Availability 2018-19
Please see our wholesaler’s catalogue for a fuller list of varieties:
http://www.frankpmatthews.com/
Figs
£18.00 container grown young bush. Self-fertile.
Brown Turkey Probably the hardiest fig for outdoors, or inside the greenhouse.The most reliable cropping variety for UK conditions.
MULBERRY
£40.00 container grown half-standards
| Chelsea [= King James] @ £42.00 |
Grown from cuttings from a tree in the Chelsea Physick Garden, planted by King James.Very good flavour.
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| Giant Fruit 7 litre @ £32.00 | Berries 2 or 3 times longer than usual, same delicious flavour. |
HAWTHORNS
On thorn rootstock, £20.50, bare rooted.
Hedging hawthorn -the native Crataegus monogyna, and also Crataegus prunifolia, are listed on the Hedging page.
| Crataegus arnoldiana | Well flavoured large red fruits; beautiful small tree to 4 metres. Bare-rooted. |
| Crataegus biflora |
Glastonbury Thorn – famous winter & summer blooming thorn. A variety of our common native hawthorn. To 6 metres. 7 litre pot £39.00 |
| Crataegus orientalis | Oriental Thorn – large yellow/red haws, grey/green leaves; small handsome tree. sold out |
| Crataegus pinnatifida var. major ‘Big Golden Star’ | grown for market for its large red, not golden, fruit in central Asia. 7L Pot grown.£39.00 |
| Crataegus succulenta ‘Jubilee’ | A form of this North American specie with larger red fruits. 7 LPot grown. £39.00, bare root £20.50 |
| Crataegus schraderiana | small silvery leaved tree; large purplish red fruits, the best for eating raw according to Ken Fern. 7L pot grown £36.00 |