Delicious berries and currants are easy to grow and give fresh delicious fruit throughout the summer
All soft fruit are vigorous bare-root 1 year plants, 30-60cm tall and available from late November. £5 each or 3 for £12.50 – mix and match different varieties.
Blackcurrants
Well known for their very high levels of vitamin C, these berries are the original ‘superfood’! Easy to grow and very hardy. See below for our full range of blackcurrant varieties
Gooseberries
We are passionate about this delicious, undervalued and very British fruit. Rarely seen in supermarkets, and then usually only the mouth-puckeringly-acid unripe fruit. However, if left to fully ripen on the bush, these turn rich reds or yellows and are delicious raw – a gourmet experience only available to those who grow their own. See below for our full range of gooseberry varieties
Hybrid berries
These hybrids are vigorous, very easy to grow and produce nutrient rich ‘superfood’ berries with a range of different and exciting flavours which are rarely available in the shops. See below for our range of cane fruit and blackcurrant hybrids
| Gooseberry | ||
| Annelii | Early-season | Dark red fruit with good flavour on vigorous plants |
| Hino Red | Early-season | Dark red fruit with good flavour on vigorous plants |
| Black Velvet | Mid-season | Dark red fruit with excellent flavour on vigorous, easy to grow plants |
| Hino Yellow | Mid-season | Yellow fruit with good flavour on compact bushes. |
| Yellow Champagne | Mid-season | Gourmet heritage yellow fruited variety, smaller than some other varieties but an excellent dessert fruit |
| Blackcurrant | ||
| Ben Gairn | Early-season | High yields of large fruit. A modern, reversion-resistant variety. |
| Barchatnaja | Mid-season | Very hardy and high yielding Russian variety with large fruit. Frost resistant and self-sterile. |
| Ben Alder | Mid-season | High yields of large fruit, late flowering. |
| Ben Hope | Mid-season | High yields on vigorous bushes. Excellent flavour and resistant to big bud mite. |
| Big Ben | Mid-season | Heavy cropping with extra large fruit of excellent, sweet flavour. Disease resistant |
| Kosmichesnaya | Mid-season | Very hardy, frost resistant Russian variety |
| Ben Lomond | Mid to late season | Large fruit with excellent flavour. Late flowering. |
| Ben More | Mid to late season | Heavy yields of very large fruits. Very late flowering, vigorous bushes. |
| Black Reward | Mid to late season | Very vigorous, high yielding bushes, with medium sized fruits. Late flowering. |
| Hybrid berries | |
| Jostaberry | A hybrid between gooseberry and blackcurrant, inheriting the best characters of both parents. A very vigorous, disease-resistant, thornless bush with fruits larger than blackcurrants, with a milder flavour. |
| Chuckleberry | A new, complex hybrid between blackcurrant, gooseberry and redcurrant. Early fruiting and high yielding, with berries larger than blackcurrants with complex mix of flavours from all 3 parents. |
| Loganberry | A vigorous, heavy cropping cane fruit, originating as a hybrid between raspberry and blackberry. Grow as for blackberries, but fruit are a deep red, with a rich fruity flavour |
About The Mother Tree
Registered office: The Elmhirst Centre, Dartington Hall, Totnes, Devon, TQ9 6EL. VAT no. 402196875
Contact Us
We are usually in Henri’s Field (opposite Schumacher College & Parsonage Farm) Thursday 2-5pm. Pop in and say hi or drop us a line to check our schedule this week.
