Belle de Boskoop Apple (dwarf) Thought to be a bud sport of Reinette de Montfort. Found by K.J.W. Ottolander, Boskoop, The Netherlands in 1856, it received an Award of Merit from the Royal Horticultural Society in 1897. One of the better cooking apples, the aromatic flesh remains...
Belle De Nancy Lilac A wonderfully fragrant double pink flower is a feature of Lilac ‘Belle de Nancy’. Flower heads (panicles) start with mauve buds in spring changing to a strong lilac-pink colour finally fading to a bluish hue in early summer. Syringa...
Belle Lucrative Pear Another wonderfully historic pear variety about which much more is written in our reference than there is space for here. Belle Lucrative is of Flemish origin. In 1831 it was growing in the London Horticultural Society’s gardens at Chiswick,...
Bendigo Beauty Peach Delicious juicy peach with white flesh and red/yellow skin that ripens in early January. • Pollination Group: self-fertile so no other pollinators needed • Uses: eating, cooking, bottling, preserving • Harvest: early January •...
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Bess Pool Apple (medium) Bess Pool is one of the latest flowering apples which makes it potentially a suitable pollinator for later flowering varieties (PG5) including the often frustrating cider varieties Stoke Red, Verite and Brown Snout. Discovered in a wood in...
Beurre Bosc Pear A seedling pear found by Dr Van Mons, growing in the garden of M. Swates at Linkebeeke, France. It was named after M. Bosc, the Director of the Jardin des Plantes, at Paris. Fruits have yellowish, tender, juicy flesh with a perfumed flavour. A...
Beurre Bosc Pear (semi-dwarf) A seedling pear found by Dr Van Mons, growing in the garden of M. Swates at Linkebeeke, France. It was named after M. Bosc, the Director of the Jardin des Plantes, at Paris. Fruits have yellowish, tender, juicy flesh with a perfumed flavour. A...
Beurre Diel Pear (semi-dwarf) A chance seedling found in 1805, by M. Meuris the head gardener for Dr. Van Mons at the Chateau of Perck near Vilvoorde. Van Mons named it in honour of his friend Dr. Augustus Frederick Adrien Diel, a distinguished German pomologist. Lemon-yellow, rough,...
Beurre Easter Pear (semi-dwarf) Seems to have originated in the gardens of the Capucin Monastery at Louvain, Belgium, where there was recorded, about 1823, an old pear tree known to the monks as the Pastorale de Louvain. As the variety attracted attention it became widely...
Beurre Hardy Pear (semi-dwarf) A French pear raised in about 1820 by M. Bonnet, Boulonge-sur-Mer, France. Acquired by M. Jean-Laurent Jamin, a nurseryman near Paris, who named it in honour of M. Hardy Director and Professor of Arboriculture at the Garden of Luxembourg. It was...
Beurre Superfin Pear (semi-dwarf) Raised in 1837 by M. Goubalt, Angers, France. First fruited in 1844. Introduced to america about 1850. Fruits have yellowish white, very melting, sweet flesh with a delicious perfumed flavour. Pollination Group: Buerre Bosc, Williams, Comice,...
Bing Cherry Bing is the most famous sweet cherry variety in the USA. It originated in Oregon in the United States in 1875 on an orchard planted in Western Oregon by Henderson Lewelling in 1847. It takes its name from one of Lewelling's Chinese...
Black Amber Japanese Plum Prunus salicina 'Black Amber' Japanese Plum - One of the best Japanese plums. Bred by J.H.Weinerberger from Fresno, California (USA), in 1980. It is a midseason, heavy bearing plum producing medium to large, round or slightly flattened fruit of dark...
Black Currant Plants approx. 25cm to 35cm tallRibes nigrum European Blackcurrant Solid yields make the European Blackcurrant a great choice for the farm and home food garden. High in Vitamin C and strongly flavoured, fruit can be used fresh and is often used in...
Black Diamond European Plum One of the earliest plums. Not to be confused with the variety of the same name expressed as a ®egistered trademark. The Black Diamond plums we sell are an old variety with dark coloured skin and flesh. We are not sure if they have, as...
Black English Mulberry Morus nigra 'Black English'Has dense, dark green foliage. Red/black fruit ripens progressively rather than all at once. Once established will tolerate a Meditteranean climate. Slower growing at first and can grow to a large tree. Pollination:...
Black Genoa Fig Black Genoa is the leading commercial variety for fresh fruit production. The tree has an open and spreading habit. The fruit is dark purple at maturity, with red seeds and white flesh. It is a squat, pear-shaped fruit. It has a distinctive flavour and...
Black Sultana Seedless Grape Vitis vinifera 'Black Sultana' is a seedless reddish-black grape from Azerbeijan. Ripens two weeks later than White Sultana. Early-mid season. Harvest: Early to mid-season Pollination: Self-pollinating Type: Seedless Uses: Eating fresh or for...
Black Tulip™ Magnolia (Magnolia x soulangiana 'Black Tulip'™) Magnolia x soulangiana 'Black Tulip' (TM) is one of the darkest hued tulip magnolias. The burgundy-red flowers can be up to 15cm across and make a dramatic sight when they appear before the foliage in late winter. Black Tulip (TM) is a small,...
Blackboy Cherry Very dark coloured skin and flesh, medium fruit ripens in mid December. High chill required. Pollination Group: cross with Stella, Van Uses: eating Harvest: mid-December
Blackboy Peach (dwarf) The dwarf peach ‘Blackboy’ is a late maturing freestone peach with purple/red flesh and skin. It’s melting texture, distinctive flavour and striking colour makes it attractive as an eating peach that can also be bottled, cooked and...
Blenheim Orange Apple (dwarf) Discovered by Mr Kempster at Woodstock near Blenheim, Oxfordshire, England in about 1740. Distributed in about 1818. It received the Banksian medal from the Royal Horticultural Society in 1822. Fruits have creamy white, somewhat coarse-textured and...
Bloodgood Japanese Maple (Acer palmatum atropurpureum 'Bloodgood') The very attractive small deciduous tree Bloodgood Japanese Maple (Acer palmatum atropurpureum 'Bloodgood') has rich burgundy tones when in leaf from spring to autumn. It may attain bronze colours in late summer before autumn leaf fall. Hanging winged...
