Scions and transplants - Free in the UK

Winter time is time for tidying and taking cuttings. If anyone in the UK would like me to post some scion or cutting material to you let me know what you would like and I'll post them off to you.....just 'pass it forwards' as you get the opportunity.

I've been doing some overdue pruning and tidying, including this poor apple tree that was damaged in a summer storm this year;



So I have a lot of Worcester Pearmain scion material! Also Tom Putt and up to 6 other selected varieties of apple.

I also pruned my Invicta gooseberry bushes hard so have plenty of cuttings from that.



Ben Sarek is my favourite blackcurrant. They aren't the bird's first choice, so I get to harvest most of these. I also have Bellorussian black, and at least 2 other varieties.

Cuttings are also available of a nice large flowered elder, originally from Solihull, but growing well here. Although not setting fruit here, it did further South.

I've cut back hard my willow windbreak, so have lots of the sort of whippy willow people use for willow domes (although my cuttings will be much shorter so I can post them!). I also have some purple willow and a vigorous unknown hybrid with large leaves that is ideal for coppicing for fuel.

I can dig up some blackthorn suckers, apple mint, skirret, 1 year old Angelica plants (they should flower this summer), my good summer fruting raspberries, Turkish rocket, marsh woundwort. I also have lots of babbington leek bulbils.

If I've mentioned anything elsewhere you'd like, just let me know and I'll see what I can do!

If I was still living in the UK would have taken you up on your generous offer!

Been picking blackcurrants for cordial making and the berries on your Ben Sarek look huge. They would be much easier to pick than the no ID varieties growing in our community garden.

Megan Palmer wrote:Been picking blackcurrants for cordial making and the berries on your Ben Sarek look huge.

They can be quite big - The first to ripen are almost like cherries, although normally a bit smaller. Nice blackcurranty flavour, not as sweet as some, but when they are ripe I can eat them neat as I pick them  

Cherries, plums and willow scionwood - hopefully on their way in the post tomorrow