The Growing Edge – June 2015

This Month's Featured Trees

This month's trees can used both as features and to provide splashes of colour into early Winter. The Imperial Mandarin can also be used as hedging while providing the benefit of sweet, easy to grow fruit and the Maple can make a majestic avenue or driveway tree.

Imperial Mandarin

The Imperial Mandarin provides delicious edible fruit medium to large in size, easy to peel, juicy and a great strong flavour, with a few seeds. Fruit ripens late autumn, into early winter. A strong growing tree, with upright growth. Great as a specimen tree, the Imperial Mandarin reaches a mature height of 6 metres with a width of 3.5 metres.

Trees are in stock now, full of fruit ready for your garden.

Acer platanoides – Crimson Sentry

With purple Summer foliage, Acer platanoides – Crimson Sentry Maples are a wonderful plant to buy as focal point in a landscape. It grows narrowly upright with beautiful large purple leaves turning orange then red in autumn. 

One of the last trees to hold foliage, the Crimson Sentry will add some lingering colour to your Winter garden.

The Crimson Sentry reaches a mature height of 7 metres with a width of 4 metres.

Pruning Fruit Trees 

Now that the branches are bare on in your productive garden, you can start the task of pruning to ensure bountiful crops in the season to come. This is not nearly as daunting a task as some may think. If you follow the image below, you can't go too wrong. 

If you have a very well established tree and are hesitant about pruning, you can always call in a professional, your tree will thank you for it. 

If you purchase a potted or bare root tree from Blerick, the staff are more than happy to do the pruning for you before you take the tree to it's new home. 

What's Been Happening On The Farm

Winter is here and the staff are gearing up to start digging our Super Advanced Field Grown Trees to deliver them to their new homes. 

These trees have been grown in the field for several years in order to produce thicker trunk and more established canopies than you can get in potted trees of the same height.
Our customers are welcome to visit our nursery and tag trees still in the ground to ensure they get that exact tree for their garden.

The Cottages – Winter isn't coming, it's HERE!

Our cottages are booking out quickly for the Winter season. We still have some availability for the school holidays so if you want to have a comfortable and convenient location to stay for a family holiday near the mountain, or just to get away, you had better get in quick.