Berries and Brambles
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PAGE 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 ALL aka Gooseberry A must to have in every home garden. Great for making pies like Gandma use too. A heavy bearing and disease resistant gooseberry with large flavourful fruit that can be used for culinary purposes or eaten fresh when fully ripe. Fruit ripens Nov - Jan Deciduous. Gooseberry Invicta Current Stock Height: 20/35 cm ? Container: 4.5l ? $49.99 aka Gooseberry A well shaped, slightly bristly fruit that is dark red when fully ripe. Berries are larger than Invicta. Good eating. The plants are very vigorous and spreading but can be shaped up by pruning. Produces occasional spines on young wood, but at maturity it is virtually spineless. Gooseberry Pax Expected Stock Height: 25/30 cm ? Currently sold out. New season fruit-and-nut trees available next winter. Add to your waitlist to be advised when next in stock. White flowers in Spring followed by large dusky purple-red berries in mid Summer depending on your location and the tempatures. Thornless. Self-fertile. Deciduous
Loganberry Waimate Expected Stock Height: 50/60 cm ? Currently sold out. New season fruit-and-nut trees available next winter. Add to your waitlist to be advised when next in stock. aka White Mulberry You may know the Mulberry tree better for its role in silk production rather than as an ornamental plant however it is a worthy garden specimen. The glossy large heart shaped leaves always look fresh. Small edible fruits appear in spring and are loved by birds! Likes the sun. Deciduous. Morus Alba Current Stock Height: 250/280 cm ? Container: Hessian ? $99.99 THIS ITEM MAY REQUIRE TRUCK DELIVERY, SEE TERMS aka Weeping Mulberry Desirable, weeping form of the highly ornamental Mulberry tree. The glossy large heart shaped leaves always look fresh. Small edible fruits appear in spring and are loved by birds! Berries are red, almost black when ripe. Give this special tree the space to spread its lovely pendulous branch formation. Deciduous. Morus Alba Pendula H/W 1.5m Current Stock Height: STD-1.5/HGT-1.8 cm ? Container: 8l ? $89.99 THIS ITEM MAY REQUIRE TRUCK DELIVERY, SEE TERMS aka Weeping Mulberry Desirable, weeping form of the highly ornamental Mulberry tree. The glossy large heart shaped leaves always look fresh. Small edible fruits appear in spring and are loved by birds! Berries are red, almost black when ripe. Give this special tree the space to spread its lovely pendulous branch formation. Deciduous. Morus Alba Pendula H/W 1.7m Current Stock Height: STD-170/HGT-200 cm ? Container: 8l ? $99.99 THIS ITEM MAY REQUIRE TRUCK DELIVERY, SEE TERMS aka Black Mulberry Black Mulberry has sweet, intense, blackish red fruit approx 2cm long which mature in late spring/early summer. Quite juicy. Good flavour. Warning the birds love them! Lovely heart shaped, glossy green leaves dress the well shaped ornamental tree. Quite easy to grow in a sunny position. Deciduous. Morus Nigra Expected Stock Height: 220/250 cm ? THIS ITEM MAY REQUIRE TRUCK DELIVERY, SEE TERMS aka Chilean Guava Syn Ugni Molinae AKA as Chilean Guava or NZ Cranberry. A reliable little shrub with tight small leaves in an attractive bronze green shade. Little white flowers in spring are followed by fragrant edible berries. Easy to grow, clips well so can be used for topiary or hedging. Evergreen. Myrtus Ugni Current Stock Height: 5/10 cm ? Container: 0.5l ? $6.99 aka Raspberry One of summers great delights, great in home gardens. With rose type leaves, simple small white flowers followed by sweet delicate very large fruit ripening in summer with good flavour and firmness. Plant against a fence where support is given. Frost tolerant. Deciduous. Raspberry Aspiring Current Stock Height: 30/40 cm ? Container: 3l ? $32.99 Stock of this item is very low. aka Raspberry Small firm rosettes of dark black berries. Easily removed when ripe. Upright canes, rose type leaves, simple small white flowers followed by sweet delicate dark fruit. A strong productive plant, spreads quickly, easy to grow. No spines. Self fertile. Harvest Dec - Feb Deciduous. Raspberry Ebony Current Stock Height: 30/40 cm ? Container: 3l ? $29.99
The Gooseberry is hardy and in fact loves a cold winter however be aware that new spring growth can be damaged by frost. Gooseberries like a nice layer of mulch or compost around their shallow roots. When pruning remember they fruit on older wood.
Habit: Upright
Mature Size (HxW): 90cm x 120cm
Habit: Spreading
Mature Size (HxW): Spreading
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Habit: Arching
Mature Size (HxW): 4m x 3m
Habit: Arching
Mature Size 7-10 yrs (HxW): 4m x 3m
Mature Size 7-10 yrs (HxW): 5m x 4m
Currently sold out. New season fruit-and-nut trees available next winter. Add to your waitlist to be advised when next in stock.
Habit: Upright
Mature Size 7-10 yrs (HxW): 1m x 1m
PVR: Aspiring
Habit: Upright
Mature Size 7-10 yrs (HxW): 2m x 1m
Mostly Thornless.
PVR: Hortberry1
Habit: Upright
Mature Size 7-10 yrs (HxW): 2m x 0m
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