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Greengages

Fruit Trees, Nut Trees and Fruit Bushes

If you are going to plant a tree or bush, then it is going to be there for some years. So it's well worth spending some time looking at the different varieties and going for something that will be productive and providing you with a good crop in years to come. Time spent to prepare the ground properly will repay you many times over.

Greengage Mannings Selection

Taken from an ancient Greengage hedge on Ray Mannings' fruit farm at Willingham near Cambridge (home of Greengages), this superb selection will produce good crops of roundish, medium-sized, bright green fruit in August. The fruit are sweet and aromatic - good for cooking but also delicious eaten raw when really ripe.

Price: £19.95 More Information from Dobies

Greengage: Mannings Selection

Taken from an ancient Greengage hedge on Ray Mannnings' fruit farm at Willingham near Cambridge (home of Greengages), this superb selection will produce good crops of roundish, medium-sized, bright green fruit in August. The fruit are sweet and aromatic -

Price: £19.95 More Information from Suttons Seeds

Red Gage

An irresistible Plum with a unique, very rich flavour - often known as "The Wine Plum" as some find its taste reminiscent of red wine! Crops reliably and heavily, and is cold tolerant, so performs well even in northern areas. You can expect to pick the fruit during the first two weeks of August. Grafted on St. Julian A rootstock.

Price: £19.95 More Information from Dobies

 

 

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