Delivery Information

We Ensure a Safe Delivery of Your Trees & Bushes

Discover the ins and outs of our delivery process, ensuring your trees arrive promptly and securely at your doorstep.

Delivery Costs

UK mainland delivery is charged at £8.95 for order values up to £50
Over £50 value – £13.95
Over £100 value – £15.95

Sending a tree through the post isn’t cheap alas, and our parcels are expertly packed to keep your goods in the best possible condition using natural materials and a minimum of plastic.

Tree size as supplied varies but is usually between 3.5′ – 4.5′ on despatch. A few varieties might be slightly smaller, some a little bigger, of course it does vary but this is a good average.

WE SUPPLY YOUNG TREES – and are proud to do so. Although we are sometimes requested to supply older / bigger trees, the perceived advantages are outweighed by disadvantages! Older trees take longer to establish and will fruit no more quickly. The young trees we send out grow away and establish so quickly and healthily & often yield within 1 season of planting. Our customers even report fruits the first year of planting! All professional fruit growers prefer to plant young trees rather than older.

Our soft fruit bushes are usually 2 years old. Everything is stringently graded, grown on the nursery and well packed!

We use traditional materials in each meticulously packed parcel, using straw (which many customers like to use as a mulch afterwards), bamboo and paper or cardboard with very little or no plastic ensuring your trees arrive in perfect condition. This is a painstaking process but it’s worth it and remains the benchmark in responsible packaging others may try to equal.

No need to be in – You can request your parcel to be left in a safe place, or stipulate an alternative delivery address, at the checkout.

Please refer to the Growing Guides section of our website for planting and aftercare. If you have any questions pertaining to your trees and how to grow them please just ask for expert advise.

Frequently Asked Questions

You can collect an order with prior arrangement; please telephone your order to make mutually convenient arrangements.

The following banded charges are applied to orders:

UK mainland delivery is charged at £8.95 for order values up to £50
Over £50 value – £13.95
Over £100 value – £15.95

No, it is per order. Whether you order one item or 50 items you will still be charged just 1 x £8.95

No, the larger quantity rates are for the same variety, individual trees and bushes will be charged at the each price.

We are sorry but we can no longer deliver to Europe, Northern Ireland or Republic of Ireland.

They are sent out in containers during the Summer months. From Autumn to Spring they are supplied bare-root. Each method is the best for the time of year concerned. The exception is Grapes, Blueberry and Blackberry – these are always in containers regardless of the time of year. Sometimes the containers may be removed for safer transportation.

Any time from November-Spring is a great time to plant. . You can also plant during the summer months if this is preferred but the stock will need more attention and regular watering to ensure establishment. We aim to despatch within 3-5 working days year round.

Yes, all stock is guaranteed to arrive in good condition. It is guaranteed to grow during the first growing season and it is guaranteed true to name thereafter.

A loaded and complex question but one we are asked frequently! We have such a wide range of differing trees the size on despatch varies A LOT. But as a rough guide, dwarfing rootstock trees may be around 36+” in length. More vigorous stocks are usually a little bigger than that. Soft fruit bushes are normally 2 years old with 2-4 stems. Trees offered as suitable for fan/espalier are lower branched trees.

No because the perceived advantages of planting older stock is outweighed by the disadvantages. We send out younger stock because it establishes more quickly and easily. Older trees receive more of a shock after transplanting and tend to ‘sit’ for a while doing nothing, by which time the younger tree has raced ahead.

Our website reflects current availability and is updated constantly. Basically, if you can order it online it should be in stock and will be sent out more or less straight away.

We despatch within 5-7 working days [and sometimes sooner] unless we advise to the contrary.

No we sell only the trees and bushes, not sundries.

No. You can leave instructions on your online order for the parcel to be left in a safe place of your choosing and this will be put on the parcel. You can also have it delivered to a place of work or a neighbour, if preferred and there are facilities for a different delivery address online.

It does depend on the type of tree you order and local conditions as well. Dwarfing trees are more precocious & despite being smaller on receipt will usually be quicker to come into bearing; sometimes you might get the odd fruit the season following planting, normally it is one to two years. More vigorous trees take a little longer to fruit, 2-3 years is a good average. Remember this is a guided estimate only, we can’t guarantee how soon your trees will fruit.

As long as the soil is still workable then you can plant them. Frost or snow won’t harm them once they are in the ground. If you can’t deal with them straight away, they will keep for several days as they are if you place the package in a cold shed or garage. They must not be kept near any form of heating and you must check to make sure the roots do not get dry; soak them in a bucket of water if need be.After that if you still can’t plant, the roots can be set in big buckets of damp peat or compost and placed outside in a sheltered position. Or they can be ‘trenched in’ to the garden in their bundles, making sure all the roots are covered with wet earth. Planting of bare root stock has to be completed before the buds burst in the Spring.

We Ensure a Safe Delivery of Your Trees & Bushes

Delivery Costs

Frequently Asked Questions

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