The highlights
- Columnar fruit trees that save on space
- Three RHS award-winning varieties
- Grow in pots and on balconies
- Create your own miniature orchard
Description
- In this collection, you’ll receive:
- 1 ‘Concorde’ Cordon Pear Tree
- 1 ‘Opal’ Cordon Plum Pear Tree
- 1 ‘James Grieve’ Cordon Apple Tree
- Cordon fruit trees offer an ingenious way to save on space while still yielding good crops of delicious fruit. They consist of a single columnar trunk and short, horizontal fruit-bearing spurs, rather than the typical, spreading framework of branches.
- These trees typically have a maximum width of one metre (and often less) which makes them an attractive option for those gardens where space is at more of a premium. What’s not to like?
- All of the varieties in this collection are winners of the RHS Award of Garden Merit – a hallmark of quality conferred on those plants that have been proven to perform particularly well in British gardens. Winner, winner, plum-pear-and-apple dinner.
- ‘Concorde’ boasts pears as impressive as its supersonic namesake, and trust us, they’ll be scoffed from the fruit bowl just as fast… Sweet, aromatic and juicy, these pears also keep well, storing for several months – if you can resist eating them, that is!
- ‘Opal’ is undoubtedly a true gem of the fruit tree world, reliably producing heavy crops of sumptuously sweet plums that taste divine eaten fresh from the tree, as well as working wonderfully in jams and traditional desserts. Plum pie, anyone?
- ‘James Grieve’ yields excellent dual-purpose apples with an early sharpness that becomes sweeter the longer you leave them on the tree. Perfect for both snacking and baking, the blossom of this fan favourite is also resistant to late cold snaps. Brrrrilliant.
- Our growers have done the hard work for you to establish the proper cordon shape. All that’s left for you to do is give it a yearly prune to help retain its trademark shape. You can find out what to do in our comprehensive article on cordon fruit trees.
