Beechcroft Nurseries & Garden Centre

Fruit Trees & Soft Fruit Autumn 2000 – Spring 2001

Apple Blenhiem Orange

An old favourite - cooks, eats and keeps well. First bred in Oxford in 1740. A triploid plant, requiring two pollinators. It is in flowering group 3. Picks from October and keeps until February. Fruit is large golden, flushed and striped with dull red and fine brown russet.

Apple Bramley Clone 20

A compact version of Bramley Seedling - 20% less vigorous. By far the most popular cooking apple. Highly recommended. Raised at Bristol in 1970. Fruit is yellowish-green lightly striped red. Flowering group 3, triploid therefore requiring two other different varieties to enable pollination.

Apple Cox Self Fertile

Dessert apple. Pick October, keeps till January. Very self fertile, recommened for less than ideal Cox areas. The fruit is exactly the same as Cox's Orange Pippen. Flowering group 3.

Apple Discovery

Dessert apple. Pick and eat late August, early September; does not keep. Bright red, crisp and juicy with sharp fresh flavour. Compact growth habit, suitable for many sites. Trouble free and good for pollination. Flowering group 3. First grown in Essex, 1949. Pick and eat in September.

Apple Egremont Russet

Dessert apple. One of the most popular and best cropping russets. Nutty flavour, sweet, firm and aromatic. Compact upright growth, good for small gardens and most sites. Little pruning or spraying required. Good pollinator. Flowering group 2. Sussex, 19th C. Picks October, best eaten by December.

Apple Fiesta

An excellent garden tree with Cox-like characteristics. Very heavy crops, ideal for northeren areas. An eater, trouble free and a good pollinator. Flowering group 3. Picks October, keeps until March.

Apple Golden Delicious

Dessert apple. Pick November, stores till February. Well known eater, which originates in North America. In Britain it is often russeted but tastes good if picked in late October. Heavy and regular cropper. Very good for pollination. Flowering group 4.

Apple Greensleeves

Excellent eating apple, crisp, tangy taste. Crops freely, pick late September. Pollination group 3, trouble free and a good pollinator.

Apple James Grieve

Dessert apple. pick September, stores until October. Delicious flavour, regular cropper, compact and easy to grow. Will cook in August. Deservedly popular. Flowering group 3. Oriniates from Edinburgh.

Apple Laxtons Superb

Fruits yellow/red, sweet and juicy. Keeps well. Originates from Bedford in 1897. Picks October. keeps until February. Flowering group 4.

Apple Queen Cox Self Fertile

Dessert apple. An improved red form of Cox's Orange Pippin. Pick in October, store suntil January. Flowering group 3.

Apple Red Falstaff

Frost resistant and self fertile. The heaviest yielding apple. Fruity, well balanced, crisp and juicy. Recommended for every garden. Raised in Norfolk in 1983. Flowering group 3. Picks October, keeps until March.

Apple Scrumptious

A most excellent new apple introduction. Mid-season fruiting, self-fertile, frost and disease resistant. Very attractive rose pink blush and pale cream flesh, crisp and sweet, with a rich fragrant honeyed flavour.

Apple Spartan

Dessert apple. Pick from October, keeps until January. Dark red skin, white flesh, crisp and juicy. Upright habit, crops well. Popular and easy to grow. Maybe the best red apple. Flowering group 3. From Canada, 1926.

Apple Sunset

Dessert apple. Pick November, stores until April. 'Cox' type appearance and flavour but easier to grow with more disease resistance. Regular heavy cropper with compact habit suitable for small gardens. Flowering group 3. From Igtham, Kent.

Apple Winter Gem

A new heavy cropping pink flushed apple, rich and aromatic. Exceptional quality. Wins flavour contests consistently. Recommended. From Kent around 1985. Picks September, keeps until October. Flowering Group 3 and trouble free.

Apple Worcester Pearmain

Dessert apple. Pick and eat September and October. Reliable crop of delicious orange-red fruit. Good flavour if not picked too early. Very good for pollination. Easy to grow. Flowering group 3.

Apple – Family Cox S.F./Egremont Russet/James Grieve

Three varieties on one fan-trained bush, ideal for growing against a fence or wall.

Apple – Family Cox Self Fertile/James Grieve/Sunset

Three varieties selected to compliment each other and ensure pollination on one dwarf rootstock. Ideal where space is

short.

Apple – Family Cox's/James Grieve/Spartan

Three varieties grafted on to one rootstock. All will pollinate each other.

Apple – Family Discovery/Sunset/Fiesta

Three varieties on one fan-trained bush, ideal for growing against a fence or wall.

