Six of the best sites for
Gooseberry Bushes
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Gooseberry bushes are quite easy to grow and you will find a range of varieties available from the specialist fruit nurseries listed below.
The gooseberries can be yellow, red, white or green depending on the variety chosen. Culinary varieties have a sharp taste and must be cooked. Dessert varieties are larger and sweeter. Further details about gooseberry bush varieties.
Ken Muir
Based in Clacton-on-Sea, Essex the Ken Muir nursery offers a number of varieties by mail order. These include both dessert varieties (such as "Leveller" and "Whinham's Industry" and culinary varieties such as "Careless" and "Invicta".
Welsh Fruit Stocks
Welsh fruit stocks have been supplying fruit bushes to gardeners by mail order since 1991. They are licensed fruit propagators and will deliver them to your door as freshly lifted bare-root plants between November and March. They can supply can supply organic gooseberry plants as well as those grown by conventional methods. Organic bush varieties include the mid season "Greenfinch" and late season "Martlet".
Chris Bowers & Sons
This specialist fruit nursery, based in Norfolk, offers one of the widest choices of trees and bushes available. They sell a range of varieties which are available as cordons or bushes. These include the popular new variety "Pax" which is thornless with large sweet red berries. A number of varieties are also available as half-standards making them an ideal feature for a patio container.
Buckingham Nurseries
Buckingham Nurseries, based in Buckingham, has a well-established mail order business. They sell a range of gooseberry bushes including many of the well known varieties including "Leveller" which is one of the best dessert varieties.
Blackmoor Nurseries
This leading nursery has been supplying wholesale for more than 40 years, and now also supply trees and bushes mail-order to the general public. Do check out the “fruit growers handbook” on their website which contains plenty of good advice. They sell a range of gooseberry bushes which have been selected for their resistance to "American Gooseberry Mildew".
Highfield Nurseries
Highfield Nurseries are based near Gloucester and have been growing and despatching stock by mail order for 80 years. They have one of the largest ranges of gooseberry bush varieties available in the UK including bushes, cordons and standards.
Other Pages about Gooseberry Bushes
Gooseberry Plants- Selecting Varieties
Gooseberry Plants - Planting & Care
