@Dovefromabove Yes, bare root. I am wondering myself how they're going to source them at this point in the year. It's not impossible but it's not easy, especially as the trees he ordered are some very old varieties. We shall see.
I think I'd rather wait and have top quality bare root replacements early next winter ... it's a shame, but there are unlikely be any decent ones available now. You probably got the last of what there was anyway ... they'll have been sending out bare root trees from November onwards.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
The arrangement with my dad is that they'll email me the photographs of whatever stock they've located and I forward them to my dad to see if he finds them of acceptable quality or not. I got quite lucky with the bare root green gage I got him for his birthday last year. The only place I could find one was Primrose so I was a bit doubtful about how good it would be but it arrived late March with a handful of blossom on it. I'm hoping we'll be equally lucky this time.
It's late for planting bare-root now, even if they've got any decent stock left. I think I'd ask for a refund and get an order in early with someone else for November or December delivery
Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Soil type: sandy, well-drained
The reason buying bare-root plants works is that they’re dormant when they’re dug up and hopefully are replanted before they break dormancy. If a tree is in blossom it’s out of dormancy … you were lucky it did well. 😊
If you want to buy him trees for his birthday another year I’d buy them bare rooted in winter and pot them up … then if they break dormancy before his birthday they can grow and develop unchecked. As they’ll only have recently been potted it would disturb them to take them out and plant them too soon before the rootball has formed in the pot, so I would keep them in the pots until next winter and be planted out then. 😊
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
@JennyJ Not my trees so not my call. He's grown a number of fruit trees over the years so he knows the risks.
@Dovefromabove Definitely won't be gifting him any more trees. I don't think his garden is big enough to accommodate as many as he's bought, especially taking into account the ones he already has. His decision though 🤷♀️
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Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
@Dovefromabove Definitely won't be gifting him any more trees. I don't think his garden is big enough to accommodate as many as he's bought, especially taking into account the ones he already has. His decision though 🤷♀️