
www.buckingham-nurseries.co.uk
pauline@buckingham-nurseries.co.uk
Dolau-Hirion Fruit Tree Nursery (Paul Davis)
Capel Isaac, Llandeilo, SA19 7TG. 01558 668744 Paul offers a budding and grafting service (you can post him scion wood, but check arrangements first).
Frank P Matthews Ltd (Nick Dunn)
Berrington Court, Tenbury Wells, Worcestershire WR15 8TH 01584 810214 Fax. 01584 811830
www.frankpmatthews.com
enquiries@fpmatthews.co.uk
Butterworth's Organic Nursery
Garden Cottage, Auchinleck House Estate, Cumnock, Ayrshire, Scotland KA18 2LR. 01290 551088. This is 300 feet above sea-level in Ayrshire and frost prone and specialises in trees for difficult areas and capable of resisting disease. Certified organic fruit trees.
www.butterworthsorganicnursery.co.uk
Cool Temperate
5 Colville Villas, Nottingham NG1 4HN. 0115 916 2673. The profits from this fund the Own-Root Fruit Tree Project. This is researching the possibilities of growing trees on their own roots rather than root stocks, based on research by Hugh Ermen formerly of Brogdale Horticultural Trust, and the possibilities of developing a coppice orchard system.
Deacons Nursery
Godshill, Isle of White, P038 3HW. 01983 522243.
www.deaconsnurseryfruits.co.uk
Hillier Nurseries Ltd
Ampfield House, Ampfield, Romsey, Hampshire S051 9PA.
Notcutts Nurseries Ltd
Woodbridge, Suffolk 1P12 4AF. 01394 383344
Wyevale Garden Centre
Kings Acre, Hereford. 01432 266261
