Preserve Tree Collection

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Elevate your homemade preserves with our Preserve Tree Collection, featuring 3 versatile trees and 2 soft fruit bushes, all perfect for crafting exquisite jams, jellies, and preserves. These self-fertile varieties are not only easy to grow but also promise bountiful harvests of delicious, high-quality fruit. Whether you’re a seasoned canner or a beginner, this collection will enrich your garden and your pantry with the finest, homegrown flavours.

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Blackcurrant Ben Sarek®: An early season variety that produces large acid flavour berries on short strigs. Small, compact heavy cropper making it suitable for the smaller garden. Perfect for eating fresh or in jams, jellies and pies. Pick in mid-July.

Damson Merryweather: Reliable heavy crops of blue-black fruits that can be eaten fresh when fully ripe but are usually used for cooking and jams. Yellow-greenish firm flesh, juicy and acidic flavour. The tree itself is very vigorous and has a spreading habit. Pick in mid-September.

Gooseberry Invicta®: Produces a heavy crop of large, pale green, smooth skinned berries. Delicious, sweet flavour, excellent for cooking into jams or freezing; keeps its shape. It’s very prickly, growth is vigorous and spreading. Pick in mid-July.

Malus ‘John Downie’: A vigorous upright tree when young with bright green young leaves. Attractive white ‘apple blossom’ flowers, opening from pink buds in spring, and large bright orange and red pear-shaped fruits in the autumn. One of the most popular for crab apple jelly.

Quince Meech’s Prolific: A heavy and reliable cropper with very large, pear-shaped fruits that are yellow in colour when they’re fully ripe. The fruit has a distinctive scent; sweet and strong. Pick in early-October.

The trees included in this Preserve Tree Collection are bare root trees. As bare root they will be despatched between November and March when they are dormant and will need pruning to the shape you require when planting. For information on how to prune click here.