The flowers ripen into bright red, acidic, edible cherry-like fruits, which give this tree its common name of Cornelian Cherry (Cornel is another word for dogwood). It looks fantastic when the morning or afternoon sun is behind it and shines through the branches. It flowers early in the year (which is great for bees), usually starting in February, sometimes January, with loads of small, yellow, witch hazel-like flowers appearing on the bare branches. Both bareroot and pot grown roses are pruned down to about 30cm high (excluding our standard stem/tree roses) before we deliver them.Ĭornus mas: Bareroot Cornelian Cherry HedgingĬornus mas, the Cornelian Cherry, or edible dogwood, is a small tree or large shrub and is ideal as either a specimen or as part of a mixed hedge. All other soft fruit: 1-2 year old plants, graded by pot size unless sold bareroot.Īll of our named rose cultivars were budded or grafted 2 years before you receive them.Strawberries: Last year's rooted runners.Raspberries: Bareroot canes, pruned to 40 cms.Soft Fruit Sizes:īerry bushes aren't measured by height: some of them need to be chopped back before delivery, and some are just very small by nature. You can read about the rootstocks we use for our fruit trees here. A wonder tree is a specific style of dwarf tree that uses both a dwarfing rootstock and a high graft point to create a tree form that is small, very low maintenance, and aesthetically pleasing. Suitable apple & pear varieties are also sold as ready-made cordons: as long as it is a spur bearing variety, you can turn any maiden into a cordon very easily.ĭwarf fruit trees & Wonder trees: A small selection of fruit trees are available in dwarf forms that are ideal for growing in large pots and small gardens. If you want to grow fans or espaliers, which we don't deliver, you need to begin with a maiden. It has not formed significant branches yet. The maiden is the smallest, youngest fruit tree you can buy.This matures into a more compact tree, about 3 metres high. The bush is like a half-standard, with a trunk about 60cms tall that then splits into the main branches.The half-standard is the largest, has a straight trunk of about 1.20 metres, a branched head, and will mature into a tree about 4 metres high.Most of our fruit trees are sold bareroot, in 3 sizes. ![]() As a rough average for most trees, a 6/8 standard is over 2 metres tall, and an 8/10 standard is between 3 and 4 metres, but it depends on the tree. Larger bareroot trees are called Standards, referring to the standard 'waist measurement' of their girth in centimetres at 1 metre above ground level.Ī 6/8cm standard tree has a trunk that is between 6 and 8 centimetres in circumference, one metre from the ground.
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