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PAGE 1 2 3 4 5 ALL Delicious shiny black round, juicy currants are a very rich source of vitamin C. They are relatively easy to grow and form attractive shrubs in the home landscape. This variety has been bred to produce big fat berries. Excellent in jams, jellies, juices and pies and they freeze easily. Self-fertile but improve harvest with a pollinator. Deciduous. Currant Black Sefton Current Stock Height: 25/35cm ? Container: 3l ? $29.99 Red currants are a great source of vitamin C. They are easy to grow and form attractive shrubs in the home landscape. The fruit can be picked fresh (if you beat the birds) or used for jams, jellies, juices and pies. Freezes well. Good heavy cropper. Ripe around December-January. Deciduous. Currant Gloire de Versailles Current Stock Height: 15/30 cm ? Container: 2.5l ? $39.99 aka Red Currant Red currants are a great source of vitamin C. They are easy to grow and form attractive shrubs in the home landscape. The fruit can be
picked fresh (if you beat the birds) or used for jams, jellies, juices and pies. Freezes well. Ripe around December-January. Deciduous. Currant Red Current Stock Height: 30/40 cm ? Container: 1.3l ? $19.99 aka Gooseberry A must to have in every home garden. Great for making pies like Gandma use too. A heavy bearing and disease resistant gooseberry with large flavourful fruit that can be used for culinary purposes or eaten fresh when fully ripe. Fruit ripens Nov - Jan Deciduous. Gooseberry Invicta Current Stock Height: 20/35 cm ? Container: 2.5l ? $49.99 aka Gooseberry A well shaped, slightly bristly fruit that is dark red when fully ripe. Berries are larger than Invicta. Good eating. The plants are very vigorous and spreading but can be shaped up by pruning. Produces occasional spines on young wood, but at maturity it is virtually spineless. Gooseberry Pax Current Stock Height: 20/30 cm ? Container: 2.5l ? $49.99 White flowers in Spring followed by large dusky purple-red berries in mid Summer depending on your location and the tempatures. Thornless. Self-fertile. Deciduous
Loganberry Waimate Current Stock Height: 35/45 cm ? Container: 3l ? $36.99 aka Weeping Mulberry Desirable, weeping form of the highly ornamental Mulberry tree. The glossy large heart shaped leaves always look fresh. Small edible fruits appear in spring and are loved by birds! Berries are red, almost black when ripe. Give this special tree the space to spread its lovely pendulous branch formation. Deciduous. Morus Alba Pendula H/W 1.7m Current Stock Height: STD-170/HGT-200 cm ? Container: 8l ? $99.99 THIS ITEM MAY REQUIRE TRUCK DELIVERY, SEE TERMS aka Indian King White Mulberry A beautiful ornamental fruit tree with sweet and nutritious, elongated white Mulberries that have the flavour of Apricots. The glossy green heart shaped leaves are very attractive, can be used as a feature tree. Self fertile, easy to grow. Deciduous. Morus Apricot Shahtoot Current Stock Height: 60/90 cm ? Container: pb8 ? $39.99 aka Chilean Guava Syn Ugni Molinae AKA as Chilean Guava or NZ Cranberry. A reliable little shrub with tight small leaves in an attractive bronze green shade. Little white flowers in spring are followed by fragrant edible berries. Easy to grow, clips well so can be used for topiary or hedging. Evergreen. Myrtus Ugni Current Stock Height: 30/40 cm ? Container: 2.5l ? $24.99 aka Raspberry Small firm rosettes of dark black berries. Easily removed when ripe. Upright canes, rose type leaves, simple small white flowers followed by sweet delicate dark fruit. A strong productive plant, spreads quickly, easy to grow. No spines. Self fertile. Harvest Dec - Feb Deciduous. Raspberry Ebony Current Stock Height: 30/40 cm ? Container: 3l ? $36.99![]()
Requires less chill hours than traditional varieties.
Habit: bushy
Leaves: Deciduous, Green
Mature Size (HxW): 1.5m x 2m![]()
Red Currants differ from Black Currants in that they fruit on the older developed wood (branches) of the bush.
Habit: Upright
Leaves: Deciduous, Green
Mature Size (HxW): 1.8m x 1.8m![]()
Prune the main shoots of your Red Currant back by about 1/2 in winter to encourage new fruiting laterals. Remember that Red Currants mainly fruit on older wood.
Habit: Upright
Leaves: Deciduous, Green
Mature Size (HxW): 2m x 1m![]()
The Gooseberry is hardy and in fact loves a cold winter however be aware that new spring growth can be damaged by frost. Gooseberries like a nice layer of mulch or compost around their shallow roots. When pruning remember they fruit on older wood.
Habit: Upright
Leaves: Deciduous, Green
Mature Size (HxW): 90cm x 120cm![]()
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Habit: Spreading
Leaves: Deciduous, Green
Mature Size (HxW): Spreading ![]()
Habit: Arching
Leaves: Deciduous, Green
Mature Size 7-10 yrs (HxW): 4m x 3m
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Leaves: Deciduous, Green
Mature Size 7-10 yrs (HxW): 400-500cm x 400cm![]()
Habit: Upright
Leaves: Evergreen, Brown
Mature Size 7-10 yrs (HxW): 1m x 1m![]()
Mostly Thornless.
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Habit: Upright
Leaves: Deciduous
Mature Size 7-10 yrs (HxW): 2m x 0m
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