Welcome
Welcome
We supply the finest fruit trees for growing in Scotland and also offer training and advice to groups and individuals looking to develop orchards in Scotland. for trees see www. Scottishfruittrees.com
HOW TO ORDER - Our aim is to make ordering as easy as possible: Order details here
Either download the stocklist - and chose what you want - or ring us and we will be happy to help with stock selection. ( 0778 606 3918 ) Or email john@scottishfruittrees.com
With Scottish Government Local food funding - we developed our Open Orchard events since 2015. We are currently traveling around Scotland and helping community groups, schools to enjoy this years bumper harvest, and to get people out into their local Orchards. We are really keen to engage with orchard owners to open their orchards for a day, and to get the public to visit. We also wish to engage with cooks and chefs to use the harvest. Please get in touch.
We are looking to develop orchards - small and large.
We can help schools, community groups, councils, farmers, landowners and companies to make Scotland more fruitful
Scottish Orchards is a constituted voluntary group - and is a network of orchard enthusiasts from across Scotland.
We aim to make fruit growing simple. We want to encourage people to give it a try and get started - and to learn by doing, and with help from each other. Please join us and help make Scotland blossom!
Our membership is very varied - from National Trust for Scotland staff, to the Salvation Army, community workers environmental groups, and also keen individuals and groups from Argyll to Oban, and from Inverness to Stranraer. Membership is free - but we are grateful for donations from members - and this is very helpful for building.
“The best time to plant an apple tree? ”
twenty years ago (the next best time is now...)
applejohn@icloud.com
Scottish Orchards can help with all aspects of developing schools and community orchards, listing Fruitful Events, providing Fruitful Skills training, and running apple days and community and family days. We are also interested in creating a market for Scottish fruit and to help develop fruit growing in Scotland, and providing support to growers.
Please email us details of any upcoming apple days, planting, picking events and places with fruit to sell.
We are can help to provide fruit trees suitable for Scotland’s climate - and looking to develop old and very varieties that do well here, and make them available at a good price.
Please email or phone to discuss membership, volunteering with us, or in developing school or community orchards.
John Hancox, applejohn@icloud.com
0778 606 3918
2 Kelvinside Terrace West
Glasgow
G20 6DA
For interest
Scottish apples - we have been budding up as many of these as possible
and selling through the Scottish Fruit trees website
We are always really interested to find out new varieties and more information on where these are growing.
The following list of known Scottish apple varieties is taken from the book ‘Apples in Scotland’, by John Butterworth (2001)
Alderman (?)
Beauty of Moray
Bloody Ploughman
Cambusnethan Pippin
Clydesdale
Coul Blush
Culzean Seedling
Cutler Grieve
East Lothian Pippin
Early Julyan (Tam Montgomery)
Galloway Pippin
Gogar Pippin
Hawthornden
Hill’s Seedling
Hood’s Supreme
James Grieve
Lady of the Wemyss
Lass O’Gowrie
Lemon Queen
Liddel’s Seedling
Lord Rosebery
Love Beauty
Maggie Sinclair
Oslin
Pine Golden Pippin
Port Allen Russet
Rock
Scarlet Leadington
Scotch Bridget
Scotch Dumpling
Scrog
Seaton House
Stark’s Late Delicious
Stirling Castle
Stobo Castle (?)
Thomas Jeffrey
Thorle Pippin
Threave Castle
Tower of Glamis
Warden
Weight
White Melrose
White Paradise
Yorkshire Aromatic
(which is definitely Scottish!)
Scottish Orchards: creating a Fruitful Scotland
Scottish Orchards works to bring together useful information and to help people develop their own community orchards, share information with others across the country and help create a Fruitful Scotland.