Apple – Family Egremont Russet/James Grieve/Sunset

Varieties selected to compliment each other and ensure pollination. Ideal where space is short.

Apricot Early Moorpark

The deep reddish orange flesh of this round variety has a very good flavour and the tree is renowned for its reliability. Picks from late July. Self fertile.

Apricot Golden Glow

Found on the side of the Malvern Hills this variety is very hardy, crops and performs well as a free standing tree. Self fertile. Picks early August.

Blackberry Oregon Thornless

Crops late August/September. Evergreen parsley-leaved type. Good flavour, crops well. The thorned suckers should be removed. Decorative leaves with good autumn colour.

Blackberry Thornfree

Completely thorn-free canes that produce a very good crop in the late season. The fruits are very large and jet black. Good flavour and very high quality fruit.

Blackcurrant Baldwin

Mid to late July. Medium sized berries, hangs well. Flavour is acid. Medium vigour, compact and upright growth. High Vitamin C content. Possibly the best flavoured blackcurrant.

Blackcurrant Ben Sarek

Mid July cropping. High yield of large fruit from a small bush. Recommended for small gardens. Some frost and mildew resistance.

Blackcurrant Titania

Mid season. Very large fruits of superb quality, mildew resistant. From Scandianavia. In the form of a top-worked standard.

Blueberry Bluecrop

Earlt to mid-August. Vigorous upright grower. Large light blue fruit. Good flavour. Regular bearer. Autumn colour.

Blueberry Goldtraube

Late August. Fast growing, good flavoured dark blue fruit with bloom. Good cropper.

Cherry Celeste

A new and naturally very compact variety. Dark red and large of excellant eating quality. Ideal for patio growing on Tabel rootstock. Self fertile.

Cherry Lapin's Cherokee

Large, black fruit and self fertile, a garden favourite. Fruits from late July. Flowering group 3.

Cherry Merton Glory

Very large sweet heart shaped fruit. Large, creamy white with red flush. Picks early July. An outstanding white cherry. Flowering group 2.

Cherry Stella

Picks in July. Large, very dark red, good flavour, early cropping and prolific. Good pollinator and self fertile. Flowering group 4.

Cherry Summer Sun

We highly recommend this self fertile cherry. It is compact in growth and suitable for marginal areas. Picks from late July.

Cherry Sunburst

Self fertile black cherry. Gorgeous flavour from the extra large sweet fruits in July. A recent introduction from Canada. Flowering group 5.

Chestnut Marron de Lyon

The best fruiting sweet chestnut clone, bearing fruit at a very early age.

Damson Merryweather

Picks late August onwards. Very prolific and hardy, one of the best damsons. Big well flavoured fruit. Specially good for bottling and deep freezing. Self fertile. Flowering group 3. From Nottinghamshire, 1907.

Fig Brown Turkey

A reliable and heavy cropper producing oval fruits, the red flesh has a rich sweet flavour. Harvest august-September.

Gage Old Greengage

Selected for its old fashioned flavour. Derived from the Middle Ages. Partially self fertile. Flowering group 3. Picks from mid August.

Gage Oullin's Golden Gage

Golden yellow fruit of delicious gage-like flavour. Can be picked early for cooking, though is really an eater. Self fertile.

Flowering group 4. Picks from mid August.

Gooseberry Invicta

Mid-season. Vigorous - Spreading. Prickly. Heavy cropper. Mildew resistant. Large pale green fruits. Good flavour.

Gooseberry Pax

Mid-season cropper. Red sweet fruit of medium size. A new red gooseberry of excellent quality and disease resistance.

Gooseberry Rokula

Early season, dark red dessert gooseberry. Excellent flavour, mildew resistant. Has moderate vigour. Presented as a top-worked standard.

Grape Vine Phoenix

One of 4 exciting new grape introductions - hardy, productive, trouble free and tasty grapes. A very large berry producing a fine muscat aroma. A heavy yielding variety. Ripening early october the grapes turn yellow when ready for picking.

Grape Vine Queen of Esther

New introduction. Big dark berries with a fresh flavour. Ripening very early in mid to late September. Another ornamental vine with stunning colured autumn leaves.

Grape Vine Regent

New introduction. Extremely versatile. A very large grape with a sweet refreshing flavour which will mature to a true black in the best summers. It also has beautiful red vine leaves making it an attractive ornamental as well.

Grape Vine Theresa

New introduction bred for hardiness and disease resistance. Unusually long large berries ripening late September. A distinctive aromatic flavour.

Hazelnut Cosford

Good cropping nut, excellent flavour. Attractive catkins in late winter and early spring. Will make a small tree.

Hazelnut Gunslebert

Medium - large with strong nutty flavour. Very heavy reliable crops.

