"Janet Tweedy" wrote in message
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I have just got my order from D T browns of the raspberries so praised by
this group a few weeks back. V. exciting! However in the parcel was a
delivery note and I find I have following an 'old Greengage' tree on pixy
stock. This was a bit of a surprise as I thought I had ordered Champagne
rhubarb! Order numbers look right so it must have been me..

Still nothing daunted and looking at it with a pragmatic approach I shall
wait in anticipation for this surprise arrival.

Has anyone got any tips for growing a fruit tree like this? How much room
do I give it and will it need another one to produce fruit. I have a
Bramley and there's Malus john Dowie but the only plums are next door and
I think they are Victoria and what the older people that sued to live
there, called Bullaces.

janet
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Dalmatian Telegraph
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I had a Greengage Tree in the garden of my house in Leicester. Sadly felled
to make way for blocks of flats.

The tree was massive. Big enough for me to climb into and eat the fruit
:-)))

25 - 30 ft high with the same spread.

Hope that helps. (No idea its variety or age, but age wise would guess 20
odd years)

Mike


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"'Mike'" writes:
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| I had a Greengage Tree in the garden of my house in Leicester. Sadly felled
| to make way for blocks of flats.
|
| The tree was massive. Big enough for me to climb into and eat the fruit
| :-)))
|
| 25 - 30 ft high with the same spread.
|
| Hope that helps. (No idea its variety or age, but age wise would guess 20
| odd years)

Boggle. I didn't know that they got that big - the only ones I have
seen have been quite small.


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.

"Nick Maclaren" wrote in message
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In article ,
"'Mike'" writes:
|
| I had a Greengage Tree in the garden of my house in Leicester. Sadly
felled
| to make way for blocks of flats.
|
| The tree was massive. Big enough for me to climb into and eat the fruit
| :-)))
|
| 25 - 30 ft high with the same spread.
|
| Hope that helps. (No idea its variety or age, but age wise would guess
20
| odd years)

Boggle. I didn't know that they got that big - the only ones I have
seen have been quite small.


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.

Just tried to calculate the age of the Greengage, and a Walnut which was
alongside it, and we now 'guesstimate' they were both over 30 years old.
It's a bit difficult because of the history and timetable of the land which
goes back to before the time of the Jarrow March!!! The trees 'may' have
been in then. We were there from 1967 - 1971

Mike

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In article ,
"'Mike'" writes:
|
| I had a Greengage Tree in the garden of my house in Leicester.
Sadly felled
| to make way for blocks of flats.
|
| The tree was massive. Big enough for me to climb into and eat the
fruit
| :-)))
|
| 25 - 30 ft high with the same spread.
|
| Hope that helps. (No idea its variety or age, but age wise would
guess 20
| odd years)

Boggle. I didn't know that they got that big - the only ones I have
seen have been quite small.


It's on 'Pixie' so it won't get huge but I've not grown gages on that
stock so I can't say with any certainty how big it will get except to
say nowhere near as big as the same thing grown on any of the old
plumstocks.
--
Rod

My real address is rodthegardeneratmyisp

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In article ,
"'Mike'" writes:
|
| I had a Greengage Tree in the garden of my house in Leicester. Sadly felled
| to make way for blocks of flats.
|
| The tree was massive. Big enough for me to climb into and eat the fruit
| :-)))
|
| 25 - 30 ft high with the same spread.
|
| Hope that helps. (No idea its variety or age, but age wise would guess 20
| odd years)

Boggle. I didn't know that they got that big - the only ones I have
seen have been quite small.


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.

It very much depends on the rootstock used and its only the more modern
trees where the use of dwarfing stock like "pixie" has made the trees
smaller, in the orchard on the farm where I grew up they were huge as
were the apple trees (but then again I last was there age 3 and most
things are huge at that age!)
--
Charlie Pridham, Gardening in Cornwall
www.roselandhouse.co.uk
Holders of national collections of Clematis viticella cultivars and
Lapageria rosea

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Charlie Pridham writes:
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| It very much depends on the rootstock used and its only the more modern
| trees where the use of dwarfing stock like "pixie" has made the trees
| smaller, in the orchard on the farm where I grew up they were huge as
| were the apple trees (but then again I last was there age 3 and most
| things are huge at that age!)

All of the ones I was thinking of were on their own roots - probably
semi-dwarf varieties, given what you say.


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.

In article , Nick Maclaren
writes

Boggle. I didn't know that they got that big - the only ones I have
seen have been quite small.


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.


Er yes, this one is on pixie stock. Perhaps it should be in a tub?
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Janet Tweedy
Dalmatian Telegraph
http://www.lancedal.demon.co.uk