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Fruit Plants for Beginners | Allotment in a Box

Pick your own soft fruit and grow it too

Grown by Danielle

South Downs National Park

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Fruit Plants for Beginners | Allotment in a Box Soft Fruit
Fruit Plants for Beginners | Allotment in a Box Soft Fruit
Fruit Plants for Beginners | Allotment in a Box Soft Fruit

£40

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Perfectly happy plants, or your money back

Specialist overnight plant delivery

The highlights

  • Juicy berries, currants and more
  • Top-performing, premium varieties
  • Eat fresh or make unbeatable crumbles
  • Harvest from summer onwards

Description

  • Don't just pick your own, grow your own too! This new growers' collection is the easy way to fill your allotment or garden with premium soft fruit plants for delicious fresh harvests every summer.
  • Medium box includes
    1. 1 Blackberry plant in a 3L pot
    2. 1 Rhubarb plant in a 3L pot
    3. 3 Strawberries in 9cm pots
  • Large box includes
    1. All of the above, plus:
    2. 1 Blackcurrant plant in a 3L pot
    3. 1 Raspberry plant in a 3L pot
    4. 1 Gooseberry plant in a 3L pot
  • Extra large box includes
    1. All of the above, plus:
    2. 2 Blueberry plants in 2L pots
    3. 1 Redcurrant plant in a 3L pot
  • All of our premium plants, canes and crowns are grown by fruit experts on a family farm in the South Downs and sent to you at the best possible time for planting, in sustainable packaging.
  • When you order, John will choose the top performing variety of each soft fruit plant on the nursery to make up your box.
  • Growing your own soft fruit gives you healthy, fresh produce with a lower carbon plantprint than anything you can buy from a shop.
  • Grow in borders, raised beds, pots or an allotment - plant in a sunny, sheltered spot as soon as possible after your box arrives - you'll see your first crops the summer after planting. Check our individual plant pages for detailed growing instructions and picking times.
  • Includes RHS Award of Garden Merit winners - all varieties are chosen for their heavy cropping, reliability, taste and trouble-free growing.

What's in the box?

Karaka Black' Blackberry Bush Soft Fruit

'Karaka Black' Blackberry Bush

Evoke the rural hedgerows...

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Black Butte Blackberry Plants Soft Fruit

'Black Butte' Blackberry Plants

It's an absolute unit!

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Loch Ness Blackberry Plants Soft Fruit

'Loch Ness' Blackberry Plants

Berries to tempt Nessie out...

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Waldo Blackberry Plants Soft Fruit

'Waldo' Blackberry Plants

Jumbo-sized blackberries

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Champagne' Rhubarb Plant Soft Fruit

'Champagne' Rhubarb Plant

A reliable old favourite

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Goliath' Rhubarb Plant Soft Fruit

'Goliath' Rhubarb Plant

Super high-yielding (up to 5kg!)

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'Raspberry Red' Rhubarb Plant Soft Fruit

'Raspberry Red' Rhubarb Plant

Intensely red stalks

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'Victoria' Rhubarb Plant Soft Fruit

'Victoria' Rhubarb Plant

If it's good enough for a queen!

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Timperley Early' Rhubarb Plant Soft Fruit

'Timperley Early' Rhubarb Plant

The best choice for forcing

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Summer Breeze Cherry' Strawberry Plants Soft Fruit

'Summer Breeze Cherry' Strawberry Plants

Blooms as pretty as the berries

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3x Cambridge Favourite Strawberry Plants | 9cm Pots Soft Fruit

'Cambridge Favourite' Strawberry Plants

The country's most loved variety

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'Flamenco' Strawberry Plants Soft Fruit

'Flamenco' Strawberry Plants

Taste worth dancing about

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3x Honeoye Strawberry Plants | 9cm Pots Soft Fruit

'Honeoye' Strawberry Plants

Ditch the "Pick Your Own" farms

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3x Florence Strawberry Plants | 9cm Pots Soft Fruit

'Florence' Strawberry Plants

Fruits as glorious as the Uffizi

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3x Elsanta Strawberry Plants | 9cm Pots Soft Fruit

'Elsanta' Strawberry Plants

Tough and terrifically tasty

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Mara Des Bois Strawberry Plants Soft Fruit

'Mara Des Bois' Strawberry Plants

A gourmet alpine variety

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'Sonata' Strawberry Plants Soft Fruit

'Sonata' Strawberry Plants

Make music on your palate

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Ben Sarek' Blackcurrant Bush Soft Fruit

'Ben Sarek' Blackcurrant Bush

Compact? Tick. Big yields? Tick!

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Ben Connan Blackcurrant Bush Soft Fruit

'Ben Connan' Blackcurrant Bush

An award-winning favourite

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Ben Lomond Blackcurrant Bush Soft Fruit

'Ben Lomond' Blackcurrant Bush

Bonny wee blackcurrants

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'Big Ben' Blackcurrant Bush Soft Fruit

'Big Ben' Blackcurrant Bush

Huuuuuuuuge blackcurrants

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Paris' Raspberry Bush Soft Fruit

'Paris' Raspberry Bush

The biggest raspberry out there

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'Yummy' Patio Raspberry Plant Soft Fruit

'Yummy' Patio Raspberry Plant

Small but bloomin' mighty

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All Gold Raspberry Plants Soft Fruit

'All Gold' Raspberry Plants

Enchanting golden raspberries

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Autumn Bliss Raspberry Plants Soft Fruit

'Autumn Bliss' Raspberry Plants

Is this the taste of heaven?

