What New Fruit Trees To Get And When / Where From???

[FB.]

Keepers website appears to operate a stock control system.
I have an order with them at the moment and my order caused one of the items to go "out of stock". If I edit my order it appears back in stock and if I choose something else rare that goes out of stock.

I've ordered several times from Keepers and most of the time the quality has been excellent (less problems than any other nursery) and never knowingly sent an incorrectly labelled or substituted plant.
Keepers Nursery UK | Fruit trees for sale | Buy Online | Mail order

Similarly, Bernwode Fruit Trees require you to telephone to check availability - they'll call you back after seeing whether they have what you're asking for (I've sometimes been told "sorry, we don't have the variety you want" or "sorry, we don't have it on the rootstock you want").
Fruit Trees- Historic Varieties Grown and Supplied by Bernwode Fruit Trees

So I would trust those two nurseries and they're about the only places that I'd buy from unless I just want a bundle of rootstocks for grafting my own trees.

[yummersetter]

I can't grow apricots - well, I can grow them but never get any fruit. I think they need a wall, and mine are all in front of a fence. I do get a good crop from a Satsuma Japanese Plum in a sheltered place. it flowers and fruits early, the first of our tree fruits. You could grow gage-type plums, Early Transparent, Ouillins and purple dessert plums like Kirke's Blue - they're nothing like Victoria and far more delicious than damsons.
You might be surprised how many plum varieties there were in the past. In Victorian days, in Scott's nursery catalogue there are about 200 named plums for sale and in the 1949 book by HV Taylor, Plums of England, 125 types are described. It was in the 1970s to 2000 that the famous nurseries closed and easily available varieties dropped to a couple of dozen.