We specialize in the growing and supply of quality fruit trees, from a single tree for your garden to small orchards or estate requirements. We supply from an extensive list of varieties and cover a range of ages, maturity and type of tree. All of which is backed up by our legendary support and advice.
Our aim is to provide you with the very best quality of trees at competitive prices, but with the benefit of our experience to ensure that you have the right trees for your location, whether for a pot on a patio, in the corner of a garden, as part of a multi-fruit garden, or in a small orchard. This will give you the very best chance of a good fruit crop, and often sooner than you think. The trees we sell are not the usual 'mail order matchsticks', but well-developed trees with side branches, that will reach cropping sooner. Together with the trees we also provide an information sheet providing the essential tips to ensure best results.
For more information on fruit tree sales, please e-mail us your requirements and we can help you with your choice of trees, their age and variety for successful fruit growing. If you already know the sort of trees you are looking for, take a look at our tree varieties page. We are always available to provide you with free advice on which tree combinations work best. We take pride in our service of offering orchard packs tailor-made to requirements. After all, everyone has a different garden, and their own favourite fruits!
A final word of advice, which is so important that we prefer to mention it already here. Do not plant any trees without rabbit guards to protect the trunks from damage caused by hares and rabbits, but also by cats and dogs.
Special offer: Standard Orchard Pack Our Standard Orchard pack contains five trees, 2 apple trees, 1 pear, 1 plum, and 1 greengage tree, selected to ensure efficient pollination. These quality trees will usually begin cropping the year after planting. Price just £80 plus delivery. Save more with the Bargain Orchard Pack, with five very young trees which will crop from 2 to 3 years after planting: just £65 plus delivery! |
New! Multi-fruit orchard service. Ideal for a new orchard of at least 15 trees. Discover the pleasure of home-grown fruit – and beautiful blossom! |
Fruit tree growing advice
At last, fruit growing advice is just a click away. We provide expert help with fruit trees - for patios, gardens and small orchards - covering themes that include planning, planting, problem solving, orchard renovation, and biological fruit growing.
Other aspects of our services
Design
and planning of mini orchards and multi-fruit orchards
Fruit trees and the English landscape
Areas covered by our fruit tree supply and consultancy service
Real English Fruit: the background
Useful links
New! Espalier and Fan training: trees, information and tips
Design
and planning of mini orchards and multi-fruit orchards
A number of fruit trees in a garden can become a very attractive feature as well as producing fruit. We can also provide advice on the use of ornamental trees in combination with the orchard area. There are several questions that should be considered in a small orchard. Pollination, which is essential for regular cropping. The size of the mature tree: varieties and rootstocks have to be chosen so that the trees do not block the light from areas of your garden. Shelter: particularly liked by some trees. Rootstock: as well as affecting size, the rootstock determines the size of the fruit and the regularity of cropping.
Fruit
trees and the English landscape. Throughout the ages fruit trees
have always formed part of the English rural and urban landscape. We are
tree suppliers with a difference: we have specialist knowledge of the
types and combinations of the many fruit trees available, so that we can
help make your own environment dreams and ideals come true.
However, a fruit tree is not an independent organism: it is an integral
part of its habitat. Each type of fruit tree has its favourite companion,
and it benefits from this “good company” by growing and cropping
better, and remaining naturally healthier. Trees do a lot better, if seen
as part of a whole, be it a garden, orchard, or a secluded area for relaxation
or meditation.
If you are looking for a virtually maintenance-free area, then the great variety of the beautiful ornamental crab apple can be given serious consideration. We stock many varieties of all sizes, shapes and colours. These can be planted in combination with medlars, quinces, walnuts and sweet chestnut trees.
Another typical rural England scene is the ornamental or fruiting tree enclosure, where crab apples and other fruit trees provide food, shade and shelter to all different kinds of poultry. In ecological terms this is a fascinating combination, because poultry – in particular, guinea fowl – help keep pests at bay by searching for grubs.
The environment of course includes
wild animals as well, but the potentially damaging habits of hare, rabbit,
mice, squirrels, and sometimes deer on trees can be avoided using appropriate
tree guards, and, in the case of a poultry enclosure, by robust fencing
of sufficient height.
We have considerable experience of all these different situations, and
we can help you with this as part of our tree supply package. In relation
to your site and soil type, we can advise you about varieties and
planting distances. As part of our after sales service, we continue to
supply “know-how” if and when needed to all our tree purchasers.
Some of the areas covered by our fruit tree supply and consultancy service:
Explore the website to find out more about the fruit trees we have for sale, Dan Neuteboom and Real English Fruit... or send us an e-mail!
Background. Dan Neuteboom studied agriculture and qualified at the Institute of Agriculture in Dordrecht in Holland, which is now part of the University in Delft, near Rotterdam. After a forty-year career - entirely in Suffolk, UK - in the fruit business as a grower, Dan has truly become "the man who talks to trees". If you would like to plant a tree, or plan a small orchard, or if you have a tree that needs attention, Dan is the right man.
Dan Neuteboom founded Real English Fruit, based in Suffolk, UK, in order to supply quality fruit trees, for growing in pots, patios, gardens and small orchards, while also exploiting the new possibilities offered by the web to provide expert consultancy for all problems concerning home orchards. Dan and Real English Fruit are just an e-mail - or phone call - away, and from September to May, we are present at Farmer's Markets in Suffolk.
Useful links. Click here for some useful links to some other fruit-tree and horticulture-related websites.