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Glen Ample Raspberry Plants Soft Fruit

'Glen Ample' Raspberry Plants

Produces more-than-ample crops

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Glen Prosen Raspberry Plants Soft Fruit

'Glen Prosen' Raspberry Plants

A Scottish sensation

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'Joan J' Raspberry Plants Soft Fruit

'Joan J' Raspberry Plants

One of our fave autumn-fruiters

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'Malling Admiral' Raspberry Plants Soft Fruit

'Malling Admiral' Raspberry Plants

Navy-strength flavour assured

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'Malling Leo' Raspberry Plants Soft Fruit

'Malling Leo' Raspberry Plants

Loved for over half a century

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Polka Raspberry Plants Soft Fruit

'Polka' Raspberry Plants

We're dotty about these berries!

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Ruby Beauty Raspberry Plant Soft Fruit

'Ruby Beauty' Raspberry Plant

A true gem of a raspberry

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'Tulameen' Raspberry Plants Soft Fruit

'Tulameen' Raspberry Plants

A Canadian crowd-pleaser

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Hinnonmaki Green Gooseberry Bush Soft Fruit

'Hinnonmaki Green' Gooseberry Bush

Excellent disease resistance

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'Hinnonmaki Red' Gooseberry Bush Soft Fruit

'Hinnonmaki Red' Gooseberry Bush

The fantastic, Finnish fruit!

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Hinnonmaki Yellow' Gooseberry Bush Soft Fruit

'Hinnonmaki Yellow' Gooseberry Bush

Nature's golden gifts

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Invicta Gooseberry Bush Soft Fruit

'Invicta' Gooseberry Bush

A bumper-cropping variety

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Earliblue' Blueberry Bush Soft Fruit

'Earliblue' Blueberry Bush

Extend your blueberry season!

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Hortblue Petite' Blueberry Bush Soft Fruit

'Hortblue Petite' Blueberry Bush

A double-fruiting blueberry!

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Ozarkblue' Blueberry Bush Soft Fruit

'Ozarkblue' Blueberry Bush

A blueberry worthy of any garden

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'Bluecrop' Blueberry Bush Soft Fruit

'Bluecrop' Blueberry Bush

As reliable as gravity

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'Duke' Blueberry Bush Soft Fruit

'Duke' Blueberry Bush

One of the first to ripen

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'Goldtraube' Blueberry Bush Soft Fruit

'Goldtraube' Blueberry Bush

A glorious German variety

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Herbert Blueberry Bush Soft Fruit

'Herbert' Blueberry Bush

This blueberry does it all

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'Patriot' Blueberry Bush Soft Fruit

'Patriot' Blueberry Bush

A true-blue super fruit

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Jonkheer van Tets' Redcurrant Plant Soft Fruit

'Jonkheer van Tets' Redcurrant Plant

Dutch deliciousness

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'Red Lake' Redcurrant Bush Soft Fruit

'Red Lake' Redcurrant Bush

Dazzling red spheres of flavour

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Rovada Redcurrant Bush Soft Fruit

'Rovada' Redcurrant Bush

Mouthwateringly good currants

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South Downs National Park

Meet Danielle

110 years' expertise free with every plant

You simply can’t buy better fruit plants and here’s why. Danielle grows them outdoors, just like our nursery has done since 1908, so they’re more than a match for the UK weather. Danielle only has time for the top performing varieties, meaning that you can be assured of a successful (and blooming tasty) soft fruit crop.

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Good to know

Our plants are grown 
in the UK

Specialist UK growers we know and trust grow your plants the traditional way, with organic fertiliser and biological pest control. They pick only the healthiest plants for you, professionally pruning them so that they’ll grow strong and well shaped.

Our plants are delivered overnight

Your plants are sent to you fresh from the field in our plastic free box that’s specially designed to hold them tight, then securely delivered by specialist plant couriers - straight from the grower to your garden within 
24 hours.

We're here to help at every step

We want your plants to have a long and healthy life. Expect easy-to-follow grow guides and videos devised by our team 
of experts.

Perfect plants, guaranteed

We’re confident that you’ll be delighted 
with your new plants. Need help? Alice and her team are here to guarantee you’re 
perfectly happy.

Digging deep to answer your questions

How do I know I'm getting quality plants?

All of our plants are grown in specialist nurseries with the highest standards of plant care and sustainability. We guarantee you'll love them as much as we do! Don't just take our word for it - we've got thousands of great reviews on Trustpilot.

When will I get my plants?

The delivery timescale for each plant is on the web page (near the 'add to basket's button). You'll receive a dispatch email with an exact delivery date once your plants are on their way, so you can get the garden ready.

How will my plants be packed and delivered?

We send all of our orders through a courier network designed to handle plants. Specialist equipment ensures that no plants will be damaged during the packing process and every order is carefully finished and checked by plant-loving humans. Your plants will arrive in the most sustainable packaging possible with minimal to no plastic used.

Where do you deliver?

We deliver to anywhere in Mainland UK for our standard delivery cost. We are able to deliver most plants to Highlands and non UK mainland however this will be at an additional cost. This will be calculated at the checkout. Please note, deliveries to these locations will take longer. Unfortunately, we are not able to deliver to Northern Ireland at present.

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