LIDL Large Fruit Trees £9.77 from 2/4/09

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• Grow your own fruit with these luxurious fruit trees
• Ready to plant or keep potted on the patio
• Choose from Apple, Pear, Cherry or Plum varieties
• Age (yrs): 2
• Height (cm): 80
• Pot size (L): 3.5
• Price per item £9.77

Lotus-eater

For not much more than that, you can buy a really good tree from an established nursery and know exactly what rootstock and type you are getting. You are keeping a tree for a long time, it makes sense to buy a good one.

ixwood

I agree. The ones that were a fiver, fair enough, but £10 isn't far off a good one. You can get family trees, which are perfect for small gardens for not much more.

Barneysmom

I need something quite small for my garden, wonder how big they'll get?

Leopardlady

I am dissappointed, as i bought my cherry tree from aldi a couple of weeks ago, it is 4ft tall and only cost 4.12!! So this is too steep.
Oh well hopefully more will appear at Aldi soon.

onetomany

bet it will take ages to produce fruit do they?

Lotus-eater

onetomany wrote: »

bet it will take ages to produce fruit do they?

Years. although you may get some in the second year.
All fruit is an investment for the future, trees the longest, soft fruit the shortest

Farway

onetomany wrote: »

bet it will take ages to produce fruit do they?

Old saying is "pears for your heirs"

Hope it is not strictly true as i have planted a Lidl pear tree this year and hope to at least taste one before I shuffle off

Lotus-eater

Farway wrote: »

Old saying is "pears for your heirs"

Hope it is not strictly true as i have planted a Lidl pear tree this year and hope to at least taste one before I shuffle off

I've done the same and indeed I hope the same as well

When I was very young we had a huge pear tree in the garden and most of the fruit went to waste every year. We took that tree totally for granted, I wish I had that in my garden now :rolleyes:

debbie_dee

hi i have planted over 30 aldies and lidls trees over 5 years as i wanted an orchard and did not have much funds so these were cheap and cheerful, several of the trees fruited the year after a got them two even had a couple of apples in the first year. the trees i planted 4 years ago are now mostly over 6ft and smothered in buds about to open even the peach trees so you do not have to wait to long

maxheadroom

On the Mr Fothergills website Gardners world offers they have an offer for 3 trees apple, pear and plum grown on M27 (dwarfing) rootstock for £34, so with the 10% discount code elsewhere they come to not much more then these trees with the fact that you know what rootstock they are on

Add the free strawberry plants as well and bargain!