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Nurseries Supplying Traditional Varieties of Apples and Pears

Traditional varieties of Apples and Pears are obtainable from specialist nurseries. As demand is, unfortunately, low you may need to have particular varieties grafted to order (and accept the time delay that this means). This list of suppliers is based upon one originally produced by Herefordshire Council in 1999.

Please remember that catalogues cost nursery owners quite a lot of money - please check first if there is a charge for a catalogue or, at the very least, offer to send a SAE.

MAN tries to keep Addresses; Telephone and FAX numbers; Web and EMail addresses as up to date as possible. If you find any discrepancies please inform the Webmaster.

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Adam's Apples of Ivy Cottages, Talaton, Exeter, Devon EX5 2SD (Tel/FAX 01404 823185) have a range of about 90 different apple varieties for sale.

The Apple Factor - Sarah Juniper, 109 Woodmancote, Dursley, Gloucestershire, GL11 4AH, Tel 01453 545675 will graft apples to order.

Bernwode Plants have a long and interesting list of varieties for sale. Contact them at Kingswood Lane, Ludgeshall, Buckinghamshire, HP18 9RB Tel 01844 237415, Fax 01844 238920 or email at

H P Bulmer Ltd at Orcharding Dept, The Cider Mills, Plough Lane, Hereford HR4 0LE Tel 01432 294302 or 01432 294279 FAX 01432 294282 are more than happy to supply small orders (as the webmaster can testify). Obviously the range is mainly cider apples. The range varies from year to year and normally includes perry pears as well as cider apples.

MAN member John Butterworth at Butterworth's Organic Nursery, Garden Cottage, Auchinleck Estate, Cumnock, Ayrshire, KA18 2LR Tel 01290 551088 is the main supplier of traditional Scottish varieties of apples.

Dolau-Hirion Fruit Tree Nursery at Capel Isaac, Llandeilo, SA19 7TG. Tel 01558 668744 (run by MAN member Paul Davis) specialises in traditional Welsh varieties. Contact him at

www.jaspertrees.co.uk - Paul Jasper, Office address, Bridge Street, LEOMINSTER, Herefordshire HR6 8DX (FAX 01568 616499) is a local supplier whose address is on the Hereford Council's list of suppliers. He was listed in the September 2001 issue of The Garden (the RHS magazine) in the four page Apple Source article on page 674. Contact him at

Frank P Matthews Ltd at Berrington Court, Tenbury Wells, Worcs WR15 8TH (Tel 01584 810214 FAX 01584 811830) is a wholesale supplier with a wide range of varieties on an equally wide range of rootstocks. (As a wholesale supplier minimum order quantities apply, although from Spring 2006 there is also a Cash and Carry service for trees and sundries - posts, ties, tree-guards etc - with a lower minimum amount). They supply the trees for the annual Herefordshire Council Fruit Tree Kits schemes.

Herefordshire Council Fruit Tree Kits. For several years Herefordshire Council have arranged for a variety of traditional orchard trees to be made available to Herefordshire residents as Fruit Tree Kits. Leaflets describing the scheme are available from most information centres in Herefordshire, or online and search for "fruit tree kit" (without the quotes), or contact James Bisset, Principal Countryside Officer, Herefordshire Council Parks and Countryside Service, PO BOX 41, LEOMINSTER HR6 0ZA (Tel 01568 798341 FAX 01568 798329) The closing date for applications is normally the end of November. Note: details of each year's scheme appear about June.

Highfield Nurseries, Bristol Road, Whitminster, Gloucester, GL2 7PB Tel 01452 740266 stocks a limited range of local varieties. Contact them at

Keepers Nursery at Gallants Court, East Farleigh, Maidstone, Kent ME15 0LE (Tel/ Fax 01622 726465) was reviewed by Roy Lancaster in the September 2003 issue of The Garden (the RHS magazine) starting at page 680. Notable was the listing of Pitmaston Pine Apple which was available under the Herefordshire Fruit Tree Kit scheme a few years ago. Contact them at

Lodge Farm Trees at Rockhampton, Berkeley, Gloucestershire GL13 9DY specialises in Gloucestershire apples and perry pears. If they do not have a variety in stock they will graft to order. Contact them at

Grafted Walnuts from Manse Organics Ltd were mentioned in the RHS Garden magazine in January 2010.

Will Sibley, 32 Grassmead Avenue, Leigh-on-Sea, Essex, SS9 3LA. Tel. 01702-479921 is reported to be a specialist peach nurseryman.

Thornhayes Nursery at St Andrews Wood, Dulford, Cullompton, Devon EX15 2DF (Tel 01884 266746, Fax 01884 266739) was well reviewed by the Sunday Times on 7 October 2001 (in the Down to Earth pages of the Style Magazine). Maybe of more relevance is the four page write up by Roy Lancaster in the October 2001 issue of The Garden (the RHS magazine) starting at page 764. They also were listed the previous month in the four page Apple Source article on page 674. Contact them at

Tom Adams has a small nursery in North Shropshire. He will graft varieties to order for you.

Walcot Organic Nursery at Lower Walcot Farm, Walcot Lane, Drakes Broughton, Pershore, Worcs WR10 2AL (Tel 01386 553697, FAX 01905 841587). They had a display at the Big Apple (Much Marcle not New York) in October 2001 as well as a display at the MAN AGM in October 2003. Contact them at

Note that MAN accepts no responsibility for errors, exceptions or omissions in this list and is not necessarily recommending any of these suppliers.