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Please will you show me your dwarf fruit trees?

Jess91Jess91 Posts: 159
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As title, if you don't mind sharing a photo or two?

I'm particularly interested in dwarf varieties, so M27 apple trees, Quince C Pears, VVA1 plums etc. I'm just looking for inspiration of how they grow/look in real life gardens and what you have planted around them.

Thank you!

Slowly building a wildlife garden, in a new build in East Yorkshire.
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  • Jess91Jess91 Posts: 159
    Bump. Anyone?
    Slowly building a wildlife garden, in a new build in East Yorkshire.
  • februarysgirlfebruarysgirl Posts: 835
    I have Victoria and Czar plums as well as a green gage on pixy root stock and this is a photo of the garden last year (this year the Czar plum has a really bad case of plum aphid and currently looks dreadful so no photos).



    Ignore the planting, last year was my first foray into growing things from seed and it just didn't work. The only under tree planting that did work was rudbeckia Sahara and cosmos Xanthos which are under the Victoria plum in the front left corner of the photo. I've changed the whole planting scheme this year and so far under the trees I have allium Summer Beauty, verbascum Sugar Plum and veronicastrum viginicum Album. Allegedly they can all take a bit of shade but time will tell.
  • Jess91Jess91 Posts: 159
    Sorry @februarysgirl I didn't see my notification for your response.

    Those are gorgeous, thank you. I've trawled my local GCs but no one has any plums on pixy rootstock unfortunately. I'm assuming it's the wrong time of year.  I tried online too but everything is out of stock.

    I do now have two M27 apples trees though.  They are tiny just now but hopefully they will grow quickly.  Looking forward to watching my mini orchard grow.
    Slowly building a wildlife garden, in a new build in East Yorkshire.
  • februarysgirlfebruarysgirl Posts: 835
    No worries 🙂 Bare root trees are only available November-March but potted ones are generally available year round. I bought mine from here https://www.ornamental-trees.co.uk/plum-gage-damson-trees-c87 and it looks as though they do have some pixy rootstock in but it depends what variety you're after. When I bought mine, they didn't have exactly what I wanted in stock so I had to wait for a few months until it was available. It wasn't a problem as I hadn't started the garden makeover at that point.

    The trees I bought were two years old and this photo is from July 2020, 8 months after planting.



    As you can see, they'd grown A LOT in the space of two years! 
  • Jess91Jess91 Posts: 159
    Oh wow 😍 they've really grown haven't they? Fantastic!

    I quite fancied a Victoria or a Blue tit. I see they do have Victoria there, so many thanks for the link! I'll get one ordered. I haven't even dug the border for it yet, I still can't decide where to put one, I just know I want one 🤣
    Slowly building a wildlife garden, in a new build in East Yorkshire.
  • februarysgirlfebruarysgirl Posts: 835
    I knew where I was putting mine, it just took 3 months from receiving the trees to actually planting them 😂
  • Joyce GoldenlilyJoyce Goldenlily Posts: 2,933
    It is not usually advised to underplant fruiting trees as other plants take the nutrients away from the fruit trees. 
  • februarysgirlfebruarysgirl Posts: 835
    Joyce Goldenlily I avoided underplanting for the first couple of years, last year was the first time. Definitely hasn't had a negative impact on them, they're still growing like the clappers and the fruit on them this year is significantly more than I was expecting.

  • fidgetbonesfidgetbones Posts: 17,618
    My dwarf apples are in the long herbaceous border.  It didn't stop them being absolutely loaded with fruit last year, and looking OK for this year.
  • fidgetbonesfidgetbones Posts: 17,618

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