Design and planning of mini orchards and multi-fruit gardens
Fruit trees and the English landscape
Real English Fruit: the background
Areas covered by our fruit tree supply and consultancy service
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Fruit trees for sale. We specialize in the growing and supply of quality fruit trees. We work on orders of any size: from one tree up. By this we mean that customers who only need one tree are most welcome. Whether you need one, several or many trees, we will always do our best to supply the tree or trees best suited to your needs.
By the term "quality fruit trees", we mean trees with side branches. In other words, our trees are not "mail-order matchsticks", but well-developed plants that will reach cropping sooner than you think - in many cases, the year after planting. Our trees are accompanied by free advice offered by a grower with long-term experience in the field. This means that we can help you select the right tree for the requirements - 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 - and if necessary, do the whole job for you, including delivery, planting and tree care. For more information on fruit tree sales, take a look at our tree varieties page, or send us an e-mail.
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tree growing advice. At last, fruit growing advice
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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.
This website, the online part of the business, enables anyone to obtain friendly and professional advice, rapidly and at a low price. Please see our tariffs page for futher details on costs and methods of payment.
Design
and planning of mini orchards and multi-fruit gardens
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.
So many idyllic landscapes are a combination of grassy areas, meadows,
animals and trees. What often is forgotten, or not given sufficient
thought, is the fact that even though the landscaped, extensive country
orchard seems, to the unpractised eye, to be “at one” with nature, in
actual fact some protective steps have to be taken, bearing in mind
the natural urges of fox, hare, rabbit, mice, squirrels, and sometimes
deer. This means fool proof fencing.
Another typical scene of rural England 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. Again,
the fencing of such areas has to be fox, deer, rabbit and hare proof.
(See our links page for a useful address
for poultry in an orchard). When nut trees are involved, squirrels can
be a real problem.
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, shape and colours.
These can be planted in combination with medlars, quinces, walnuts and
sweet chestnut trees.
All this goes to show that 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 secluded
area for relaxation or meditation.
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. We can advise you and supply you with all that is
needed in your particular circumstances. As part of our after sales
service, we continue to supply “know-how” if and when needed to all
our tree purchasers.
Where
do we go from here? Just send us an e-mail
outlining your area of interest, with as many details as you can, related
to the site, the soil, and the trees that are needed, and we will give
it our earliest and personal attention. Please do not forget to clearly
state your full address and phone number.
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.
Some of the areas covered by our fruit tree supply and consultancy service:
- fruit trees for the patio and garden
- small scale orchard: grow your own fruit
- tree selection: apple trees, pear trees, plum trees, cherry trees, walnut trees, fig trees, medlars, crab apples
- tree size: container grown trees, compact trees, cordon trees, espalier trees, dwarfing trees, vigorous trees, dwarfing rootstocks, wild trees
- ordering trees and stakes
- site evaluation: soil, drainage, windbreaks, frost pockets, microclimate
- planting
- pollination systems
- fertilising: foliar feed, seaweed
- pest and disease control: apple tree troubles, chlorosis, canker, tree fungus, tree pests, tree diseases, tree scab, tree mildew, weed control
- summer pruning, winter pruning
- growing fruit trees in pots, containers, glasshouses or polytunnels
- integrated pest and disease control methods
- biological pest and disease control, organic fruit growing
- orchard renovation, fruit tree renovation
- layout of soft fruit areas: strawberries, raspberries, loganberries, redcurrants, blackcurrants, blackberries, gooseberries, stone fruit etc.
- fruit quality: tree fruit troubles, soft fruit troubles
- preparing budgets for fruit projects
- fruit storage methods
- fruit marketing advice
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!
Useful links. Click here for some useful links to some other fruit-tree and horticulture-related websites.
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