Fruit tree supplier - recommendations?

[Lottieknees]

Hi all,

i want to get some fruit trees - an apricot, some victoria plums, damsons etc. Has anyone bought from a supplier they could recommend please?

[vicky]

Fruit Trees & Nut Trees
I got about 10 trees from them 2 yrs ago. Good quality, price and sensible (emailed me to let me know they wouldn't deliver whilst there was snow on the ground). All trees doing well!

[Lottieknees]

Brilliant, thanks vicky

[FB.]

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> Keepers Nursery <
are the finest quality fruit trees that I've yet encountered. I would not use any other supplier (except Bernwode for very rare varieties).

Over the years, I've found that a fair number of trees from a variety of nurseries tend to be incubating a disease when shipped, but only show it a couple of years after planting (i.e. the disease is held quiescent by sprays in the nursery). On a handful of occasions, I've had a large portion of a batch of fruit trees keel over a few years after planting - all keeling over in the same season with the same disease - most commonly crown rot on apple trees (phytophthora). My already-established trees on the same rootstock being unaffected, so clearly my own trees were not the source of the problem.

[Kleftiwallah]

Blackmoor fruit nursery. recommended. Cheers, Tony.

[binley100]

Just had some cherry plum hedging from here. They held onto the whips over the festive period for me and made sure they were delivered on a Friday so I could distribute them on a Sat at the lottie. Look good plants in good condition ........
Buckingham Nurseries Online Catalogue - Hedging, Young Trees, Shrubs, Fruit Trees, Soft Fruit, Grasses, Ground Cover Plants, Climbers

[cazp]

I have recently ordered for Ken Muir nurseries and and the trees arrived well packaged and in great shape with lots of information on how to plant and care for them. I found the staff very helpful in advising about suitable varieties of tree for my garden and how to care for them.

http://www.kenmuir.co.uk/

[pipkins]

Another vote for Ken Muir

[Alison]

I've used Ken Muir and Blackmoor and actually prefer Blackmoor as I think they're service is marginally better. Products good from both, not the cheapest but have had problems with some cheaper suppliers and prefer quality for something that's going to last years.

[northepaul]

Blackmoor - fantastic service and beautiful trees.

Blackmoor Fruit Nursery - Fruit Trees For Sale, Large selection Of Quality Fruit Trees

I've just used Deacons on the Isle of Wight because I wanted a specific tree - the service and quality is ok, but not a patch on Blackmoors.

Hope that helps

[Speed Gardener]

I bought some pear and apple trees from Jasper Trees the last two winters, they are good value and have been healthy specimens. I'll be using them again.

[Lottieknees]

Thanks everyone, I read through all the websites you linked me to. I've ordered them from Victoriana and am now eagerly awaiting their arrival.

[Twinsane]

Although Jasper Trees trees were good prices and the staff were friendly via email, the postage was high (£11 for one £18 tree)

I've just received my trees from Keepers Nursery and the service has been brilliant. Unfortunately, at this time of year, a lot of the varieties have sold out.

[northepaul]

I ordered some special trees from Keepers recently, and was impressed, not only that they could help me, (I wanted a couple of quite rare local to my area trees) but that their price was fairly reasonable (compared to brogdale) and they were very helpful.

[FB.]

In some really old (100years+) fruit growing books and catalogues which I have had the good fortune to read, most recommend buying fruit trees from kent, due to the growing conditions tending to be most favourable in that part of the country.

I generally agree - fruit trees grown in many other parts of the country seem to suffer much more from diseases which are highly suspicious of having been carried with them from the nursery - often due to the wet weather in certain areas of the UK.

Once or twice in the past, I have been sent some really diseased rubbish from some supposedly-good nurseries in other parts of the UK, although I have always been overwhelmed with the size, health and fast establishment of fruit trees grown in Kent.

I suggest take a leaf out of our ancestors book.