Stone Fruit Collection

£109.99

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Enjoy our Stone Fruit Collection, featuring four delicious, self-fertile varieties including a Damson, Gage, Peach and Plum. Read more

Attributes

  • Uses: Eating
  • Uses: Cooking
  • Self-fertility: Self-fertile

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Full Description
Enjoy our Stone Fruit Collection, featuring four delicious, self-fertile varieties including a Damson, Gage, Peach and Plum. Perfect for snacking, baking, or making jams, this set brings the best of summer to your table. For more information or to see what other forms are available just click on their names. Damson Merryweather: An unusually large plum sized damson, both for dessert and culinary use. Reliable heavy crops of blue-black fruits that can be eaten fresh when fully ripe but also used for cooking. Yellow-greenish firm flesh, juicy with acidic flavour. Pick in early-September. Gage Old Greengage: One of the best flavoured varieties. Produces heavy crops of green, red flushed fruits that have a greenish-yellow, sweet and delicious, tender flesh. An ideal dessert variety with its melting flesh and pleasant scent. Pick in mid-August. Peach Peregrine: The most revered of all white fleshed peaches in the UK. Heavy, regular crops of white skinned flushed red fruits with an intense and rich flavour. Beautiful, dark pink blossoms early in the spring which also make it an attractive ornamental tree. Well suited to the UK climate. Pick in mid-August. Plum Opal: A very reliable and good quality plum. Produces heavy crops of reddish-purple firm, round, tasty fruits. Flesh is golden yellow with a delicious slightly sweet flavour. White, scented flowers appear during the spring. One of the most reliable plum varieties for any garden. Pick in late-July. The trees included in the Stone Fruit Collection are bare root one year old maidens on semi vigorous rootstock. Their eventual height can reach 3-4m depending on soil conditions and climate. As a bare root tree 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.
Some FAQs

Tree Care

Your tree will have been pruned prior to despatch so there should be no need to prune straight away. The only exception is a bare root maiden which will not have been pruned. Some varieties will benefit from being pruned later – please see the variety specific information.

We would advise watering your tree when planting and then regularly during the first summer in the ground. Thereafter the level of watering will depend on the soil and weather conditions. It is best to not let young trees dry out.

A free booklet with simple instructions will be included with your order.

You can find more information in the ‘Advice’ section of our website. Click here for ‘How to Plant a Container Tree’ and here for ‘How to Plant a Bare Root Tree’.

Trees should always be planted as soon as possible. The only exception would be bare root trees if the soil is very frozen or waterlogged, in which case heel the trees in until the ground is ready. Bare root trees must be planted before new growth appears in spring, this is usually in March.

If your tree is to be kept in a container, then we’d advise repotting into a larger container as soon as possible. Please check to see whether the tree is suitable for a pot before purchasing.

Discounts

If you have a coupon code for a discount off your order, this can be entered on your basket page. Please note only one coupon code can be used per order.

We currently offer 10% off all orders for active Military personnel and veterans.

Email with proof of service to sales@fpmatthews.co.uk. We will then send you a coupon code which can be used for 10% off your total.

Please note this cannot be used in conjunction with other discounts.

Delivery

Please email sales@fpmatthews.co.uk within five working days and we will get back to you as soon as possible. Please include photos of any damage.

Yes, you can collect the trees from the nursery. Please select the ‘Collect’ option when placing the order. We will email you as soon as your order is ready for collection, we will then need at least two working days to prepare your order.

The delivery charge is calculated according to the number of boxes needed to send the trees. One container grown tree will need one box; bare root trees vary but we can usually get about four – six in a box. The total delivery cost will be shown when you place the order.

We deliver to Great Britain, Isle of Man and the Channel Islands. We don’t currently deliver to Northern and Southern Ireland.

We will notify you by email when your order has been despatched. It will usually be delivered within three days from notification.

Our large box is 2m tall and 30cm square. All products can be sent in the size.

Our medium box is 1.5m tall and 30cm square. This is only available for small or patio grown trees and 1 year maiden bare root trees.

Selecting the large box size may reduce the necessity for pruning on selected varieties. Any required pruning is conducted by our tree experts and will not have a detrimental effect on the tree.

We are unable to offer a scheduled delivery service as we cannot guarantee an exact delivery date. We can aim for a specific week if you let us know.

Our courier company will leave the package in the safest place if there is no one there, so there is no need to sign for the delivery.

Container grown trees are available from August – May and bare root trees are available from November – March. We always aim to deliver your order as soon as every item is ready for despatch.

If the whole order is ready when purchased, it usually takes between 5 and 10 working days to arrive.

See below for a guide on when bare root trees are usually ready for despatch.

Early November – Two year old plums, cherries, apples and then pears.

Late November – One year maiden plums, cherries, prunus and sorbus

Early December – One year maiden apples and malus

Mid/late December- One year maiden pears and remaining ornamental bare root.

This is an estimate as the lifting of bare root trees is very weather dependent.

Returns

If you are unhappy with you tree and wish to return it, the delivery charge will not be included in the refund.

If you change your mind or do not want to keep your tree, please email sales@fpmatthews.co.uk within five working days.

Trees will need to be returned at your cost. Once they arrive back with is in good condition we can arrange a refund for the tree.