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Fruiters, Browsers & Nitrogen Fixers*

*Alnus rubra - Red Alder

Fast growing medium sized tree. Suits wet or dry soil. Graceful long catkins is spring. £1.45/ 60-80 cms; £10.00 / 2+ metres

 

Aronia melanocarps Viking

Chokeberry. Thornless deciduous shrub to 2 metres. Black berries grown commercially for juice. They turn black early but leave on bush as long as you can. £7.00

 

Atriplex halimus - Salt Bush

Evergreen, grey/green shrub to 1.5 metres. Edible & tasty leaves and young shoots. Good by the sea. £5.50

 

Berberis darwinii c.g.

Evergreen shrub, orange flowers May, tasty berries June/July. Trouble free, grows almost anywhere. £5.50

 

*Caragana arborescens

Siberian Pea Tree - Edible yellow flowers & young pods. Needs full sun & good drainage. £3.50 & £5.00

 

*Caragana brevispina

Deciduous lax shrub to 3metres, best on well drained soils with full sun. Spiny. £10.00

 

Cornus kousa chinensis

Deciduous ornamental shrub to 2m. with edible berries joined in clusters. Large white flowers in June. £11.00.

 

Cornus mas - Cornelian Cherry

Late winter flowering large shrub, red berries used for preserves. Clips to make a hedge. £3.50

 

Crataegus arnoldiana

Well flavoured large red fruits; beautiful small tree. On thorn rootstock. £19.00

 

Crataegus biflora

Glastonbury Thorn - famous winter & summer blooming thorn. On thorn rootstock. £19.00

 

Crataegus orientalis

Oriental Thorn - large yellow/red haws, grey/green leaves; a small handsome tree. On thorn. £19.00

 

*Elaeagnus angustifolia

Russian Olive narrow leaved grey/green deciduous large shrub / small tree, sweet mealy fruits. £3.50

 

*Elaeagnus angustifolia caspica

Silver Russian Olive Very silvery leaves, deciduous, sweet but mealy fruit in autumn. £3.50

 

*Elaeagnus umbellata

Deciduous large shrub, fragrant flowers May/June, red speckled fruits in autumn. £3.50

 

*Elaeagnus x ebbingei

Evergreen nitrogen fixer to 2m. Small fragrant autumn flowers, fruits in spring. £3.50 & £7.00

 

*Hippophae rhamnoides -

Sea Buckthorn 40-60 cms £1.25

Native spiny shrub, acid orange berries and silver grey narrow leaves. Fruit exremely vitamin rich, Plants either male or female, plant a mix of 5:1 for good pollination.
*Hippophae improved fruiting varieties: £7.50 each; or 2 or more, any varieties @ £7.00 each; 10+ @ £6.50
Hergo - female  
Leikora - female  
Orange Energy - female  
Matt & Pollmix3 - males  

Laurus nobilis - Bay

Well-known flavouring shrub; evergreen; good outdoors if not too exposed. 45-60 cms c.g.£3.50

 

*Lotus corniculatus

Birdsfoot Trefoil - native grassland legume, drought resistant, mat-forming, attractive; edible flowers. £1.50

 

*Myrica gale - Sweet Gale

Bog / wetland shrub to 1 metre. Golden catkins early spring, leaves for teas; medicinal, flavouring. Sold out.

Pinus sylvestris - Scots Pine

Native evergreen pine useful for wildlife. Suits poor dry soils. £ 4.75 c.g & £1.00 b.r.

 

*Robinia pseudacacia Black Locust - 100-150cms Fast growing tree, attractive leaves, fragrant white flowers, bee plant. £5.00

Toona cedrela

Flamingo - fast growing in warmer climes, medium sized tree. Edible young shoots. Very elegant. Fragrant flowers. £20.00.

 

*Ulex europaeus - Gorse Native thorny evergreen shrub of acid soils 40-60 cms £2.50
Ugni molinae - Chilean Guava £6.00 Low evergreen shrub, currant sized fruits with a strawberry-like flavour. Hardy to - 10C. Ripening Nov-Dec.

 

 

 

 

 

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