Hazelnut Hall's Giant

Also called Merveill de Bolwiller. Pollinated by Cosford and Lang Tidlig Zeller. Very large attractive nut with glossy rust brown shell, Resistant to nut gall mite. Excellent quality.

Hazelnut Long Tidlig Zeller

A hardy nut from Denmark, meaning 'long early hazelnut'. Good pollinator for Butler and hall's Giant. Ivory white kernal with firm texture.

Kiwi Fruit Jenny

A self fertile form. Good quality with fruit size being slightly smaller than other known varieties. The large succulent leaves make this a good outdoor climber. Needs glass or conservatory protection for guaranteed fruit.

Loganberry

Thornless. Large long oblong non-shiny fruit. Dark red. Mainly for culinary use. Acidic sharp flavour.

Medlar Nottingham

A small tree of great charcter and very productive. Supposed to be eaten when well over ripe - pick and store in sawdust (know as bletting), eat with wine and cheese.

Mulberry King James I

An intensely rich flavour second to none. Originating from the Chelsea Physic garden in the 17th Century during the time of

James I.

Nectarine Lord Napier

Picks early August. Large pale yellow, scarlet flush. Flesh pale green, rich flavour. Fertility good - self fertile. Skin is thin, so if grown under glass it requires shading. Regular and heavy cropper. The best outdoor variety.

Nectarine Nectarella

A dwarf nectarine of very good quality. Orange red flesh. Self fertile. Picks from mid August.

Peach Garden Lady

This very productive genetic dwarf peach is top worked. It has beautiful pink flowers. Fruit has yellow flesh which is sweet and juicy with good flavour. Best used as a patio plant, must be kept in cold house in winter, from December to May. Season early August.

Peach Peregrine

Hardy, prolific and good size fruits. Good outdoor peach. Yellow flesh. Flavour is intense and rich. Suitable for sheltered positions. Ripens mid August.

Peach Rochester

Has deliciously refreshing yellow fruits and the tree is thoroughly reliable. It flowers rather late, thereby missing early frosts. Mid to late August. Self fertile.

Pear Beth

A excellent variety, high yields and regular crops. The small, sweet and juicy white flesh melts in mouth. Ripens late August. Excellent garden variety. Flowering group 3. From Kent, 1938.

Pear Concorde

Dessert variety. Picks in September, keeps until January. Similar in shape to conference. Fruit buttery, juicy with a pleasant sweet flavour. Prolific variety, sets fruit early in life. Compact grower. Self fertile. Flowering group 4.

Pear Conference

Dessert variety. Picks September, stores until November. The easiest pear to grow. Regular cropper, good flavour. Will cook and bottle. Self fertile. Flowering group 3. Orininates from Sawbridgeworth, Hertfordshire, 19th century.

Pear Doyenne du Comice

Dessert variety. Picks from October, store until November. Medium to large fruits if superb quality. The most delicious autumn pear but needs good pollination. Flowering group 4. Pair with Concorde for best results. France, 19th century.

Pear William's Bon Chretien

Picks as early as August. Excellent flavour. Short ripening period. Good for bottling. Medium to large fruit, very juicy and sweet. Regular good cropper. Flowering group 3. From Aldermaston, Berkshire, 18th century.

Pear – Family Beth/Conference/Concorde

Three varieties on one tree ideally suited for cross pollination and growth habit.

Pear – Family Conference/Comice/Williams

Three varieties on one fan trained bush, good for growing against a wall or fence.

Plum Herman

Medium blue/black, very early, freestone, excellent quality. A week earlier than Czar and improved flavour. Self fertile, flowering group 2. Picks late July. From Sweden, 1970.

Plum Jubilee

Similar in appearance and flavour to Victoria but much larger fruit and picks one week earlier. Self fertile, flowering group 3. An excellent plum, picking from mid August. Bred in Sweden in 1985.

Plum Marjories

Late plum for cooking & eating. Oval fruit with yellow flesh, moderately sweet. Growth is both vigorous and upright, and blossom season late enough to miss early frosts. Picks September onwards. Self fertile. Flowering group 5.

Plum Victoria

Dessert and cooking. Picks late August/early September. The best dual purpose plum due to quanity and quality of fruit, though does best when a disease control programme is used. A very Good cropper. Self fertile. Flowering group 3.

Quince Meeches Prolific

Large, pear shaped fruits of excellent flavour, yellow when ripe. Slow growing but crops early and regularly. Self fertile. Pick in October/November, keep until January. Also an ornamental tree with stunning flowers! Use for stewing, preserves

Raspberry Autumn Bliss

Exceptional variety, large fruits with good flavour, long ripening period-end of July to first frost. Autumn fruiting.